One app your junior team actually uses.
Schedule training, message parents, track attendance, and run game day — in one place. Built for coaches. Safe for kids.
30 texts. 4 spreadsheets. 2 group chats. One Sunday gone.
Junior-sport coaches are volunteers — usually a parent of a kid on the team. Messages get lost. Attendance is guesswork. Parents swap phone numbers with strangers. Photos of kids end up in chats no one's moderating.
Team Wizard is what happens when someone finally builds the app for this.
Everything you're already doing. In one place.
Calendar, chat, attendance, RSVPs, photos, reports, volunteers — no pay wall.
Team calendar
Training, games, meetings — visible to the whole team the second you create them.
One-tap attendance
Tap once. Trends, totals and a season view ready for end-of-year reports.
RSVPs with nudges
Know who's coming by Thursday night. Auto-reminders chase the rest.
Three audited channels
Players. Parents. Everyone. No DMs. Ever.
Match day hub
Team sheet, ground, kick-off and the final score — before, during and after.
Photo consent register
Set once. Enforced every time. No uncomfortable conversations.
Sub & minutes tracker
Interchange clock, fair minutes, a record of every change.
Fixture sync
PlayHQ and GameDay pulled in. Always current.
Feed categories
Every post tagged Training, Match-day, Admin, Social, Safeguarding or Fees. Filter the feed by category and flag the important ones so staff notices never get buried.
Posts vs chat — no buried comments
Posts are one-way announcements with a Reply in chat button. Conversations live in the right channel — never as hidden threads under a photo.
Read receipts on important posts
Coaches mark a post important; parents see a confirm-receipt pop-up and a live read-count. Non-important posts have no receipts, so banter isn't surveilled.
Team audiences + pin-to-top
Target any post at All, Parents only or Kids only, respecting the three-channel chat and consent register. Pin the one thing that matters to the top of the feed.
Bulk upload draw from image
Snap a photo of the printed draw, the whiteboard, or the team manager's handwritten grid. The app parses dates, opponents, grounds and times into draft events you confirm with one tap.
Recurring schedule templates
Set training as weekly, fortnightly or custom-interval. Skip school holidays automatically. Edit the series once and every future event updates.
The volunteer problem, solved.
50% more match-day volunteers — guaranteed, or a year free.
Match-day volunteers is the Club-tier lead feature: a club-wide roster with fair rotation across every team, season-long tracking, and parents who see read-receipts straight from the club. Silence stops being an option — everyone knows who's been asked, who's said yes, and whose turn it is next.
Safer than WhatsApp. Every time.
Three fixed chat channels. No DMs between adults and players — architecturally impossible. A photo consent register that actually gets enforced. Full audit trail your safeguarding officer can read.
- Coach-verified accounts
- No adult-to-child direct messages
- Three channels: Players, Parents, Everyone
- Read-only safeguarding officer audit
- Photo consent enforced automatically
- Parent controls for under-13s
Built for junior sport. Not retrofitted.
| Team Wizard | TeamReach | Spond | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No adult-to-child DMs | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Full audit trail | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Photo consent register | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Junior-sport-first design | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Sub & minutes tracker | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Free for teams | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Quotes coming as our first teams settle in.
We're not going to put words in anyone's mouth. Real names, real teams, real soon.
"Coach of an under-12s team — on getting Sunday evenings back"
"Parent of an under-10 — on no DMs and sleeping easier"
"Club president — on the safeguarding audit trail"
"Team manager — on never chasing an RSVP again"
Your team. One app. No chaos.
Free for coaches. Free for parents. Free for every junior team.