Help for club officials

Add your affiliation numbers

Confirm each team's affiliation number, or record that a team affiliates after its players register.

Add your coaches

Put a head coach on every team by pasting from the FA Club Portal, sharing one link, or adding each coach.

Approve a coach on your phone

Check a coach who signed up with your club's link, with their DBS and safeguarding status, then approve or decline them in the club app.

Approve a registration

Check a new registration and approve it, turn it down, or hold it while the parent fixes something.

Change your Sideline plan

See how many teams your plan covers and change the number.

Chase unpaid registrations

See which families have registered a player but not paid yet, and waive, record or chase the payment.

Confirm or reject registrations on your phone

Check a new player's photo and details in the club app, then confirm or reject the registration.

Confirm that a player has left, on your phone

When a coach or a parent says a player is leaving, confirm the leave in the club app. Future payments stop and the squad place is freed.

Create your club

Pick your plan, make your account, confirm your email and tell Sideline about your club.

Get your fixtures in from FA Full-Time

Save your league's fixtures page from FA Full-Time, upload it, and match any team names Sideline cannot read.

Import your own spreadsheet

Load teams, leagues, fees and venues from a spreadsheet you already keep.

Open registration for your teams

Check what still stops registration, open your teams, and share your links with parents and coaches.

See welfare alerts on your phone

See in the club app when a welfare case or a deadline is waiting for you. The details stay in the full site.

Send a payment reminder or record a cash payment on your phone

See the families with overdue money or a Direct Debit that does not work, send a reminder, or record cash or a bank transfer, in the club app.

Set up your club from a workbook

Fill in one Excel file with your teams, officials, fees and more, and load it all in one go.

Set up your club with the setup checklist

Follow 12 numbered steps in the club console to get a new club ready for registrations.

Set up your subs and fees

Add the plans parents pick when they register, and put each plan on your teams.