starting from the sports theory course---football theory teaching, this paper studies the application of multi-media, which will pose challenges for the traditional single football teaching and training mode, and become the inevitable trend of future teaching as well as the training reform and development. This paper adopts research methods like literature review, video observation, expert interview and software programming to introduce the multi-media technology into the football theory teaching, and offer students a brand-new and vivid environment for teaching. Keywordsmulti-media technology; sports theory Currently, as the modern teaching and training means, computer multi-media technology is applied more and more widely. The teachers have also generally experienced the convenience and efficiency of modern multi-media technology in the teaching. The multi-media teaching means to integrate the various media information kinds (such as text, image, sound, etc.) on the screen, and help learners to complete a series of man-machine interactive operation for study through interactive interface. The application of teaching and training courseware modes in the football teaching will pose challenges for the traditional single football teaching and training mode, and become the inevitable trend of future teaching as well as the training reform and development. I. RESEARCH CONTENTS, OBJECTS AND METHODS A. Research contents The main research contents of this paper are: (I) the detailed contents and basic characteristics of football passing tactics in the theory teaching; (II) the design methods of multi-media courseware in the theoretical teaching of football passing tactics; (III) the application effect analysis of multi-media courseware in the theoretical teaching of football passing tactics.