Most volunteer coaches run their team on a patchwork: a Facebook group for announcements, a text thread for who’s coming, a notes app for positions, and a lot of memory. It works until it doesn’t — usually at 8:15 on a Saturday morning when you realise you’ve only got six players.
A sports team management app replaces that patchwork with one place where the whole team lives.
What a team management app should actually do
Track availability before game day. Players (or their parents) mark whether they’re in or out for each game and training. You see your numbers days ahead, not minutes before the start.
Build fair lineups. Working out who plays where, and making sure everyone gets fair time, takes hours across a season. Squaddie generates balanced lineups automatically, and you can tweak them before the game.
Keep fixtures in one place. Dates, times, venues and opponents sit in the app, so nobody has to scroll back through 200 messages to find where the game is.
Communicate with parents and players. Updates go to the people who need them, without the noise of a general group chat.
Help you coach, not just organise. Squaddie includes a drill library and an AI coaching assistant for planning sessions — useful when you’re a parent who said yes to coaching and aren’t sure what to run on Tuesday night.
Why “team” matters
Search for a coaching app and you’ll find plenty of platforms for personal trainers. They’re built around individual clients and workout programmes. Team coaching is a different job: one coach, a squad, a season, a draw, and a group of parents to keep in the loop. The tool should match the job.
Built in New Zealand
Squaddie is made in Nelson-Tasman for how community and school sport runs here — volunteer coaches, parent helpers, school sports coordinators and clubs running on goodwill. Pricing is in NZD, and coaches with one team can start on the free plan.
Getting started
Setting up takes a few minutes: create your team, add players, share the invite with parents, and add your first fixture. From there, availability and lineups start doing the heavy lifting.
Start free at squaddie.app.
