Team Modules Overview

Overview

Squadd ships with a focused core feature set. Team modules let you layer on additional functionality when your team is ready — without cluttering the interface for teams that don't need them.

Every module toggle is free to switch on, apart from shot tracking. A few modules surface features that need a Pro subscription to actually use (the lineup builder, live match recording, full season stats, team chat, stickers and most of Squadd Wrapped). These are marked (Pro) below, or (Pro in part) where the free plan keeps some of it. You can still enable the module on a free plan, and you'll be prompted to upgrade when you reach the Pro part. The full list of what's free and what's Pro is in Managing Your Squadd Subscription.

Where to Find Team Modules

1. Tap the Settings tab (bottom navigation)
2. Scroll to the Team modules section
3. Tap Customise features

The modules are grouped on that screen under Match day, Squad, Parent tools (Player tools on an adult team) and End of season, with one line under each switch saying what it adds. Tap ? at the top for a longer description of each one.

Only Team Admins can see and change these settings. Coaches and parents see only the modules that have been turned on.

📸 [Screenshot: The Team modules screen, reached from Settings > Customise features]

Modules Reference

Modules that are ON by default

These are active for every new team. Turn them off if your team doesn't need them.

Player of the Match

What it does: Adds a Player of the Match picker to the match report (it used to be called Man of the Match). The coach picks one player from the match-day squad. Awards accumulate and appear as the ⭐ column on the Stats tab. It's separate from the parents' vote, Parents' Player of the Match.

Free on every plan. Picking a Player of the Match is free. The season-long ⭐ column sits in the full season stats table, which is Pro.

Turn off if: You coach a very young age group (U5–U7) where singling out individual performance isn't appropriate, if you prefer to focus on team metrics only, or if you simply never pick one and would rather not see an empty ⭐ column against every player.

Player of the Day

What it does: Adds a Player of the Day card to the match day screen, for one award covering every game of a festival or tournament rather than one per game. It has its own toggle, so you can run Player of the Day without Player of the Match, or the other way round. Awards accumulate and show on the Stats tab once a player has won one.

Free on every plan. Picking a Player of the Day is free. The season-long count sits in the full season stats table, which is Pro.

Turn off if: Your team doesn't play festivals or tournaments, so there's never a match day to award.

Captains

What it does: Adds a Captain card to each game (and to the match plan). Pick a captain from a list that puts whoever has had the fewest turns this season first, so everyone gets a go. The captain wears a C on the lineup and live pitch, and each player's turns are counted on the Stats tab. See Captains.

Free on every plan. Picking a captain is free. The season-long Captain count sits in the full season stats, which is Pro.

Turn off if: Your team has a regular captain and you don't need turns counted.

Fair-play Helpers (Pro)

What it does: During a live match, Squadd:

• Shows a ⚠️ warning when any selected player is projected to play less than 50 % of total match time
• Suggests the fairest swap when you tap the ⇄ substitution button (most-minutes player off; least-minutes player on)
• Reminds you when a planned substitution window is approaching

These helpers work over the match-day squad (over-cap reserves are excluded), so the swap and warning only ever consider players who are actually available for the match.

Needs Pro: these run inside live match recording and the lineup builder / fair-play rotation, which are Pro features.

Turn off if: You coach an older or more competitive age group (U14+) where equal playing time is not a priority and you want to make substitutions without the fairness nudges.

Golden Boot Leaderboard (Pro in part)

What it does: A ranked top-scorers table appears on the Stats tab for all team members to view (subject to the Show stats to parents privacy setting).

Free and Pro: your top scorer shows on the free plan. The full leaderboard is part of the Pro season stats.

Turn off if: You coach younger players and want to avoid over-emphasising individual scoring records. Turning this off hides the leaderboard; individual goal counts are still recorded internally.

💡 Want a top-scorers table for just one day, like a festival, rather than the whole season? See Festival Golden Boot below.

