A Spond alternative built for football clubs.
Looking for a Spond alternative that does not mean asking parents to open a second app? This page names names: where The Full Squad differs from Spond, and where Spond 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 Spond today, and you cannot use us until winter 2026, though Spond is where parents already are, on their phones. The rest comes from what Spond publishes.
Scroll across to see both columns
| Comparison area | The Full Squad | Spond |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | SpondBuilt for any sport, not just football, so club-specific jobs, like a league table or a proper club website, are not really its job. |
| 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. | SpondTiered 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. | SpondCheaper packages often carry third-party adverts, and getting rid of them usually means paying for an 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. | SpondRegistration 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. | SpondTransaction 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. | SpondExports 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. | SpondSafeguarding 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. | SpondA proper club website is not really its job; it is built for organising a group, not running a club site. |
| 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. | SpondTeam chat, availability and general group organising, which works fine for a small side that just needs everyone in one place, but that is where it stops. |
| Availability | The Full SquadLaunching in winter 2026. Early access is open now. | SpondEstablished platforms are available today, which is a real advantage if your club needs something before winter 2026. |
Where Spond stands.
What Spond does well, where a growing club runs out of road, and what changes when you move to The Full Squad.
What it does well
Team chat, availability and general group organising, which works fine for a small side that just needs everyone in one place.
Where clubs outgrow it
It is built for any sport, so club-specific jobs, a league table, a proper club website, are not really its job.
What changes with us
A platform built for football clubs only, with a website, registration and subs sitting alongside the messaging in the same login.
Questions clubs ask us.
Can I import from Spond?
Yes. Export your members or players list as a CSV from Spond 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 Spond 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 Spond 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.
Do parents have to install another app to move off Spond?
No. Registration, subs and match updates land on The Full Squad, on the same phone parents already carry, so there is no second app to get everyone to install. The records behind it are the club's own, not tied to a group built for any sport.
One app, not two?
Leaving Spond for somewhere the club's own data stays put? The switching page covers what to export, how the columns get mapped, and where your data ends up.