An honest comparison
How we compare.
Most comparison pages are a wall of ticks for the home team. This one is not. Here is where The Full Squad differs from the typical club platforms, laid out straight. Where the established options beat us, we say so.
£19 to £89 a month, publishedNo adverts on any levelThe row we lose, stated first
Line by line
The orange mark shows where we come out ahead. There is one row we lose and it matters more today than all the others put together: you can use them this season and you cannot use us. Everything below is what waiting gets you. All of it comes from the published price pages and terms of the platforms our own club looked at during 2026, so none of it is guessed at.
| Comparison area | The Full Squad | Typical club platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Football clubs and academies, and nothing else. Every screen assumes football, and an academy gets the whole platform with the match parts switched off, not a stripped-down side product. | Usually multi-sport. Rugby, cricket, hockey and football share one product, which means one set of compromises. |
| Pricing | £19, £45 or £89 per club per month billed annually (£22, £53 or £105 monthly), excluding VAT, published for anyone to see. Each level keeps everything from the one below it. | Tiered packages that commonly climb past £80 a month for the full feature set, and the headline price often isn't the price you end up on. |
| Third-party advertising | Never, on any level. Your pages carry your sponsors and nobody else, with the sponsor slots built in from day one. | Cheaper packages often carry third-party adverts, and getting rid of them usually means paying for an upgrade. |
| Registration and safeguarding | Full registration on every level, never paywalled, with medical details, GP information and safeguarding records included. A child can only ever join through an invite the club itself sends. | Registration is commonly included, but the depth often varies by package, and some safeguarding features can sit in the pricier ones. |
| Payment processing | Published tiered rates on every level, cheaper the higher you go, and the money settles straight into your club's own bank account, not a pot someone else holds. Refund a family and our fee comes back too, pro rata. | Transaction fees commonly vary by package, with the best rate often kept for the top one. |
| Data ownership and leaving | Your club's data is yours. Cancel and you get full service to the end of the period, then a 30-day window to export everything, registration, medical and safeguarding records included, as files you can take anywhere. | Exports are typically available but often partial, and what you can actually take with you isn't always spelled out before you sign up. |
| Children's data | The consent rules live in the code, not a policy document. A child's name, photo and stats each need their own current consent before anything appears publicly, and no direct message between an adult and a child can exist anywhere on the platform. | Safeguarding is usually handled through settings and guidance, with day-to-day compliance left to whoever happens to be doing the publishing. |
| Who does the website upkeep | Nobody has to be the webmaster. A site comes with every level, it arrives designed in your colours on Club and up, and on Pro the results file themselves onto the right team pages. A post without a photo still looks deliberate. | Typically a template the club maintains itself. In practice one volunteer owns it, and the site goes quiet when that volunteer moves on. |
| What parents get | One account for their children's registration, availability, payments and messages, and they keep access to their children's records even if the club's subscription lapses. Match fees are only ever charged for football actually played, swept into one monthly payment. | Often a decent app for availability and messaging, though registration, payments and the club website commonly live in separate systems. |
| Availability | Launching for the 2027/28 season. Early access is open now. | Established platforms are available today, which is a genuine advantage if you need something this season. |
The honest version.
If your club needs something this season the established options exist today, so here is exactly what waiting for us gets you, and what you cannot have yet.
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