Youth soccer coaching app FAQ

Pitch Planner is a browser-based app for youth soccer coaches. It helps with lineups, substitutions, playing time, rosters, attendance, match recaps, and simple tournament schedules. New tournament setup is currently paused. Existing accounts with tournament access can continue using tournament tools.

Volunteer coaches, part-time coaches, team managers, and small club admins. It is especially useful if you are tracking minutes in a notes app, building lineups on paper, or answering the same playing-time questions every weekend.

Yes. The Free plan includes one active team, a basic roster, Match Day tools, one saved lineup, and recent match and attendance history. No credit card is required for the free plan.

Pro adds advanced Match Day tools, a rotation planner, attendance insights, player development reports, public team feed/share links, CSV/PDF exports, practice-session duplication, and 25 saved practice sessions for one team. Premium includes those features for up to 3 active teams, plus higher limits and shared coach/manager access. Both paid plans include a 14-day trial.

Both paid plans include a one-time 14-day trial, and no payment method or credit card is required to start it. After the trial, choose a paid subscription to keep paid features or continue on Free. Paid subscriptions renew at the selected monthly or yearly billing interval until cancelled. You can cancel through Billing or the Stripe customer portal. Read the Cancellation & Refund Policy for details.

For team rosters and match history, yes. An account keeps your roster, saved lineups, attendance, and match records available the next time you coach.

Yes. Pitch Planner is designed for a phone browser first, because that is what most coaches have on the touchline. There is no app store download.

Start the match clock at kick-off. Players on the field gain minutes. Bench players wait. When you make a sub, choose the player coming on and the player coming off, and Pitch Planner updates the minute totals.

Yes. Pause for water breaks, injuries, long stoppages, or anything else where you do not want minutes to keep running.

Pitch Planner supports common youth soccer formats from 4v4 through 11v11. Coaches can lay out players for small-sided 7v7 and 9v9 matches as well as full-sided 11v11 games. The goal is not to teach tactics, it is to make the lineup clear enough to use during a match.

Set a target, then watch each player's minutes during the match. The point is to catch problems early, before the final five minutes become a scramble.

Yes. Free includes one saved lineup. Pro includes 5 saved lineups. Premium includes 10 saved lineups per team.

Yes. Match events can be logged during the game and reviewed in the recap afterward.

You get a match recap with the score, key events, player minutes, and notes. Pro and Premium add exports and richer reporting.

Free and Pro are built around one active team. Premium supports up to 3 active teams. Clubs or events that need 10+ teams can ask about a custom plan.

The owner counts as one coach. Pro includes 1 coach and 1 manager. Premium includes 2 coaches and 2 managers.

Create a practice, scrimmage, or team event, then mark each player present, absent, late, or excused. Free keeps recent events. Paid plans add attendance trends.

Paid plans include parent or team share links. Public views are meant for reading, not editing.

Yes. Archive a player when you want to keep their history, or delete them when the record should be removed.

New tournament setup is currently paused. Existing accounts with tournament access can continue using tournament tools, including common youth soccer formats such as round-robin, knockout, and pool play. It is built for small events where fixture clarity matters more than complicated tournament software.

New tournament setup is currently paused. Existing accounts with tournament access can add teams, choose a format, and generate the schedule. You can still adjust the plan when the real field schedule gets messy.

New tournament setup is currently paused. Existing accounts with tournament access can enter scores as games finish, and the public schedule or standings can update from those results.

New tournament setup is currently paused. Existing accounts with tournament access can publish a tournament page and share the link with coaches, parents, and spectators.

Team information is private unless you invite someone or create a share link. Do not post a team link anywhere you would not want families to find it.

No. Public views are read-only. Editing belongs to the account owner and invited helpers.

Yes. Regenerate or revoke the link when access should change.

No. Pitch Planner is a coaching tool, not an ad network. Team data is used to run the product and the features you choose to enable.

Exports are included on Pro and Premium. Free keeps the basics available in the app, while paid plans are better for season records and reporting.

Email [email protected] and ask for account deletion. We will remove the account and associated data according to the current support process.

Pitch Planner is a browser-based app, so you should load your team and match before you get to a field with weak service. Team setup, account changes, saving history, and tournament publishing require an internet connection.