Weekend pitch allocation for grassroots sports clubs
Weekend pitch allocation for grassroots sports clubs is a SaaS idea for fixture secretaries at grassroots football and rugby clubs with 10 to 60 teams, priced to test at $19 a month per club. Each week, the fixture secretary juggles a spreadsheet of pitches, kick-off times and referees for every team. With it, fixture secretaries assign pitches, kick-off times and referees for every team’s weekend games, and coaches get their slot by email.
. A starting point we wrote, not market research: run the 7-day test before you build.
What problem does it solve?
Each week, the fixture secretary juggles a spreadsheet of pitches, kick-off times and referees for every team. Changes reach coaches late, and teams arrive to find their pitch already taken.
Why now: Many clubs are adding girls’ and women’s teams on the same pitches, so each weekend is a tighter puzzle.
What do they use today?
Most clubs plan the weekend on a large spreadsheet or a wall chart, then post the plan in a coaches’ group chat and text people when something moves. Each coach has to find their own line.
How does it work?
With the club’s pitches and time slots set up once, the fixture secretary enters or imports each week’s fixtures and uses the weekend board to give every game a pitch, a kick-off time and a referee. Clashes are flagged, and coaches and referees get an email with their slot. If a game moves or is called off, a change email follows.
What goes in the first version?
- The club’s pitches and time slots, set up once
- Fixtures entered or imported for each team
- A weekend board to assign pitches, times and referees
- Emails to coaches and referees with their slot
- Change emails when a game moves or is called off
Who pays, and how much?
- Who pays
- Fixture secretaries at grassroots football and rugby clubs with 10 to 60 teams
- Price to test
- $19 a month per club
A club has one fixture secretary doing the weekly planning, usually as a volunteer, so a flat monthly price per club is easy for the committee to agree. It does not change with the number of teams.
How to test it in 7 days
- 1Ask five fixture secretaries how they plan a weekend and how long it takes.
- 2Read grassroots coach groups on Facebook for posts about pitch mix-ups.
- 3Plan one club’s next weekend in a mock-up and compare it with their spreadsheet.
Where to find the first customers
- Grassroots coach and club volunteer groups on Facebook
- Regional sports associations that support local clubs
- Junior league secretaries who know every club
What are the risks?
- Team management apps may add pitch planning, so stay focused on the fixture secretary.
- Many clubs manage with free spreadsheets, so the paid plan must clearly save time.
How to build it on shipanysaas
4 of the parts it needs are already in the kit. Get the kit, open it in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and paste the starting prompt.
- Already in the kit
- Teams and roles
- Billing
- Emails
- In-app notifications
- You build
- Pitch and time-slot setup
- Weekend allocation board with clash checks
- Slot and change emails to coaches
See the starting prompt
You are in a fresh copy of the shipanysaas starter kit, a pnpm and Turborepo monorepo: the Next.js web app is in apps/web and the Supabase database, with its migrations, in apps/web/supabase. Help me build the first version of Weekend pitch allocation for grassroots sports clubs. Read AGENTS.md first, then the AGENTS.md in every folder you work in: the kit's rules there win over your defaults. When a skill in .agents/skills (also in .claude/skills and .cursor/skills) matches a task, use it. ## The product - What it does: Fixture secretaries assign pitches, kick-off times and referees for every team’s weekend games, and coaches get their slot by email. - Who pays: Fixture secretaries at grassroots football and rugby clubs with 10 to 60 teams - Their problem: Each week, the fixture secretary juggles a spreadsheet of pitches, kick-off times and referees for every team. Changes reach coaches late, and teams arrive to find their pitch already taken. - Price to test: $19 a month per club (a plan in apps/web/config/billing.config.ts) ## Build only this first version 1. The club’s pitches and time slots, set up once 2. Fixtures entered or imported for each team 3. A weekend board to assign pitches, times and referees 4. Emails to coaches and referees with their slot 5. Change emails when a game moves or is called off ## Already in the kit: reuse it, never rebuild it - Teams and roles: team accounts with members, roles and invitations - Billing: Stripe or Lemon Squeezy subscriptions, per seat or usage-based, and one-off payments - Emails: transactional email through Resend or Nodemailer - In-app notifications: a notifications bell in the web app ## New code it needs - Pitch and time-slot setup - Weekend allocation board with clash checks - Slot and change emails to coaches ## How to work 1. Plan first: list the database tables (with row-level security, so each team only sees its own rows), the pages and the server actions for the first feature. Then stop and wait for my OK. 2. Build one feature at a time with the kit's own UI and form components, with a migration for every schema change and user-facing text in the translation files. 3. After each feature, run the verification steps in AGENTS.md, fix what they find, and tell me what you built and what comes next. ## Rules - Ask me before you add a dependency, delete a file, or change sign-in, billing or the admin panel. - Leave the parts of the kit this product doesn't use as they are. Done when every first-version feature works for a signed-in team and the AGENTS.md checks pass.
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