Season Stats Board Launch
Key takeaways
- Most families already pay £100 to £300 a year per child in grassroots football; the Season Stats Board is designed to sit alongside subs, grants and sponsorship, not replace them.
- The Season Stats Board is a personalised football gift that also raises funds for the child's grassroots club, unlike generic personalised football gifts which give nothing back.
- It is an A3 wipe-clean board, finished in the club's own crest and colours, priced at £35 including personalisation.
- £5 from every board sold goes straight back to the club chosen at checkout, with no cost or admin for the club, unlike a raffle or tournament which needs volunteer time to run.
- Clubs can be added to the list quickly, with no formal partnership needed to get started.
- A club leaderboard and prize competition for the clubs that raise the most is launching soon.
Why Grassroots Clubs Need More Than Subs
Most families already pay between £100 and £300 a year to keep a child playing grassroots football, covering training, matches and basic kit. Subs cover the predictable costs. They rarely stretch to the one-off expenses that come up every season: new kit, a set of goals, a defibrillator, or the deposit on a tournament.
A club running several teams across the age groups can easily need £10,000 or more a year just to keep everyone playing. Asking parents for another few pounds a month is not always realistic, especially when many are already stretched. That is the gap the Season Stats Board is built to help close, not instead of subs, grants or sponsorship, but alongside them.
A Personalised Football Gift That Also Funds Their Club
The Season Stats Board is a personalised dry-wipe board built for young football players to track their own season, week by week. It carries the player’s name, team and season across the top, finished in their own club’s crest and colours.
It works as a gift in its own right, the kind of personalised football present a parent or grandparent buys for a birthday or the start of a new season. But every board sold also sends £5 back to the club the family chooses, at no cost to the club itself.
How It Differs From a Typical Personalised Football Gift
Search for a personalised football gift and most results are the same handful of ideas: a name printed on a football, a mug, a keyring, a photo canvas. They are personal to the child, but generic to the sport itself. None of them are used, updated, or looked at again after the wrapping paper comes off.
The Season Stats Board is personalised to the child’s actual season, not just their name. It carries their real club crest and colours rather than a stock football graphic, and it gets used every week rather than sitting on a shelf. None of the usual personalised football gifts send anything back to the club the child plays for. This one does, on every single sale, without the parent paying anything extra for it.
What the Board Tracks
Through the season, players fill in games played, wins, draws and defeats, then goals scored, assists, clean sheets and total team goals, with room for the team’s formation and their own season targets.
The surface wipes clean, ready to update every week or reset when the new season starts. Most keepsakes mark a season after it has finished. This is designed to live through it instead, on the bedroom wall, updated after every match rather than packed away once the trophies are handed out.
Each board is A3, printed on a wipe-clean polypropylene face, and priced at £35 including personalisation. Parents choose their child’s club from the list, add their name, and the board is personalised from there.
How Clubs Use It for Fundraising
Grassroots and youth football clubs are always looking for ways to raise money that do not add another event to an already stretched volunteer rota. The Season Stats Board is built to sit in the background: a parent buys a gift they want anyway, and £5 of that purchase goes straight to the club.
There is nothing for the club to administer and no minimum order. A parent picks the club at checkout, the referral is tracked automatically, and the money goes back to grassroots football rather than staying with a third party.
How the £5 Referral Compares
£5 on its own sounds modest against a raffle or a sponsorship deal. What makes it different is that it needs nothing from the club: no stall, no volunteer, no stock, no chasing payment. It is worth seeing how it actually compares to the other fundraising routes a club is likely already running.
| Method | Typical return | What the club has to do |
|---|---|---|
| Season Stats Board referral | £5 per sale | Nothing. No stall, no stock, no admin |
| Matchday raffle | £100 – £400 per event | Donated prizes, a volunteer to run it, one event |
| 5-a-side tournament | £400 – £1,200 per event | Weeks of organising, multiple volunteers |
| Pitch-side sponsorship board | £200 – £500 per year | Finding and renewing a sponsor annually |
None of these methods compete with each other. A raffle or a tournament raises more per event, but only on the day it happens and only with volunteer time behind it. The Season Stats Board raises less per sale, but it never stops, needs no organising, and runs in the background of something a parent was buying anyway.
For clubs not yet in the list, getting added takes a short conversation, not a formal partnership agreement. Once a club is set up, its crest and colours appear automatically for every family who selects it, and the referral tracking starts straight away.
A Club Leaderboard Is Coming
We are launching a public leaderboard tracking how much each club has raised through the Season Stats Board, alongside a season-long competition for the clubs that raise the most. Full details, including the prizes on offer, will follow as more clubs join the list.
Clubs already signed up will be the first to hear when it goes live. It costs nothing to get your club added now, and every board sold between now and launch already counts.
Is This For You?
If You’re a Parent
You get a gift your child will actually use every week, not put in a drawer. It carries their real club, their real season, and it costs the same as most personalised football gifts on the market, £35 including personalisation. The difference is that £5 of what you spend goes straight to the club your child plays for, at no extra cost to you.
If You Run a Club
You get a fundraising channel that runs without you. No stall to staff, no stock to hold, no chasing anyone for money. Parents were always going to buy their child a gift at some point in the season, this just means some of that spending comes back to the club automatically. Getting your club added takes one short conversation, and every sale from that point on is tracked and paid out without any further admin on your side.
How It Works
Parents pick their child’s club, add a name, and order. The board arrives ready to mount, wall-mounted or free-standing, and ready for the first matchday of the new season.
Clubs that want to get involved can get in touch to have their crest and colours added to the list.
