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Set up the team before Saturday.

Field-ready guides for practice planning, visual drills, match day, lineups, attendance, roles, sharing, and the small settings that keep the weekend moving.

Getting Started

What is Pitch Planner?

Learn what Pitch Planner is, who it helps, and how youth soccer coaches use it for practice planning, visual drills, lineups, substitutions, equal minutes, rosters, attendance, and match-day notes.

Tournament Builder

Create Your First Tournament

Create a Pitch Planner tournament, add teams, choose a competition format, and generate the first schedule.

Finding Tools & Settings

Find Pitch Planner tools and settings for match day, team management, account preferences, and coach workflow customization.

Tournament Builder

Choosing a Tournament Format

Compare round-robin, knockout, and group plus knockout formats to choose the right Pitch Planner tournament structure for your teams and schedule.

Coach Quick Start Guide

Start using Pitch Planner as a coach with account setup, team creation, player entry, lineup building, and your first live match workflow.

Getting Started with the Time Tracker

Set up the Pitch Planner time tracker by creating a team, adding players, choosing a format, and running your first live playing-time match.

Session Planning

Session Planning and Visual Drill Builder

Build a youth soccer practice timeline, create visual drills, save coaching notes, and prepare a printable session handout in Pitch Planner.

Match Day

Lineups & Formations

Create, save, reuse, and adjust youth soccer lineups in Pitch Planner with formation diagrams for 4v4, 5v5, 7v7, 8v8, 9v9, and 11v11.

Tracking Goals & Assists

Record goals, assists, opponent goals, and match events in Pitch Planner so your post-game recap and player stats stay accurate.

Team Management

Coach & Manager Roles

Understand Pitch Planner coach and manager roles, what each role can edit, and how to invite assistants without giving everyone full roster control.

Team Feed

Use the Pitch Planner team feed to share schedule updates, match notes, announcements, and parent-facing information through a public team link.

Attendance Tracking

Track youth soccer practice attendance in Pitch Planner, mark players present or absent, review attendance trends, and use those notes on match day.

Sharing

Tournament Builder

Publishing and Sharing Your Tournament

Publish a Pitch Planner tournament, then share its public schedule, results, standings, and bracket with coaches, teams, and parents.

Account

Accounts, Saving, and Managing Teams

Learn how Pitch Planner accounts work, how team and match data is saved, how to update account settings, and how to keep work connected to your login.

Results & Standings

Tournament Builder

Entering Results and Updating Standings

Enter tournament scores in Pitch Planner, update standings, and keep knockout brackets current as matches finish.

Scheduling

Tournament Builder

Setting Up Venues and Scheduling

Add venues, time slots, match durations, and scheduling constraints in Pitch Planner before generating a usable tournament schedule.