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Basketball team handbook template

Build a basketball team handbook: team rules, practice and game-day expectations, attendance, playing time and communication, and a page for players and parents to sign. The rules also print on a page of their own. Free.

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Basketball team handbook template

Build a team handbook for players and families, with team rules, expectations, policies and a page to sign, plus the rules on one page to post.

Showing the worked example: A fictional team's handbook, with the team rules on their own page. Change any value to use your own.

Your team

Your team or program, as it should print.

An email address or phone number for families.

Anything left blank prints as a line to fill in by hand. Write {team}, {season} or another detail in braces and it prints as you typed it above, or as a line to fill in.

What to print
Edit the team handbook (10 of 10 sections on)
Paper (portrait)

Result

A 4-page team handbook: team handbook and team rules, on Letter.

Team handbookHarbor City Gulls, 2026-27 seasonA welcome from the coachWelcome to Harbor City Gulls basketball. This handbook explains how our program works: what we believe, our team rules, and whatwe expect in practice, on game days and in school.Read it with your family, then sign the last page and return it to a coach. If anything is unclear, ask me.Coach Dana RiveraHead coachWhat we believeWe compete on every possession.We are good teammates: we pick each other up.We get better every day, in practice and in the classroom.We represent Harbor City Gulls, our school and our families with class, win or lose.Team rules1.Be on time: on the floor and ready when practice starts.2.If you will miss practice or a game, tell a coach before it starts.3.Respect teammates, coaches, officials, opponents and fans.4.School comes first: keep your grades up and get help early.5.Take care of team equipment and uniforms.6.Keep the locker room and the team chat respectful.7.Think before you post: if you wouldn't say it to your coach, don't post it.8.Follow every school and team policy, in season and out.In practiceArrive dressed and ready to go.Bring water and your basketball shoes.Phones stay in your bag.Give full effort in every drill, and ask when you don't understand.Help set up and clean up.On game daysArrive at the time the coaches set, in the team's dress code.Warm up together as a team.On the bench, stay in the game: stand and cheer for your teammates.Win or lose, shake hands and thank the officials.Travel to and from away games with the team unless a coach agrees otherwise.Made with the free Ball Coach team handbook template, ballcoach.ai.Page 1 of 3Ball Coach AIballcoach.ai
Team handbook (continued)AttendancePractice is where we get better and where roles are earned. Tell a coach before you miss practice or a game. Missing without telling acoach can affect playing time. Illness, family emergencies and school commitments are handled one case at a time.Playing time and rolesCoaches decide playing time from practice, effort, attitude and what the team needs that night. Every player has a role, and roles canchange during the season. A player who wants to talk about their role sets up a time with a coach.CommunicationPlayers talk to the coaches first. Parents can reach the head coach at coach.rivera@example.com or (555) 010-0142 and are welcometo set up a meeting about their own player; we won't discuss other players. Please wait until the day after a game to raise a concernabout it.SchoolPlayers keep the grades our school asks of its athletes. Coaches may check grades during the season and help a player who is fallingbehind find support.Made with the free Ball Coach team handbook template, ballcoach.ai.Page 2 of 3Ball Coach AIballcoach.ai
Team handbook (continued)Sign and return this pageWe have read the Harbor City Gulls handbook and agree to follow it.PlayerDateParent or guardianDateMade with the free Ball Coach team handbook template, ballcoach.ai.Page 3 of 3Ball Coach AIballcoach.ai
Team rulesHarbor City Gulls, 2026-27 season1.Be on time: on the floor and ready when practice starts.2.If you will miss practice or a game, tell a coach before it starts.3.Respect teammates, coaches, officials, opponents and fans.4.School comes first: keep your grades up and get help early.5.Take care of team equipment and uniforms.6.Keep the locker room and the team chat respectful.7.Think before you post: if you wouldn't say it to your coach, don't post it.8.Follow every school and team policy, in season and out.Made with the free Ball Coach team handbook template, ballcoach.ai.Ball Coach AIballcoach.ai
How this works

Fill in your team and how families reach you, then switch sections on or off, rename them and edit every rule and paragraph. The team rules print in the handbook and, large, on a page of their own. The suggested text is a starting point, not a policy: edit it to fit your program, and check it against your school's own rules. To keep editing somewhere else, download the Word file (it opens in Word, Google Docs and Pages) or copy the document to paste into an email or a document.

  • 10 sections you can switch off or rename
  • Up to 14 team rules, each up to 160 characters
  • Letter or A4, portrait; a long section runs onto another page
  • The worked example is a fictional team: the names, contacts and dates are invented

Made in your browser. What you type, names and contact details included, is never sent to Ball Coach or to analytics. A draft stays in this browser for 7 days so you can come back to it.