Tags replaces free-text tagging on training content with a structured tag library that your club owns. Previously, coaches typed whatever tag came to mind when tagging a session, exercise, or video clip, which meant "passing," "Passing," "short pass," and "passes" could all exist side by side. That made it impossible to filter reliably or report on what training content was actually being used.
With Tags, your club defines a single, consistent set of tags in the language and methodology you actually use. The same library applies everywhere (training sessions, exercises, and video clips), so tagging is consistent across your whole club, and it powers real filtering in the Training Library and real reporting in Training Statistics.
How the tag library is structured
Every tag library has exactly two levels:
Parent tags are top-level groupings, like "Technical" or "Physical." They act as section headers that organize your library, and can also be applied to content directly when you want to tag something at that broader level.
Child tags belong to exactly one parent, like "Passing" or "Heading" under "Technical." They're what you'll usually reach for when tagging something more specific, and can be applied to a session, exercise, or video clip just like their parent.
There's no deeper nesting (two levels is the limit), and no free text at any level. Every tag in the library is created and maintained by an admin, which is what keeps the taxonomy clean over time.
Each parent tag has a color, chosen when it's created. Child tags inherit their parent's color automatically, so everything under "Technical" appears in the same shade throughout the library, the tag picker, filters, and stats charts.
Tags and your club's structure
Your tag library isn't flat across the whole club: it follows the same tree as your club's groups (club → sections → teams). Every group is set to one of two modes: it either uses only the tags defined above it, or it can also create its own tags scoped to itself and everything below it. A group can only restrict what's below it, never expand it, so a section without its own tag-creation rights can't hand those rights down to its teams either. This is what lets a larger club say "the academy can define its own tags, but individual academy teams can only use what's been defined for them," while still keeping one coherent library at the top.
That same tree shows up again in reporting. Applying a tag counts toward that tag, and, if it's a child tag, toward its parent too. Training Statistics lets you compare tag usage between two groups or two players, or drill from a section down into its teams. The way you've structured your club is also the lens you get to view your training data through.
What's next
To build and manage your library day to day, see Set up and use Tags.
If your club already has free-text tags on existing content, see Migrate and merge your existing tags.