JerseyWatch Alternative for Youth Sports Clubs

Looking for a JerseyWatch alternative?

Clubs rarely go shopping because one feature is missing. They go shopping because the season is running on one platform plus a group chat plus a spreadsheet plus whatever the treasurer keeps on their laptop, and the volunteers holding it together have run out of patience.

This page is about what Rostered does. We are not going to characterise anyone else’s product, their website is the right place to read about theirs, and a comparison written by a competitor is worth what you paid for it. What follows is our side, including the parts where the honest answer is “we don’t do that”.

What Rostered is

Rostered runs the week-to-week season for a youth sports club: schedules, RSVPs, attendance, rosters, families, messaging, registration, volunteers, expenses and live scoring, in one app on iOS, Android and the web.

Three things shape every decision in it:

Free for parents and athletes, always. Families never pay us and never see an advertisement. The club pays; the families use it.
One flat monthly fee for the club: published on our pricing page, sized by athlete count. Not per team, not per family, not a quote.
We don’t sell user data. Not to brokers, not to advertisers, not to anyone.

What Rostered actually does

Scheduling and calendars: practices, games and multi-day events, with calendar feeds for an athlete, a family, a team, a division or the whole club that keep updating inside Google, Apple and Outlook.
RSVPs and attendance: answered per athlete, and per day on multi-day events. Reminders link straight to the event. Coaches get a live confirmed/declined/pending count, then mark who actually turned up.
Team messaging: channels created automatically per team and division, with reactions, attachments, mentions that resolve a role rather than a list of names, and on-request translation so a club with Spanish-speaking families has one conversation rather than two.
Rosters and families: divisions, teams and cohorts, with families as real records: one parent login covering every child.
Family registration: a public signup page for your club where enabled, submissions held in a review queue, and matching against families you already have.
Volunteers: jobs attached to an event or standalone, with slot counts that maintain themselves and alerts when somebody withdraws.
Live scoring: score from the sideline on iOS, Android or web, with push updates to families who could not be there.
Expenses: photograph a receipt, have the details read off it, roll it into a report with a review-and-approve step.

What Rostered does not do

Worth knowing before you spend an evening on a migration:

No public website builder. If your club needs its public site built and hosted, Rostered is not that, and we would rather say so now than after you have moved.
Live scoring covers a range of team sports, not all of them. If yours is not in the catalogue yet, tell us. Demand is genuinely what moves it up the list.

Questions worth asking any platform

Ask these of us and of anyone else you are considering. The answers tend to be more revealing than a feature grid.

Is the price on the website? If you have to book a call to find out what it costs, you are going to have to book a call every time you want to change something.
Who pays, the club or the families? And if it is the families, what is the total once every child is counted?
Do parents see advertising? If the product is free to a parent and shows them ads, something is being sold, and it is probably their attention.
What happens to your data if you leave? Ask specifically: can you export it yourself, today, without asking support?
Does one parent account cover three children? This is the question that quietly decides whether parents adopt the thing at all.
Can a family use it without installing an app? Not every grandparent is going to install anything.
What does it cost to add a team mid-season? Per-team pricing has a way of growing between August and November.
Is there a contract, and what is the notice period?

Getting your club in

Bring what you already have: Rostered imports a spreadsheet, with a column-mapping step and a preview, so you see what is about to be created before it is created. Welcome emails are a choice at import time, which matters if you are moving a club in July and would rather not notify two hundred families on a Sunday afternoon.

What it costs

Five packages, sized by athlete count: Squad ($9/mo, up to 10 athletes), Team ($19/mo, up to 25), Club ($49/mo, up to 50), Academy ($99/mo, up to 100) and Elite ($199/mo, up to 250). Free for parents and athletes, always. Cancel any time and export your data any time. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

Need more than 250 athletes? Talk to us and we will sort it out.

Try it

There is no countdown clock and no call to sit through. Start your club, or talk to a human first if you would rather be walked through it.