Match-day Takeover

What it does: On a day you have a match, this turns the top of your home screen into a focused, full-screen match-day view — kick-off time, who's available and the day's fixtures front and centre — so the most important thing is the first thing you see. Coaches get their next step there (plan the lineup, start the match), parents answer for their child before kick-off, and once a game kicks off it shows the live score. It steps aside when the day's games are over.

Turn off if: You'd rather the home screen always looked the same and accessed match days from the Fixtures tab.

Assist Prompts

What it does: Prompts you to record who set up the goal when you log a scorer, so assists are credited alongside goals.

Turn off if: You'd rather log goals without an assist prompt.

Detailed Position Roles

What it does: Expands the position system beyond the five broad bands (GK, DEF, MID, FWD, ALL) to specific roles: Left Back, Centre Back, Right Back, Defensive Mid, Right Wing, Striker, and so on. With it on:

• The position picker on player records shows detailed role labels
• The sub rotation algorithm respects positions. It will only rotate a Left Back on for another defender-band player, not a midfielder
• Formation slots map to specific roles

Recommended for: 9v9 and 11v11 teams with consistent positional assignments. Less useful for 3v3, 5v5 and 7v7 where players cover the whole pitch.

Turn off if: Your squad is 3v3, 5v5 or 7v7, or you'd simply rather keep the broad GK/DEF/MID/FWD bands.

Time Capsule

What it does: On by default. Families record a 15-second voice note with their hope for the season, sealed until season end when the coach opens them together. A home card invites recordings at the start of the season.

Turn off if: Your team isn't taking part and you'd rather not show the home card. Anything already sealed is kept and still opens at season end.

Character Stickers (Pro)

What it does: After each game, award character stickers such as Effort, Brave Today and Kind Heart to the players who earned them, with one Session Star per game for the standout player. Tap Award stickers on any finished game, on its match report, or on the match day for each of its games. You don't need to publish the report first. Stickers fill each player's sticker book for the season, the player's family gets a notification, and they appear in Squadd Wrapped. See Awarding stickers.

Needs Pro: awarding stickers is part of Pro, alongside live match recording and Squadd Wrapped.

Turn off if: You coach an older team that finds them too junior.

COMET Reminders

What it does: Sends automated push notifications to nudge coaches to:

• Submit the team sheet on the morning of a League match (COMET pre-game)
• Enter the result within 2 hours of the final whistle (COMET post-match)

⚠️ This module only appears for Welsh teams, and is on by default for them. COMET is the FAW (Football Association of Wales) online match reporting system. It has no effect if your team's league association is not set to FAW.

Turn off if: You find the nudges disruptive or you submit results via a different workflow.

Power Play (Pro)

What it does: During a live match, when you're four goals behind, Squadd offers to bring on an extra player, and a second one at six behind. The extra player counts as on the pitch, so their minutes count. As the gap closes it prompts you to take a player off again: one once you're under six behind, the last once you're under four. It doesn't have to be the player who came on.

⚠️ This module only appears for FAW teams from U6 to U11, and FA teams from U8 to U11 (5v5 and 7v7). The FAW's small-sided regulations include Power Play. In England it's an option each league chooses, so check your league's rules. It's on by default.

Needs Pro: Power Play runs inside live match recording, which is a Pro feature.

Turn off if: Your league doesn't play Power Play.

Modules that are OFF by default

Enable these when you need them.

Shirt Numbers

What it does: Adds a Shirt Number field (0–99) to each player record. When enabled:

• A green badge with the shirt number appears on each player's squad list row
• The number is visible in lineup and match report views

Turn on when: Your squad has assigned kit numbers and you want them visible at a glance in the app.

Volunteer Tasks

What it does: Lets you create match-day jobs that parents can claim from the fixture detail screen — line marking, goal nets, first aid cover, refreshments, and so on.

A task appears as unclaimed until a parent taps Claim. You can see at a glance which tasks are covered and which still need a volunteer.

Turn on when: You're tired of chasing the same volunteers by message every week. Works best once parents are active in the app.

