Modern websites for grassroots sports clubs — 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.
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.
All admin pages are protected behind a login. The public site is fast and always-on.
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 "single source of truth" for 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 existing payment provider — no middleman, no monthly platform fee.
Good fit for: clubs selling jerseys, hoodies, raffle tickets, or running a canteen with online pre-orders.
Each sport tracks different things. The right module turns "we play on Saturday" into a proper season record — fixtures, results, athlete histories — that builds over years rather than 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.
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. Sponsors love seeing themselves on the front page.
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 purchase, 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. The core build covers the standard website. Modules are priced individually and can be added at any time — at sign-up or years later. All prices exclude GST.
All prices above exclude GST and are one-off, not recurring. Modules can be purchased at sign-up or any time afterwards — there's no time-limited bundle and no penalty for adding things later. Domain registration and any third-party platform fees (e.g. Square's transaction percentage) are paid by the club directly to those providers.
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 are covered in detail on the next page.
Club sites aren't hosted on a hand-rolled server somewhere. They're 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. Choosing infrastructure that's already trusted at that scale isn't an accident; it's the foundation of the whole offer.
The free tier is the default — and the right choice for most clubs. But because the site already lives on Cloudflare, the club can opt into more advanced features whenever it makes sense, without rebuilding anything:
secretary@yourclub.com.au arrives in the secretary's personal inbox).The choice of platform isn't about being cheap. It's about putting club websites on the same infrastructure trusted by the organisations who can afford anything — because grassroots clubs deserve the same reliability and security as anyone else online.
I don't take a margin on Cloudflare spend. Any paid Cloudflare services the club opts into are billed by Cloudflare directly, on a credit card in the club's name.
Getting started doesn't require much. Most clubs already have everything on this list except maybe the domain, and that's the easiest thing to sort. None of the items below cost anything to set up.
Something like yourclub@gmail.com or secretary@gmail.com. Used to register the hosting account and any other services the build needs. Google login means the next committee can inherit the website by just receiving the email password — no separate logins to track.
If you don't have one, takes five minutes to set up.
Cloudflare requires a card on file for full account activation, even though your site will sit comfortably inside their free tier. No billing is expected — the card is there for the account, not to be charged. The club treasurer's debit card or a club Visa works fine.
No monthly fees. No surprise charges. If anything ever did exceed the free tier (it won't), you'd be notified before being billed.
Something like yourclub.com.au. If the club already has one, we'll use it. If not, we'll help you choose and register one as part of the build. Cost is typically $10–30 per year, paid directly to the registrar (not through me).
If the domain is already registered under a Google account, even better — Google's domain tools make it the simplest to manage long-term.
Your existing logo in whatever digital form you have (PNG, JPEG, PDF — all fine). Hex codes for your colours if you know them, or a screenshot of your current Facebook page is enough for me to match.
Five to ten sharp photos of the club in action — training, match day, presentations. Phone photos are perfect. Used for the home page hero and gallery.
A short bit of text about who you are, where you train, and how to get in touch. Either write it yourself or give me a quick brief and I'll draft it for you.
One named person, empowered to make decisions during the build. Two people in a decision thread roughly doubles the timeline; one person with a quick "yes / no / let me think" mandate keeps things moving.
Roughly four conversations, 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 if you want one. Modules can be added later as separate one-off purchases. No subscription, no expiry.
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.
A 20-minute conversation is enough to work out whether this service fits your situation. No commitment to proceed.
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