What it is
Tactical Planning answers a question the session plan does not: what did we actually work on this month? Each day gets one or more tactical objectives, each belonging to a category the club defines. The calendar shows them day by day; the charts add them up over a month, eight weeks or the season.
When you use it
You build the catalogue once, at the start of the season — the objectives and sub-objectives you intend to work on all year. Then, when planning a week, you pick from it and add that day's detail. The Global picture tab is for the periodic review: whether the distribution matches the game model you said you wanted.
How it works
Set up the categories. Categories are the big families objectives fall into — Offensive, Defensive, Offensive transition, Defensive transition, Set pieces, Other by default. Rename them, recolour them, reorder them or add your own: the team's objectives, the calendar and every chart follow.
Build the catalogue. Under Objectives catalog, create the objectives and their sub-objectives. This is the vocabulary of the club, written once.
Plan the day. Open a day in the calendar and add its objectives — from the catalogue (objective plus optional sub-objective), or as free text when it does not fit anything prepared. Notes hold the detail, corrections and observations.
Mark main and secondary. Each objective on a day is either main or secondary. A day with no main objective is flagged: it is the one that holds the session together.
Tick off what was worked on. After the session, Mark as worked on. The filter at the top switches between All planned and Worked on, which is how you separate intention from what happened.
Read the global picture. Over a month, eight weeks or the season: how many objectives, how many were worked on, how many days had tactical work, and the main category. Below, the distribution by category, the contents week by week, and the share of each objective per month — as charts or as a table.
Key concepts
Main and secondary are weighted, not just labelled. In the charts you can read Main only or Main + secondary. In the weighted view each main objective counts as one, each secondary as a third. Without that, a week with one main objective and six secondary ones would look identical to a week with seven main ones — and they are not the same week.
The catalogue is the club's, not the app's. The six categories that come out of the box are a starting point, not a taxonomy anyone has to accept. A club with its own game-model language renames and reorders them, and everything downstream speaks that language.
Free text is an escape hatch, and it costs you. Anything typed free rather than picked from the catalogue still shows on the day, but it groups worse in the charts — it has no category to fall into. If the same free text appears three weeks running, it belongs in the catalogue.
A category in use cannot be silently deleted. If objectives are using it, the page says how many and asks where they should go before removing it.
It is planning, not execution. This page records the tactical intent per day and whether it was ticked as worked on. The drills that carried it live in Daily Planning; the objectives and the session are linked, but they are not the same record.
FAQ
What is the difference between an objective and a sub-objective? The objective is the family ("Defensive block"), the sub-objective the concrete version of it. A day can carry an objective alone — "Objective only" is a valid pick.
Why does my week look empty in the charts? Check the filter: Worked on only counts objectives that were ticked after the session. If nobody ticks them, everything sits under All planned.
Can two teams have different categories? Categories follow the team whose objectives you are looking at, so each category can build its own language.
Does this create the training session? No. It records what the day is about; Open daily planning takes you to where the session itself is built.
What if the day had no main objective? The page says so. It is not blocked — some days genuinely are all secondary work — but it is worth a second look, because the main objective is what gives the session its shape.
Related
- Daily Planning — the session that carries the objective.
- Calendar — the microcycle these days belong to.
- Annual Planner — the season above the month.