Seven-on-seven
Build a 7v7 Football Playbook
A 7v7 football playbook is mostly about spacing and timing, and that's exactly what's hard to see on a whiteboard. Draw your seven-on-seven concepts here, press play to watch the windows open, and take the install to practice on a phone or a tablet.
- Seven-player alignment ready to draw on
- Route combinations with a marked primary read
- Coverage looks and defensive drops
- Animated timing, wristbands and Game Mode
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Three levels to one side: a clear-out, an intermediate breaker and a flat.
What 7v7 means here
Worth being direct, because the term covers more than one game.
Passing-league 7v7
No linemen, pass-only development football played at camps and in summer leagues. Draw the concept and the coverage; your league's rules on rushing and contact are yours to apply.
7v7 flag football
A seven-player-per-side flag league with its own rulebook. Same alignment on screen, different rules off it — including whether screening is allowed.
What the tool does
Football Playbook draws, animates, organizes and prints seven-on-seven plays. It does not enforce or claim compliance with any specific league's rules.
Seven-on-seven concepts, drawn and animated
Live diagrams rendered by the editor's engine — offense and the coverage you're attacking.
Three levels to one side: a clear-out, an intermediate breaker and a flat.
The crossers occupy the underneath, the back's wheel attacks the space they vacate.
Draw the defensive side too: drops and rotations shown against the same concept.
Timing
In a passing game, timing is the concept
A flood only works if the intermediate route breaks after the clear-out has pulled the safety. Playback runs all seven players at once so you can see the window rather than imagine it, and you can hold a receiver at a break point to model a stop-and-go honestly.
Defense
Draw the coverage, not just the routes
Add a defensive side to any play and move it: corners bailing, a safety rotating, a linebacker carrying the wheel. It turns a route picture into a teaching diagram for both units, which matters when the same 7v7 session is developing your defensive backs too.
Draw the defensive side too: drops and rotations shown against the same concept.
Organize
Concepts grouped the way you install them
Keep a base concept playbook, a red zone set and a two-minute package. Situation tags mark down, field position and intent, so at a tournament the right calls are in front of you.
Trips Right — Smash
5v5
Mesh Concept
6v6
Goal Line Slant
5v5
Flood Right
7v7
Practice & game day
Wristbands for tournaments, Game Mode for the sideline
Print up to 24 numbered calls across three panels for players and coaches, and run the book from a tablet in a locked read-only view with big navigation and starred quick calls.
Football Playbook
Everywhere
Phone at practice, tablet on the sideline
The same playbook renders on whatever screen you're holding, including the iOS app, so a concept drawn between sessions is available at the next one.
Trips Right — Smash
Mesh Concept
Goal Line Slant
Coach more than one format?
Plenty of 7v7 coaches also run a flag team. Start in any format — a play can be switched later and the alignment comes with it.
7v7 football playbook questions
- What does 7v7 football mean?
- It depends who's asking. In passing-league and camp football, 7v7 is a no-linemen, pass-only game used to develop quarterbacks, receivers and defensive backs. In flag football, 7v7 is simply a seven-player-per-side league with its own rules. Football Playbook is a drawing and animation tool — it supports seven-on-seven diagrams for either, and it doesn't enforce any league's rulebook.
- Which 7v7 rules does Football Playbook enforce?
- None, deliberately. Rules vary between passing leagues, flag organizations and camp circuits, so the tool gives you a seven-player alignment and full drawing freedom, and you apply your own league's rules on contact, blocking, rushing and field size.
- Can I draw route concepts and combinations?
- That's the core of it. Draw each receiver's route by hand, adjust the depth by dragging a node, and mark the primary read so the concept teaches a progression rather than five unrelated lines.
- Can I show the coverage a concept is beating?
- Yes. Add a defense to the play and draw defensive movement — drops, slides and pressure — so a diagram can show cover 2 versus cover 3 rather than a static shell.
- Does the animation help with 7v7 timing?
- It's the main reason to animate. In a passing game, whether the crosser clears before the dig arrives is the entire concept, and playback runs everyone at once so you can see the window open and close.
- Can I run motion in 7v7?
- Yes. Motion is drawn as its own path and executes before the snap in playback, so you can check that a receiver arrives in time to be set at the snap under your league's rules.
- Can players wear my 7v7 calls on a wristband?
- Yes. Number your concepts and print a booklet of up to 24 slots — useful in a tournament where you're calling from a sheet between rapid-fire series.
- Can I use this for a 7v7 flag team as well as a passing-league team?
- Yes. The 7v7 alignment is the same seven players either way; what differs is your rules and personnel. Many flag coaches draw 7v7 here and also keep 5v5 or 6v6 playbooks for other leagues.
Start your 7v7 playbook
Seven players are already on the field. Draw the concept, animate it and see if the spacing holds up.