Introduction: Football formations

Welcome to our illustrated guide to be a great coach.

here we are gonna talk a lot about formations and tactics and we gonna show you some of the greatest coachs and players who created those famous formations.

there are many formations and it's impossible to list them all but we will present some of the most common that have been used in football from old football until modern football.

1) Formation:

the formation describes how the players in a team are positioned on the pitch. Different formations can be used depending on whether a team wishes to play more attacking or defensive football

Formations are used in both professional and amateur football matches. In amateur matches, however, these tactics are sometimes adhered to less strictly due to the lesser significance of the occasion. Skill and discipline on behalf of the players is also needed to effectively carry out a given formation in professional football. Formations need to be chosen bearing in mind which players are available. Some of the formations below were created to address deficits or strengths in different types of players.

2) Choice and uses formations

The choice of formation is often related to the type of players available to the coach.

in next time we gonna show you illustrated lessons on: 

2-1) Narrow formations2-2)Wide formations2-3) Change to attacking formations2-4) Change to defensive formations

·         3) Classic formations:

3-1) Pyramid (2-3-5)

 3-2) WM

 3-3) WW

 3-3) 3-3-3

 3-4) 4-2-4

4) Common modern formations

 4-1) 4-4-2 

4-2) 4-3-3

 4-3) Diamond

 4-4) the Christmas tree 

4-5) Magic rectangle 

4-6) 5-3-2 

4-7) 3-4-3

 4-8) 3-5-2

 4-9) 3-6-1

that's all now next time we gonna start with how to choice 

and use your formation