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Practical guides for volleyball coaches. From live scoring on the sideline to tracking player development — written from real coaching practice, with examples from the Koach app.
Managing a volleyball team as a coach: the complete overview
Managing a volleyball team without scattered lists and group chats? Here is how to keep your roster, roles, attendance and development in one place — the way experienced coaches work.
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Creating player profiles with position and jersey number
A solid player profile is the foundation of your team management.
Read article →- The volleyball team app: everything for your team in one place, not five separate apps
- Assigning and managing jersey numbers in your roster
- Volleyball positions explained: from setter to libero
- Keeping notes per player (and why every coach should)
- Inviting players to your team with a link
- Team manager app for volleyball: taking the admin off your hands
- Setting a team goal for the season
- Building your roster: how many players do you need per position?
- The libero: rules, role and registration in your team
- The setter: role and assigning them in your lineup
- Second positions: using players flexibly
- From paper membership list to digital team management
- Managing your own profile and details as a player
- The playing coach: add yourself as a player
- Leaving your team or switching teams as a player
- Team communication in your volleyball app: announcements, polls & tasks
Running a volleyball practice: from preparation to evaluation
Running a volleyball practice that actually makes your team better: how to prepare, structure, track attendance and evaluate — the complete approach for coaches.
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Tracking attendance at volleyball practice without the hassle
"Who was missing last Tuesday again?" If you have to guess the answer, you are also guessing when you hand out playing time.
Read article →- Planning a practice in three steps
- Volleyball practice app: plan sessions, track attendance and drills
- Setting the focus of your practice (and writing it down)
- Practice blocks: building your session like a programme
- Building your own drill library
- Creating drills with the drill editor
- Drill app for volleyball: your own drill library in your pocket
- Categorising drills: attack, defence, serving, blocking
- Sharing drills between coaches
- Scoring effort after practice: why and how
- Logging late arrivals (and making them discussable)
- Attendance app for volleyball: attendance and effort in one tap
- Increasing practice attendance: 7 tactics that work
- Warm-up drills for volleyball
- Passing and attacking drills for your practice
- Serving drills: building pressure zone by zone
- Blocking drills for your middle blockers
- Practising with a small group: drills for 6 or fewer players
- Evaluating the practice season with attendance and effort data
- Marking your own attendance for volleyball practice
- Reusing your practice plan with templates: never start over
- Volleyball reception drills: from technique to game speed
Creating a volleyball lineup: the 5-1 and 4-2 systems explained
A good lineup is half the game plan.
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The 5-1 system in detail: rotations, strengths and pitfalls
The 5-1 volleyball system fully explained: all six rotations, the strong and weak rotation positions, and the pitfalls that sink beginning 5-1 teams.
Read article →- The 4-2 system in detail: when and how
- Lineup app for volleyball: set up your 5-1 and 4-2 on your phone
- Rotation order in volleyball: how it works
- Preventing positional faults: the rules per rotation
- Rotation app: track rotation order and libero without mistakes
- Choosing your starting lineup: 3 considerations
- How many substitutions in volleyball? 6 per set: the rules
- Entering a substitution during the match
- Who can the libero replace? Libero exchange rules explained
- Preparing your lineup before match day
- Players on two positions: flexible lineups
- Lining up against a strong attacker: organising the block
- Positioning the beginning setter
- From paper lineup card to digital lineup
- Save and reuse a lineup: ready in one tap
- The 6-2 system in volleyball: two setters, three attackers
- Rotation check: run through your six rotations before the match
Tracking a volleyball match live: scores and per-player statistics
Every coach knows the feeling: after the match you roughly remember the set scores, but who actually made the points? That memory fades fast.
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Scoring in volleyball: the rally point system explained
How does scoring work in volleyball? The rally point system, sets to 25, how it differs from the old rules and what happens at 24-24 — fully explained.
Read article →- Volleyball match app: live scoring plus statistics per player
- Who scored the point? Point tracking per player
- Recording point types: attack, block or serve
- Volleyball scoreboard and score counter app: the digital replacement for the score pad
- Tracking opponent errors separately
- Tracking set scores and sets won
- Following the serving turn during the rally
- Live scoring at 2-2 in sets: the deciding set
- Finishing a match and seeing the report instantly
- Delegating live scoring: putting parents and substitutes to work
- Using time-outs: when and how
- Reading back the score progression: what happened in set 3?
