Session Design
Hobbit is a soccer session planner and practice plan generator with AI inside, for youth soccer from U5 to U18. One line in, a complete practice plan out, with a drill diagram for every block, age constraints applied automatically, the session saved to your team calendar, and the structure following your own session standard.
A soccer session planner for youth coaches: one line in, a complete practice plan out, with a drill diagram per phase, age constraints applied and the session saved to your calendar. UK football formats included.
One sentence. One session built forgame intelligence.
Your session standard sets the shape. Say one sentence, check the confirmation form, and the plan writes itself. Whatever you leave out, the form collects.
My session standard
Manage standards →No lines. No laps. No lectures. Every player always active, always deciding, always on the ball.
Every phase includes an FA 4 Corner analysis: technical, psychological, physical, social.
Quick start
Example session
See what a complete Hobbit session looks like.
A soccer session planner turns the facts about one training (age group, player count, space and theme) into a runnable plan: the phases in order, the minutes each gets, the setup and the coaching points. Most planners hand you a template to fill in. This one writes the draft and draws the diagram for every phase, so the hour of planning becomes a minute of editing.
Describe the session in one line. Hobbit reads the age band and applies its constraints, lays out four phases (warm-up, technical, skill, conditioned game) and a free small sided game to close, drafts each with a diagram, and saves the result to the team calendar. Any phase can be regenerated on its own, and the structure follows your own session standard once you have set one.
The four phases and the closing free game are the Academy method written as a template. Three essays explain the choices: why every session ends in a small sided game, how a competition mechanism turns a drill into a game, and why nobody queues.
Call it soccer or football, play 3v3 or 11v11, the planner does not switch systems. Every session it writes is designed for game intelligence: decisions made with the ball, in situations that look like the match. The format is a constraint the age band brings in, not a different method, and the structure follows the session standard you set, the built in one or your own.
Describe the session in one line (age group, player count, space, and theme), confirm the prefilled details in a short form, and the planner generates the complete practice. The built-in shape runs five blocks (warm-up, technical work, skill application, a conditioned game, and a free small sided game to close), each with its own SVG drill diagram. Age-appropriate constraints like small formats for U6 to U8 are applied automatically, and the finished session saves to your team calendar.
A template library gives you someone else’s session to adapt. A practice plan generator drafts one for your exact age band, player count, and space, and any single phase can be regenerated in seconds when the numbers change on the night. Generation is unlimited on the single Hobbit Pro plan.
Yes. Define a session standard (how many blocks, their names, minutes, and what each block is for), or upload an existing plan and let the AI extract that structure. Every generation then follows your shape exactly, while Hobbit fills each block with decision-rich, game-based content.
Yes. Every phase ships with a labeled SVG diagram showing player positions, ball paths, and runs, ready to print with the plan or share with your team. You can also draw standalone diagrams from a plain-language prompt.
The built-in standard runs 60 minutes across five blocks (a 10 minute warm-up, 15 minutes each for technical, skill, and the conditioned game, and a 5 minute free game), and you can pick another duration when confirming. A custom session standard carries its own block lengths, and plans follow them exactly.
U5 through U18. The planner adjusts formats, player numbers, and constraints by age band, following federation guidance such as small-sided games without keepers for the youngest groups.
The planner is part of Hobbit Pro at $15 per month or $150 per year, with unlimited session generation. Before subscribing you can explore a full example team, its calendar, and real generated sessions on the live demo pages without an account.