FootballGPT vs ChatGPT for Football Coaching

ChatGPT has read about football. FootballGPT has been built around it.

Every response from FootballGPT draws on coaching frameworks from the FA, UEFA, US Soccer, FIFA, La Liga and the Dutch youth development system. Ask about a 1v1 defending drill for under-10s and you get advice grounded in how children actually learn at that age, not a generic list of exercises scraped from the internet.

ChatGPT will give you something. It might even sound reasonable. But it has no framework for deciding what is age-appropriate, no understanding of progressive overload in a session, and no way to tailor advice to the 16 players you have on a Tuesday evening with one pitch and no bibs.

This is where the gap is widest. Ask ChatGPT for a session plan and it will give you one. Ask FootballGPT and it will ask you what age group first.

FootballGPT knows that under-7s should not be running laps, that under-12s are in a golden age of motor skill development, and that a session for seniors should look nothing like one for under-9s. It adapts language, complexity, pitch size and activity selection based on the developmental stage of your players.

ChatGPT treats football as one thing. FootballGPT understands it changes at every age group.

ChatGPT can describe a drill in words. FootballGPT can describe it, animate it on a pitch diagram, and let you save it to your weekly planner.

Describe a drill in plain English and FootballGPT generates an animated diagram showing player movement, passes and runs. Take a photo of your whiteboard sketch and it converts it into a professional animation. Use the Visual Drill Creator to build drills by placing players and drawing movement with drag-and-drop.

The Session Plan Generator creates complete sessions with warm-ups, technical practices, small-sided games and cool-downs. You can export them as PDFs, share them with QR codes, and organise them into your weekly training plan.

None of this is possible with ChatGPT.

FootballGPT's Scout Mode has access to real player statistics from 100+ leagues, updated regularly throughout the season. Ask “who are the top scorers in the Championship under 23?” and you get actual data, not a best guess from training data that might be two years out of date.

ChatGPT's knowledge has a cutoff date. It cannot tell you this season's top scorer or compare current form between two players. For anything involving real numbers, it is unreliable at best and confidently wrong at worst.

FootballGPT has a dedicated FM mode with advisors that understand the current match engine, wonderkid databases and tactic meta. Ask about the best 4-2-3-1 setup for FM26 and you get advice based on how the game actually plays right now, with live search to find the latest community discoveries.

ChatGPT can talk about Football Manager, but its knowledge is frozen in time. It will recommend players who have since retired and tactics that were patched out three versions ago.

ChatGPT is a remarkable tool. If you need help writing an email, debugging code, summarising a document, or learning about history, it is hard to beat. It is a generalist, and a very good one.

For football coaching, though, generalist knowledge only gets you so far. ChatGPT can give you a list of passing drills, but it will not know whether they are appropriate for your under-8s or your under-16s. It cannot animate those drills, cannot draw on established coaching frameworks, and cannot remember that you coach a 7v7 team with 14 players on a half-pitch.

Use FootballGPT when you need coaching advice you can trust. Session planning, tactical analysis, player development, match preparation, scouting data, goalkeeper coaching, FM tactics. Anything where football expertise matters more than general knowledge.

Used by 3,000+ coaches in 30+ countries. The advice is grounded in real coaching methodology, the tools go beyond text-based chat, and at $10.99/month it costs almost half what ChatGPT Plus charges.