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The club cycle

Team Grader supports clubs at the moments that matter most across the full year — one connected workflow from first trial to next season's kick-off.

The five-stage club cycle: trials and selection, season setup, regular season, end of season, and year-round programs

  1. Trials and team selection

    Structure assessments, capture evidence consistently, and build teams with confidence and fairness. Every grader works from the same criteria, so selections are transparent and defensible. Public registration feeds trials directly, and parents can lodge Play with Friends requests alongside.

    Grading card with skill scores per player and a build balanced teams action

  2. Season setup

    Prepare squads, allocations, and logistics so coaches begin the season organised — with clearer player context inherited from trials rather than starting from scratch. Send squad offers and track acceptances so no registered player is left without a team, allocate association ground bookings to teams and training, and track player payments and vouchers as registrations land.

    Squad offers with accepted statuses and a ground allocation strip for age groups

  3. Regular season operations

    Capture coaching insights on players, availability, and development while supporting recurring team workflows week to week. Fixtures and results can sync from Dribl so coaches see upcoming games and shifts, and coaches submit payment claims against club-defined rates, with approvals handled in the same place.

    Synced fixture card with team availability and a coach note

  4. End-of-season outcomes

    Generate coaching reports, review development progress, and give every player a clear retain, retrial, or release outcome — driven by the coach recommendations captured through the season, with AI verification that each decision is supported by the evidence.

    Season outcomes with retain and retrial decisions verified against season evidence

  5. Year-round programs

    Run development programs and academies with player or team invites, scheduled sessions, attendance tracking, and program payments — including vouchers such as Active Kids. Player history stays connected, so next year's trials start with this year's context.

    Development program card with weekly sessions, invites, vouchers, and attendance
Integrations

Shared data across systems

Import shared datasets from registration and competition platforms — including PlayFootball and Dribl — so teams work from one trusted source of player and club data at every stage of the cycle. Payments and claims can also integrate with payment systems such as Pin Payments and club accounting packages such as Xero — contact us for details.

PlayFootball Dribl Pin Payments Xero

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