r/SoccerCoachResources rules, stats, and what to post

This is a professional network for soccer coaches, from grassroots volunteers all the way up to the professional ranks. The community describes itself as strictly dedicated to sharing training sessions, tactical plans, drill variations, and peer-to-peer mentorship. So the people posting here are coaches talking shop with other coaches: what drills worked, how they structured a session, how they set up a formation. The description is also very clear about what it is not. It is not a place to pitch apps, run surveys, or gate content behind signups, because the moderators want to keep the space focused on free, high-quality resource sharing.

Four rules decide almost everything here, and I will name them exactly. “No Self-Promotion, Commercial Links, or Product Pitching” bans promoting commercial products, apps, websites, or services, and it even calls out market research posts, surveys, and people who want to interview coaches to build software. “No Low-Effort Content or Link-Dropping” says posts must drive meaningful on-platform dialogue, and any video or article link needs a detailed summary or discussion prompt in the body. “No Surveys, Market Research, or Focus Groups” bans posts seeking coach input for studies, market research, app development, or product validation. “Resource Value & Formatting” says shared resources must be immediately accessible, with no email signups, paywalls, or external community joins like Discord or WhatsApp groups. For a founder, the practical test is simple: if your post exists to feed a product, it dies here.

Honestly, there is almost no marketing lane here, and that is fine. The one shape that survives is a genuinely free resource with no strings attached. That means a session plan, a drill diagram, or a spreadsheet that anyone can open without signing up for anything, posted with full transparency about who made it. If you link to a video or article, the rules require a detailed summary or a discussion prompt in the body of the post, so write real text that stands on its own. The safest move of all is to skip the link entirely and just write out the drill or the tactical idea in the post itself, then ask coaches how they would adapt it. If your product is anywhere in the picture, even as a question, this is the wrong subreddit for it.

The removal list here is long and specific, so read it before you post. Self-promotion of any commercial product, app, website, or service is out, and that includes disguised market research, surveys, and interview requests aimed at building software. Low-effort link drops are out, meaning a bare link to your blog, podcast, or YouTube channel with no detailed summary or discussion prompt will be removed. Surveys, market research, and focus groups of any kind are out, even for academic studies. Gated content is out, so nothing behind an email signup, a paywall, or a join to an external Discord or WhatsApp group. And any resource you created yourself must be 100% free, require no signup, and be posted with full transparency, or it counts as promotion.

This community spells out its boundaries better than almost any I have read, right down to banning coach interviews that are really software research in disguise. I also like that free resources are still welcome if they need no signup and come with full transparency, which is a fair line. If you coach or build for coaches, read those rules twice before you post, because the room has already decided what it will and will not tolerate.