The Coach's Time Audit

Put a real number on how many hours coaching takes this season.

From Kevin Middleton, 360TFT.

Most coaches know planning takes a while. Almost none of them have added it up. This is honest arithmetic, using your own numbers, not an industry average.

Answer five questions. Nothing is sent anywhere, everything happens in your browser.

Across the whole season. sessions/week
Thinking, writing it down, finding drills, whatever your actual process is. minutes/session
Count only the months matches actually happen. matches/month
Travel, warm-up, the match, packing up. Your real total, not just the 90 minutes. minutes/matchday
Team WhatsApp, kit, fixtures, parent emails, subs, anything that isn't the session itself. minutes/week
From first session to last match. A typical grassroots season is often 30 to 40 weeks, but use your own club's calendar. weeks

Please fill in all six numbers first (0 is fine if something doesn't apply to you).

Your season, in hours

Calculated from the numbers you entered above. Nothing invented, nothing averaged from anyone else.

- hours planning sessions
- hours on matchdays
- hours on admin
- hours

That's - full 8-hour working days you'll give to coaching this season, on top of everything else in your week.

The planning line, on its own:

- hours this season is just session planning. That's the one part of this total FootballGPT is built to cut down, by building the session with you instead of you starting from a blank page each week.

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Kevin Middleton insight: I didn't do this audit myself until I'd been coaching for years. The number surprised me, not because coaching takes time (of course it does), but because so much of it was planning the same type of session from scratch, over and over. That's the part worth fixing first.