Legal / Last updated Invalid Date

Licences and credits

Almost everything on this site was made for it, in code, by us. This page says what is ours, what we have used from other people and on what terms, and what you may do with it.

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.
  • Every picture on the site is drawn in code. There are no photographs, club crests, league marks or kit designs from anyone else.
  • 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

Unless a page says otherwise, the following are © 2026 FALLINGHIPPO LIMITED, which trades as FallingHippo, with all rights reserved except as set out here and in our terms of use:

  • 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 hello@fallinghippo.com.

2. Pictures

There are no photographs on this site. 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.

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. No other company’s scripts run on the site’s pages. 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 hello@fallinghippo.com and tell us what and where. We’ll look at it quickly and put it right.