Managing a youth team? Here's how to save 3 hours a week

The invisible job of the team manager

They call it volunteering. But as the manager of a youth team you quickly spend 4 to 6 hours a week on organisation. Sending messages, checking attendance, arranging lifts, reporting results. It never stops.

Where does your time go?

Checking attendance: 45 minutes a week — The classic message in the WhatsApp group followed by 30 replies you have to scroll through.

Communication: 60 minutes a week — Messages about training times, venue changes, tournaments. In WhatsApp they disappear into the stream.

Arranging lifts and tasks: 30 minutes a week — Who's driving there? Who's bringing fruit? Every week again.

Results and admin: 30 minutes a week — Reporting the score, updating the standings.

Total: almost 3 hours a week of pure organisation.

Attendance: from 45 to 5 minutes

In Sportrs every player taps once to say whether they'll be there. No messages, no counting. As a team manager you see an overview straight away.

Parents fill this in on behalf of their child and only see relevant information.

Communication: structured

Sportrs works with separate channels. Team messages are separate from club news and the marketplace. A message about training doesn't disappear under a discussion about bags.

Tasks: assign automatically

When you create a match you assign tasks right away: referee, fruit duty, driving. No more scattered messages.

Results: kept automatically

After a match you enter the score and the league standings update automatically. No Excel, no separate email.

The result

With the right tools, team management takes just 30 to 45 minutes a week. You can spend that time on what really matters: the sport and the kids.

Try it for free

Sportrs is 100% free and built by team managers, for team managers. Download the app and set up your team.