All the club, minus the games.
An academy is a club without the fixtures. Same children to register, same parents to keep informed, same consents, sessions and fees. And if you run an academy alongside a club, a child doing both is one player with one record, not two.
Same club software, games taken out
An academy is not a smaller kind of club and it is not a different product. It is the same platform with the fixtures, results, competitions and league tables switched off, so nothing on screen is asking you about a match you are never going to play.
One child, one record, whether they play or train
Most setups treat an academy as a second system, so a lad who trains on a Thursday and plays for the club on a Sunday exists twice, with two medical records and two sets of consents that quietly drift apart. Here there is one Player. It is not a merge tool or a tidy-up job, it is how the thing is built.
- One player record covering club football and academy sessions
- One medical record and one set of consents, not two that disagree
- One parent account, one login, one place the family looks
- Nothing to reconcile at the end of the season, because nothing split
Registration and safeguarding at full club depth
An academy carries the same duty of care as any club, and usually more parents asking about it. The registration side is not a cut-down version for academies. It is the same wizard, the same versioned permissions and the same audited access to children's data.
- Parent and guardian accounts for under 16s, with the right age bands
- Consents recorded against the version the parent actually agreed to
- Medical and safeguarding details held privately, with access logged
- DBS and qualification reminders that warn you, and never claim anyone is cleared
Sessions and payments, without the matchday bits
What an academy runs on is sessions, places and money coming in on time. That is all here, with the fixture machinery simply switched off rather than sitting there empty waiting for somebody to fill it in.
- Sessions, groups and attendance as the thing the week is built around
- Enrolment and re-enrolment through the same guided process a club uses
- Monthly fees, one off payments and chasing that happens on its own
- No match fees, because there are no matches
Standalone, or the academy arm of your club
Run an academy on its own and you get an academy, not a club site with four empty pages where the fixtures would be. Run one alongside a club and it is one platform with both, which is where the single player record starts paying for itself every week.
- A public site with fixtures, results and tables properly removed
- Sessions, coaches and enrolment on the front of it instead
- An academy arm of an existing club runs on the same tenant
- The same three plans clubs use, with no separate academy price list
Not bolted on. Built in.
Academies were not an afterthought here, and they are not an upsell either. Three things were decided on purpose, and they are the reason this page can promise what it does.
There was a version of this with a separate record for academy children. It was thrown out before a line of it was written, because it would have handed every hybrid club a duplicate problem to manage forever.
Academies are a type of club here, not a separate product with its own price list. The three published prices are the same ones, and nothing about running an academy puts you on a different ladder.
The platform manages the process. The academy runs the operation and carries every legal duty attached to it. Nothing here will ever tell you that using it makes you compliant, and no missed reminder moves that duty onto us.
Bring the academy.
Whether it stands on its own or sits underneath a club, it is the same platform and the same three plans. Leave an email and you will get first look as it takes shape, and first pick of a place when the doors open.
Running a club as well? The non-league page covers the matchday side, and the two run on one platform rather than two.