Q.SWOT in strategy is required as

Strategy is defined as laying down goals and making a plan to reach them — for example, the goal of winning a season or a particular match, together with a concrete plan to get there, such as developing an athlete's power, building team camaraderie, and selecting the right players. More formally, it is 'a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.'

Building a strategy often requires a SWOT analysis — examining Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, both of one's own team and of the opposition. A coach might study their own team to decide how to use its strengths and shore up its weaknesses, and separately study the opposition to find the best approach to beat them — for example, deliberately targeting an opponent's weak tackler.

Strategising has benefits beyond the X's and O's of the game plan itself: it improves a team's synchronicity by aligning every player toward the same end goal, raises morale because players feel part of a shared plan, and sharpens individual performance because each player becomes clearer about their own role within the team's overall aim. The textbook's football example makes the strategy-vs-tactics distinction concrete: a team's pre-planned 'game plan' (hundreds of diagrammed plays prepared ahead of time) is the strategy, while the in-game and half-time adjustments made as the opposition reacts are the tactics realising that strategy in practice.