Welcome to SHOT Clubhouse

Home and Quick actions

Tap HOME, the first item in the bottom navigation. Quick actions sit above your feed sections and Your communities.

In the Coach view captured here, the row contains Schedule event, Announce, Evaluate and Record attendance. Tap the chevron to collapse or expand it.

To inspect the available shortcuts, tap Edit, then a slot. Choosing a replacement changes that shortcut, so leave the drawer if you only want to look. The film opens the choices and returns without changing one.

Find a feature in MORE

Tap MORE, the last item in the bottom navigation. Search SHOT sits above actions grouped by purpose.

Search for team to narrow the menu. In the recorded Coach view, Communities includes My communities, Join a team, Join a club, Find a team, My requests and Follow teams & leagues. See all the ways to join. Clear the search to restore the full menu.

Try scores to find Live scores under PULSE. Search filters the menu; open the result to continue.

Find the team join screen

Open MORE, search for team, then tap Join a team under Communities. The current entry screen asks for the invite code shared by your coach.

Have your team's code or invitation ready and follow the instructions shown. If you have not received one, ask your coach for the right route. The film demonstrates the empty entry screen only. It does not submit a code or demonstrate a completed join.

Join a team or club: every route

There are five ways to join. Open MORE and look under Communities. Athletes under 13 join through a parent.

Find your clubs and communities

Your communities appears on HOME. To browse community routes, use MORE and search team. To find the club-management route in the Coach view, clear the search and look for My clubs under Club management.

Switch your current role

Check the role label at the top of the app. Tap it to see the roles already available on your account, then choose the view you need.

The recorded account has Coach and Parent. Choosing Parent updates the menu to show family actions. Switch back through the same label and choose Coach. Your available roles may differ.

Switching this view uses an existing role. It does not add a role or grant new permissions.

Browse the sport hub

Tap PULSE in the bottom navigation, then choose Hub. Select a sport from the sport row to open its hub. Football is the example in this guide.

Open Matches to browse fixtures by date. Choose Today, Tomorrow or another available date control. Competition filters sit beneath the dates.

Games, scores and available competitions change. Check the selected sport and date when looking for a fixture.

How SHOT Clubhouse works

The current mobile app has four items in its bottom navigation:

What is free and what needs Premium

Most of SHOT Clubhouse is free. Premium is £4.99 a month per person and unlocks the development tools. Read this before you start running evaluations.

1. Download or open SHOT Clubhouse

SHOT Clubhouse works on web, iOS, and Android. Use the web app in any browser, or download the native app from your device's app store.

2. Your Sport Head

Your Sport Head is your identity within SHOT Clubhouse — the profile that clubs, coaches, and teams see when you join, and the record that tracks your history across everything you do on the platform.

Setting up your Sport Head

3. Create a club

A club is the top-level organisation on SHOT Clubhouse. It holds one or more teams. If you run a football club with U9s, U11s, and a Women's First team, each of those is a team within your single club.

4. Create a team

Teams sit inside your club. Each team has its own squad, events, and evaluation framework. You can have as many teams as you need within one club.

5. Choose, explore, change or create a framework

The framework is the structured development programme your team follows across the season. It determines what questions athletes answer each week and how their progress is tracked across five pillars: Technical, Psychological, Social, Physical, and Personal.

SHOT Clubhouse covers 47 sports with 329 frameworks: seven development levels per sport. When you create a team and choose your sport, all available frameworks for that sport appear.

The seven levels

Every sport follows the same pathway: Play · Foundation · Development · Academy · Pro · Competitive · Recreation. Choose the level that matches where your athletes are now. You can move level when the group or the season changes.

Select a framework

You choose a framework when you create a team, and you can pick a different one later from the team page. Both routes list the frameworks for your team's sport. A coach needs their own Premium to open frameworks; see What is free and what needs Premium.

Explore a framework

Explore shows you what athletes will be asked before you run an event. Looking does not change anything.

Change a framework

Change the framework when the group moves up a level, the questions feel too easy or too hard, or a new season begins. There are two routes, and both do the same job.

Create a custom framework

When governing-body library frameworks do not fit your specific training methodology or multi-sport academy, you can build custom frameworks from scratch. Custom frameworks allow you to define 3 to 10 pillars, a score scale, a cycle length, a season calendar, and criteria questions.

The framework wizard (6 steps)

The six-step wizard is on the web app at app.shotclubhouse.com. Open MORE > Club management > Create framework, or tap Explore Framework on the team page and then the gold New Framework button:

Edit your own framework

Open Explore Framework and tap Edit Framework. It reopens the pillars, scale, cadence, season and criteria of a framework your club created. A SHOT standard framework cannot be edited.

Deploy & assign framework objectives to athletes and teams

Framework objectives allow coaches to set targeted, per-pillar development goals for each athlete during a specific 4-week block. When you assign objectives, they deploy immediately to the athlete's and parent's Team Focus card, giving young athletes clear development targets heading into training and matchday.

How to Assign Block Objectives (Step-by-Step)

6. Invite athletes

From your team admin screen, tap Invite Athletes. This generates an invite link and join code you can share with athletes and their parents.

7. Add coaches

From your team page, tap Add Coach. Enter the coach's email, choose a role (Head, Assistant, Goalkeeper, Fitness, Technical, Defence or Attack) and send the invite by email or link. Tick View-only to make them an observer coach. Coaches need a Sport Head account to accept.

Once a coach joins your team they can view the full squad, create and publish events, and complete Coach Feedback evaluations for each athlete. A coach can manage multiple teams across multiple clubs from a single Sport Head.

8. Running events

Events are the core unit of activity in SHOT Clubhouse. Every training session and match is an event. Events trigger evaluations for athletes and create the records that build their development history. Coaches record pitch-side attendance directly from the event screen, and families can subscribe to a calendar for Google, Apple or iCal.

