Case study
Halifax Friendly FC
A grassroots club running on several systems that didn’t talk to each other, each priced for professional clubs. Now it runs on one platform.
The problem
Like most grassroots clubs, Halifax Friendly FC ran on goodwill and a patchwork of separate tools and spreadsheets. None of them talked to each other, so the same details were typed in again and again, and each was priced for professional clubs: per team, per player, per add-on.
What I built
One platform for the whole club, designed with the people who use it:
- A club website with fixtures, results, news and sponsors, updated from the same data as everything else
- Portals for players, parents and coaches: availability, team news and subs in one place
- Team sheets, match events and minutes played, recorded from the touchline
- Turn Up & Play casual sessions with online booking
- The Club Office for the committee: registrations, compliance, safeguarding and governance
How it was done
The work started with how the club actually runs on a Saturday morning, not with a feature list. The screens were designed and tried as a clickable prototype first. The club’s existing data was imported and checked in a full rehearsal before anything changed for members.
What happened next
Other clubs have the same problem, so the platform became a product of its own: Bootbase. Halifax Friendly FC is its founding club.
Running on a patchwork of tools?
Tell me about it, and we’ll work out what would help.