Women's Australian Football Association

The Coach - The Official AFL Level 1 Coaching Manual: standards and guidelines for conduct, tactics, injury prevention, training and more.

Coaching manuals tailored for youth and juniors are available at AFL Community Club.

Coaching Edge is published by the AFL and is a continuation of the respected magazine Coaching Update, which was first published in April 1988 after the VFL assumed responsibility for football development in Victoria and formed the Australian Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Vic Branch in 1987. There was also a predecessor, Australian Football Coach, published by SANFL from 1972 until 1975. read more »

Neale Daniher looks at four areas of Gameday Coaching including midweek preparation, pre-game, game on, and postgame

This video looks specifically at the role of the ruckman and techniques for ruckman at the center bounce, boundary throw ins, and stoppages around the grounds.

Tempo Training / Interval Training. 6 weeks. Lowering your two mile time trial

This plan is to introduce Tempo training sessions to your weekly training sessions. The sessions I am recommending do actually border onto interval training so the step up to that more intensive type of workout wont be a big step when that occurs. read more »

The goal of these warmup skill sets is to get 1000 touches read more »

Session 1

In pairs with 1 football each

• 50 right hand handballs
• 50 left hand handballs
• 100 handballs alternating each hand
• 50 1/2 volley/handball up then swap over
• 25 handball / quick kicks on each leg then swap over
• 3 balls between 2 players handballing.  Keep one ball in the air. Stop at 50 in a row
• 10m kicking in pairs with opposite foot until training starts

Session 2

1 ball per player read more »