This research is motivated by research conducted by previous authors in which the authors observed and analyzed the dribbling skills of students of Sports Education University of muhammadiyah jakarta are incorporated in the Student Activity unit (UKM) football, then from the results of the study found that the results of the dribble has not been maximized. In this study the authors provide an opportunity to try other variations of exercise that is small side games exercise method which aims to improve the results of dribbling. Research is experimental research. This research method is a pseudo experiment, one group pretest-posttest design. The samples used were students of Sports Education Study Program of Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta who are members of the student activity unit amounting to 20 people with the sampling technique that is purposive sampling. Data collection techniques in this study using tests. The instrument used in this study is a Short Dribbling Test. Data analysis techniques using T-test before-after (before-after). The results of this study indicate that there is a significant effect of small sided games exercise on dribbling skills. When viewed from the average pretest of 14.60 and the average posttest of 13.83 then obtained the Mean Difference of 0.77, it shows that the practice of small sided games on dribbling skills provide a change that is better 5.27% compared to before given exercise.