MatchPlay Cards

Name: MatchPlay Cards
Brand: THE COACHING LAB
Price: 30.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£30.00 GBP

INSIDE THIS DECK: Packed with 45+ cards - including team and individual player challenges

Turn every game into a learning opportunity.
Whether you’re leading a PE lesson, running after-school sport, or coaching your team, MatchPlay Cards make it easy to bring variety, challenge, and fun into every session.

Perfect for small-sided games, match days, or skill development, these cards take the stress out of planning and keep every player engaged—no matter their ability. With ready-to-use challenges for individuals and teams, you’ll unlock creativity, boost decision-making, and give your players real ownership of their learning.

What’s inside:

45+ team and individual challenges ready to play
Multi-sport design, perfect for PE teachers and coaches across activities
Durable, credit card-style plastic for long-lasting use
Handy drawstring bag for on-the-go sessions
QR code linking to a library of small-sided games

MatchPlay Cards: the easiest way to coach through games.

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Know these guys? We do!

MatchPlay Cards are loved and trusted by the best.

See them in action

Engage every player, every time. Your job made easy!

No more standing around and struggling to think of ideas — keep every player active, challenged, and smiling from start to finish with MatchPlay Cards.

Proven techniques for developing players

Great sessions happen by design and not by luck.

Gain access to the world’s best learning environments with MatchPlay Cards and succeed through player ownership, games-based learning and challenging players' decision-making.

What's inside?

Challenge cards

45+ proven multi-sport team and player challenges. From promoting passing to defending and everything in between.

Small Sided Games

The tools to help you develop players decision making, problem solving and communication.

Session plans

Junior and senior-friendly challenges. No matter who you’re working with, who doesn’t love to play games?

How they work

Pick them

Find a challenge card/s that fit your session objective.

Add them

Play out your chosen team and player challenges in small-sided games.

Play them

See players problem solve and achieve new skills in front of you

Multi-sport

Add them to any sport and become a game changer

Credit card plastic

Because we know the life of a coach and teacher

Global shipping

Since 2018, MatchPlay Cards have been shipped to 75+ countries

Grassroots to elite

Who doesn't love to play games? Use them with juniors and seniors

Multi-sport

Add them to any sport and become a game changer

Credit card plastic

Because we know the life of a coach and teacher

Global shipping

Since 2018, MatchPlay Cards have been shipped to 75+ countries

Grassroots to elite

Who doesn't love to play games? Use them with juniors and seniors

Join 10,000 global users

Grassroots to the elite

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Improved communication

We use them with our U18s to develop their communicaiton and adaptability We use them with our U18s to develop their communicaiton and adaptability We use them with our U18s to develop their communicaiton and adaptability

Liverpool Football Club

LOVE THEM!

The girls love them, they are a great stimulation for conversation between players and coaches. The girls love them, they are a great stimulation for conversation between players and coaches. The girls love them, they are a great stimulation for conversation between players and coaches.

Rugby Australia

Different problems to solve

I will try to select MatchPlay Cards© that fit the theme we are working to. We can't predict what will happen next in the game so we want to give them different problems to solve and make things chaotic with underloads and overloads I will try to select MatchPlay Cards© that fit the theme we are working to. We can't predict what will happen next in the game so we want to give them different problems to solve and make things chaotic with underloads and overloads I will try to select MatchPlay Cards© that fit the theme we are working to. We can't predict what will happen next in the game so we want to give them different problems to solve and make things chaotic with underloads and overloads

John Lawson, Rangers FC

Really effective

I'm a big advocate of MatchPlay Cards they a really effective and visual aid to support players to interact, it gives them variety I'm a big advocate of MatchPlay Cards they a really effective and visual aid to support players to interact, it gives them variety I'm a big advocate of MatchPlay Cards they a really effective and visual aid to support players to interact, it gives them variety

Paul Barry, Crystal Palace FC, Assistant Head of Coaching

Play, play, play!

MatchPlay Cards constantly create opportunities for players to learn through play MatchPlay Cards constantly create opportunities for players to learn through play MatchPlay Cards constantly create opportunities for players to learn through play

Darren, Park Sports Project

Facilitate the problem solving

Huge part of my journey of understanding that I can just facilitate the problem solving, rather than doing it for me with MatchPlay Cards Huge part of my journey of understanding that I can just facilitate the problem solving, rather than doing it for me with MatchPlay Cards Huge part of my journey of understanding that I can just facilitate the problem solving, rather than doing it for me with MatchPlay Cards

Alan Good, Liberty Field Hockey, USA