Public website plus the admin tools your committee runs on — built to outlast committee handovers.
Grassroots sports clubs run on volunteers, spreadsheets, and Facebook groups. Every few seasons the committee turns over, and the club's history walks out the door with the last secretary's laptop.
Sources: Australian Sports Foundation, Clubs Under Pressure (May 2023, n=2,984 community clubs); regional rugby union research, March 2026.
Since December 2025, under-16s can't legally hold accounts on Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok (Online Safety Amendment Act 2024). Clubs that ran their junior comms through a Facebook group now have no way to reach those players — a club-owned site with its own announcements, email, and team-level updates becomes practical necessity, not nice-to-have.
A site that's built once, owned forever, and shaped around how committees actually work — not how a typical agency would prefer to bill.
Every club site starts from the same proven base. That keeps the build fast and the price honest — you're not paying someone to invent the wheel from scratch, and updates and improvements that come from one club's site can flow to yours.
The look, the content, the features turned on, the sport-specific bits — all configured to fit your club. You're not stuck with the previous club's logo or someone else's idea of how a fixtures page should work.
The site lives on infrastructure registered in the club's name. The code is in the club's account. If you ever want to take it elsewhere, you can — nothing is held hostage. Committee handovers don't break anything.
The standard build — what every club gets for the base price. Add-on modules listed on the next page extend this; the core stands on its own.
Home, About, Contact pages. Works on phones, tablets, and desktops. Looks like a real club website.
Password-protected. Committee logs in to update content. Designed to be used by volunteers, not developers.
Upload photos from the admin, organised by year. Stored safely and served quickly.
A scrolling banner at the top of the site for time-sensitive news. Set it once, it expires when it should.
People fill it out on the site; the message arrives in the admin inbox. No third-party form provider.
This season's schedule. Updates as the season progresses. The "what's on next weekend?" page parents actually want.
Match results, scores, standings. Edited from the admin; visible to anyone.
One of the existing visual themes (see Section 04) applied to your colours. Colours can be tweaked freely.
Admin pages need a login. The public site is fast and stays up.
Bolt-ons that extend the core build. Pick what fits your club — and what doesn't fit today can be added later as a one-off purchase whenever the club is ready.
The one place to keep everything that isn't match results. Replaces the spreadsheets, email threads, and Google Drive folders that committees usually rely on — and survives the handover when a new committee starts.
Good fit for: clubs that lose institutional knowledge every committee turnover, or are working toward a community grant application.
Sell merchandise, canteen pre-orders, fundraiser items, or event tickets directly from the site. Money goes straight to the club via your payment provider. No platform fee on top.
Good fit for: clubs selling jerseys, hoodies, raffle tickets, or running a canteen with online pre-orders.
Half of kids drop out of club sport between ages 11–14 and 15–19 (AusPlay). Kids stay engaged when they can see themselves getting better. The sport module turns "we play on Saturday" into a proper season record — fixtures, results, athlete histories — that builds over years instead of getting deleted at season end.
Good fit for: any club whose committee is sick of running results through a Facebook post and a spreadsheet.
When a colour swap on a stock theme isn't enough — say, the club has a strong existing visual identity, or wants a completely different layout to the available themes. The stock themes shown in Section 05 are the starting point; this module is the bespoke alternative.
Good fit for: clubs with a strong brand identity, a designer in-house, or a specific look in mind.
The Sport-specific module ships with rugby and athletics in production today. For any other code, sport-specific customisation is a separate piece of build-time work — scoped and quoted after the requirements call.
For codes the platform doesn't yet cover — cricket, AFL, soccer, netball, basketball, hockey, equestrian, gymnastics, and others on request — extending the platform to your sport is a paid, custom piece of work alongside the build. The rate is more favourable than a fully-bespoke build commissioned elsewhere, because your build also extends the platform's supported codes.
Mutually useful: your club gets a result shaped specifically to your sport; the platform gains a new code in its repertoire; future clubs in your sport get a stock build.
For organisations running multiple sports or age divisions in parallel — for example a club with both juniors and seniors, or a centre running rugby and netball. A top-level page sits above the individual program sites and routes visitors to the right place.
Good fit for: clubs whose committee covers both juniors and seniors, or organisations with multiple sport arms.
