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Session planner

Build a custom training session by selecting drills from the full drill library on the home page - then print a ready-to-use plan with whiteboard diagrams and coaching notes.

How it works

Open the drill library on the home page. Browse or search across 625 drills in 25 skill categories.

Click the bookmark icon on any drill card to add it to your session. The icon fills in green and a session counter appears in the bottom-right corner of the screen showing how many drills you have selected.

Keep selecting drills across any skill category. You can filter by skill using the category chips at the top, or search by name. Your selections are kept while you browse.

Click the session counter in the bottom-right to open the session panel. It shows all your selected drills in order, with the total estimated training time.

Give your session a name (e.g. "Tuesday - passing & movement") and click Print session. A print-ready page opens with each drill's whiteboard diagram, coaching description, age group, duration and number of players.

🔍 Search & filter

Use the search bar to find drills by name or keyword. Use the skill chips (Dribbling, Passing, Shooting...) to browse by category. Both work together so you can e.g. search "pressure" inside the Defending category.

📋 Session counter

A floating green badge in the bottom-right corner shows how many drills are in your current session. Click it to open the session panel at any time without losing your place in the drill list.

⏳ Total time

The session panel adds up the duration of all your selected drills and shows a total estimated session time - useful for making sure your plan fits within your available training slot.

🖶 Print plan

The printed session plan includes the session title, total time and for every drill: the whiteboard pitch diagram, full coaching description, age range, duration and number of players needed. Ready to hand to an assistant coach or pin up in the changing room.

✕ Clear session

The session panel has a Clear button that removes all selected drills so you can start building a fresh plan. Individual drills can also be removed by clicking their bookmark icon again to deselect them.

👁️ Drill preview

Every drill card has a preview button showing the full whiteboard diagram, coaching tips and setup instructions before you decide to add it to your session.

Tip: Build one session plan per training week. A typical 75-minute youth session fits 4 to 6 drills - start with a warm-up drill, build through technical and tactical work, and finish with a small-sided game or cool-down.

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Getting started

The recommended order when you first log in as a coach.

Register or log in at pardaan.com/app/register.php. Fill in your name, email, password and team name.

Add your players on the Team page. Up to 20 players per squad. Give each a name, number and position.

Add your fixtures on the Matches page. Enter opponent, date, kickoff time, home or away and optionally the address for away games.

Generate your training schedule on the Schedule page. Pick your recurring days and times and a date range - the app creates all sessions in one go.

Take attendance on the Training page after each session. Tick who was present and attach the drills you used.

Share the parent link from the Schedule page so parents can see upcoming matches and training without needing an account.

Tip: The Dashboard gives you a live overview every time you log in - next match, attendance alerts and top scorer.

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Dashboard

Your at-a-glance overview every time you log in.

📅 Next match

Shows your nearest upcoming match with opponent, date, time and home or away. Away games show a Google Maps link to the address. Quick-jump buttons to Availability and Match sheet.

⚠️ Attendance at risk

Flags players who attended fewer than 60% of the last 6 training sessions. The count is shown in red so you know to check in with them.

🏆 Top scorer

The player with the most recorded goals across all match records this season.

📅 Next 7 days

Count of matches and training sessions coming up this week. Click "Send reminders" to jump to the Reminders page.

👥 Squad & sessions

Quick numbers: players in your squad, total training sessions recorded and number of saved lineups.

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Team & squad

Manage your player roster and view their season stats across training and matches.

Player fields

Field	Notes
Name	Required. Appears in lineups, attendance lists and all reports.
Number	Optional. Shirt number 1-99. Used for sorting in tables.
Position	Goalkeeper, Defender, Midfielder or Forward. Used to group players in the lineup builder.
Notes	Free text. Good for things like "left-footed", "captain" or "recovering from knee injury".

Player stats table

📈 Training attendance

A progress bar showing sessions attended out of total, with percentage. Players below 60% over the last 6 sessions are flagged "at risk".

🔥 Recent trend

A small bar chart showing attendance across the last 8 sessions - green means present, red means absent. Hover a bar to see the date.

📋 In lineups

How many of your saved lineups include this player, shown as a bar. Useful for spotting who is consistently selected.

⚽ Goals, assists & set pieces

Season totals from all recorded match participation. Free kick, penalty and corner columns appear once you have any set-piece data logged.

Tip: You can edit any player at any time without losing any of their stats or attendance history.

