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Your U10 season, planned.

Enter your club's calendar. We lay LEAD's U10 season plan over your weeks: four blocks and six themes on your own dates. Your PDF holds the whole plan: every theme's objectives, success criteria, coaching points and skills, week by week.

  • 10 objectives
  • 24 success criteria
  • 42 technical and tactical skills

Your calendar

Winter break (indoor season)
Other weeks without training
Autumn holiday
Easter holiday
Trainings a week

Filled in with an example 2026–2027 season. Change any date and the plan follows.

U10 season 2026–2027

training weeks
27
trainings per team
54
trainings for your U10 teams
216
themes
6

The aim at U10

Develop a wider range of technical skills, decision-making and creativity at pace while introducing team roles and structures in 8v8 with a goalkeeper.

  • Training week, one colour per theme
  • No training
  • Worked out below

Six themes

One focus at a time

Each theme gets a fixed share of your training weeks, so a longer season gives every theme more weeks and a shorter one fewer. Its focus becomes the focus of every training in those weeks.

  1. 1Control and Eliminate

    24 Aug – 4 Oct 2026 · 6 weeks · 22% of your training weeks

    Develop confidence and creativity in attacking 1v1 situations.

    In your PDF: 2 objectives, 4 success criteria, 5 coaching points, 13 skills

  2. 2Receive, Turn and Accelerate

    5 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 · 4 weeks · 15% of your training weeks

    Make effective decisions quickly after receiving the ball.

    In your PDF: 3 objectives, 3 success criteria, 5 coaching points, 12 skillsWeek 2 is worked out below ↓

  3. 3Pass, Lead and Create Overloads

    9 Nov – 6 Dec 2026 · 4 weeks · 15% of your training weeks

    Make effective decisions in 1v1, 2v1, 3v2 and 4v4 situations.

    In your PDF: 3 objectives, 5 success criteria, 5 coaching points, 10 skills

  4. 4Create and Exploit Space Together

    22 Feb – 21 Mar 2027 · 4 weeks · 15% of your training weeks

    Create and use space individually and in small groups.

    In your PDF: 3 objectives, 4 success criteria, 5 coaching points, 12 skills

  5. 5Defend as a Unit

    22 Mar – 2 May 2027 · 4 weeks · 15% of your training weeks

    Win the ball in individual duels and defend together as an organised team.

    In your PDF: 3 objectives, 4 success criteria, 5 coaching points, 11 skills

  6. 6Play the Game

    3 May – 6 Jun 2027 · 5 weeks · 18% of your training weeks

    Apply individual skills, effective decisions and team principles in 8v8 games.

    In your PDF: 2 objectives, 4 success criteria, 5 coaching points, 11 skills

Every theme in full, week by week, is in your PDF: its objectives, success criteria, coaching points and skills on your own dates.

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Skills across the season

Skills come back

A skill is introduced, practised for a few weeks, then returns later in a new context. Here are 8 of the plan's 42 technical and tactical skills on your calendar.

  • Video in LEADFH Lift

    This theme only

  • Playing into Space

    Back 9 Nov

  • Width and Depth

    Back 22 Feb

  • 3-1-3 Formation (with Goalkeeper)

    Back 3 May

  • Video in LEADFH Open Receive

    Back 22 Feb

  • Video in LEADPre-scanning

    This theme only

  • Video in LEADBall Side and Non-Ball Side

    Back 22 Feb

  • Video in LEADBH Low Goal Shot

    Back 10 May

The full plan lists every theme's skills week by week: 42 technical and tactical skills in all, with 6 physical and mental skills alongside.

One week, worked out

What a coach gets

Every week of the plan turns into this: what players work towards, how you see it, what to coach, the skills, and the trainings.

Week 2 of 4 · Block 2

Receive, Turn and Accelerate

12–18 Oct 2026

Players work towards

  • Develop and perform a wider range of individual technical skills at speed and with control.
  • Create and use space individually and in small groups.
  • Make effective decisions quickly after receiving the ball.

How you see it

  • Performs individual skills at speed with increasing control.
  • Scans before receiving and chooses an effective first action.
  • Turns into space after receiving with increasing control and speed.

Coaching points

  1. Control the ball before the next action.
  2. Scan before receiving and decide the next action before the ball arrives.
  3. Play into space and accelerate through gaps rather than into pressure.
  4. Position yourself according to your role on the ball side or non-ball side.
  5. Give frequent, specific and positive individual feedback.

Skills this week

Technical

  • Video in LEADBH Open Receive
  • Video in LEADFH Open Receive
  • Video in LEADFH Turn Receive
  • Video in LEADFH Static Bounce ReceiveNew
  • BH Stationary Bounce ReceiveNew

Tactical

  • Video in LEADPre-scanning
  • Video in LEADBall Side and Non-Ball Side
  • Accelerating into Space After Receiving
  • Controlling the Ball Before the Next Action

Mental and physical

  • Confidence and Creativity
  • Hockey Movement
  • Learning Behaviours

Training 1 · Technical

60 minutes · drills from this theme

  • 15 min · Warm-up

    Passing & scoring 18

    Receive, react to the coach's call and turn open or closed before the finish.

  • 10 min · Skill development

    Skills 22 · Classic Rondo

    Keep the ball against one to three defenders: scan early and open up to play forward.

  • 15 min · Skill development

    Skills 25 · Across the Pond

    Move the ball from one side to the other past defenders in the middle: receive, lead and scan.

  • 20 min · Game application

    Gameplay 17 · Free Zone Game

    A match with free zones on the sides where the ball carrier can't be tackled: scan, receive and accelerate into space.

  • Training 2 · Gameplay · 60 minWarm-up 15′ · Small-sided games 25′ · Match play 20′

In LEAD, every week of the plan is worked out like this, for every team that follows it.

Your whole club

And for every team?

Your teams per age group

1,296

trainings to prepare this season

24 teams × 2 a week × 27 training weeks

216 of them for your U10 teams · Every team on this calendar, with 2 trainings a week.

How many of them follow a plan?

Based on the LEAD Development Pathway for U10.

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Take your season plan with you

  • Your whole U10 season plan on your club's calendar, as a PDF
  • Every theme with its objectives, success criteria, coaching points and skills, week by week, and one training worked out in full

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