Abstract
Recording and analysis of tactic choices of football coaches when substituting players, which contributed to achieving of top football results is in function of recognizing the most subtle tactic conceptions and laws that guided the coaches in substitutions of players at the 16th, 17th and 18th Football World Championships. At elite competitions, it occurs more often that the substitution players are the ones who decide winning and who bring in the game the necessary energy and change the rhythm of the game. The number of substitutions of players, at one competition as the World Championship has a tendency of growth. This paper produced the data showing that the greatest number of substitutions of players is done in the fifth sixth of the match (from 60 to the 75th minute of the match), mostly the experts opt for maneuver players and strikers, as well as entrance in the game of the strikers instead of maneuver or forward players. All these facts confirm the assumption that coaches with their substitutions very often influenced the increase of efficiency of tactical plan of the game, and therefore the achievement of the positive result of the match.