# RC Football > RC Football is a free-to-start, browser-based football play designer, playbook maker and practice planner for youth and amateur coaches, flag and tackle. Describe a play in plain English and the AI draws it, or diagram it yourself with drag-and-drop: position players, draw routes, build formations, save plays to a personal library, organize them into team playbooks, print wristband cards, and plan practice against a clock. No download and no account are required to try it; a free account saves your work. Paid Coach and Coach Pro plans add more AI actions, higher limits, exports, and a premium play library. Works on any device (desktop, tablet, phone) across 5v5, 6v6, 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11, including NFL Flag rules and field, with fields drawn at true scale for high school, NFL Flag, college and NFL. ## Product - [Football Play Designer](https://rc-football.com/football-play-designer): Free drag-and-drop and AI tool to design football plays. Position players, draw routes, add notes, and save. Pick the field level (high school by default, NFL Flag, college, NFL) and the play is drawn to that field's real dimensions. Built for coaches at every level. - [Football Playbook Maker](https://rc-football.com/football-playbook-maker): Build and organize a team playbook. Import rosters, assign positions, order your gameplan, and export to PDF or Google Drive. - [Football Play Library](https://rc-football.com/football-play-library): Save plays to a personal library, tag by situation and concept, clone winning plays, and share with coaches and players. - [Football Wristband Builder](https://rc-football.com/football-wristband-maker): Pick the QB wristband you own and your playbook fills a template sized to its window, printed at true size with cut lines. Flag or tackle. - [Football Play Cards](https://rc-football.com/football-play-cards): Print the plays you draw as 4, 8 or 16 cards per Letter sheet with cut borders, for a wristband, a pocket card or a call sheet. Free. - [Practice Planner](https://rc-football.com/flag-football-practice-planner): Drag drills and periods onto a practice plan, watch the clock fill, print it on one page, and run it from your phone on the field. Free. - [Drill Library](https://rc-football.com/flag-football-drill-library): 51 flag football drills and 37 tackle drills for kids, sorted by age and skill, each drawn as a diagram and ready to drop into a practice plan. - [Canvas Skins](https://rc-football.com/labs/canvas-skins): Every look the play designer canvas can take, and the plan that opens each one. One skin is free to every coach each week. ## Learn (guides) - [What Is a Flag Football Play Designer?](https://rc-football.com/what-is-a-flag-football-play-designer): Plain-language explanation of what a play designer does and why coaches use one. - [How to Design Flag Football Plays](https://rc-football.com/how-to-design-flag-football-plays): Step-by-step guide from choosing a format and formation to drawing routes and building a playbook. - [Flag Football Formations](https://rc-football.com/flag-football-formations): Offensive and defensive formations for 5v5 and 7v7, including Trips, Bunch, Stack, and common coverages. - [Flag Football Playbook Guide](https://rc-football.com/flag-football-playbook-guide): How to build a playbook from scratch: sections to include, foundational plays, and mistakes to avoid. - [How to Make a Flag Football Playbook PDF](https://rc-football.com/guides/flag-football-playbook-pdf): Draw the plays, order them by situation, choose a layout that survives a wristband, and export. No design software. - [How to Teach Flag Football Plays to Kids](https://rc-football.com/guides/teaching-plays-to-kids): Walk it, name it, run it at half speed, then full speed, then out of a huddle. Why a picture beats an explanation. - [First Flag Football Practice Plan (60 Minutes)](https://rc-football.com/guides/first-flag-football-practice-plan): A first practice block by block with times, what to say at each block, and what to cut when running late. - [Flag Football Rules Explained (5v5)](https://rc-football.com/rules/5v5-flag-football-rules): Field size, the no-run zone, rushing, blocking, flag guarding, laterals and scoring. What is near-universal, what your league sets itself, and how 5v5 differs from 7v7. - [Flag Football Positions](https://rc-football.com/rules/flag-football-positions): All seven roles (quarterback, center, receiver, back, rusher, corner, safety), what each does in 5v5 and 7v7, and which child to put where. - [Youth Flag Football Leagues](https://rc-football.com/leagues): What youth flag football costs, when the season runs, and how the age groups differ between league bodies. - [Flag Football FAQ](https://rc-football.com/flag-football-faq): Answers to common flag football play-design, formation, and playbook questions. ## Coaching Resources (answers, with diagrams) Every page answers one coaching question directly and shows the play as a real diagram. Every play can be opened and edited in the designer. The hubs are organized by format: 5v5, 6v6, 7v7, 9v9, 11v11 and NFL Flag. - [Offense](https://rc-football.com/offense): Plays by situation, format, age group and concept. Per-format hubs at /offense/5v5, /offense/6v6, /offense/7v7, /offense/9v9, /offense/11v11 and /offense/nfl-flag. The 9v9 and 11v11 hubs are tackle football with blocking schemes drawn as the scheme they name. - [Defense](https://rc-football.com/defense): Coverages, pressure and how to stop what offenses run. Per-format hubs at /defense/5v5 through /defense/11v11 and /defense/nfl-flag, each with pages such as how many to rush, stopping mesh, goal-line defense and the two-minute