- Creating a friendly or tournament match
- Live scoring without wifi in the sports hall
- Share your match result on social media — in your team's style
- Tracking reception quality: pass ratings 0-3 per player
- Scorer authorization: a player keeps score on their own phone
- Serving runs: points in a row on your own serve
- The share package: your match as shareable content
Match analysis
Statistics, results and reviews: coach with data instead of gut feeling.
Understanding and using volleyball statistics as a coach
Understanding volleyball statistics: which numbers matter, how to read them without drowning in data, and how to turn them into lineups and practices.
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The match overview: all results in one place
Tracking match results per season: every match played with set scores and top scorers in one overview — the archive that feeds every debrief and analysis.
Read article →- Volleyball statistics app: which one fits you (and why volleyball-specific wins)
- Reading per-player statistics after the match
- Your team's top scorers: attack, block and serve
- Preparing the match debrief with data
- Free volleyball statistics app: what you get for free (and when you want more)
- Calculating and improving your attack percentage
- Serving statistics: measuring aces and serve pressure
- Measuring block points: the undervalued statistic
- Error load per player: risk versus return
- Planning a tournament and tracking every match
- Match attendance: who was (not) there?
- Season analysis: trends across all your matches
- Reading your own match statistics as a player
- Follow the league table in your volleyball app
- Side-out percentage: the most important team stat explained
- Player of the Match: let your team vote after the game
- The momentum line: see where the match turned
Player development
Make growth visible with goals, form indicators and honest evaluations.
Tracking player development in volleyball: from gut feeling to insight
"I think he has really improved this season." Great — but in what, exactly?.
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Setting a personal goal for every player
Personal goals for volleyball players: how to set one measurable season goal per player, record it and keep it alive — with examples for every position.
Read article →- Achievements and badges: motivating players with milestones
- The form indicator: the last three matches, weighed
- The strength analysis: where does the production come from?
- Determining a player's strongest role with data
- Holding the evaluation talk with a player
- Growing youth players: development over results
- The best app for youth volleyball: development over results
- Distributing playing time fairly with objective data
- Average effort per player: the season podium
- Match performance over time: reading the growth chart
- From season to season: long-term development
- Making a quiet player visible with statistics
- Backing up promotion advice: ready for a higher team?
- Viewing your own volleyball stats as a player
- Am I getting better? Tracking your own progress as a volleyball player
- All the badges in Koach: what they are and how to earn them
- Koach for parents: following your child's development
- Tracking playing time: the fairness meter in Koach
- The season card: your season as a shareable player card
Organising the volleyball season: the complete checklist
How to organise a volleyball season as a coach: from roster and team goal to calendar, evaluations and handover — the complete checklist from August to June.
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The team calendar: practices and matches in one schedule
One team calendar for practices, matches and tournaments: how to keep your volleyball team's schedule up to date without scattered messages and double bookings.
Read article →- An app for your volleyball club: from one team to the whole club
- The coach dashboard: your season at a glance
- Setting and tracking season goals with your team
- The first team meeting: expectations and agreements
- Running a season evaluation with data
- Making the most of the winter break: analyse and adjust
- Handing over to a new coach: everything is already in place
- The team calendar in your own calendar app on your phone
- Managing multiple teams as a coach with the club report
Getting started
Everything about Koach itself: pricing, devices, privacy and switching.
The best volleyball app for coaches: what to look for
Looking for a volleyball coaching app? The seven criteria that make the difference — from live scoring to player development — and why volleyball-specific wins.
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Sports team apps for volleyball: the complete overview (2026)
An overview of the apps volleyball coaches and teams use: from broad team organisers like Teamy, Spond and Heja to volleyball-specific tools.
Read article →- The best volleyball apps for coaches (2026): an honest comparison
- Getting started with Koach: your team set up in 10 minutes
- Comparing volleyball apps: what should a coach look for?
- Koach on iPhone: installing and setting up the app
- Volleyball app for Android: install it and use it courtside
- Your account and data: how Koach handles privacy
- Statistiekie alternative: when you want more than statistics alone
- Heja alternative for volleyball: more than communication alone
- Using Koach in English (and 5 other languages)
- SportEasy alternative for volleyball: general versus volleyball-smart
- Spond alternative for volleyball: from communication to coaching
- What does Koach cost? Start free and upgrade
- Volleyball coaching software: why an app on your phone usually wins
- Working with multiple coaches on one team
- A Dutch-language TeamSnap alternative, built for volleyball
- Teamy alternative for volleyball: organising versus volleyball-smart coaching
- From Excel to Koach: migrating your team administration
- What does a player see in Koach? The player account explained
- The volleyball app for players: your own stats, schedule and attendance
- Got a Koach invite? How to link your player account
- Logging in without a password: how the Koach login code works
- Need help? How Support works in the Koach app
- Rotation check: test your lineup before the first serve
- Push notifications: your team never misses a poll, task or call to vote again
- Plan faster: a full season in one go, duplicating matches and 'All present'
- New for players: your own goal, absences with a reason and badges on your dashboard
- New insights for coaches: serve pressure, opponent history and growth per season
Technique
Serving, passing, setting, attacking and blocking: learn every skill step by step.
