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Coaching Planner

A coaching management platform for football coaches, built on Bubble.io. Training sessions, drills, teams, players and schedules in one workspace, instead of scattered across notebooks and spreadsheets.

For
Football coaches and coaching staff
Platform
Fully responsive web app built on Bubble.io
Our role
Discovery, design, build, launch and iteration
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From notebooks and spreadsheets to one coaching workspace

Football coaches often run their training on a patchwork of notebooks, spreadsheets, PDFs, messaging apps and generic task tools. The goal was to replace that patchwork with one structured platform that works for an individual coach and scales to a full coaching staff, without becoming more complicated.

Before

  • Training plans and drill libraries in different places
  • Little visibility of player data and attendance
  • Sessions planned by hand, and the same work repeated
  • Hard for coaching staff to collaborate
  • No central record for tracking performance over time

With Coaching Planner

  • Sessions designed once and reused
  • A shared, organised drill library
  • Teams, players and attendance in one place
  • Schedules managed from a single dashboard
  • Several coaches working together, with the right permissions

How we built it

We followed the same four-stage framework we use on every client project.

  1. Discover: turning coaching workflows into a system

    Before building anything, we learned how coaches really work, so the product would fit life on the training ground rather than what generic software assumes.

    • Mapped daily, weekly and seasonal coaching routines
    • Defined how training sessions are structured and how drills are categorised
    • Identified the key data about players, attendance and performance
    • Clear structure
    • Product-market fit
    • Time and cost to build

  2. Build: designed for everyday use and growth

    We built Coaching Planner on Bubble.io with a modular architecture that can grow with coaching needs.

    • Drills, sessions, teams and players built as reusable data models
    • Responsive design for desktop, tablet and phone, from the office to the pitch
    • Roles and permissions so several coaches can work together
    • A developer you can trust
    • The right cost
    • Scale without a rebuild

  3. Launch: from planning tool to live platform

    With the workflows tested and refined, Coaching Planner went live as a complete web application, ready for daily use.

    • Coaches create and reuse training sessions
    • Player data and attendance tracking went live
    • Teams and schedules run from one dashboard
    • Reliable delivery
    • A developer you can trust

  4. Iterate: improving with coach feedback

    The product keeps evolving, with development costs kept predictable.

    • Coach feedback shapes improvements to screens and workflows
    • New drill formats and session planning features are added step by step
    • The data structure supports deeper analytics without reworking the core
    • Product-market fit
    • Scale without a rebuild

What coaches can do

  • Design and plan training sessions
  • Build and manage a drill library
  • Manage teams and players
  • Track attendance and schedules
  • Upload and share documents and resources
  • Collaborate with other coaches
  • Use it on desktop, tablet or phone

Built with

App
Bubble.io, front end and back end
Database
Bubble’s native database
Hosting
Bubble’s cloud infrastructure

This no-code stack meant faster delivery, lower cost and easier iteration than traditional development.

The impact

Coaching Planner shows that no-code platforms can power complex, specialised software, not just simple forms and lists. It is:

  • A complete platform for running coaching operations
  • Proof that we can understand a niche workflow and turn it into software
  • Evidence that Bubble can power serious sports technology products

For clients, it shows how we turn real-world operational complexity into structured software that can grow.

Got a workflow that lives in spreadsheets?

Whether it is coaching, operations or a niche industry process, we can turn it into a focused web app. Tell us how you work today, and we will map out the product, timeline and budget with you, free.

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