Sports Club Website Design

Yes — that’s the whole point. I build club sites on WordPress and set up fixtures, results and news so they’re as simple as filling in a form. I give your committee plain-English training, and because clubs hand over roles each year, I make it straightforward for next season’s secretary to pick up where this year’s left off. If you’d rather not touch it at all, my support plans cover that too.

In most cases, yes. Where your league or governing body publishes a feed — FA Full-Time for football, Play-Cricket for cricket, the LTA for tennis and many others — I can wire your fixtures, results and league tables straight into the site so you update in one place rather than typing everything twice. Where there’s no feed, I set up a quick manual system that any committee member can manage in a couple of minutes.

Yes, and for most clubs it’s the single biggest time-saver. I build online membership sign-up and subs payments so players and parents can join and pay from their phone, one-off or recurring, with the money landing straight in the club account. It ends the cash-at-training routine, gives your treasurer a clear record, and means nobody’s chasing the same few unpaid subs all season.

Your junior section gets its own clear area — age groups, training times, coaches and how to join — and I make sure your safeguarding and welfare information is easy to find: welfare officer contact, policies and codes of conduct where parents and your governing body expect them. Parents almost always check the website before letting a child join, and well-presented safeguarding pages show the club is well run and takes child protection seriously.

I get it — most clubs run hand to mouth. Prices start from £800 and most club websites land between £800 and £3,000, and I’ll always steer you away from features your volunteers won’t use. Where subs won’t stretch, grants often can: Sport England, National Lottery funding, your national governing body and local council schemes can frequently cover digital and club-development costs. A fixed written quote from me makes those applications much easier to put together.

Social media is brilliant for day-to-day chatter, and you should keep it — but it isn’t a home. It can’t take membership payments, it buries your fixtures under yesterday’s posts, and you don’t own it. Think of your social channels as the hub where the club talks, and the website as the permanent record underneath: fixtures, contacts, membership and safeguarding that stay put instead of scrolling out of sight.

Yes. A tidy sponsors page that credits your backers with logos and links gives businesses something they’re proud to appear on, and clear sponsorship packages make it easy for them to say yes. I also build clubhouse, pitch, court and function-room hire pages with enquiry forms, so your facilities earn money from the wider community rather than sitting empty midweek. For many clubs these two things turn the website from a cost into a small earner.

No. I’m based in Brighton, Sussex, but I work with clubs across the UK — most of the process runs over calls, email and shared documents, so where you’re based has never been a barrier. As a former British 800m Champion I’ve spent much of my life inside club sport, so wherever your club is, I understand how it works.

Clubs hold a lot of personal data — members, juniors, emergency contacts — so it needs handling properly. I build in cookie consent, a privacy policy, clear data statements on your forms and secure handling of what you collect, and I make sure you only gather the information you actually need. That keeps you on the right side of GDPR and means you can reassure parents and your governing body that member data is looked after.

A gym is a commercial business selling memberships to customers; a sports club is run by volunteers for its members. The priorities are different — a club site is built around fixtures, subs, junior sections, safeguarding and sponsors rather than lead generation and class timetables. If you’re actually a commercial fitness business, my gym and fitness website design is the right page; if your club is a registered charity chasing donations and grants, my charity web design may suit better. If you’re a member-run club, this is the one.

You own it outright. It’s built on WordPress with no lock-in, so the club keeps full control and can take it anywhere. Support and hosting plans are entirely optional and kept separate from the build cost — you take them because they’re useful, not because you’re trapped. You can see more of how I work across my portfolio and other sectors.