defense. - [Plays index](https://rc-football.com/plays): Every play on the site in one list, both sides of the ball. - [Coverages drawn](https://rc-football.com/coverages/cover-2): Cover 0 through Cover 6, Tampa 2, Man, Match and Man vs Zone, each drawn with the hole it leaves and how coaches patch it. Format versions live at /coverages/5v5/..., /coverages/7v7/... and /coverages/11v11/.... - [Situations](https://rc-football.com/situations/7v7/red-zone): What to call in the red zone, on third and long, in short yardage, against the blitz, against man, against zone and in the two-minute drill, for 7v7 and 11v11 at /situations//. - [Drills finder](https://rc-football.com/drills): Every drill with its setup, coaching point, duration and player count. Narrow by skill, age group, or what went wrong on Saturday. Flag and tackle. - [Practice plans](https://rc-football.com/practice-plans): Ready-made plans by length and age that you can run as written, plus a builder that prints the sheet and runs the clock from your phone. Representative play and concept pages: - [Best 5v5 play against man coverage](https://rc-football.com/plays/best-5v5-play-vs-man-coverage): Mesh. Two receivers cross underneath at four and six yards so the man defenders collide at the crossing point. - [How to beat zone coverage in 5v5](https://rc-football.com/plays/beat-zone-coverage-5v5): Flood. Three receivers into one side at three different depths, attacking one defender's decision rather than a matchup. - [Best play against a blitz](https://rc-football.com/plays/beat-the-blitz-flag-football): Slant-Flat. Two routes breaking opposite directions inside three yards, thrown on the quarterback's third step. - [Best red zone plays in 5v5](https://rc-football.com/plays/red-zone-plays-5v5): Smash. A hitch at five with a corner over the top, which binds the flat defender in a compressed field. - [Flag football plays for 5 and 6 year olds](https://rc-football.com/plays/flag-football-plays-5-6-year-olds): Three hitches at five yards. Stationary targets, because a young quarterback cannot lead a moving one. - [Flag football plays for 7 and 8 year olds](https://rc-football.com/plays/flag-football-plays-7-8-year-olds): One crossing receiver and two stationary ones, the step up from an all-hitches offense. - [Simple flag football plays for beginners](https://rc-football.com/plays/simple-flag-football-plays-beginners): Spacing. Three receivers to three landmarks so the field is divided rather than contested. - [What is the mesh concept?](https://rc-football.com/concepts/mesh): Two shallow crossers passing within a yard of each other, and why that beats man coverage but not zone. - [The flag football route tree](https://rc-football.com/concepts/route-tree): The nine base routes (flat, slant, hitch, out, in, curl, corner, post, go) and which to teach first. - [What is bunch formation?](https://rc-football.com/formations/bunch): Three receivers clustered within a few yards, creating traffic at the line instead of after the snap. - [How to choose a flag football play designer](https://rc-football.com/compare/best-flag-football-play-designers): The four kinds of tool coaches use and who each one suits. ## Research - [The State of Youth Football Play Calling: Fall Season Halftime Report](https://rc-football.com/research/youth-football-play-calling-halftime-report): Original data on the formations, plays, routes and coverages youth coaches have drawn since August 1, 2026 in 5v5, 7v7 and 11v11, and what they ask an AI play designer for. - [Halftime Report: methodology and text version](https://rc-football.com/research/youth-football-play-calling-halftime-report/methodology): The same findings as plain text with how the data was gathered. Cite this page for the numbers. - [Research index](https://rc-football.com/research): All RC Football data studies. ## Labs (free side projects) - [RC Football Labs](https://rc-football.com/labs): Small, free experiments for coaches that are not the play designer. - [Fantasy Draft Board](https://rc-football.com/labs/fantasy-draft-board): A drag-and-drop fantasy football ranking board for 12-team PPR, seeded from a four-source consensus. - [GameDay Headshots](https://rc-football.com/labs/gameday-headshots): Put your team on your profile picture for game day or the whole season. ## Plans - [Plans & Pricing](https://rc-football.com/pricing): Start free with no credit card. Coach is $9/month or $49 a year; Coach Pro is $19/month or $99 a year, adding more AI actions, exports, unlimited teams and formations, and the premium play library. Cancel anytime, or pause a subscription and pick it up again later. ## Help - AI actions are metered monthly: 10 on Free, 150 on Coach, 300 on Coach Pro. Drawing a play by hand is never metered. - Exports (PDF playbook, PNG, Google Drive) are a paid feature: 10 a month on Coach, 100 on Coach Pro. Printing play cards and wristband sheets from the browser is free. - A subscription can be paused instead of cancelled from the account page, and a cancelled plan runs to the end of the period already paid. - Data deletion requests: https://rc-football.com/data-deletion - Anything else: https://rc-football.com/contact ## Company - [About](https://rc-football.com/about): Who builds RC Football and who it's for. Built by a coach, for coaches. - [Contact](https://rc-football.com/contact): How to reach the RC Football team. - [Showcase](https://rc-football.com/showcase): See the play designer, playbook, roster, and export features in action. - [Privacy Policy](https://rc-football.com/privacy-policy): How RC Football collects, uses, and protects data. - [Terms of Service](https://rc-football.com/terms): The terms governing use of RC Football.