AYSO 980 Coach / Referee Resource Page

This page contains handy links / information for our coaches and referees.  

Coach

To report injuries to the AYSO980 Safety Director, please click here.

Need more soccer? Check it It's All Soccer. Share articles about coaching, tournaments, professional soccer, whatever!

Do you feel a need to talk coaching to no end? Join Soccer-Coach-L, an internet forum just for soccer coaches. Check out their coaching manual for lots of coaching advice and resources.

A few years back Ellen posted some really good advice for coaching U6 players. Check it out here.

Additional Coach's links:
 Coaching Help—Games for Practices
Tony Waiters—World of Soccer
WSN.com - Resources for Coaches: Soccer Drills

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Positioning guides.    Each is a .PDF file that illustrates different positions for players with areas of responsibility for various players:

5 v 5

6 v 6

7 v 7 (222)
7 v 7 (213)

8 v 8

9 v 9 (323)
9 v 9 (233)

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Game planners.    Each is a .PDF file that illustrates different positions for players:

3 v 3

4 v 4

5 v 5

7 v 7 (213)
7 v 7 (231)
7 v 7 (321)
7 v 7 (312)

9 v 9 (224)
9 v 9 (233)
9 v 9 (242)
9 v 9 (323)
9 v 9 (332)
9 v 9 (413)
9 v 9 (422)
9 v 9 (431)

11 v 11 (244)
11 v 11 (334)
11 v 11 (424)
11 v 11 (442)
11 v 11 (532)

 Referee

Its All Soccer

Find book reviews, discussion of technique, and a cool animated offside explanation at Its All Soccer. Contribute an article or comment on the others.

The "World's Largest Referee Tent"

Thirsting for more Referee Discussion? Join SOCREF-L to become part of an ongoing discussion about soccer refereeing, soccer, what distracts referees, and how many blades of grass count for offside.

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To join, search GOOGLE for SOCREF, or simply click here.

Materials Available for Download

Laws of the Game is the latest version of the Laws of the Beautiful Game.

Advice to Referees discusses each law in detail. It explains the intent of the law, and how we are supposed to enforce it. In any high level discussion of soccer laws, this resource is cited. Check it out!

Guide to Procedures discusses where each member of the four person referee team should be, what their responsibilities are, and how the referee team should function. You can learn a lot about good referee tactics from this.

2003 Memo from the USSF covers the latest law changes, and emphasizes areas in the Laws that we should be paying extra attention to.

These and other resources are also found at the USSF Website.

Law 12 Explained and Law 11 Explained are written by Peter Coughlin. Peter referees with Mundelein AYSO and is our Section Director of Referee Assessment. 

Referee Match Pad

Questions and answers