A Pitchero alternative built for football clubs.
Looking for a Pitchero alternative, mainly for the club website and the adverts sitting on it? This page names names: where The Full Squad differs from Pitchero, and where Pitchero still beats us today, stated first.
Line by line.
The square mark shows where we come out ahead. One row goes against us, and it matters more than the rest put together: you can use Pitchero today, and you cannot use us until winter 2026, though the website Pitchero gives you comes with adverts on the cheaper packages. The rest comes from what Pitchero publishes.
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| Comparison area | The Full Squad | Pitchero |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | PitcheroAn established club website platform with fixtures and results, the kind plenty of non-league clubs already run on. |
| 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. | PitcheroTiered packages that commonly climb past £80 a month for the full feature set, and the headline price often is not the price you end up on. |
| 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. | PitcheroPitchero's cheaper packages commonly carry third-party adverts, and the deeper features often sit behind a paid upgrade. |
| 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. | PitcheroRegistration is commonly included, but the depth often varies by package, and some safeguarding features can sit in the pricier ones. |
| 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. | PitcheroTransaction fees commonly vary by package, with the best rate often kept for the top one. |
| 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. | PitcheroExports are typically available but often partial, and what you can take with you is not always spelled out before you sign up. |
| 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. | PitcheroSafeguarding 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 | 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. | PitcheroThe website side is Pitchero's core strength: an established platform with fixtures and results already built in. |
| 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. | PitcheroOften a decent app for availability and messaging, though registration, payments and the club website commonly live in separate systems. |
| Availability | The Full SquadLaunching in winter 2026. Early access is open now. | PitcheroEstablished platforms are available today, which is a real advantage if your club needs something before winter 2026. |
Where Pitchero stands.
What Pitchero does well, where a growing club runs out of road, and what changes when you move to The Full Squad.
What it does well
An established club website platform with fixtures and results that plenty of non-league clubs already run on.
Where clubs outgrow it
The cheaper packages commonly carry third-party adverts, and the deeper features often sit behind a paid upgrade.
What changes with us
One price with everything in it, and no adverts on any level, at any price.
Questions clubs ask us.
Can I import from Pitchero?
Yes. Export your members or players list as a CSV from Pitchero and we map the columns with you, rather than leaving you to guess what goes where. See the full detail on the switching page.
What happens to my data if I leave Pitchero 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.
Why does the table describe Pitchero as typical instead of quoting a price?
Their packages and menus change more often than we can check, so where we are not certain of the current figure we describe the pattern instead of guessing. Our own three prices are always published on the pricing page.
Can I keep our own domain if we move off Pitchero?
Yes, at launch. A guided setup takes your club's existing address live on The Full Squad, no DNS knowledge needed, so the web address people already know keeps working. The website that sits behind it comes with no adverts on any plan, unlike Pitchero's cheaper packages.
Keeping the domain?
Leaving Pitchero for the website without the adverts? The switching page covers what to export, how the columns get mapped, and, at launch, how your domain comes with you.