Drag and drop formations in your browser. Plan tactics before matchday and share with your team. WhatsApp sharing built in. Supports 7v7, 9v9, and 11v11 youth soccer formats.
Research shows 70% of communication is non-verbal. Your players need to SEE the tactics, not just hear them.
Players forget positions by matchday
You explain the formation Tuesday. By Saturday, half the team forgot. Send them a visual tactic link - they can review it 10 times before kickoff.
Training sessions that feel too short
Studies show players DON'T learn by listening to lectures - they tune out. Send animated tactics before training. Players arrive already knowing the drill.
Only 3% of corners result in goals
Research shows teams with dedicated set-piece routines score more. Design corner kicks and free kicks where every player knows exactly where to stand and run.
Verbal explanations that don't stick
Explaining tactics with hand gestures and hoping players remember? Plan it in Tactico, share it on WhatsApp. Players study it before they arrive.
Mixed ability levels in the same squad
Visual tactics help struggling players catch up. They can pause, rewind, and rewatch the animated play until they understand it.
Juggling work, family, and the team
Surveys show volunteer coaches feel overwhelmed. Tactico saves prep time - create a tactic once, share it forever. Build a library of plays over the season.
From defensive 5-3-2 to attacking 4-3-3. One click to load, then drag players to customize. Includes youth formats: 5v5, 7v7, 9v9, 11v11.
Dominant in modern football. Three forwards stretch defenses wide. Variants: 4-3-3 holding, 4-3-3 flat, 4-3-3 false 9. Used by Liverpool, Barcelona, Manchester City.
The formation every player understands. Two banks of four, two strikers. Clear defensive shape. Perfect for youth teams learning positional discipline.
Double pivot provides defensive security. #10 plays between the lines. One striker pins centre-backs. The default formation of modern defensive football.
Five in midfield dominates possession. Wing-backs provide width. Two strikers combine. Excellent against 4-4-2 - creates numerical superiority in midfield.
Three centre-backs for rock-solid defending. Counter-attacking system - absorb pressure, break fast. Used by Atletico Madrid and Italy's national team.
Start with a blank pitch. Place players exactly where you want them. Save your unique formation to use again. No formation library? Create your own.
Built by coaches who wanted one platform for tactics, rosters, drills, and sessions
Record player movements frame by frame. Show how a pressing trigger works. Export as video for WhatsApp. Players watch it 10 times before training.
Corner kicks, free kicks, throw-ins, goal kicks. Assign every player a role and a run. Improve your 3% corner conversion rate with planned routines.
Draw passing lanes, pressing triggers, defensive lines. Multiple colors for different players or phases. Straight arrows, curved runs, zones.
No download needed - works in your browser. Plan formations on your phone or tablet. Share tactics with your team via WhatsApp before training or matchday.
Generate a shareable link. Send to team WhatsApp group. Players view on their phones - no app download needed. Send tactics before training.
Save tactics to your account. Access from any device. Build a library: defensive shape, attacking patterns, set pieces. Reuse next season.
Six steps from an idea in your head to eleven players who know the plan before they walk onto the pitch.
Five formations load free — 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, 3-5-2 and 5-3-2 — and you can drag any player anywhere on the pitch, so nothing stops you building a shape by hand. Switching the board to 5v5, 7v7, 8v8, 9v9 or 10v10 is free too. Pro unlocks the rest of the preset library, so you load a shape instead of dragging it out every time. Browse the formation guides.
The standard coaching advice on attacking corners is to nominate one player for the near post, one for the centre and one for the far post, rather than sending bodies into the box without a job. Put each player exactly where you want them, draw the run each one makes with the movement tool, and number the badges so the order is unambiguous. Do the same for the defensive version — mark who picks up which zone, and who attacks the first ball.
A press only works when the whole team reacts to the same cue — a back pass to the goalkeeper, a heavy first touch, a defender receiving with their back to goal. Draw who jumps with the movement tool, then shade the space you are conceding on purpose with the zone and area tools. Number badges and text labels let you mark the order players go, so "press high" stops being a hopeful instruction.
Rotations, overloads and counter-press recovery runs are hard to read as arrows. Add keyframes, move the players, press play, and the board fills in the movement between positions. Record the result to video and hand it to the squad. Free accounts get one animation and one video export to try it; after that animation and recording are Pro. See the drill animator.
Sign in with a free account and press Share. Tactico turns the tactic into a link and gives you a WhatsApp button next to it — paste it into the team group and players open it in a browser on their phone. Nothing to install on their side, no account for them to create. Reviewing the plan the night before beats explaining it in the car park.
A tactic only sticks if you coach it. The drill library holds 100 drills across twelve categories, including 20 possession drills, 11 defending drills, 7 set-piece drills and 5 pressing drills. Slot them into a session plan with timings and print it to take onto the grass. Build a training session.
Coming from TacticalPad, Coachbetter or a laminated clipboard? The side-by-side comparison covers how Tactico stacks up feature by feature.
Everything youth football coaches ask us
No download required. Tactico is a free soccer tactical board that works directly in your browser - Chrome, Safari, Firefox. Open the link and start creating formations instantly.
All youth formats: 5v5 (U7-U8), 7v7 soccer formations (U9-U10), 9v9 formations (U11-U12), and full 11v11 (U13+). Drag and drop to customize any formation.
You can view and share tactics from a phone — open a tactic link, send it via WhatsApp, and players can view on any device. The tactical board itself (drag-and-drop, animations, recording) is built for desktop and tablet. Native iOS and Android apps are in development for full mobile coaching.
Click share, copy the link, paste into your team WhatsApp group. Players open it on their phones - no app download needed. They see exactly what you created.
Yes, the tactical board is completely free online. Create formations, draw arrows, share tactics. Pro features (animated drills, cloud sync) are $5/month with 7-day free trial.
Yes. Use the set piece creator for corner kicks, free kicks, throw-ins. Position every player, draw their runs, share with the team. Improve your set piece conversion rate.
Place each player where you want them, then draw the run each one makes with the movement tool and use number badges to fix the order. Standard coaching practice is to nominate a specific runner for the near post, the centre and the far post rather than sending players in without a role. The same approach works for defending corners — mark who takes which zone and who attacks the first ball.
Put the ball where the trigger happens — a back pass to the keeper, a heavy first touch, a defender receiving with their back to goal. Draw who jumps with the movement tool and who covers behind, then shade the space you're conceding on purpose with the zone and area tools. Number badges mark the order players press in.
Five presets load free: 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, 3-5-2 and 5-3-2. Dragging players anywhere and switching between 5v5, 7v7, 8v8, 9v9, 10v10 and 11v11 are free too, so any shape can be built by hand. The rest of the formation preset library is part of Pro.
Stop explaining with hand gestures. Start showing players exactly what you mean — plan it, share it, done.
Best on desktop and tablet — native iOS & Android apps in development. Used by — coaches worldwide.