Small-Sided Game with 3 Zones

Pitch: Four cones mark out the playing area, which is divided into three zones.

Equipment: 4 cones and several balls.

Players: Three groups of four — yellow, red and blue. Yellow is in area 1, blue in area 2; of the red players, two stand with yellow and two in the middle zone.

• In area 1, yellow plays 4 vs 2 against Team Red.
• The aim of Team Yellow is to play five passes in a row; the team with the numerical advantage has no touch limit.
• If this succeeds, the team tries to pass the ball past the red players in the middle zone to Team Blue.
• If that succeeds as well, the two red players move out of the middle zone into the area with blue and play there with a numerical disadvantage as well; the other two red players move into the middle zone.
• Team Red may only leave the middle if it wins the ball and passes to one of the two middle players.
• Then the team that had the numerical advantage a moment before switches into the numerical disadvantage: two players push into the area with red, the other two stay in the middle zone.

Variations:

• Increase the number of passes required for a change of area.
• Reduce the touches of the team with the numerical advantage to three, two or one.
• A change also takes place when the ball goes out of play.