Photo Gallery

What it does: Adds a Gallery section to each fixture. Any team member (coach or parent) can upload match-day photos. Photos are private to the team — they are not publicly visible.

Turn on when: Your team enjoys sharing match memories and you want a central place for them beyond the group chat.

Subs & Payments

What it does: Enables the Payments section in Squadd, letting you:

• Set up a monthly subscription amount and billing day
• Track which players have paid each month
• Record one-off charges (kit, presentation evening, tournament fees)
• Mark payments as received and add notes

Squadd does not move money — it is a record-keeping tool only. Payments are collected however your club currently does it (bank transfer, cash, etc.); Squadd just tracks who has paid.

Turn on when: You currently manage subs in a spreadsheet or rely on memory. Particularly useful for coaches who are also the club treasurer.

💡 After enabling, configure your subscription amount in Settings → Subs configuration.

Parents' Player of the Match

What it does: After every match, parents vote for their Player of the Match from the match-day squad. Voting opens at full time, without waiting for the match report, and closes automatically 3 hours later (a live countdown shows how long is left). Each parent gets one vote. You see who voted for whom; parents see the vote totals and the winner.

Turn on when: You want to involve parents beyond availability and photos, and your team culture is positive enough that a parent vote feels rewarding rather than contentious.

Team Sides

What it does: Lets you define named sides within a single team (for example: Stars, Moons, and Sun for a club that runs multiple squads under one coaching group). Each side has its own colour and tag.

With sides enabled:

• Each player is assigned a default side, but you can move players between sides for a specific match day using the Squad Split tool — so a player who's normally in one side can play up (or fill in) for a single match without changing their default
• Fixtures can be tagged to a specific side
• The lineup builder pre-filters to the players assigned to that side
• Training sessions and chat are shared across all sides

One team, one subscription: all of a team's sides live under a single Squadd team — one chat, one training schedule and one Pro subscription at one price. There's no per-side billing, no matter how many sides you run.

Parents on a sides team also get an optional "My child's games" filter chip on the fixtures list, so they can narrow the list to their own child's side. It never hides untagged, whole-squad games.

💡 Sides can also be switched on by telling Squadd you run multiple sides during sign-up; either way the toggle lives here under Team modules.

Turn on when: Your club runs multiple sides under a single coaching structure and you want to manage them in one Squadd team rather than creating separate teams.

Keep Sides Apart

What it does: Needs Team Sides turned on first. With it on, parents and players only see their own side's tagged games, with no "show all" option to peek at the other side. Coaches always see everything. Untagged whole-squad events, and all training, stay visible to everyone regardless.

Turn on when: Your sides are registered separately (for example with the association) and never mix players, and you want each side's schedule kept strictly to itself.

Take Turns in Goal (Pro)

What it does: For teams that give players a turn in goal. The match plan picks a keeper for each quarter (suggesting whoever has been in goal least this season), everyone plays outfield when it isn't their turn, and fair play shares out outfield minutes, so a turn in goal never costs anyone their share. Minutes in goal are saved at full time and shown in Equal Minutes and Stats. See Taking turns in goal.

Needs Pro: the match plan and live match recording are Pro features.

Turn on if: A different player goes in goal each quarter, half or game.

Goalkeeper Tracking (Pro in part)

What it does: Adds goalkeeper-specific tracking during live matches and reporting:

• A Save button appears on the GK player row during the live match
• Each save tap is recorded as a match event (regular save or penalty save)
• A Goalkeeper of the Match award appears in the match report alongside Player of the Match
• Saves and Clean Sheets columns appear on the Stats tab

A clean sheet is only ever credited to whoever actually kept goal — taken from the post-match "Who kept goal?" picker (which also handles two keepers who split a game), or the starting-lineup GK slot if you don't set it. Outfield players never receive a clean sheet, even in a game you didn't concede.

Free and Pro: Goalkeeper of the Match and the "Who kept goal?" picker are free. Save tracking runs inside live match recording, and the Saves and Clean Sheets columns are part of the full season stats, so those need Pro.