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Player progress

A development journal for each player. Log timestamped notes, observations and ratings to track individual growth across the season.

Adding a note

Select a player from the list on the left. The list shows how many notes each player has and the date of the last entry.

Pick the date (defaults to today), choose a category and write your note.

Optionally click a star rating from 1 (needs work) to 5 (excellent) to score this session or milestone.

Click Save note. The entry appears immediately in the timeline below.

Matches & fixtures

Your full fixture list for the season - add opponents, record scores and access all match-related tools.

Match fields

Field	Notes
Date	Required.
Kickoff time	Optional. Shows in the dashboard, reminders and parent schedule.
Home or Away	Affects how the match is displayed throughout the app.
Opponent	Required.
Address	Optional but recommended for away games. Creates a Google Maps link in the dashboard and parent schedule.
Goals for / against	Optional. Fill in after the match. Leaving these blank means the match counts as upcoming, not played.

Per-match actions

✅ Availability

Mark each player as Available, Injured or Unavailable for this specific match. Feeds into reminders and the match sheet.

📋 Record

Log playing time, goals, assists, free kicks, penalties and corners per player. All data feeds the Season overview and Player stats table automatically.

📜 Match sheet

A printable one-page sheet with the lineup, available players and match details. Useful to bring on match day.

🖶 Print fixtures

Prints the full fixture list as a clean table - no navigation, just dates and opponents. Good for the notice board.

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Availability

Track which players can make each specific match before you build the lineup.

Status	Meaning
Available	Ready to play. The default for all players.
Injured	Cannot play due to injury.
Unavailable	Cannot attend for another reason - holiday, school, work etc.

Availability is shown in reminders ("Available: 13 (2 out)") and in the match sheet. It also helps when building the lineup - you can see who is actually available before placing players on the pitch.

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Match record

Log detailed per-player stats after each game. Reached via the Record button on any match row.

Stat	Notes
Role	Started, Sub (came on from the bench), or Unused substitute.
Minutes	How many minutes the player was on the pitch.
Goals	Goals scored in this match.
Assists	Assists in this match.
Free kicks	Free kick situations the player was involved in.
Penalties	Penalty situations.
Corners	Corners taken or involved in.

Tip: The set-piece columns (free kicks, penalties, corners) only appear in the stats tables once at least one non-zero value has been recorded across any match.

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Match sheet

A printable one-page match-day overview. Reached via the Sheet button on any match row.

The match sheet automatically pulls together:

Match details - opponent, date, kickoff time, home or away
The saved lineup for this match (if you have built one in the Lineup builder)
Players marked as available, and those who are injured or unavailable

Print it with your browser's print function. The navigation hides automatically when printing.

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Season overview

A full summary of your season's results, form and top scorers - calculated automatically from your match records.

📊 Win-Draw-Loss

Overall record and points total (3 for a win, 1 for a draw) from all matches with scores entered.

⚽ Goals summary

Goals for and against, goal difference, and average goals scored and conceded per game.

🔥 Form

Last 6 results shown as W/D/L badges, most recent first. Quick visual of current momentum.

🏆 Top scorers & assists

Leaderboard built from all match records. Only players with at least 1 goal or assist appear. Updates automatically as you log match records.

Tip: The Season page only counts played matches - those where you have entered both goals for and goals against. Fixtures without scores are listed separately as Upcoming.

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Schedule

Create your recurring training schedule, subscribe your calendar and share a read-only link with parents.

Generate recurring sessions

Tick the days of the week you train (e.g. Tuesday and Thursday). Set a training time for each day.

Set a From and To date covering your season or the next period.

Optionally add a title for the sessions (e.g. "Team training").

Click Generate sessions. The app creates one session per matching day across the period, skipping dates that already have a session.

Note: If training days change mid-season, run the generator again for the remaining period. Existing sessions are never overwritten.

Calendar subscription (iCal)

The Schedule page gives you a private iCal feed URL. Subscribe to it in any calendar app:

Google Calendar: Other calendars → From URL
iPhone: Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar
Outlook: Add calendar → From internet

The feed stays in sync automatically - new matches and sessions appear in your calendar without any extra steps.

Parent schedule link

A separate read-only page shows parents all upcoming matches and training. No login needed, nothing can be edited. Share it in your team chat. It shows match locations as Google Maps links and the selected squad from the lineup if one exists for that match.

