Season · Blocks · Microcycles · Sessions
From the season map to the last cone, planned against your fixtures.
Periodise the season around the matches you actually play, build every session from your own drill library, and see whether the week you planned is the week the squad trained. One plan for the pitch and the gym, one calendar for the staff, and every training day labelled against the next match. Built for head coaches, fitness coaches and performance staff in football.
Team Manager: the whole season in one place
Team Manager holds the structure of the season. Fixtures are entered with opponent, venue, kick-off, competition and result, and a played match links to the session the GPS units recorded. Competitions carry their kind, so friendlies are kept out of match-demand references. The season map lays out the macrocycle phases (pre-season, competitive, transition, off-season) on a timeline, with the training blocks drawn beneath them.
The phases you draw define the season window: extend pre-season and the season extends with it, without asking the club admin. Inside each phase, blocks carry two separate answers, what the training is for (accumulation, transmutation, realisation, maintenance, unload) and what the calendar is doing (a camp, a winter break, an international break, a tournament), plus an optional weekly load target that the review tab later compares with what was delivered.
- Fixtures, competitions and results
- Season map with phases and blocks
- Phases set the season window
- Block purpose, calendar context and load target
Microcycles drawn by the fixtures, owned by the coach
Each match-to-match microcycle is proposed from the fixture list, so a Tuesday-to-Tuesday team gets Wednesday-to-Tuesday weeks and a two-match week is recognised as congested. Every day gets its match-day label (MD-4, MD-1, MD, MD+1) without anyone typing it. The proposal is only a proposal: the coach can split a cycle on any date, merge two cycles, or mark a friendly as not ending a training week, and the platform states which dates each change will move before it is applied.
Cycles are numbered MC1, MC2 and so on, the same way coaches already name them on the gym plan, and each can carry a purpose (adjustment, loading, impact, activation, competitive or recovery). A day's label follows a clear order: a coach's correction first, then the match-day tag recorded on the GPS session, then the plan, then the fixture arithmetic. When two of them disagree, the day says so instead of hiding it.
- Microcycles proposed from fixtures
- Split, merge or let a friendly run inside the week
- Numbered MC cycles with a stated purpose
- Match-day labels with a visible order of authority
A team calendar the whole staff can read
The calendar shows the month or the week, split into morning and afternoon, with matches, pitch sessions, gym sessions, testing and staff events as layers you can switch on and off. Add assessments, meetings, travel, camps, education sessions and days off. A scheduled test knows whether it happened: once the data is recorded, it reads captured, partial or missed, and names the athletes still outstanding, with no box to tick.
Open any day and you see what the platform knows about it: the gym plan, the drills, the GPS summary and session RPE. Attendance is answered per session as training, rehab or out, prefilled from the GPS and rehab information so the coach confirms rather than types. After a match, the match sheet records who played and for how many minutes.
- Month and week views with morning and afternoon
- Assessments that verify themselves
- Day panel with gym, drills, GPS and session RPE
- Attendance and match minutes confirmed by the coach
The training planner and your drill library
The training planner moves microcycle by microcycle. Each day holds sessions with a theme, start time, venue and ground, built from the club's drill library: pick a drill, set its planned minutes, and choose which athletes do it, so a recovery group or a returning player can follow a different block on the same day. A whole cycle can be copied forward to the next one when the structure repeats.
The drill library is shared across the club's squads. When the GPS units record a session, their free-text period names are matched to catalogued drills, and anything unrecognised goes to a review queue for the coach, so the library keeps learning the way your staff actually name their exercises.
- Microcycle-by-microcycle planner
- Sessions built from catalogued drills
- Planned minutes and participants per drill
- Copy a cycle forward
A tactical drill board in 2D, 3D and side view
Design the drill on a board with a top-down, a free 3D and a stadium side view. Players are placed as real squad members with their shirt numbers and the club kit, alongside cones, goals, mannequins, zones and notes. Movements are drawn as paths, chained into timed steps and played back as an animation, which can be downloaded as a video clip for the team meeting.
