For grassroots youth football coaches
Squadpoint picks fair line-ups, times the match from your pocket and tells you who's due a change. You watch the football.
09:40 · the car park
Everything before kick-off is a thumb's work: who's here, who starts where, and whether the minutes will come out fair. The app opens on Today, with the one thing to sort at the top.
Tick off who has turned up. Absent players come out of today's line-ups, and the match isn't counted against them. A hurt thumb but fine to run around? Tap the hand to keep a child out of goal for this one match, and the app plays them outfield.
Two taps Most weeks someone's ill or away. The plan adjusts without starting again.
The line-up opens on a pitch in your formation with a dashed place for every position. Tap a place, tap a player on the bench, done. Drag if you'd rather. Put one too many in a row and it goes in with a warning, never a refusal.
At a glance The Referee page opens it in one tap on the period being played, so mid-match you see the whole team at once.
One button fills the period, or the rest of the match, so minutes come out as even as the squad allows. It rotates the keeper, varies who plays where, and gives the odd extra minute to whoever is furthest behind on the season. Every player shows their minutes so far; whoever has had least is picked out in coral.
Two minutes Planning rotations at 09:50 with kids arriving is a quick job, not a spreadsheet.
Split any period in two for a change five minutes in. Save the shapes you play, 5v5 2-2 or 7v7 2-3-1, and switch on the morning: when the other coach agrees 6v6 at 09:50, the app re-fills last night's plan for the new shape in one tap and keeps anything already played.
The same line-up by position, a seat icon to bench someone, the whole squad on one screen. Undo steps back through every edit, so a stray drag during a hectic warm-up is harmless.
Switch on Captain each match and the app suggests whoever is starting and has had fewest turns. If the captain ends up on the bench for kick-off, it warns you.
One keeper per period, rotated by time in goal over the season, or pinned to a dedicated keeper. A child who's a turn behind gets the gloves once, not quarter after quarter.
Switch auto-fill to keep each child in one position for the whole match: defence all morning, midfield next week. Minutes stay exactly as even.
A badge shows whether the line-up is short, exactly right with a tick, or over. Over is a warning, never a block.
10:00 · kick-off
The coach refereeing is also the coach making the subs. The Referee page keeps the time, the score and the next change on one screen you can read at arm's length in bright sun.
Eyes on the game No second timer, no leaving the clock to check who's due off.
Who comes on, who goes off and the position, one line per swap, with any keeper change first. It stays quiet until it matters, then turns coral a minute out. A sound and a buzz mark the change ten seconds out and on the second.
The buzzer rides the alarm volume, so it sounds with the phone on silent, and a notification shows the period and time left.
If the phone kills the app mid-match, or the battery dies, the clock comes back where it was. Hours later, it reads the match as finished rather than resuming a stale countdown.
Every match keeps its own clock, so you can prepare game three while game two is still being played. Opening the next one never resets the one being timed.
Forgot to start it, or the ref blew early? Pause, and drag the bar to where the game really is, to the second. Drag it to the end and one tap blows the whistle.
A running clock shows as a small pill on every screen. Plan the next quarter's line-up while it counts, then tap the pill to get back. A second ad-hoc timer covers a sin bin or a drinks break.
10:36 · a goal
Tap for a goal. Long-press to pick the scorer from the players on the pitch, and you're asked for the assist straight after: one tap on a name, or swipe it away. The minute is taken when you press, not when you pick the name. Nothing on the page moves the goal buttons, so they can be hit without looking.
Never slower Recording the scorer never slows down recording the goal, and a mis-tap is one undo away.
Half-time maths
Equal time is the rule in youth football, and it's harder than it looks across four quarters, a keeper and a child who went home at half-time. Squadpoint does the arithmetic. You keep the final say.
Full time
One screen per match that rearranges itself for where the game is: a to-do list before kick-off, the score and the next sub during, the awards and the minutes after. The thing to do next is always at the top.
During
Once the clock runs, the score and the countdown grow, the clock turns coral, and the next substitution sits underneath: who comes on, who goes off, how long until it.
Full time
Every goal with the scorer and the minute, ours and theirs told apart at a glance. A match nobody kept score in shows no score at all, rather than a 0–0 that never happened. Play time runs most to least, with the child owed the most picked out.
The Timeline
Our goals with the scorer and the assist, theirs marked apart, every rotation and mid-period change, each whistle with the score as it stood. Tap Edit and any goal can be given the minute it really went in, the right scorer, or the other side. Works mid-match too.
Awards
Define your own awards, up to three medals, each with its icon, in the order you hand them out. Pick winners after the whistle with the minutes in view, from a grid where a tap picks. The picker can list who has had fewest first.
The season
A season tally shows who has won what, so the award goes to the child who hasn't had one yet. In youth football, the award should go round.
Midweek
Fixtures from The FA's Full-Time in one tap, a term of friendlies in one go, and a season you can read without reading every row. Today, Fixtures and Squad are one tap apart along the bottom.
One tap pulls your team's fixtures from The FA's Full-Time, with a step-by-step guide to the snippet code. Opponent, home or away and venue are included. Pasting a listing works too.
Fetch again and the app shows exactly what changed, "Away to Home" or a new opponent, and applies only what you tick. Your line-ups are kept, and a kick-off time you agreed with the other coach isn't overwritten.
Today and the Fixtures page remind you to refresh after a fortnight, more firmly as Full-Time's 30-day expiry approaches, so call-offs and rearrangements come in without you remembering to check.
Fixtures under their month, the next one standing out while nobody has been picked, a match nobody kept score in just saying "Played". A gala day is a single row that opens onto its games.
Lay down a term of weekly friendlies in one go, then remove the untouched ones in one press if plans change.
Today shows a card for each match in kick-off order, played, being timed or still to play, so you always know which game you're in.
Your data
Export one match or the whole season to a file or the clipboard, and import it back on the same phone or a new one. A new phone or a reinstall doesn't cost you the season.
Everything a match needs travels with it: the squad, the positions and the format, so a line-up reads the same on the phone it lands on.
The app asks for nothing it doesn't need. What it keeps and why is in the privacy policy, in plain words.
Nothing in the app watches what you do, and nothing interrupts a match to sell you something.
Your squad's data is yours. It is never sold and never passed to anyone else; if you one day share a squad with a fellow coach, that is your doing, not ours.
Pitches don't come with Wi-Fi. Every part of match day, the clock, the line-up and the changes, works with the phone in flight mode.
Built by a coach, on a touchline, for the coaches who kept asking.
Squadpoint started as one team's Sunday-morning tool and grew because the coaches at the next pitch wanted it too. It's opinionated about the things that matter in youth football and quiet about the rest.
The Squadpoint web app for organising your own weekly game lives at squadpoint.com. This site is for the coaching app.