Free match-day sheet
Pick your sport and the page opens with the situations your game actually has — out of bounds and after time-outs, corners and free kicks, lineouts and scrums, penalty corners, centre passes. Put your plays under them and print one page for the bench.
Free, no signup, no play limit. Coaching football? The football wristband maker prints the wristband too.
1. Your sport and your plays
Out-of-bounds, after time-outs, the press and the clock. · Throw-in, time-out and shot-clock situations from the FIBA Official Basketball Rules 2024 (Art. 17, 18, 29); headings as basketball play libraries file sets (Breakthrough Basketball, FastModel Sports)
One play per line, with its call number first if it has one. A line starting # is a heading — a heading with no plays under it is left off the paper.
0 plays in 0 situations.
2. Print it
Put a play under a heading above and the sheet appears here.
One page, not a booklet
A playbook is what you teach from on a Tuesday. On match day nobody on the bench is flipping through thirty pages. What a coach actually holds is one sheet: under BLOB the three out-of-bounds plays, under ATO the two sets you run after a time-out, under Corners for and Corners against the routines and the marking scheme. When the whistle goes you are not thinking about which play exists, only which of the three already written under that heading to point at.
This page prints that sheet. Every situation your sport has, the plays under each one, on one page — and that is enforced rather than hoped for. The layout tries both orientations and every row height from comfortable down to a size you can still read on a clipboard in daylight, and prints the largest type that fits. If your list is too long for one page it says so, and by how many, so you cut two plays rather than discover a second sheet in the printer tray.
The situations are your sport's, not football's
A situational call sheet is a football idea, and most tools that offer one stop there. The football version is organised by down and distance, which no other sport has. Outside football the game is continuous, so the moments you can plan for are the stoppages — and each sport's own laws decide what those are.
- Basketball: baseline and sideline out of bounds (BLOB and SLOB), after a time-out (ATO), press break, zone and man offence, short clock, last shot, and needing a three. The after-time-out play gets its own heading for a reason in the rules: late in the fourth quarter the throw-in after a time-out can be taken in the frontcourt, so it starts from a spot no other possession does.
- Soccer: kick-off, corners for and against, free kicks wide and central, free kicks against, throw-ins in your own half and in the final third, goal kicks and penalties — every one a restart the Laws of the Game define, split by where it happens because a wide free kick is a cross and a central one is a shot.
- Rugby: kick-off and receipt, lineouts and scrums in your own half and in attack, strike moves, exits from your own 22, 22 entry, penalty options and both drop-outs.
- Hockey: centre pass, outlets from the sixteen, free hits in your own half and in the attacking 23, long corners, penalty corners in attack and defence, and your press.
- Netball: your centre pass and theirs, back-line throw-ins at both ends, side-line throw-ins, penalty and free passes, and the toss-up.
- Football: the flag and tackle sheets from the football wristband maker, built from the flag rulebook rather than from the tackle sheet with sections deleted.
Every list names the rulebook it came from, on the page beside the button that loads it. They are starting points, not a schema: rename a heading, delete one, add your own. The sheet only prints the situations you put plays under.
From your playbook, sorted by your tags
If you draw your plays in Playmaker, you do not have to type them. Open a playbook and press Match-day sheet, and every play in it arrives on the sheet with its call number. If you have tagged your plays, they arrive already sorted: a play tagged BLOB goes under BLOB, a play tagged Penalty corner goes under the penalty-corner heading, and a play tagged with two situations is on the sheet twice, because that is how you use it. Plays no tag places are tried by their name, and anything left over goes under Other plays at the bottom, so nothing in the playbook goes missing on the way to the paper.
A sheet made from a playbook also carries a QR code. Anybody who scans it — an assistant, a player on the bench, a parent — watches the plays move, in your running order, with no app and no account. One code for the sheet rather than one per row, because a code small enough to sit on a row is too small for a phone to read.
Printing it
Choose A4 or US Letter. Print at 100% with "fit to page" switched off, on whatever paper you have; card stock survives a wet sideline better than office paper. The spare room at the foot of each column is ruled, because coaches write on these at half-time.
Match-day sheets: common questions
Do I need an account?
No. Pick your sport, type or paste your plays under the headings, and download the sheet without signing up for anything. There is no play limit, because a list of plays is text. An account is only needed to fill the sheet from a playbook you have drawn, and that is free too.
What is the difference between BLOB, SLOB and ATO?
BLOB is a baseline out-of-bounds play, run when you inbound the ball from under the basket you are attacking. SLOB is a sideline out-of-bounds play. ATO means after time-out: the set you call when you have just had the whole team in a huddle, and in the last two minutes of a game it may start from the frontcourt. They are separate headings because each one starts from a different spot on the floor.
Can I make a set piece sheet for soccer, rugby or hockey?
Yes. Choose the sport at the top of the page and the sheet opens with that sport's set pieces as headings: corners and free kicks for soccer, lineouts, scrums and restarts for rugby, penalty corners and free hits for hockey. Netball and basketball have their own lists too.
How do the tags put plays under the right heading?
A play goes under a situation when one of its tags has the same name, ignoring capitals and punctuation, so Kick-off, kickoff and KICK OFF are all the same. The common other names work as well, so a play tagged Baseline out of bounds lands under BLOB. You can always move a line by hand before you print.
How many plays fit on one page?
As many as stay readable. The page picks the biggest type that fits everything, and tells you the size and the number of columns before you print. If your list is longer than one page can hold at a size you can read on a clipboard, it tells you how many plays are left over instead of quietly printing a shorter sheet.
Is the QR code on every sheet?
Only on a sheet made from one of your playbooks, because the code needs something to open. From your own playbook it saves a copy of the plays so the code keeps working, and you can switch it off before you print. From a team playbook it opens the team's sideline view, which only your team can see.
Draw the plays too
The designer draws your sport on a real measured court, animates every run and pass, and turns a playbook into this sheet in one press. Free, no account.
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