A drill can be shared through a revocable link, and the printed session sheet carries it as a QR code next to the diagram, so staff can open the animation from paper on the training ground.
- Top-down, 3D and side views
- Real players with numbers and club kit
- Animated, timed steps exported to video
- Revocable share link as a QR code on the sheet
Plan against reality
Every catalogued drill builds its own load baseline from the sessions where it was used: its median distance per minute. Once a drill has three linked sessions, the planner shows the distance to expect from each athlete for the minutes you planned, before the session happens.
Afterwards, the day panel compares the session you planned with what the GPS recorded, drill by drill. One level up, the review tab sets each block's delivered weekly load against the target you declared for it, so the block plan stays honest over the whole season.
- Load baseline for every drill
- Expected distance per athlete after three sessions
- Planned versus recorded, drill by drill
- Block target versus delivered load
Printed session sheets and the gym on the same plan
Print one session or the whole microcycle as a PDF: club crest, match-day label, the previous and next match, and one block per drill with its diagram, work, rest and expected load. It is what the staff take onto the pitch.
The gym is planned on the same calendar. From any day of the cycle, open the gym plan for that microcycle, place a session, and send it to the squad, a training group or one player, with the dates already aligned to the fixture. Pitch and gym finally describe the same week.
- Session or full-microcycle PDF
- Crest, match-day label and surrounding matches
- One block per drill with diagram and expected load
- Gym planned from the same day
Frequently asked questions
How do fixtures get into the platform?
Today the coach enters each fixture once, with opponent, venue, kick-off and competition, and edits it when the match moves. Everything else follows from the fixtures: when a fixture moves, the microcycles and the match-day labels move with it.
What if our training week does not match the fixture calendar?
The microcycles are a proposal. You can split a cycle on any date, merge two cycles, or mark a friendly as not ending a training week. Before applying a change, the platform shows the resulting dates and how many recorded sessions move to a different cycle.
Can players see the training plan?
The training planner, the drill board and the calendar are staff tools. Players see their own gym sessions on their phone. A drill can be shared through a revocable link, but plans are not pushed to athletes.
How does the planner estimate the load of a session?
From your own data. Each drill learns its typical distance per minute from the sessions where the GPS recorded it. After three linked sessions, the planner multiplies that rate by the minutes you planned to show the distance to expect per athlete.
Does it support periodisation by blocks?
Yes. Inside each phase of the season you define blocks with a training purpose, a calendar context and an optional weekly load target, and the review tab compares the delivered load with that target once the block is under way.
Plan your next microcycle with us
Book a demo and we will build a week with you: fixtures, microcycle, sessions from your drills, the gym plan and the printed sheet.
More of the platform
- GPS & training loadAthleteIQ Labs turns your GPS units' data into a daily, weekly and season view of training load, built for performance staff. Every number is read against that player's own history on the same day of the microcycle, squad averages leave out anyone who did not train in full, and the week you planned is compared with what the units actually recorded.
- Wellness & readinessAthletes answer your club's own daily check-in on their phones. By the time staff arrive, readiness is scored, pain is mapped, and the few athletes who need a conversation are at the top of the list, each with the reason written down.
- Strength, gym & VBTBuild gym sessions from a real exercise library, send them to the whole squad, a training group or one player, collect what was lifted on the athlete's phone, and read strength, workload, force and velocity on the same squad you train on the pitch. Built for strength and conditioning coaches, fitness coaches and sports scientists in football.
- Medical & availabilityClinical records stay with the doctors and physios. Coaches see who is available, who is on modified duties and when an athlete is expected back, and players returning from injury are tracked phase by phase against the running they have actually done.
- Match analysisUpload the match event data you already receive, and AthleteIQ Labs turns it into a match report and a season analysis for your staff: possession, pressing, passing, chances and territory, with each player's GPS load and minutes from the same game on the same page.
- Club managementContracts, wages, payments, transfers and staff — managed by the club administration, with every deadline surfaced before it is missed, and the performance staff seeing only what they need.