Teamer is closing its doors on October 5th. The grassroots team management app confirmed the shutdown in an email to all users in early August. If you run a grassroots team or club on Teamer, this is a great moment to switch things up. Spond is the best alternative to Teamer that keeps admin simple, adds nothing to your costs, and gives your club a better set of tools than the one you’re leaving behind. Spond remains free to download and use for clubs and teams.
The Perfect Alternative to Teamer
Teamer is closing down completely, and there’s no export tool to carry member lists, events or messages across to a new platform. Rather than a problem, that’s actually a clean slate. It means there’s nothing to migrate and nothing to untangle, so the best move is simply to start building your club or team in Spond right now, well ahead of the closure date, and have everyone set up and settled in long before Teamer switches off. Plenty of coaches and admins would see a switch like this as a chore, but it doesn’t have to be. A new season is the ideal moment for a new app, and starting fresh means your Spond group only ever contains what your club needs today, without years of old messages and out of date entries carried over from the last one. It’s the perfect alternative to Teamer.
Spond Is Free to Download and Use
Spond is free for every club and team to use, with free features including event scheduling, attendance tracking, group messaging, membership management, and availability requests. There’s no premium tier gatekeeping the features you actually need, which is a real difference from other potential Teamer alternatives. The only costs on Spond come from optional extras: processing fees on payments you choose to collect through the app, and Spond’s fundraising products for UK clubs that want to run a Superdraw or Spot the Ball campaign. Everything else, including the parts of Teamer that sat behind a paywall, is free. That makes Spond one of the more straightforward options if you’re comparing an alternative to Teamer on cost alone.
Why Clubs and Teams Are Choosing Spond
A fresh start is also a great chance to actually upgrade. Here’s what makes Spond the alternative to Teamer worth getting excited about.:
- Every event lives in one shared calendar, and RSVPs update in real time so coaches always know who’s actually turning up to training or matchday before they arrive. Attendance is logged automatically from those responses, so admins stop chasing players individually and stop relying on a group chat to work out numbers.
- Messaging is built into the same app as the calendar, so there’s no separate WhatsApp group running alongside the admin tool. Announcements, group chats and one to one messages all sit next to the events they relate to, and parents get the context without digging through old threads.
- Collecting subs, kit money or tournament fees is handled inside Spond directly, with automatic reminders chasing late payments so admins don’t have to.
Combined with membership management that covers multiple teams and age groups under one club, a single admin can run an entire club from one account, rather than juggling separate setups for each team, which makes Spond the ideal alternative to Teamer.
A Club Website is Optional with Spond’s Alternative to Teamer
Getting started doesn’t need a club website first. Spond is built as a team and club management app, so setup takes minutes and your club sees value straight away, without content, pages or a build to get through beforehand. If a club website is something you do want, Spond offers that too, and it’s free for the first six months, so it’s there when you’re ready for it rather than something you have to sort out before anything else works.
Start Your Move to Spond Today
Spond’s alternative to Teamer works across any team based sport, so it doesn’t matter whether your club plays football, rugby, cricket, hockey, netball or basketball. Clubs with several teams and age groups can run everything from grassroots minis through to adult sides in the same place, with each group keeping its own calendar, chat and payments while admins still get a clear view across the whole club. It’s the kind of setup that scales with a club rather than boxing it in, so there’s no need to outgrow it and switch again further down the line.
Since there’s no data to transfer, there’s nothing to wait for either. Set up your club or team in Spond, add your groups, and invite everyone using the contact details you already have to hand. It takes most admins under half an hour to get a group live and members invited, and the sooner your club moves across, the sooner you’re settled in with plenty of breathing space before October 5th. Spond’s group setup guide walks through creating your first team from scratch and we have regular webinars to get new users get to grips with the Spond platform.
Ready for a fresh start? Find out why Spond is the ideal alternative to Teamer. Set up your free Spond group today and get every player, parent and coach invited in minutes.
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