For grassroots football clubs
Run your whole club in one place
Your club’s website, an app for players and parents, everything coaches need on matchday, and a club office that keeps on top of the paperwork. Built with volunteers, for volunteers. Free to start.
The demo is a made-up club. Be a player, a parent, a coach or the secretary: no sign-up. Or see your own club in it first.
Everything the club does, in one place
Most clubs run on a website from one company, a team app from another, payments from a third and spreadsheets for the rest. Bootbase is one system, so what happens in one part shows up everywhere it should.
Your website
Fixtures, results, tables, squads, news and sponsors, kept up to date by what the club already does.
Players and parents
One place to answer for games and training, see the team news, pay subs and sign the season’s forms.
Coaches and matchday
Pick the team on a pitch, track the game live, take the training register, all from a phone.
The club office
Registrations, subs, safeguarding, DBS checks, committees and the books, with what needs a decision first.
Money
Subs, match fees, fines and invoices paid online, straight into the club’s own account.
Casual sessions
Pay-and-play football with booking, a waiting list and waivers, under your own name.
Our story
Born out of frustration
Halifax Friendly FC was run on a website from one company, a team app from another, payments through a third and spreadsheets for the rest. None of them talked to each other, every one wanted paying, and the bill grew every time we added a team. So the volunteers who run the club built their own. Now it’s yours too: one system for the whole club, at one fair price.
See your club in it
Type your name and give it your colours. What you’re looking at is Bootbase’s real theme engine running in your browser — the one that builds a club’s actual site.
This is the real thing, not an artist’s impression: the same engine that builds a club’s site is drawing this in your browser, and it keeps every colour pairing readable whatever you pick — that’s a test in our code, not a hope. Nothing you type here leaves this page.
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Your colours on the website with Club and Premium; your fonts, address and the app’s look with Premium.
Your website
A club website that keeps itself up to date
Results go up when the coach records them. The table follows FA Full-Time. Squads, stats and match graphics come from what’s already in Bootbase, so the website is never the job nobody has time for.
- Fixtures, results and tables: in step with FA Full-Time, with changes to played games checked by a coach first.
- Squads and season stats: appearances, minutes, goals and assists, from the line-ups and the match tracker. Players choose what’s public.
- News, pages, sponsors and documents: edited in the office, no web designer needed.
- Your own look on Premium: your colours and fonts and your own web address, with everything kept readable.
Players and parents
Everything that’s theirs, in one place
Players and parents see their games and training, answer in a tap, and get the team news when it’s out. Parents look after their children’s side, and a player can ask family to help.
- Available or not, in a tap: from the app, the website or a reminder. Changing their mind later goes to the coach to approve.
- Team news: whether they’re starting or on the bench, then the whole team sheet when the coach reveals it.
- Subs and payments: what’s owed and what’s paid, and paying online.
- Registration: the season’s form signed online, with consents, and a copy to keep.
Coaches and matchday
Matchday from the touchline
Pick the team on a pitch from who’s available, publish it when you’re ready, then track the game live from your phone. The result, scorers and minutes update everywhere.
- Line-ups on a pitch: tap a spot, then a player. Trialists, formations and the bench included.
- A live match tracker: goals, assists, cards, subs (rolling subs too) and the score, with player of the match after.
- Training: sessions, plans, a drill library and the register.
- “Is it on?”: one tap on a wet Saturday morning and the squad, their parents and the helpers are all told at once — with the words to send the opposition and the referee.
- Confirm games: message the opposition and the referee from your phone.
The club office
The paperwork, handled
Everything a committee looks after, in one office. It opens on what needs a decision, so nothing waits for the next meeting.
- Registrations and players: season forms, the club’s own questions, accepting and sending back, and players asking to leave.
- Safeguarding and compliance: concerns, DBS and coach checks, consents, concussion and emergency contacts.
- Governance: committees and minutes, player elections with a secret ballot, the register of interests and the risk register.
- Every legal structure: clubs, CICs, charities and companies, with the right words for who runs the club.
Money
Money straight to the club
Subs, match fees, fines, invoices and casual sessions can be paid online. Payments go to the club’s own Stripe account and match themselves to what’s owed. Bootbase never holds the club’s money.
- Subs, kept straight: payment plans per team, what’s overdue, amounts waived, and credit carried forward.
- The books: bank statements imported from any UK bank and sorted in a tap, reports and the budget.
- Gift Aid, VAT and year end: with a public Gift Aid declaration and the HMRC schedule ready to send.
- For the accountant: a trial balance and transactions in Sage’s standard format.
Casual sessions (add-on)
Pay-and-play, under your own name
Friday Kickabout, walking football, five-a-side under the lights: casual sessions anyone can book, with a waiting list, waivers and payment. Give them your own name, logo and colours.
- Booking and a waiting list: a place is held while someone pays, and when someone drops out the next on the list is offered it.
- Waivers signed once: on the first booking, with an emergency contact.
- A way into the club: casual players are already in Bootbase when they want to join a team.
Media and your look
Look like your club
Match-day graphics for social media, filled in from the game: the line-up, the result, the scorers. On Premium, the whole public site takes your colours and fonts, from a builder that keeps every colour readable.
- Media Hub: player cards, fixtures and results, squad announcements and line-ups, ready to post.
- Your match video: a score bug, goal and substitution pop-ups, an intro and a line-up card — and the exact frame each one belongs on.
- Club look (Premium): pick from your badge and kit colours and a scheme, with a live preview.
Getting started
- 1
Tell us about your club
Your teams, the package you want, and what you use now. Takes two minutes.
- 2
We set it up with you
Your teams, seasons and look, and your players brought across from a spreadsheet, an FA Full-Time export or the system you’re leaving.
- 3
Invite everyone
Players, parents and coaches sign in with their email, on the website or the Bootbase app. No passwords, nothing to install to start.
Made for volunteers
No passwords to forget.
People sign in with their email: we send a code, and after that their phone’s own fingerprint or face. Parents, players and coaches never need a reset.
What needs you comes first.
Every page opens on the jobs waiting for that person, so a volunteer with ten minutes can clear them.
Made for a phone.
Everything works on the phone in your pocket, at the side of the pitch.
Juniors kept safe.
No scores or league tables for under-11s and younger, first names and an initial for junior players, no junior photographs on the public site, coaches’ opinions of players stay with coaches, and parents sign for their children.
People hear about what’s theirs.
Notifications go to the app, or by email for anyone without it. Never both, and everyone chooses what reaches them.
One price for the club.
Never per team or per member. Add teams as you grow without the bill growing.
Simple pricing
Every package has every tool and the app — only the AI assistant is Club and Premium’s, and Free keeps photographs at web size rather than print quality. Otherwise they differ in your site’s look and address, and how Bootbase is paid. Per club, never per team.
Free
£0
Bootbase takes 5% of payments made through it. Unlimited teams.
- Every club tool (the AI assistant aside)
- The Bootbase app
- Your site at yourclub.bootbase.app
- The Bootbase look
- Recommended
Club
£25 a month
No Bootbase fee on your payments. Unlimited teams.
- Everything in Free
- No cut of your club’s money
- The AI assistant
- Your club’s colours on your site
Premium
£39 a month
No Bootbase fee on your payments. Unlimited teams.
- Everything in Club
- Your own web address
- Your club’s colours and fonts
- No “Powered by Bootbase” on your website
Founding clubs: the first ten clubs get half price on any package for their first two years. Full pricing and questions
See it for yourself
Look round a made-up club as a player, a parent, a coach or the club secretary. No sign-up, no email.
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