Tip: Both the iCal link and the parent link are private - anyone who has them can see your schedule and player names, so do not post them publicly.

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Training & attendance

Pick a session, plan the drills and record who showed up. Everything on one screen.

Taking attendance

Use the session selector at the top to choose a training date. The app automatically opens the nearest session without attendance recorded yet.

Optionally add session notes and pick drills from the catalogue (see below).

All players are pre-ticked as present. Untick anyone who was absent.

Click Save attendance. The session is marked as recorded and appears in the history below with a present/absent count.

Drill planner

📚 Catalogue drills

Search and filter all 625 Pardaan drills across 25 skills. Tick the ones you used. Each has a preview button showing the whiteboard diagram and coaching notes.

⭐ Favourites

Star any drill to mark it as a favourite. Favourites appear at the top of the list and can be filtered with the "Favourites only" toggle.

🖌 Manual drills

Type your own drill names in the text area below the catalogue - one per line. Good for your own custom exercises not in the catalogue.

💾 Saved sessions

Save a drill combination as a named session (e.g. "Tuesday passing") and reload it for any future training date with one click. Manage and delete saved sessions from the same screen.

🖶 Print drills

Once drills are selected, a Print drills button appears. It generates a print-ready sheet with each drill's whiteboard diagram and coaching description - useful for assistant coaches.

Tip: You can go back and edit attendance for any past session. Just select it from the dropdown and save again - the previous record is replaced.

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Lineup builder

Drag and drop players onto a pitch diagram, choose a formation and save lineups per match.

Choose a formation from the dropdown (4-4-2, 4-3-3, 3-5-2, 4-2-3-1 and more). The pitch diagram updates automatically.

Drag players from the bench panel on the right onto positions on the pitch. Players are colour-coded by position.

Optionally link the lineup to a specific match from your fixture list using the match dropdown.

Give it a title and click Save lineup. Saved lineups appear in the history list below the builder.

🖶 Print

Prints a clean pitch diagram with player names on their positions - perfect for match day.

📋 Copy to builder

Load any previously saved lineup back into the builder to use as a starting point for a new one.

👥 Lineup history

All saved lineups are listed below the builder showing formation, title and match date.

Tip: Lineups linked to a specific match appear automatically in that match's sheet and in the parent schedule link.

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Reminders

Pre-written messages for matches and training in the next 7 days - ready to copy into WhatsApp, email or any group chat.

For each upcoming match, the auto-generated message includes:

Opponent and home or away status
Date and kickoff time
Address (if entered on the match)
How many players are marked available and how many are out
A request to confirm attendance

For each training session, the message includes the session title, date and time.

Each reminder has a Copy text button and an Email link that opens your email client with the message pre-filled as body and a sensible subject line.

Tip: Keep kickoff times and addresses up to date on the Matches page so reminder messages always contain the right details.

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Backup & restore

Export all your data as a JSON file and restore it any time. Reached via the Backup link in the navigation.

What gets backed up

✅ Included in backup

Player roster • Training sessions & attendance records • Match fixtures & results • Match availability per player • Match participation (minutes, goals, assists, set pieces) • Saved lineups • Custom drills • Favourite catalogue drills • Saved session plans • Player progress notes & ratings • Weekly training pattern

❌ Not included

Your password - never exported for security reasons. Your email address.

Restoring from backup

For a clean restore, use Reset data first (see below) to clear the existing data.

Click Import backup, select your .json backup file and submit.

A summary confirms how many players, sessions, matches and lineups were imported.

Important: Import adds data on top of whatever is already there. It does not wipe first. Use Reset data before importing if you want a clean restore.

Danger zone

Action	What it does	Your account
Reset data	Deletes all players, sessions, matches, lineups, drills and progress notes. Type "reset my data" to confirm.	Kept - you can log back in immediately
Delete account	Permanently removes your account and every piece of data. You are logged out immediately with no recovery possible.	Deleted permanently

Category	When to use it
Technical	Ball control, passing, shooting, first touch, dribbling.
Tactical	Positioning, pressing, understanding formations, reading the game.
Physical	Speed, stamina, strength, agility, injury recovery.
Mental	Attitude, confidence, concentration, resilience, leadership.
Match performance	An overall impression of a specific game.
Goal scored	Notable goals worth recording with context.
Injury	Injury notes, recovery status, return-to-play observations.
General / Other	Anything that does not fit another category.

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