Terrigal Football Club

How do you manage a very large round ball Football Club?

Terrigal United FC has 1100 players spanning 110 teams with 122 Coaches and Managers and 21 volunteers on their Committee. They have to organise Canteen Duty for teams each week and need to pay referee fees and gather all the scores from each team after each round of fixtures.

The answer is TEAMWORK.

Matt Cochrane-Smith, the Club's Junior Vice President has been the main advocate for teamwork using the TeamSpace Software Solution. He had identified that if you get all the volunteer staff on the same (web)page without making it too hard or too expensive, it will work.

Matt has bulk loaded all 1100 members into their teams and assigned a Coach and Manager to each team. He has setup a number of administration teams and given access to the fixture officers for the entire club.

Testimony:

The functionality of the TeamSpace software is simply fantastic, especially the ability to "mass SMS" a team or group. As a Fixtures Officer for Terrigal United Football Club, historically I had been using email to "talk" with coaches and managers in my group of teams. Often with email "issues" people using work accounts etc., they simply would not get the email, or they would come through late.

With basically everyone having a mobile phone in their pocket, the ability to SMS is superb, especially in those instances where you need to get a message out quickly eg; rainy Saturday mornings, or ovals being closed for training. You also know that people get the message i.e. phones just work! TeamSpace SMS brings communication to a new level.

The added functionality of team bulletins, maps to games, up coming events/calendar also are great. There is an element of "viral" usage, and my experience is that once people see it and use it they are hooked.

I think our TeamSpace is great and the application hits a needs sweetspot that is not being met by anyone else.