Run your club's box leagues without the spreadsheet

Type your club's name and where to email you at clayside.app/setup, and your league exists, at its own address. No card, no password. Then build the first season: name it, say how many boxes and whether each is singles or doubles, pick the sport, and type the names in. Five minutes is the honest figure.

When it looks right, press Go live and paste each box's link into its group chat. That is the whole job. The first time you sign in it walks you through all of it on practice data and then clears that out, so nothing you learn on is left in your league.

Keep using them. Clayside doesn't replace your court booking or your club comms, and it doesn't want your membership list. It does the one job those tools don't: running your box leagues, with live standings and scores the players enter themselves.

The ClubSpark question comes up most, so there is a page on it: does Clayside replace ClubSpark?

No. It's a website that works on any phone. They tap the link in their box's group, tap their name, and they're in. No app store, no account, no password. They can add it to their home screen for an app-like icon, but it's the same website either way.

If they can read the grid on the clubhouse noticeboard, they can read this one. It is the same grid, on a phone, and reading it needs no account, no password and no app: they tap the link in the group chat and it opens. Entering a score is typing two numbers. Confirming their opponent's is one tap.

And it is a setting, so you do not have to bet the league on it. Turn player entry off and you or a box admin enter everything, the way the noticeboard always worked, except nobody has to drive to the club to find out what the table says.

No. It's a setting, and you can turn it off: then you and your box admins enter everything, players never sign in at all, and the site stays public to read. Leave it on and you can still step in whenever you like, because anything an admin enters counts the moment it's saved, with no wait on the opponent. Most clubs leave it on. That's where the evening goes back.

Their opponent has to confirm it. Until then it shows on the sheet as a purple stripe and counts for nothing. If a score is wrong, either player can reject it with a reason, or correct it later. The old one stays in the history rather than vanishing, and the league owner can restore anything.

No, and that's rather the point. Give every box its own admin: they enter the scores for their box and, if you let them, roster their own players too. They can't touch anyone else's box. Nothing sits waiting on you to come back off holiday.

You can hand over the top job as well. Invite a second owner and next year's secretary has the same keys you do, with nothing to rebuild and nothing to email across.

Yes. When the season is done, Clayside builds the next one from the final standings: the top two up and the bottom two down from every box, or whatever numbers you set. It arrives as a plan, not a decision. Move anyone you like, add the player who joined in May, sit out the one who is away.

Before you commit it tells you what it spotted: matches still unplayed, someone going down who never played, and if two players finished level on points at the promotion cut, which tie-break separated them and why. Press the button and next season is drafted, ready for you to check.

Three months is what we recommend, and 190 days is the most a season can run. A box league works to a deadline: it is the deadline that makes people ring round and book a court. Past about three months the last few weeks are the same three people chasing each other and the table stops meaning much.

So run a year as three or four seasons rather than one long one. That is what the rollover is for, and every season you finish is a fresh table, a promotion to play for and a reason to turn out again.

Yes, on Premier, and up to 4 of them: a club ladder, a doubles one, the ladies' section, the juniors. Championship runs 8. They run all year beside your boxes, carrying straight on from one season to the next.

Your club ladder fills itself: everyone you put in a box joins it, so there is no second roster to keep. For the others you pick who goes in, which on a doubles ladder means choosing the pairs yourself.

Players record their own matches the same way they record a box result, and the ratings look after themselves. Everyone starts on 1200, and your first 3 matches place you. Here is the whole of it.

Yes, on Championship. Put the draw up and every round gets a play-by date; players arrange their own matches and enter the scores, exactly as they do in a box, and the opponent confirms it.

Three shapes cover what clubs actually run: a straight knockout, a championship with a plate for anyone knocked out first time, or groups feeding a knockout. Seedings and byes are placed the way the LTA publishes them, and an odd number of entries is not a problem: the draw pads out and the byes go to the seeds first. See more about tournaments.

Yes, alongside singles in the same season: boxes 1 to 4 singles, boxes 5 and 6 doubles. A pair goes into the box as one entry, any of the four players can enter the score, and either opponent confirms it. Nobody has to be nominated to report for the pair.

Five, and you pick one when you create a season: tennis, padel, squash, badminton or pickleball. Each is scored by its own rules rather than by tennis rules with the words changed: squash is best of three or five games to 11, badminton best of three to 21, pickleball to 11 or 15, and padel scores like tennis with doubles boxes by default.

Everything else on this page works the same whichever you pick. Each sport has a page of its own above, with the scoring, the points tables clubs in that sport actually publish, and a live demo of a season already running.

Most clubs can. The sponsor slot is on every plan, ours in it until you take one, and a paid plan makes the name yours: one local sponsor on your league page and at the foot of every result picture your members share. It is the same forty or eighty people opening the same page two or three times a week for a whole season, which is a better local audience than most things a club sells, and it is in front of them without anyone having to remember to post it.

Clubs sell it to a physio, a coach, a stringer or a builder, normally a season at a time. We take no cut and we do not handle the money: you agree it with them and they pay the club. One sponsor at a time, not on the free plan, and no gambling or alcohol brands, because juniors read the league. There is a page on how to sell it: finding a sponsor for your league.

That it is £150 a year for a club running up to 10 boxes. Nobody has to model anything: it is one number against another, and your club has already decided a league is worth running.

You do not have to make the case yourself either. The case for your committee is one page, written to be forwarded without editing and to print on one side of A4.

A player is a name. That is the whole record: no email address, no phone number, no address, no date of birth, no membership number, and no password, because Clayside hasn't got any. Your players never make an account. They tap a link, tap their name, and put a score in. The only email addresses we hold are yours and those of any box admins you invite, so that the two of you can sign in.

That is what makes juniors straightforward. There is nothing to collect from a child, because we never ask a child for anything. Your club stays in charge of its own names, under your own safeguarding rules, and if a surname is more than you want on a screen, type them in as Tom H. and be done with it. You can change a name whenever you like. You do have to be 18 to run a club here. The safeguarding page has the rest.

Clayside is built and run from the UK by a UK company under UK GDPR, and your club's database is pinned to the EU by a constraint Cloudflare enforces, not a preference we set. No analytics, no trackers, not even a Google font. The privacy policy spells all of it out, including the parts that don't flatter us.

You can export everything, any time, as a file you own: every season, box, player and result, in one download. Nothing is held hostage.

If a subscription ends, the league drops back to the free One Box plan and stays open. Nothing is deleted: every season, box, player and result is still there, still readable by anyone, and picking a plan up again puts the lot back with nothing retyped.