Year's worth of games with MatchPlay Cards©️ E-BOOK

The Ultimate Guide to Games-Based, Player-Centred Coaching

The MatchPlay Cards® Ebook is the essential companion for coaches and teachers who want to design better games, engage every player, and coach the game – not the drill.

Built from real-world experience across schools, grassroots sport, academies, and talent pathways, this practical ebook shows you exactly how to use MatchPlay Cards® to create high-engagement, games-based learning environments that develop smarter, more confident players.

Whether you coach football, hockey, netball, rugby, or deliver PE, this ebook gives you ready-to-use game ideas, session structures, and challenges that transfer directly to competition.

Why Coaches & Teachers Use This Ebook

• Reduce coach talk and increase player ownership
• Design sessions that look and feel like the game
• Differentiate learning without labels
• Keep players engaged across multiple pitches
• Support player-centred, inquiry-led coaching
• Build confidence in staff delivering games-based sessions

What’s Inside the MatchPlay Cards® Ebook?

• 20+ practical game formats using team challenges, player challenges, and reflection cards
• Small-sided games designed to improve decision-making, communication, and problem-solving
• Proven ways to coach large groups and mixed-ability players without stopping play
• Tournament formats that increase engagement, ownership, and intensity
• Clear examples of Play → Practice → Play session design
• Game-day transfer ideas to connect training to real competition
•  Insights from elite academies, schools, and international coaches

This isn’t theory. It’s a plug-and-play coaching resource you can use immediately.

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