A club is its people. Rugby Football Club Finder gives every player and coach a card of their own, links that card to the clubs they belong to, and uses the link to do the things a club secretary otherwise does by hand: keep the roster current, ask who is coming to training, and share the fixture list. This guide walks through the player side of the app, from creating a profile to your first check-in.
Your player card
When you
sign up as a player, you get a card with a display name, the positions you play, and a short bio. Pick as many positions as you cover: a club looking at its roster wants to know it has three people who can hook, not just one. Coaches get the same card with coaching roles instead of positions, and one account can be both, because plenty of people play for one side and coach another.
The card is what a club’s manager sees when you ask to join, and what appears on the club’s public roster once they say yes. Keep it honest and brief. “Loosehead, played a few seasons in D2, moved here in June and looking for a club” is exactly what a manager wants to read.
Requesting to join a club
From your profile, add a club. You search the directory, choose the club, and choose how you belong to it: as an active player, a coach, an alumnus, or a supporter. If the club fields several sides, you can pick the side you play for. The request goes to the club’s manager, and until it is approved your card sits in their pending list rather than on the roster.
Approval is deliberate. A roster on a public page is a list of real members, so a club decides who is on it. Most managers approve within a day, and you can belong to more than one club: a Saturday side and a touch league, or the club you play for and the one you coach.
What membership unlocks
Once approved, the club shows up on your profile with everything it shares with members:
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Practice check-ins. During the season, the night before each training day, you are asked whether you are coming. One tap answers, and your coach sees the count.
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The fixture list. Games and one-off club events, upcoming first, with kick-off times and home or away, straight from the club’s schedule.
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Kit. Listings the club has published to members or to your squad appear under My Kit, where you can order your own or join a group order.
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The roster. You appear on the club’s public page, filed under your side and your membership type, alongside the coaching staff.
For coaches
A coach’s membership does something extra. Once a club approves you as a coach, you get its practice board: who has said yes for tomorrow, who has said no, who has not answered, and a tail of recent sessions with the in and out tally. If the club has several sides, a coach can be filed under one of them and sees only that side’s board, or coach club-wide and switch between boards. Coaching a club does not make you its manager; the public profile stays with the person who claimed it.
Moving on
People leave clubs. A manager can remove a member from the roster, and a removed member can request to join again from scratch if they return, so nobody is stuck with a stale entry. Your card and your other memberships are unaffected.
If you have not yet found the club you want to join, start with
the map and
our guide to finding a club near you.