--- title: "Your sports club on mssgs: teams, parents and club news" description: "Hockey club or football club: a channel per team, roles for coaches and parents, match photos and club news on the public feed. Free, with no ads." canonical: https://mss.gs/en/sports-clubs language: en --- For hockey, football and other sports clubs # Your whole club in one community Every team its own channel, the board its own corner, and parents who can see what is going on. The line-up, who is driving and Saturday's photos sit in one place, and the club news goes on the public feed for anyone who wants to follow along. - A channel per team - Roles for coaches and parents - Club news on the feed - Free, no ads *Real screens from the iPhone app, with mssgs's demo data: a community's channels, and creating a new channel.* ## How to set up the club A layout that grows with the club, from the youngest juniors to the board. Teams A category per team, with a text channel, a photo channel and a voice channel. User Groups Roles like Board, Coach, Parents and Player, each with its own colour and its own permissions. Channels per role With **Assign roles to channels**, only the board sees the board channel, and each team sees its own channels. Announcements An announcement channel where only the roles you choose can post. Everyone else reads along and reacts, if you allow it. Invites A link or QR code per team, with an expiry and a usage limit. Put it in the newsletter or on the clubhouse wall. More in the help desk about [channels](https://mss.gs/en/help/communities/channels) and [roles and permissions](https://mss.gs/en/help/communities/roles-permissions). ## Put your club on mssgs Pick a name. We hold it for 24 hours while you open mssgs. Free, no card needed. You set up teams, roles and channels in the app afterwards. Teams and roles ## Every team its own corner A club is not a group chat with two hundred people in it. On mssgs every team gets its own channels, and roles decide who sees and does what. - Channels per team Text, voice and photo channels per team, sorted into categories: Under 11s, Under 15s, Women's 1st XI. - Roles with real permissions Board, Coach, Parents and Player, each with its own colour and permissions, down to who may post an event. - Ask for access A new parent taps **Request access or a role** and asks for their team's role. An owner approves it. - Shared management Add co-owners with the same rights in the desktop app, so running the community does not rest on one volunteer. Planning ## Fewer messages about who is driving Matches, lift rotas and bar shifts are sorted in the chat itself, with no lists that get lost. ### Events A match or a training session everyone answers with Going, Maybe or Can't. ### Polls Who can drive on Saturday? A poll with a closing time settles it. ### Reminders for a group Repeat a reminder every week, like the bar shift or washing the kit, to the chats and people you choose. ### Meetings without a room A voice channel for the board, with camera and screen sharing. ### Results on their own A [webhook](https://docs.mss.gs/en/webhooks) posts results or the fixture list straight into a channel. ### Find it again Search one channel or the whole community, and pin the training schedule to the top. Club news ## News for everyone, no account needed Supporters, sponsors and neighbours do not need to be members to see what is happening at the club. - The public feed Post a result, the champions' team photo or the start of the season from the club's phone. It shows on [feed.mss.gs](https://feed.mss.gs) and on the club's page, mss.gs/@clubname. - Public on the web Set a text channel, like #news, to **Public on the web**. Anyone can read it at its link, without an account. - On the club website Put the club's posts on your own website with an embed or through RSS. How that works is on [feed.mss.gs/developers](https://feed.mss.gs/developers). - A button to the club With an [mssgs button](https://mss.gs/en/website-buttons) on the club website, new members find your community. - Schedule it Line up a post: now, in an hour, in a few hours or at a time you choose. - Pass it on to teams Does a team have a community of its own? It follows the club's announcement channel, and the posts arrive there too. Photos of junior players belong in the team's closed channels, not on the public feed. Ask parents for permission before you post anything in public. Parents ## Parents in the loop, with photos and videos The match photos, the lift rota and a message from the coach reach the parents of that team, not the whole club. ### Photo channels A gallery per team: the match photos in a grid, with replies underneath. ### Albums and videos Pick several photos and they arrive as one album. Videos up to 60 seconds, or 180 seconds with Premium. ### Private stories A story only a group you choose can see, like the parents of one team. ### Notifications per channel Parents turn on notifications for their team's channel and keep the rest quiet. ### No phone numbers An account is a username and an email address. Parents and players do not share their number with the whole club. ### Young players mssgs is for ages 13 and up. Players aged 13, 14 and 15 join a community once a parent is linked to their account through the [Parent Center](https://mss.gs/en/help/account/parent-center). Without that link they can still join a community that is set to ages 13 to 17 or that mssgs has verified. For younger players, the parents are the members. ## Your club on mssgs in three steps - 1 Pick a name Reserve the club's name above, or create the community straight away in the app. - 2 Set up the teams A category per team, roles for the board, coaches and parents, and an announcement channel for club news. - 3 Invite the club A link or QR code per team, in the newsletter or on a poster in the clubhouse. ## Frequently asked questions Nothing. A community with channels, roles, voice, polls and events is free and has no ads. A free account owns 2 communities and joins 10; with [Premium](https://mss.gs/en/premium) it owns 10 and joins as many as you like. No. mssgs also works in the browser, in the web app at app.mss.gs, with an account. A channel set to **Public on the web** they can even read without one. Anyone who wants the app has it for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. From 13. Players aged 13 to 15 need a parent's permission and only join a community once a parent is linked to their account through the Parent Center. That parent sees who the child chats with and how long they were online, never the messages. Without that link they can still join a community that is set to ages 13 to 17 or that mssgs has verified. From 16, players use mssgs on their own. For players under 13, the parents are the members. Create an account for the club and post from the iPhone or Android app. A post shows on the public feed at feed.mss.gs and on the club's page, and you can put it on your own website. The servers mssgs runs on are hosted with BIT, a Dutch provider. Your data is not sold, there are no ads, and your messages are never used to train AI. The owners and the roles you give the right to: they can kick or ban members and delete messages. When someone reports a message, the report goes to the volunteer mssgs community moderators, who vote on it.