Turn on when: You have a dedicated goalkeeper and want to track their specific contributions separately from outfield stats.

Shot Tracking (Pro)

What it does: Adds logging of shots on and off target during a live match, feeding the Sharpshooter stats: per-player shots, on-target accuracy and conversion.

Needs Pro: this is the one module whose switch is locked on the free plan, because it only works inside live match recording.

Turn on when: You want more recorded than just goals, and like to see shooting accuracy alongside the top scorer.

Festival Golden Boot

What it does: A top-scorers table for a single match day, separate from the season-long Golden Boot Leaderboard above.

Turn on when: You're running or taking part in a festival or tournament day and want a top-scorer table for that day specifically.

Squadd Wrapped (Pro in part)

What it does: At the end of the season, Squadd generates a set of personalised, shareable images for each player — a roughly four-slide carousel covering overview, goals, awards and attendance. It's goalkeeper-aware (keepers get keeper-appropriate stats), and you can swap in a custom photo for the player. The images are watermarked for sharing.

Coaches can also generate a per-side team summary Wrapped image. Parents can download their child's cards and share them to social media.

Free and Pro: every player's headline card is free. The rest of their Wrapped and Team of the Season are Pro.

Designed to be turned on once, at season end. Enable it when the season is complete and you want parents to celebrate the year.

Privacy Settings

A few additional settings in the Team section of Settings control what parents can see:

Show stats to parents and Equal minutes view for parents sit on the same Customise features screen, in the Parent tools group. Show subs to parents lives under Settings > Subs config, which appears once Subs & payments is turned on.

Changing Module Settings Mid-Season

You can enable or disable any module at any time during the season. Toggling a module:

• Does not delete historical data. If you turn off Shirt Numbers, the numbers are still stored — they just won't be displayed until you re-enable the setting.
• Takes effect immediately. All team members will see the change on their next app refresh.
• Does not affect published match reports. Past reports retain the data that was captured at the time.

Recommended Starting Configuration

If you are setting up Squadd for the first time and unsure where to start:

Turn on immediately:

• ✅ Volunteer Tasks — saves time every match week
• ✅ Shirt Numbers — if your squad has kit numbers
• ✅ Photo Gallery — parents love it

Turn on once parents are active:

• ✅ Parents' Player of the Match — engagement goes up once parents are comfortable in the app

Turn on for specific needs:

• ✅ Subs & Payments — if you manage subs manually today
• ✅ Team Sides — only if you run multiple sides
• ✅ Keep Sides Apart: once Team Sides is on, if your sides never mix
• ✅ Goalkeeper Tracking — if you have a dedicated keeper
• ✅ Shot Tracking: if you want shot accuracy stats alongside goals
• ✅ Festival Golden Boot: for one-off festival or tournament days

💡 Fair-play Helpers, Player of the Match, Player of the Day, Captains, Golden Boot, Match-day Takeover, Assist Prompts, Detailed Position Roles and Character Stickers are already on for every new team, so there's nothing to switch on for those.

Turn on at season end:

• ✅ Squadd Wrapped

Frequently Asked Questions

Can coaches change module settings?
No — only Team Admins can enable or disable modules. Coaches see the results of enabled modules but cannot change them.

Will enabling a module send a notification to parents?
No. Parents will see newly unlocked sections on their next app open, but no push notification is sent when you toggle a module.

I enabled Volunteer Tasks but parents can't see it — why?
Parents need to have joined your Squadd team first. If a parent has not yet set up their account and joined via an invite link, they won't see any team content.

Is there a limit to how many modules I can enable?
No. All modules are free and you can enable as many as you like.

Can I try a module and then turn it off if it doesn't work for my team?
Absolutely. None of the toggles are permanent. Experiment freely.

Related Articles

• Inviting Members to Your Team
• Awarding stickers
• Managing Subs & Payments
• Understanding Player Stats
• Team Sides