Licences and credits · Tekkers & Tactics

The short version

The words, drills, sessions, animated boards, diagrams, crest and software are ours. Coach from them, print them and share links freely. Ask before republishing them.
Many pictures are drawn in code for this site. Pictures and videos by other people are used only if they are in the public domain or under an open licence that allows it, and each is credited beside it.
The typeface is Archivo, shared under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
The Laws of the Game belong to IFAB. We summarise them in our own words and link to the original.

1. What is ours

the text of every page, drill, session, tactic and Law summary;
the drills and sessions as we have written, drawn and arranged them;
the animated tactics boards, the pitch drawings and every other diagram;
the Tekkers & Tactics name and crest, and the design of the site;
the software that runs the site, including the board engine and the planners.

You may use the drills and sessions to coach any team, print them, hand them out and show them at training, as the terms describe. For anything more, such as putting our text or diagrams on another site, in a book, an app or a paid course, email [email protected].

2. Pictures

Every pitch, player, cone and arrow is drawn in code from measurements, and the floodlit pitch on the home page is drawn live in your browser. Pitch markings follow the dimensions in Law 1 of the IFAB Laws of the Game, and youth pitch sizes follow The FA’s FutureFit guidance for 2026/27. The players are numbered discs in two colours, not any club’s kit.

Pictures that other people made are a different matter, and we are careful with them. We use only pictures that are in the public domain, or that carry an open licence that lets us use them on a website: CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA. We don’t use pictures under licences that forbid commercial use or changes, because the site is run by a company. Each picture is saved on our own server and credited in a caption beside it, which gives its title, its author, the place it came from and its licence, each as a link. Where we have cropped, resized or recoloured one, the caption says so. A picture under CC BY-SA stays under CC BY-SA when we adapt it, and the caption says that too. The credits list on this page repeats every credit in one place.

If you are the author of a picture here and think the credit or the licence is wrong, tell us at [email protected] and we will put it right straight away, or take the picture down.

Credits list

Picture	Author	Source	Licence	What we changed
“The 1863 Laws of the Game, handwritten by Ebenezer Cobb Morley, at the National Football Museum”	Adrian Roebuck	Wikimedia Commons	CC BY-SA 3.0	Resized. Our adapted copy stays under CC BY-SA 3.0.
“Ebenezer Cobb Morley, Leeds Mercury, 26 September 1913”	L.N.A., for the Leeds Mercury	Wikimedia Commons	Public domain (anonymous, published 1913)	Resized
“England v Scotland at The Oval, February 1872”, wood engraving after William Small, The Graphic, 24 February 1872	William Small, engraved for The Graphic	Wikimedia Commons	Public domain	Resized

Videos

Where a video helps, we embed it from YouTube. We only choose videos whose owners have made them free to reuse (a Creative Commons Attribution licence, public domain or a government’s open licence, such as NASA’s) or whose owners have said in writing that we can show them, and that allow embedding. A video is loaded only when you press play (see the cookies and storage page). Beside every video we give its title, who made it, its link on YouTube and its licence. Videos are not copied to our server, so they stay with their owners, and if an owner removes a video it disappears from our page too. We do not use a video just because it is on YouTube: YouTube’s standard licence doesn’t let anyone reuse a video, so a video without a clear open licence is never used.

3. The Laws of the Game and The FA’s rules

The Laws of the Game are written and published by The International Football Association Board (IFAB). Our Laws pages are a summary in our own words, not a copy, and link to IFAB’s own text, which is the authority. The rules and guidance for youth football in England are The FA’s. We summarise them and link to the originals on the sources page.

The names of The FA, England Football, IFAB, UEFA and FIFA are used only to say where information comes from. We don’t use their logos, and Tekkers & Tactics isn’t connected to or approved by any of them.

4. The typeface

The site is set in Archivo, designed by Omnibus-Type. Copyright 2020 The Archivo Project Authors. It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1, which allows it to be used, shared and embedded freely. The font files are served from this site, from the Fontsource package @fontsource-variable/archivo. The licence is at openfontlicense.org.

5. Software

The site is built with Astro, released under the MIT Licence, © Fred K. Schott and Astro contributors. The only other company’s code that runs on the site’s pages is Cloudflare’s visit-counting script, which you can switch off, and YouTube’s player, which loads only if you press play on a video. Everything else that runs in your browser was written for this site.

6. Telling us about a problem

If you think we have used something we shouldn’t, or got a credit wrong, email [email protected] and tell us what and where. We’ll look at it quickly and put it right.