Rotating sponsor logos on the home page (or wherever you want them). Each logo links out, has a contract end date, and can be retired without code changes when a sponsorship lapses. A logo on the front page is a tangible benefit sponsors can point to when renewal comes around.
Good fit for: clubs with active local-business sponsorship that they want to show off.
Modules don't have to be picked at sign-up. The club can start with the core build and add modules later — each one as a separate one-off engagement, whenever the budget or the need arrives.
Each theme is a complete look-and-feel: typography, colours, layout choices. Pick one as part of the core build. Colours can be swapped freely to match your club. Layout changes are custom work.
Custom layouts are quoted as a separate piece of work — typically when none of the stock themes is close enough to the club's identity, or when the club has a specific layout idea (e.g. a magazine-style home page).
One-off pricing. Modules priced individually and can be added at any time — at sign-up or years later. All prices exclude GST.
All prices exclude GST and are one-off. Module fees cover labour to get each one running — setup, data wiring, integration, training — not a licence to use code. The code ships with every build. Third-party running costs (domain ~$30/yr, optional Google Workspace ~$15/mo, Cloudflare free tier, payment-platform percentages e.g. Square's) are paid directly to those providers.
Typical bundles, grant context, and the optional ongoing support are on the next page.
Common combinations clubs choose, where the money typically comes from, and the (optional) ongoing support.
Packages above assume a stock-supported sport (rugby or athletics). For other codes, add a separately-quoted sport adaptation — see page 7.
Sport & Recreation NSW, ClubGRANTS, and many council community grants fund one-off digital infrastructure work — the Core build is sized to fit within the typical grant amounts these programs award.
A small retainer covers platform updates, occasional admin help, and quoted feature work as the club grows. Not required — the site runs without it. Available as a separate arrangement.
Hosting and infrastructure detailed on the next page.
Club sites are deployed onto Cloudflare — the same network behind around a fifth of all websites on the internet, used by Fortune 500 companies, governments, and major banks. The same network, on a free tier most clubs never pay for.
secretary@yourclub.com.au).The same reliability and security that runs major banks is free for community clubs to use.
Most clubs already have everything on this list except maybe the domain — and that's the easiest thing to sort.
Something like yourclub@gmail.com. Used to register hosting and any services the build needs. Google login means the next committee inherits the site with just the email password — no separate logins to track.
Cloudflare requires a card on file even though your site sits inside the free tier. No billing is expected — the card is there for the account, not to be charged. Treasurer's debit card or a club Visa works fine.
Something like yourclub.com.au. If the club has one, we'll use it. If not, we'll help register one. Typically $10–30/yr, paid directly to the registrar.
Existing logo in any format (PNG, JPEG, PDF). Hex codes if you know them, or a screenshot of your Facebook page is enough to match.
Five to ten sharp photos of the club in action — training, match day, presentations. Phone photos are fine. Used for the home page hero and gallery.
Short text on who you are, where you train, and how to reach you. Write it yourself or give me a quick brief and I'll draft it.
One named person, empowered to make decisions during the build. Two decision-makers roughly doubles the timeline.
Any tech experience · a web designer or developer · a monthly hosting budget · an existing website to migrate · a separate business account · anything you've paid for previously.
Two calls, a few weeks of build, then a deploy. The longest wait is usually the club gathering brand assets and deciding on a domain.
What features the club wants, which sport, whether any modules are needed, brand assets, the domain.
I pick the closest stock theme (or quote a custom one). Club colours and logo are applied. Initial content is drafted with the club's input.
I set up everything under the club's own accounts, deploy the site, and load any initial data the club has.
The club gets admin logins, a written guide, and a walk-through of the admin area. Everything is in the club's name from this point on.
Support retainer with me if you want one; otherwise the site keeps running on its own with just the small third-party costs (domain, optional Workspace, Cloudflare). Modules can be added later as separate one-off engagements.
The whole process from first call to live site typically takes 3–6 weeks, depending on how quickly the club can decide on branding and gather content (see Section 08 for the short list of what you'll need to bring).
Clarity beats vague. Here's exactly what's in scope, and what isn't.
For the short list of things the club needs to provide for the build to start, see Section 08 — What you need to bring.
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