Learning volleyball technique: all the fundamentals at a glance
Learning volleyball technique? An overview of every fundamental skill: serving, passing, setting, spiking, blocking and defense — with the right learning order and practice tips.
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How do you learn to spike a volleyball? The technique in 5 steps
Learning to spike a volleyball takes 5 steps: approach, takeoff, arm swing, ball contact and landing.
Read article →- Learning the overhand serve: technique and progression
- The underhand serve: proper technique for beginners
- Learning the jump serve: from toss to contact
- The float serve: why the ball floats and how to hit it
- The forearm pass: the platform that starts every rally
- Overhead setting: the setter's technique
- Blocking in volleyball: footwork, timing and hands
- Defense in volleyball: posture, positioning and diving technique
- The spike approach: the three-step rhythm for a higher jump
- Poke, tip and roll shot: scoring smart without a hard spike
Rules of the game
Net heights, court dimensions, faults and referee signals: the rules explained.
Volleyball rules: all the rules of the game at a glance (2026)
All the volleyball rules in one place: scoring, sets, rotation, positions, net faults, substitutions and the libero.
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How high does a volleyball net hang? All net heights
How high does a volleyball net hang? All the official net heights in one place: men 2.43 m, women 2.24 m, plus youth, CMV mini volleyball and beach volleyball.
Read article →- Dimensions of a volleyball court: all the lines and zones
- How many sets does a volleyball match have (and to how many points)?
- Position numbers 1 to 6 in volleyball: who stands where?
- May a back-row player attack? The three-meter-line rules
- Net fault in volleyball: when is touching the net a fault?
- Double contact, carried ball and more technical faults explained
- Referee hand signals in volleyball: all the signals explained
- Indoor volleyball vs beach volleyball: the most important differences
Tactics
Serving strategy, reception formations and defensive systems for smarter volleyball.
Volleyball tactics: from serve pressure to defensive system
Volleyball tactics for coaches: serve pressure, serve-receive formations, attack tempos and defensive systems — what to pick when and how to train it.
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Running the 6-2 system: penetration, rotations and pitfalls
The 6-2 system in practice: how setter penetration works, the rotations and pitfalls, and which teams benefit from two setters who also attack.
Read article →- Serving strategy: where do you serve and why?
- Serve-receive formations: passing with 3, 4 or 5 players?
- Defensive systems: perimeter and rotation defense explained
- Attack tempos: from high ball to first tempo
- Out of system: scoring when the pass isn't perfect
- Free ball and down ball: the underrated moments
Youth volleyball
Age-appropriate training, mini volleyball levels and guiding young players.
Coaching youth volleyball: what works for each age group?
Coaching youth volleyball by age group: what works at ages 6-9, 10-12 and 13+? Concrete guidelines for practices that make kids better and happier.
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CMV volleyball: the 6 levels of Dutch mini volleyball explained
CMV volleyball explained: the 6 levels of Dutch mini volleyball, from throwing and catching to 4-on-4 — and which level fits which child and which age.
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From tryouts to injury prevention: the skills around the volleyball itself.
Starting as a volleyball coach: your first season step by step
Starting as a volleyball coach? This step-by-step plan guides you through your first season: from selection and practice structure to match coaching and your own growth.
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Organizing a selection day: choosing fairly without chaos
Organizing a selection day for volleyball: how to choose fairly with predetermined criteria, a tight program and clear communication afterward.
Read article →- Choosing a captain: criteria and pitfalls
- Building a good warm-up (the RAMP method)
- Cool-down and recovery after practice and matches
- Injury prevention in volleyball: ankles, knees and shoulders
- Conditioning for volleyball players: jump power and speed
- Strength training for volleyball players: what to do and what not
- Mental training: handling pressure and serving stress
- Team-building exercises that actually work for your team
- Scouting the opponent: what to look for?
- Match coaching: time-outs, substitutions and your role on the sideline