A Heja alternative built for football clubs.
Looking for a Heja alternative? This page names names: where The Full Squad differs from Heja, and where Heja is ahead of us today, stated plainly.
Line by line.
The square mark shows where we come out ahead. The rows without it are where Heja matches us or is ahead, and one matters more than the rest put together: you can use Heja today, and you cannot use us until winter 2026. Every Heja line comes from its own website and terms, checked on 28 October 2026.
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| Comparison area | The Full Squad | Heja |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | The Full SquadFootball clubs and academies, and nothing else. Every screen assumes football, and an academy gets the whole platform with the match parts switched off. | HejaTeams first. Heja is priced and run per team. Clubs with Pro teams can ask support to switch on shared club announcements, but each team is still managed one by one. |
| Pricing | The Full Squad£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. | HejaHeja Free costs nothing and carries adverts. Team Pro is "from $8.33", priced per team, in US dollars with no billing period shown. Team Pro Max, club prices and any UK price: not published. |
| Third-party advertising | The Full SquadNever, on any level. Your pages carry your sponsors and nobody else, with the sponsor slots built in from day one. | HejaYes on the free plan. Team Pro removes adverts for coaches and admins only, so players and parents still see them. Team Pro Max removes them for the whole team. Under-13s see no adverts and under-18s see limited ones. |
| Registration and safeguarding | The Full SquadFull registration on every level, never paywalled, with medical details, GP information and safeguarding records included. A child's registration starts from the club: an invite the club sends, or a family adding another child that the team's manager approves. | HejaMedical details, contact details and birthdates are visible to admins only by default. Club registration forms, DBS or background checks, a welfare officer role, and consent or medical consent forms: not published. |
| Payment processing | The Full SquadPublished tiered rates from Club up, cheaper the higher you go, and the money settles straight into your club's own bank account. Refund a family and our fee comes back too, pro rata. | HejaOn Pro only. Payments go through Stripe and are paid out to the team's bank weekly, usually on Tuesdays. The payer covers a service fee of around 4 to 5% in the UK, so the team gets the full amount. Heja does not handle refunds. |
| Data ownership and leaving | The Full SquadYour club's data is yours. Cancel and you get full service to the end of the period, then 30 days to ask for your export, registration, medical and safeguarding records included, as files you can take anywhere. | HejaA data export in any format: not published. Leaving means deleting your account, which is permanent, and Heja may keep and anonymise information afterwards. A notice period or data hand-back: not published. |
| Children's data | The Full SquadThe 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. | HejaStrong published defaults. Safeguarding is on for every new team so parents can see their child's conversations, under-13 accounts are set up by a parent, child accounts a parent manages cannot receive messages, and connecting to a child needs parent or admin approval. |
| Who does the website upkeep | The Full SquadNobody has to be the webmaster. A site comes with every level, and from Club upwards it carries the club's own colours. Results go onto the right team pages as soon as the manager enters them, and the league table can be typed in, or kept up to date from FA Full-Time on Pro. | HejaNo club website. Heja offers Club Connect instead: shared club announcements and a coaches' chat across Pro teams, switched on by Heja support. |
| What parents get | The Full SquadOne account for their children's registration, availability, payments and messages, and families keep read access to their children's records while a club is paused for non-payment. | HejaA free app for the schedule, replies and team messages, with an optional paid Heja Plus for families. Registration through Heja: not published. |
| Availability | The Full SquadLaunching in winter 2026. Early access is open now. | HejaLive today, and Heja says over 500,000 teams use it, which is a real advantage if your club needs something before winter 2026. |
Where Heja stands.
Where Heja is stronger than us today, from what it publishes, then where a growing club runs out of road and what changes when you move to The Full Squad.
Scale
Heja says over 500,000 teams use it and quotes a reach of more than 4 million users, so its apps are proven and parents may already know them.
A free plan, unlimited teams
A club can start team by team at no cost.
Fee collection live in the UK
In-app payments through Stripe with weekly payouts, and the payer covers the fee, so the team gets the full amount.
Child-safety defaults
Parents see their child's conversations by default, under-13 accounts are set up by a parent, connection requests need approval, and sensitive fields are admin-only.
A low per-team price
Team Pro from $8.33, priced per team, which suits a single team or a small club.
Player fundraising
Player fundraising webshops with personal supporter links.
Help and support
A help centre with around 100 articles, and support chat in the app.
Heja Plus for families
An optional paid add-on for parents, shareable with up to four family members, that earns revenue without charging the club.
Where clubs outgrow it
It runs team by team, players and parents see adverts unless the whole team pays for Pro Max, and there is no club website or published data export.
What changes with us
The whole club in one account, no adverts for anyone, a club website, and a 30-day export of everything when you leave.
Questions clubs ask us.
Can I import from Heja?
Yes, from a CSV. Heja does not publish an export tool, so the list will need to come from a spreadsheet you keep yourself. Save it as a CSV and we match the columns with you. See the switching page for the steps.
Heja is free. Why pay for The Full Squad?
For one team that just needs a schedule and a chat, Heja's free plan is a fair choice. Heja Free carries adverts and runs team by team. We run the whole club in one account, with registration, subs, a club website and no adverts for anyone, at £19, £45 or £89 per club per month billed annually, excluding VAT.
What happens to my data if I leave Heja for The Full Squad?
You get full service to the end of whatever you have paid for, then 30 days to ask for your export, registration, medical and safeguarding records included, as files you can take anywhere.
Where do the Heja facts come from?
From Heja's own website, pricing page, help centre, terms and privacy policy, checked on 28 October 2026. Where Heja does not publish something, the table says not published rather than guessing.
Bringing the whole club?
Moving several Heja teams into one club? The switching page covers the CSV, how the columns get mapped, and where your data ends up.