Soccer Coloring Pages

These soccer coloring pages are made for young players and fans. Kids will find strikers, midfielders and defenders with the ball, goalkeepers warming up in front of the net, referees, coaches, a team captain and a ball boy by the field. All players are anonymous, with no real faces, names, shirt numbers, club crests or sponsor logos, so every child can dress the team in their own colors.

Plenty of pages focus on the game's equipment and places: a classic soccer ball on the grass, a retro leather ball, a beach soccer ball on sand, a portable goal, a mesh ball bag, cleats, shin guards, a blank jersey, a training pinny, cones and agility hurdles. Kids can also color the center circle of a soccer pitch, a corner flag on the field, a neighborhood field with a gate and a young player waiting in the stadium tunnel. Futsal and beach soccer get their own pages too, such as a futsal ball on a gym floor and a beach soccer player by the goal.

The pages are medium difficulty for kids ages 6 to 10. Clean outlines make players and equipment easy to read, while nets, stitching on the ball, stadium seats and field markings add smaller areas that take patience. Coloring them builds fine motor control and pencil grip, and it is a calm activity after a busy practice.

Children who are new to coloring can start with a single object, such as a ball, a trophy or a pair of cleats. Kids who like a challenge will enjoy the players in motion and the stadium and field scenes. Coloring a blank jersey in their own team's colors, or designing a brand-new team kit, is a fun extra task.

The pages are free to download and print as many times as you like, which makes it easy to try a second color scheme. They are sized for A4 paper and scale to US Letter with "Fit to page." Standard 20 lb printer paper suits colored pencils; choose cardstock for markers or paint so nothing bleeds through.

For cold-weather sports, see Winter Sports Coloring Pages in the same Sports section.