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Free basketball practice schedule template for multiple teams
Most basketball practice templates plan one team's practice. This one schedules the gym: a weekly grid with the full court and both half courts, a check that turns red when they clash, a team order sheet and a picks log. A blank practice-plan tab is included. Free to download, no sign-up, no email required.
Example: replace. The workbook opens with eight placeholder teams and an example week from the worked example in our basketball guide, so you can see how the grid and the counts work. Type over them with your own.
What's in the template
| Sheet | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Instructions | The steps below, inside the file, so coaches who receive it know how it works |
| Teams | Pick order, team, coach, coach email, whether the team uses the full court or a half court, practices allowed a week, and a practices-booked count that fills in from the grid. A box at the top holds your rule in one sentence. |
| Week grid | Monday to Friday, each with Full court, North side and South side columns, in 90-minute blocks from 3:30 pm. Each cell offers a drop-down of your team names. Change the times to suit your gym. |
| Picks log | One row per pick or change: round, team, day, space, start, when it was made and who entered it |
| Practice plan | A blank plan for a single practice, in 10-minute rows, for coaches who want one |
The clash check
A full-court practice uses the whole floor, so nothing else can be booked on either half court at that time. When a full-court practice and a half-court practice are booked in the same block, the week grid turns that day's three cells for the block red: Full court, North side and South side. It checks only what's in the grid. It can't stop a coach from typing over someone else's pick, so keep the picks log.
How to use it
- Block out what isn't available. Pick GAME or CLOSED for home games, school events, rentals and closing time before anyone sees the grid. Mark all three columns of that block: the clash check looks for a team on the full court, so GAME or CLOSED there alone won't turn a half-court booking red.
- Set your blocks. Change the start times in the first column if your gym opens earlier or your practices aren't 90 minutes. Rename North side and South side to match your gym.
- Decide full court or half court for each team on the Teams sheet. Not sure? Our guide on scheduling gym time for multiple basketball teams works through it.
- Write the rule and the order. List teams in pick order and set how many practices each may take a week.
- Publish the order before sign-up opens, and don't change it once it opens.
- Go down the order, one practice per round. When it's a team's turn, the coach chooses an open block and you enter the team name. Fill a side that's already half used before opening a fresh block, so full-court teams keep their options.
- Log every pick and change, then send the finished schedule to coaches and families.
When a spreadsheet stops working
A spreadsheet is the right tool for one gym and one organizer who enters every pick. When coaches start picking for themselves, the published order becomes a suggestion, two people type into the same cell, and you become the one telling every coach it's their turn. Our general practice schedule template page covers the warning signs in more detail.
When you outgrow the sheet
The same sign-up, run in turn online
Ordallo runs this exact process for gym and court time. You set the team order; each team picks in turn from what is left; nothing double-booked, including full and half courts. Coaches get an email when their turn opens and pick from a phone with a personal link and an access code, no account needed. Each pick lands on the calendar, and every pick and change stays on the record.
Ordered turns, turn emails and calendar invites are paid features, coming with launch pricing.