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For journalists, coach educators and researchers

The findings and charts on this site are free to quote, reproduce and republish, with attribution to FootballGPT. The dataset refreshes every Monday and we are happy to provide additional cuts on request.

Headline finding

The youngest players get the most isolated drill-work. Mini-soccer coaches (U6-U9) ask AI for 87.9% technical drills. Only 7.2% are small-sided games — the format kids actually learn from.

Based on 7,122 drills generated by 1,152 coaches inside FootballGPT.

Other publishable findings

  • Technical-drill bias falls with age. Mini (U6-U9): 87.9%. Adult (U19+): 70.9%. Tactical content scales correctly with age (1% Mini → 15% Adult).
  • Game-based learning sits under 7% at every age band. Across all categorised drills, only a small minority are small-sided games or game-related practice.
  • More than one in four "football coaching" queries comes from a Football Manager video-game player. Coach mode: 65.4%. FM mode: 24.5%.
  • Tuesday is peak grassroots planning night, not Sunday. Drill generation peaks on Tuesday and Monday evenings; the busiest hour is 8pm UTC.

Reuse and attribution

Charts and findings may be reproduced provided the source is cited as "FootballGPT Grassroots Coaching Data" with a link to footballgpt.co/data.

For interviews, additional cuts of the data, or pre-publication comment, contact [email protected].

About the methodology

See the full methodology page for cohort definitions, anonymisation rules (k≥50), opt-out details and chart-by-chart sources.