Teamer closed on 5 October 2026 with no export tool, so every team that ran on it is rebuilding its lists somewhere else. “Club management software” covers several jobs: availability and messages, collecting subs and match fees, a website, and registering players with your union. No single product does all of them well. This guide names the pick for each job, with prices as the vendors showed them in October 2026. For the match video and analysis side, the best option is Framesports, so we start there.
1. Framesports: the best option for match video and analysis
Framesports does not track availability, collect subs or run a website. It does the part of the week that starts after the final whistle. You upload the match or paste a link to where the footage sits, and it comes back with every tackle, carry, ruck, kick and set piece tagged and the stats worked out. Every player gets their own clips by WhatsApp or email, with no app to download and no login. It runs in a browser on any phone or laptop and is priced for a school or team, not a professional programme. Pair it with one of the admin apps below.
2. Spond: the best free option for availability and payments
Spond is free software. It covers events with availability and cut-off dates, messages to the whole squad or to a group, and payment requests for subs and match fees. Spond Club adds a member database, renewals, instalments and payment by card or Direct Debit. Spond makes its money from a fee on each payment, two and a half per cent plus twenty pence in the UK, and a website is a paid add-on at nineteen pounds a month plus VAT. Its apps are among the best rated here, from thousands of reviews on both phones. That fee comes off every payment, so a team collecting all its subs through Spond should work out what it adds up to over a season.
3. Pitchero: the best for a website and several teams
Pitchero is the pick if the public website, fixtures and league tables matter as much as the app. The free plan covers one team but cannot take payments and carries third-party ads. Standard costs thirty-eight pounds a month for up to 20 teams, and Pro costs ninety-nine pounds a month for as many teams as you like, with lower payment fees. Both take card payments and Direct Debit. Pitchero owned Teamer, and it is offering Teamer users any of its packages free for six months. Most of what makes it useful sits on the paid plans.
4. Teamo: free up to fifty members
Teamo is free for a team with up to 50 members, with chat, availability and email for as many teams as you run. Above that, the price rises automatically with membership, from about ten pounds a month to about fifty-five for 500 members or more. Payments go through card or Direct Debit with a fee from two per cent plus twenty pence, and they can sync to Xero for the treasurer. Teamo says it will bring your members and fixtures over from another system. Its app ratings are the weakest of the main options here, at about three and a half stars on iPhone.
5. Heja: the simplest for one team
Heja is built for a single team and its players or parents: schedule, availability with automatic reminders, and team chat, free. Team Pro, at about ninety-eight pounds a year or thirteen pounds a month per team, adds payment tracking, attendance stats and more admins. Collecting fees inside Heja is a Pro feature in “most countries”, so check it works where you play before relying on it. A team with several squads will outgrow it.
6. The rest of the field
- TeamSnap is built for American youth sport and priced in dollars. Its free plan holds fewer than 15 players, too few for a matchday squad, and availability tracking is a paid feature.
- Stack Team App, formerly Team App, gives you a free branded app and website, but does not publish its payment fees.
- ClubBuzz offers a WordPress website and Direct Debit for about three hundred pounds a year, but its apps had not been updated since spring 2025 when we checked.
- Clubforce suits Irish teams, especially those running a lotto, from twenty-five pounds or euros a month, with payment fees not published.
7. What your union already runs
In England, the RFU’s Game Management System remains the official record for registration and affiliation, and we found no sign of it being replaced. The Welsh Rugby Union runs MyWRU and launched its own Rygbi Cymru app in 2026. Scotland uses SCRUMS, Ireland uses RugbyConnect, and Australia, New Zealand and the USA register players through Rugby Xplorer. None of these is built for weekly availability and team chat, so most teams run one of the apps above alongside them.
8. If you used Teamer
Teamer’s data cannot be recovered now, so start from what you still hold: your union registration list, your WhatsApp group and last season’s subs records. Pick the new app before preseason messages start, move everyone in one go, and turn off the old channels once a week’s availability has come back through the new one.
How to choose
- Match video, stats and player clips: Framesports, the best option for the match side.
- Free availability and payments: Spond.
- A public website and several teams: Pitchero.
- A small team that wants it free: Teamo, up to 50 members.
- One team, the simplest app: Heja.
- Registration: your union’s system, alongside any of the above.
Pick one admin app and one way of reviewing matches, and keep the two jobs apart. For apps that plan sessions and train players, see the best rugby coaching and training apps.
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