The online American football coach board
Draw the formation, animate every route and block, and send the play to your roster with one link. Coach Board is the American football playbook that works in the browser.
What is Coach Board for American football?
Coach Board is an online American football play designer: draw formations, animate routes, blocks and coverages, and share your playbook with the team as one link.
Open it in a browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. Line up your eleven, drag out the routes and blocking assignments, press play, and send the board to your players. Nothing to download.
A play card shows where everyone starts. It rarely shows when things happen: when the jet motion has to cross the center, how long the tackle holds the combo before climbing, or which way the flat defender is looking when the quarterback hits his third step. Coach Board is an American football play designer built around that timing. You place your personnel on a full field with hashes and yard lines, draw every route and block, and play the snap back as an animation.
The boards become your playbook. Keep your run game, your pass concepts, your defensive fronts and coverages, and your special teams on separate boards, grouped by formation, opponent or level. On Thursday night, share the call sheet plays that matter with one link and every player opens them on their own phone.
Coach Board is a web-based American football coaching app, so the same playbook follows you from the office laptop to the sideline tablet. Varsity, JV, youth tackle or a middle school program: one tool, nothing to install, nothing to sync by hand.
Related: American football offensive plays · American football defenses · The route tree · Flag football playbook
Made for American football coaches
Animate routes, blocks and coverage
Run the play the way it unfolds: motion, snap, the combo block, the route stems and breaks. Loop it in the film room until the backside tackle knows his cutoff and the slot knows his depth.
A playbook your players actually open
Organize boards by formation, concept, opponent or position group. Offense, defense and special teams each get their own space, searchable and always current.
Defense and scout looks on the same field
Draw your fronts and coverages, then build the opponent's look for scout team. Show the Cover 3 rotation or the 3-4 pressure against your own formations before practice starts.
One link to the whole roster
Share a play as a link that opens on any phone, animation included. Export images for the wristband or the meeting room, or video clips for the team chat.
American Football drills & tactics
Browse the American football drills library →Cover 3 Defense
Install a single-high zone that prevents explosive passes, adds a run defender to the box and gives every player a clear landmark and read.
View tactic →Route Tree
Give receivers one set of routes, depths and break rules they can run on any play, so play calls stay short and new concepts install quickly.
View tactic →Inside Zone
Install one gap-flexible run with simple line rules, a clear running back aiming point and a three-way read, so the offense has a base play that works against any front.
View tactic →Oklahoma Drill
Teach blockers to fit and drive, defenders to shed a block with proper hand placement, and both to finish with safe, shoulder-led contact under close supervision.
View drill →Jet Sweep
Attack the perimeter with speed while building a motion that freezes the second level and sets up inside runs and play-action from the same look.
View tactic →3-4 Defense
Build a base front that controls the run with three linemen, keeps four linebackers free to flow, and disguises which fourth player rushes the quarterback.
View tactic →Frequently asked questions
Is Coach Board an American football play designer?
Yes. Coach Board is an online American football play designer and play maker. Place your players on a full field with hashes and yard lines, draw routes, blocks and motion, animate the snap, and save it to your playbook. Try it free for 14 days at my.coachboard.app, no card required.
Can I build a whole American football playbook, not just single plays?
Yes. Keep your run game, pass concepts, fronts, coverages and special teams on separate boards, grouped by formation, opponent or level, and share the plays your team needs this week. It replaces the binder and the whiteboard for planning, while many coaches keep a call sheet or wristband on game day.
Can I animate routes and blocking assignments?
That's exactly what it's for. Set the formation, drag out each route and block, and press play: the motion, the snap, the combo block and the route breaks run as an animation you can loop, slow down and share with the players who need to learn it.
How do my players get the plays?
Share any board as a link. Players open it in the browser on their own phones, animation included. You can also export plays as images for wristbands and meeting slides, or as video clips for the team chat.
Does it work for flag football and youth tackle?
Yes. Coach Board has a full American football field and a separate flag football field, so youth tackle, middle school, high school and flag coaches use the same tool. The drills library includes youth-friendly tackling progressions and a youth practice plan.
Is Coach Board an American football coaching app?
Yes. Coach Board is a web-based American football coaching app, so there's nothing to download or install. Open it in any browser on a laptop, tablet or phone to design plays, animate them and share your playbook with the team.
How much does Coach Board cost?
Start with a 14-day free trial at my.coachboard.app, no card required. The Coach plan is $9/month, or $90/year, and includes unlimited boards, play animation, share links, and image and video export for American football and every other sport you coach.
Coach smarter American football.
Plan sessions, animate plays, and share them with your team in a click — on any device, no install required.