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Coach Challenge MatchPlay Cards
Built for Head Coaches, Coach Developers, Heads of PE, and Academy Leads, these cards help you facilitate workshops, support staff growth, and create better coaching conversations by design and not luck.
How Head Coaches & Coach Developers use them:
- Facilitate high-impact coaching workshops
- Structure mentor conversations with purpose
- Support ongoing CPD, not one-off sessions
- Create a shared coaching language across programmes
- Develop coaches who can think on the run
Why these cards are different?
These aren’t activities to do they are challenges that shape how coaches think and act.
- Designed to facilitate coach development workshops
- Ideal for in-house CPD, mentoring conversations, and staff meetings
- Supports games-based, player-centred, and inquiry-driven coaching
- Encourages coaches to notice more, say less, and design better environments
Whether you’re working with early-career coaches or experienced practitioners, the cards meet coaches where they are and stretch them forward.
Why you need this deck:
They're our best deck of challenge cards yet and we made them to solve a simple problem: too many coaches and teachers are expected to deliver great sessions without the time, support, or confidence to do so. The expertly designed and trusted challenges turn coaching principles and frameworks into practical, game-ready prompts that help coaches engage players, adapt sessions live, and reflect with purpose, raising the quality of coaching without adding complexity.
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Coach Challenge MatchPlay Cards
Challenge yourself
Developed by world-class coach developers and expert coaches, these challenge cards transform your sessions and workforce with timeless, expert-backed knowledge and frameworks.
Your access to world-class people
More than just a "deck of cards", it's all the expertise you need to deliver game-based and player-centred experiences.
Developed by world-class coach developers and expert coaches, these challenge cards transform your sessions and workforce with timeless, expert-backed knowledge and frameworks.
Yes, they're for you!
Whatever your context and environment, Coach MatchPlay Cards© help you deliver great experiences.
Coach developers
Helping you to help others:
- Enable autonomy and mastery
- Promote the modern approach to coaching
- Facilitate workshops and CPDs with ease
- Impress coaches with out-of-the-box thinking
Heads of Sport
Support and engage your team:
- Solve team problems with ease
- Improve collaboration
- Support staff individually and practically
National Governing bodies
Generate change at scale:
- Create alignment and consistency
- Give the workforce practical tools
- Run exciting and impactful workshops
- Share your message and philshophy creativly
Coaches
Your new assistant coach:
- Generate creative strategies in minutes
- Enable self-development and reflection
- Your access to elite coaches
Higher Education
The quickest way to more engagement (and learning!):
- Make academic research practical
- Generate conversation between students
- Allow students to review and reflect
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Made to be multi-sport
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Academically backed content
Take a look inside:
60+ expertly designed coach challenges split into 3 categories. They're the perfect tool when you aren’t sure where to begin, short of planning time or when you feel lost in the middle of planning.
Engage
Challenges that help coaches increase player ownership and engagement, while creating learning environments.
Change
Challenges that stretch coaches to adapt their behaviours and language, rethink session design and interventions.
Reflect
Challenges designed to develop reflective, self-aware coaches, improve noticing and decision-making.
Engage
Challenges that help coaches increase player ownership and engagement, while creating learning environments.
Change
Challenges that stretch coaches to adapt their behaviours and language, rethink session design and interventions.
Reflect
Challenges designed to develop reflective, self-aware coaches, improve noticing and decision-making.
Coach Challenge MatchPlay Cards
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Built for Head Coaches, Coach Developers, Heads of PE, and Academy Leads, these cards help you facilitate workshops, support staff growth, and create better coaching conversations by design and not luck.
Each challenge prompts sports leaders to think, adapt, notice, and reflect on the skills that matter most in modern, player-centred and games-based environments.
How Head Coaches & Coach Developers use them:
- Facilitate high-impact coaching workshops
- Structure mentor conversations with purpose
- Support ongoing CPD, not one-off sessions
- Create a shared coaching language across programmes
- Develop coaches who can think on the run
What’s inside the deck?
60+ coaching challenges, split into three powerful categories:
- Engage: Challenges that help coaches increase player ownership and engagement, plus create learning environments players want to be part of.
- Change: Challenges that stretch coaches to adapt their behaviours and language, rethink session design and interventions as well as coach in the game, not just from the sideline
- Reflect: Challenges designed to develop reflective, self-aware coaches, improve noticing and decision-making. Turning everyday sessions into continuous learning opportunities
How these cards are different?
These aren’t activities to do they are challenges that shape how coaches think and act.
- Designed to facilitate coach development workshops
- Ideal for in-house CPD, mentoring conversations, and staff meetings
- Supports games-based, player-centred, and inquiry-driven coaching
- Encourages coaches to notice more, say less, and design better environments
Whether you’re working with early-career coaches or experienced practitioners, the cards meet coaches where they are and stretch them forward.
No long words. Just action.
No long-winded walls of text. Just the clear step-by-step frameworks and guides to influence your sessions.
Made to be easy to follow and used by coaches and teachers across the sporting landscape, from community to elite.
Superpowers for coaches and teachers
60+ bespoke coaching challenges to help you help others. Here to promote games-based and player-centred experiences.
- Support ongoing CPD, not one-off sessions
- Create a shared coaching language across programmes
- Develop coaches who can think on the run
Want them more personal?
Customised to your club, Governing Body or school and philosophy, give your coaches instant, practical guidance they can use in sessions, workshops, and mentoring. A practical, repeatable tool that ensures your coaching philosophy is seen in action, not just written in policy documents.
Ask us anything:
Whether you're leading a program, supporting a group of coaches or coaching solo, these challenges give you the practical tools and frameworks to help others. One deck. Endless games, ages, and ability levels.
Who are the Coach MatchPlay Cards© designed for?
They’re built for Directors of Sport, Heads of Coaching, PE leads, coach developers, and coaches working across schools, clubs, and academies, especially where staff experience levels vary.
Do coaches need games-based or Game Sense experience to use them?
No. The cards provide clear, practical prompts that support both experienced coaches and non-specialists to coach effectively through games.
How do these support coach development, not just sessions?
The Engage · Change · Reflect structure supports planning conversations, in-session decision-making, and post-session reflection ideal for mentoring and CPD.
Want to custom print them for your assication or club? Contact us here.
How quickly will coaches see impact?
Immediately. Coaches can pick up a card and apply it in their next session without additional training. One resource used by specialists, non-specialists, and volunteers alike.