Small-Sided Games
Three Team Rotation Games: Overload Rotation
Keep intensity high with short games
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Three Team Rotation Games: Overload Rotation is a 20-minute small-sided games drill for 9-18 players, suitable for Under 8 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, bibs, mini goals. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.
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Duration
20 min
Players
9-18
Pitch size
35 x 30 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Three Team Rotation Games: Overload Rotation — Marked area · 35 x 30 yards
Step 1 of 4Two teams play, the third rests and feeds balls in.
- 1. Two teams play, the third rests and feeds balls in.
- 2. Winner stays on, first goal wins or two minutes maximum.
- 3. Run a league table for the session.
- 4. One team plays with an extra player for two minutes then the overload rotates.
- Cones mark the area
- Dashed lines = zones / thirds
- Ball
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Keep intensity high with short games
- -Manage rest and recovery
- -Compete across a series of games
Setup
- 1Three teams of equal size in different bibs.
- 2Mini goals at each end.
- 3Balls stored with the resting team.
Coaching instructions
- 1Two teams play, the third rests and feeds balls in.
- 2Winner stays on, first goal wins or two minutes maximum.
- 3Run a league table for the session.
- 4One team plays with an extra player for two minutes then the overload rotates.
Coaching points
- -Start fast, the games are short
- -Fresh legs press hard
- -Communicate roles before entering
- -Use the free player to break the first line
- -Defending team stays compact and delays
Common mistakes
- -Slow rotation between games
- -Resting team not feeding balls
- -Dropping intensity in the last minute