Your team, together.
Fixtures, availability and match days made easier for players and clubs.
OPEN SPORT FOUNDATION · FOUNDING PROPOSAL
Sport belongs
to everyone.
We’re building a player-led grassroots sport movement so more people can find a team, play regularly and make friends. We’re starting with hockey in the UK.
UK first. Community minded. Made for the people who play.
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PLAY IS THE POINT.
Everyone has a place in the game.
Everyone has a place in the game.
MADE FOR REAL-WORLD SPORT01 / THE BEGINNING
01 / WHY WE EXIST
More playing.
More belonging.
More celebrating.
The best part of sport happens together. The team spirit, the friendships, the first match, the unexpected win and the joy of showing up.
Our mission is to make amateur sport more accessible, affordable, welcoming and enjoyable by connecting people and clubs, supporting locally run competitions and building open-source tools.
02 / OUR BIG, AUDACIOUS GOAL
1,000,000
people playing amateur
sport every week.
Our long-term ambition.
One person. One team.
One match at a time. ↗
03 / WHAT WE'RE BUILDING
Built around
the joy of playing.
An open-source platform for grassroots clubs. Open Sport will have no player subscription. Clubs set and collect their own fees.
Every win counts.
Celebrate personal milestones, Player of the Match and the people who lift others up.
Share the feeling.
Tell your team's story through moments, results and local club identity.
04 / TRY IT FOR YOURSELF
Discover your next
team experience.
Step inside a fictional hockey club and see how Open Sport works. Explore fixtures, teammates, match teas and the captain's tools. No account needed.
Open the full demo ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Best for smaller screens. Your practice choices stay in your browser.
Having trouble seeing the embedded demo? Open Open Sport directly ↗. The demo is a working prototype with fictional players and no live club data.
05 / FOUNDING CHARTER · DISCUSSION DRAFT
How we want
to work together.
The founding group will decide the legal structure, membership and voting rules, and how any national federations would work with the Foundation.
Belonging and shared responsibility
Everyone deserves dignity and a genuine chance to take part. We propose fair, evidence-based policies, clear ways to raise concerns, and safeguarding and privacy built in from the start.
A voice for the people who play
Players, clubs and volunteers should help make decisions. We propose elected leadership, published decisions and budgets, and independent routes to appeal.
Local clubs, shared tools
Clubs should retain local autonomy within shared standards. We propose open-source software and reinvesting any surplus in grassroots sport.
06 / WHERE WE ARE
Starting small.
Thinking big.
We're beginning with grassroots hockey in the UK, creating a platform where every team sport and every type of player can eventually feel at home.
NOW
Shape the foundations
Brand, community, architecture and our first club conversations.
NEXT
Launch a hockey pilot
Bring teams together for a genuinely useful match-day experience.
THEN
Grow the community
More clubs, more sports, more moments worth sharing.
07 / COME PLAY A PART
Help shape
Open Sport.
We're building Open Sport with grassroots clubs, players, volunteers and people who believe sport should bring us together.
Founding members, pilot clubs and volunteers
Founding members will help shape the charter. UK hockey clubs can help test the pilot. Volunteers can help with outreach, safeguarding, design or software.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST · COMING SOON