Playbook Designer Features
Explore all of the available features for drawing plays, sharing playbooks and more...
Creating Football Playbooks
Create any type of playbook for both tackle and flag football.
Drawing Football Plays
Easy to use drawing tools to draw any route and customize players.
Download Your Playbooks
Export your play drawings in various formats including PDF,JPEG and more.
Create a Team
More than just a playbook software, we include the ability to set up a team and invite your entire roster, parents and coaches.
No cost for players and parents.
Share Playbooks With Team
Enable sharing for any of your playbooks to share with your team's players, parents and coaches.
Animated Football Plays
With our Tutorial Mode every single play draw is automatically available in animation.
Provide Detailed Instructions
You can provide more than just a drawing, you can provide detailed assignment text to your players to help them better grasp the playbook.
Reduce Work By Copying Playbooks
Draw your base offense against no defense, then create a copy for each week of your season and add the opposing defenses to your copies, then you will have a customized version of your playbook for each opponent.
Some "Flipping" Powerful Tools
You can create copies of your play and then use the flip play tool to create the same play only flipped from right to left or left to right.
Flipping isn't just limited to plays, you can flip individual player's routes, so you can turn that POST route into a CORNER route with one click.
Easy Game Planning
By using our Copy features, Flip Features and the ability to add offenses or defenses to a play you can create custom copies of your entire playbook for each weekly opponent you are game planning for.
Copy Plays To Save Time
You could also use this to turn an "I Right" play into an "I Left" play by just copying your play and using the flip feature.
Another use could also be for game planning, within a single playbook you could draw the same play against multiple defenses or offenses.
Bulk Editing
Make play or even playbook wide style changes within a few clicks with our bulk editing tools.
Never Lose Your Work Again
Never lose your hard work to a computer failure again, draw your playbooks once and you will have them forever.
Multiple Field Options
Choose from a full color field, black and white, even grayscale options for drawing your plays.
Annotate Player Assignments
Add short blocks of text directly in the play diagram to reinforce key player assignments.
Preset Formation Library
We include a large assortment of offensive and defensive formation templates to use in your plays.
Restore a Playbook
If you accidently delete a play or make changes you don't like you can restore your playbook to a previous saved version.
Display Orientation
Setup your playbooks to display offense or defense on top or bottom, however you prefer.
Reduce Work, Coach More
Import plays from one playbook to another, another great time saver, reduce duplicate work, coach more.
Unlimited Tech Support
If you run into trouble, we are here to help. We offer email support within 1 business day (often within a few minutes).
Video Tutorials
We offer video tutorials covering every feature of CoachYouths playbook designer, if your not sure about something these videos are the best place to start.
Automatic Updates
Anytime we add new features, improve existing features or fix bugs you get the update automatically next time you login, nothing to install, nothing for you to do or worry about, its automatic.
Any Device, Anywhere
You can access your playbooks with any device, including smart phones and tablets, all you need is a reliable internet connection.
Multiple Sports
In addition to football we also provide tools for drawing basketball, soccer and lacrosse plays. Great for those who coach multiple sports.
Coaching Library
We have a large library of coaching tips, deep dives into different formations and play concepts, always available for free.
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Features FAQ
What Kind of Plays Can I Draw
Basically any type of football play can be drawn, we offer preset formation templates for offensive and defensive plays. You can fully customize the number of players, you can draw against opposing offenses or defenses, essentially no limits.
Is this for Tackle or Flag Football
BOTH. You can choose the player count when you create your playbook, if you need a 5 player flag football playbook you can choose that option, or any other player count from 5-12.
Of course 11-man standard tackle football is supported but so is 9-man and 12-man Canadian football.
Can I Print My Playbook
Absolutely, we provide a large number of PDF export layouts from a single play per page to 8 plays per page, you can customize the color/black and white or grayscale as needed as well.
We also allow you to download the full image file in JPEG, PNG and SVG format, great for embedding in websites, word documents and even powerpoint.
Can I Share with My Team
Yes, you can setup your team and invite everyone to join, including parents. There is never any additional charge for players or parents.
Once you create your team you can share any of your playbooks with that team and control who has access and to what.