Sprout -
Built by coaches for coaches
The club app that does it all.
Everything you need to run a football club, in one place: fixtures, subs, training, inventory, accounting and finance, certifications, safeguarding, team chat and live match-day stats. Twenty full modules — more than anyone else.
I'm Ben a real grassroots football coach. I built Sprout to help our club grow. Different people in the club had different problems, I set out to solve them. That's how Sprout was born. Our aim is to bring Sprout to more clubs to help them as it's helped us.
Fixtures, subs, training, safeguarding, chat and match day, for every team, coach and parent.
Twenty full modules — more than TeamSnap, Spond or Pitchero. See the comparison below.
Free to organise your club, forever. £10 a month — the founders price — unlocks all twenty modules.
Built for the ones
holding it all together.
Four screens that quietly replace the WhatsApp group, the lever-arch file and the spreadsheet you keep forgetting to update.
Capture stats
on the fly.
Tap a player, tap what happened. Goals, assists, good passes, fouls, saves, pulled together into a clean match report and pushed straight to each player's profile.
- AOne tap per moment.
No fumbling with menus mid-game, the touchline is no place for nested forms.
- BQuick sub built in.
Make the change from the same screen, and the clock keeps running.
- CHonest events log.
Everything you tap is reviewable and removable. You stay the editor.
- DRolls up automatically.
Goals, assists, fouls, ratings, flows into the player profile and the team's stats table.
Twenty modules.
One happy club.
Not nine, not twelve — twenty, and we can name them. Each one replaces a spreadsheet, a paper form or a forgotten WhatsApp message. Here are the nine coaches talk about most.
Fixtures & match plans
Auto-poll availability, post team sheets, log results, attach the weather and the referee.
Team picker
Drag-and-drop quarters. Minutes tracked per match and per season. Fairness, built in.
Match companion
Touchline-fast event capture. Goals, assists, fouls, saves, flowing into player profiles.
Squad & guardians
Profiles, medical notes, FA registration and photo consent, sat behind safeguarding-aware permissions.
Training planner
Schedule sessions, attach plans, capture attendance, write coach observations after the whistle.
Subs & finance
Team balances, purchase requests, payment reminders. One ledger the whole committee trusts.
Team chat & parent DMs
Threaded chats per team, parent broadcasts, RSVPs, and a feed parents actually read.
Safeguarding tools
Incident logs, DBS expiry tracking, qualifications by coach, consent sign-offs per parent.
Installs like an app
PWA-ready. Parents add Sprout to their home screen, no App Store, no install fatigue.
All twenty, by name — every one included on the founders package:
And that's just the gated modules — team chat, online payments, tournaments, the parent portal and the live match companion come as standard.
More club.
Less money.
We read our rivals' own pricing and feature pages so you don't have to. Their numbers, their words, one table.
| Sprout | Spond | Pitchero | TeamSnap | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price for the whole club | Free — or £10/mo for every module | Free | Free covers 1 team · £38–£99/mo | Paid per team · club price on request |
| Fee when parents pay online | 2.5% on Free · 0% on Founders | 2.5% + 20p on every payment | From 2.42% + 17p | Not published |
| Unlimited teams at one flat price | Standard capped at 20 teams, then £2.50/team/mo | Priced per team | ||
| Fair playing-time picker & live match stats | — | — | — | |
| DBS expiry, incident logs & consent tracking | — | — | — | |
| Tournament hosting & public fan pages | — | — | — | |
| Club accounting, kit & purchase orders | — | — | — |
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Built for the touchline.
Lives on the home screen.
Coaches manage. Parents RSVP. Players share their highlight. The same web app, tailored to each role, no separate downloads, no five different logins.
Sprout already runs match days for grassroots clubs.
Pulford Pirates JFC run their club on Sprout - fixtures, availability, team picks, parent RSVPs, subs and the touchline companion, every week of the season. This isn't a demo: it's the same app your club gets.
Two plans.
That's the lot.
Sprout Free runs your club's day-to-day forever, for nothing. Sprout Founders unlocks all twenty modules at a price only the first fifty clubs will ever get. No tiers, no per-player charges, no surprise upgrade when you add the U9s.
The organising core every grassroots club needs, free for as long as you want it.
- Unlimited teams, players, coaches & parents
- Fixtures, availability & results
- Training sessions & attendance registers
- Club feed, calendar & photos
- Parent & player portal with RSVPs
- Safeguarding, DBS & qualifications tracking
- Collect subs & match fees online (2.5% per payment)
- Works on any phone, installs like an app
Every module Sprout has, at the founders price — held for your whole first year. Your first month is free, and when parents pay the club, every penny stays with the club.
- Everything in Sprout Free, plus:
- Collect subs & match fees — 0% platform fee
- Match-day companion, live stats & fair minutes
- Tournaments, hosting & public fan pages
- Session plan library & match planning
- Club accounting, budgets & purchase orders
- Kit, inventory, fundraising & sponsors
- Compliance, policies, insurance & pitches
Sprout is built by a grassroots coach, and the first fifty clubs get the builder's deal: £10 a month, held for your first year, every module, 0% platform fee — plus a direct line to the person who writes the code and a say in what gets built next. When the fifty spots are gone, the Founders package retires with them, and later clubs join at the standard price.
Most platforms take a cut of every subs payment your parents make. Spond takes 2.5% + 20p; Pitchero starts at 2.42% + 17p on a £38/month plan. Sprout Free takes just 2.5% to keep the lights on — and on Sprout Founders it's £10 flat with 0% of your payments taken, ever. £10 collected is £10 in the club account (minus only the card fee).
Free is free forever, not a trial — online payments on the free plan carry a 2.5% platform fee (card processing fees apply on both plans). Sprout Founders is one flat price for the whole club, held for your first year, with no per-player fees and 0% taken from your payments — and it's limited to the first fifty clubs. Cancel any time; you keep your data and drop back to Free.
Honest answers,
from a small team.
The first 50 clubs
shape the next ten thousand.
Start free in two minutes, or claim one of the fifty founder spots — £10 a month for all twenty modules, a direct line to us, and a say in what we build. Help us build the platform UK grassroots football has always deserved.