The paper considers the gender-based way in initial pre-professional training of young football players (boys and girls) during their training in children’s and youth sport schools. The gender-based way and system analysis using allows us to get a handle on a system of initial training that includes a number of subsystems. All of them have a goal, objectives, program material and technology (methodology) for its implementation. Unlike the well-known studies, this one consists of using the same methodology in initial pre-professional training for joint football classes of boys and girls in age from 6 to 12 years old. This does not contradict their age characteristics and contributes to mutual enrichment in the development of technical and tactical techniques. From the age of 13, boys and girls begin to choose groups and football teams for in-depth pre-professional training to professional men’s and women’s football.

The article is about preliminary cooperative training of boys and girls for football lessons in order to enter sports schools. Gender approach use, the leading idea of which is gender equity, helps to overcome traditionally formed in Russia gender stereotype about the idea that only boys should go in for football. Held by us pedagogical experiment helped to create the authors Football Program of preliminary cooperative training of 6-8 year-old boys and girls.