Non-linear and linear pedagogies represent two different pedagogical approaches to learning. Non-linear pedagogy is a teaching method in which the coach creates modified games that simulate the situational conditions of the competition by different manipulations of the requirements (number of players, size of the field, rules). The coach does not give the player direct information on what to do, instead that player must make the decision himself. Linear pedagogy is the complete opposite method in which the coach gives the players direct information on what they need to do and what the task must look like. Coaches who apply the linear method believe that there is an ideal movement pattern that all players must try to achieve. The goal of the paper is to determine whether there is a statistically significant difference between the group of respondents in which the training is based on the postulates of the nonlinear method and the one that performs the training using the model of the linear method of work. 16 young football players (category u11) of the football club "Sava Zagreb" participated in the research. The participants were divided into experimental and control groups and at the beginning they played an initial match in which the situational efficiency of each player was observed (successful passes, successful dribbling, shots into the goal area). After that, the experimental group performed the non-linear method of work for 3 weeks, and the control group performed the linear method. At the end, a final game was played, in which the situational efficiency of each player was reviewed and the differences between the groups were analyzed. The results showed that there is a difference between the groups in favor of the experimental group, but it is not statistically significant. The statistical methods used in this work are: descriptive statistics, t-test for independent samples, t-test for dependent samples, Mann – Whitney U Test. (nonparametrics statistics).