The article highlights the pedagogical and psychological features of the development of football playing skills in high school students. The issues of educational influence on the student's personality through a purposeful educational process in football for secondary school students are considered. It tells about the unique educational opportunity of linking educational work in football with various extracurricular forms. It is assumed that such additional work contributes to the development of a comprehensive interest in physical education and sports activities at school, independence and the preparation of an active student community. The importance and types of dribbling techniques in teaching students how to play football will also be analyzed. The advantages and disadvantages of "football lessons" organized after hours are given. According to the title of the article, the features of developing football skills in high school students include the development of effective curricula, the development of methods and techniques of education in the transmission of such features as memory, memory development and cognitive processes, consideration of optimal learning content, consideration of the development opportunities of young players, work on learning that encompasses the experience of success, and the use of advanced learning models..

The empirical section offers the content of the «Football Skills Training Program for secondary school students». A number of methods are described at the stages of detection and control.