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Background: Football is a very popular sport at this time where agility, speed, and long passing are the most important components in football. Agility is a persons ability to change direction quickly and precisely without losing balance. Running speed in soccer serves to support the performance of soccer players while dribbling into the opponents area and is used to chase the ball. Agility, speed, long passing is influenced by the strength of the muscles of the lower limbs. Ankle Weight Exercise is weight training on the feet that aims to improve the strength of leg muscle strength performance. Objective: To identify the effect of ankle weight exercise to increase football player-s agility, speed, and long passing power. Research Methods: Research design is one group pre-test post-test design. The population in this study are soccer players. The total sample of 34 respondents who met the inclusion criteria. This research was conducted 3 times a week for 6 weeks. Measurements using the Illinois agility run test, 100 meters sprint test, and long pass test Results: The results of the study using the Wilcoxon test were set to 0.00 (p <0.05) for each variable. Conclusion: ankle weight exercises effective to increase football player-s agility, speed, and long passing power.