Creating an event

Running events every week

Most coaches create a new event for each training session and match as part of their regular week. The framework handles the rest — the questions change automatically each week based on which block is active. You do not need to set this manually or prepare questions in advance.

The event dashboard

Each published event gives the coach four tabs: Dashboard, Prepare (who has completed theirs), Reflect (same), and Coach Feedback (where the coach enters ratings for each athlete). The event page also holds the match summary, coach notes, a video link and resources. Attendance opens 30 minutes before the start, with Present, Absent and Late.

9. Running evaluations

Evaluations are how development is tracked. They happen around each event, before, after, and from the coach. The questions come from the framework your team is following and change week by week. Evaluation switches are controlled per athlete and per event. The feedback loop runs across three stages: (1) Prepare before the event, (2) Reflect after the event, and (3) Coach Feedback across the 5 pillars. A coach needs their own Premium to score athletes: what is free and what needs Premium.

Choose your evaluation intensity

You decide how much each athlete is asked to do. Open the Squad tab in PERFORM, tap the athlete and use Evaluation intensity on their card: Off, Coach only, Coach + Post or Full cycle. For a single event, open it and switch Enable Athlete Evaluations on or off under Evaluation Settings. Start with Coach only if self-evaluation feels like too much at first. There is no team settings switch for Prepare, Reflect and Coach Feedback.

The five development categories

What athletes and parents see

Athletes follow their events and progress in PERFORM, and see Analytics once the coach has scored. When coach feedback is released, athletes see their Strengths and Focus Areas framed as development guidance, not a grade. For athletes under 18, parents see the coach feedback the coach has shared, if they hold Premium.

Live scoring and the result

Coaches can score a match as it happens. Open the match event from PERFORM > Events. Followers and team members get score alerts while you do.

Attendance report and corrections

Attendance opens 30 minutes before an event starts. Mark each athlete Present, Absent or Late.

Subscribe to a calendar

Add your SHOT events to the calendar you already use. The feed updates on its own.

Connect your FA league

For teams that play in an FA Full-Time league, the team page can show fixtures, results and the league table.

Analytics and the development report

Analytics and reports need Premium, and a coach needs their own. See what is free and what needs Premium.

Alert settings

The bell shows your alerts. You choose what the app tells you about.

Locker and redeem a code

The Locker sells SHOT gear. Open MORE and look under Locker.

Multi-sport providers

If you run programmes across more than one sport — a school with football, swimming, and athletics, or a multi-sport academy — SHOT Clubhouse handles this in two ways. Choose the structure that fits how your organisation works.

Option A: One club per sport

Create a separate club for each sport. Each club has its own teams, coaches, and framework. Athletes who participate in multiple sports hold separate team memberships within different clubs — but they use one Sport Head across all of them.

Option B: One club, multiple teams across different sports

Create one club ("Riverside Sports Academy") and add teams for each sport within it. Each team selects its own sport and framework independently. The club admin has oversight of all teams in one place.

Frameworks across sports

Each team in your club can run a completely different sport and level. A school with a Year 7 football team on Play, a Year 10 athletics squad on Development, and a sixth-form tennis programme on Competitive sets each up independently — the framework for each advances automatically through its own season, separate from the others.

Multiple clubs and memberships

One Sport Head is all you need, regardless of how many clubs, sports, or roles you hold. SHOT Clubhouse is built for people whose sporting lives span more than one team or organisation.

For athletes

An athlete can be a member of multiple teams across multiple clubs and sports simultaneously. Their Perform tab shows all teams and clubs they belong to, organised separately. Evaluation history from different teams does not mix — each team's data is kept distinct.

For coaches

A coach can manage multiple teams across multiple clubs and sports from one account. Switching between them is instant — each team's event dashboard and athlete list is separate. There is no limit on the number of clubs or teams a coach can manage.

For parents

A parent account can be linked to multiple children in different clubs and sports. Each child's profile is managed separately within the same parent account. For children under 13, the parent account is the primary access point — all coach feedback, events, and notifications come through to the parent directly.

Account switching

If you hold multiple roles — coaching one club while your child plays for another — you can switch between your coach view and your parent view from within the same Sport Head. No separate logins needed.

For coaches

SHOT Clubhouse is your session-to-session development tool. Here is the full picture of what you do and when.

Before the season

Each week

For club administrators

Club admins manage the top-level club account and have visibility across all teams within the club. One Sport Head can manage multiple clubs across multiple sports.

Club admin: daily tasks

The everyday jobs, and where to find them. Most are in MORE > Club management or on the club dashboard.

Incidents and injuries have their own guide: Safeguarding. A public club website, registration forms and a club shop are available on request; ask us and SHOT sets them up.

For athletes

As an athlete, your SHOT Clubhouse experience lives in the Perform tab. Everything tied to your development — evaluations, history, and team events — is there.

For parents — child under 13

If your child is under 13, their SHOT Clubhouse account is managed through you. You create and control the account, your child's access is controlled by you. You can set up a login for your child from their profile (see Manage my child).

For parents — child aged 13 to 18

Athletes aged 13 to 17 have their own account and login, and every account needs guardian approval, with a cut-off if approval is not given. As a parent, you can be linked to your child's account to stay informed, but your child manages their own profile and completes their own evaluations.

Manage my child

Everything about your child is under MORE > Family.

For adult athletes (18+)

Adult athletes have full independent access. Your account is entirely your own.

For fans and supporters

You do not need to be a coach or athlete to be on SHOT Clubhouse. Download the app, create a Sport Head, and use PULSE to follow the sports and clubs you care about, scores and news across 11 sports in one place. Pulse needs a login.

What's next?