Almost every football booking tool is built for a kids club or a pitch. This one is built for a coach with adult clients.
Football booking software is overwhelmingly built for two jobs, and neither of them is yours. One is running a junior club: registers, parent accounts, term fees, squad lists. The other is letting somebody hire a 3G pitch for an hour. Both are real problems. Neither describes a coach taking individual adult clients.
Adult one to one football coaching is genuinely underserved. The players exist, and mostly cannot find anyone, because the coaches who would take them are invisible behind club and facility software.
GoalMate books your time, for adults, one to one or in a small group. Free to join, no subscription, and no commission on anything you earn.
Free to join, no subscription, and no commission on any booking. You keep 100% of the session price you set. The client pays a service fee on top at checkout: a flat £1 on sessions up to £25, and 4% above that. See the full pricing breakdown.
Football has no shortage of software. Almost none of it imagines an adult paying for their own session, which is the whole of your business.
Junior club management. Registers, parent accounts, term billing, waiting lists.
Every screen assumes a child, a parent holding the card, and a term. A thirty year old booking Tuesday evening has nowhere to stand.
Pitch booking for clubs, councils and 3G operators.
It rents out grass. Who is standing on it, and whether they come back, is not a question it asks.
Club and coaching platforms, some with one to one added later.
One to one arrived after the fact and reads like it. The pricing still assumes a committee is paying.
Nothing aimed at adult football coaching publishes a price. These are the two general marketplaces you could actually join today, and what each one would take.
| Platform | Published price | Charged per | Commission | Card processing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fresha | £14.95 a month solo, £9.95 per team member | Per bookable team member | 20% of a marketplace client's first booking, minimum £4 | 1.40% and 25p online, 1.19% and 20p in person |
| Booksy | £40 a month, plus £5 per extra team member, all plus VAT | Per business, then per staff member | 30% of a Boost client's first visit, minimum £5 | Not published on the pricing page |
| GoalMate | £0 | No charges to coaches | None. You keep 100% of your session price | Included. The client pays £1 up to £25, then 4% |
Every figure above was read from the platform's own public pricing page in September 2026, and is quoted in the currency it is published in rather than converted. Published rates change, so treat this as the starting point for your own check. Where a column says none published, the platform does not state a figure on a public page.
Adults, and that is the point. Junior club software is a solved problem and GoalMate is not trying to solve it again. If you coach adults one to one or in small groups, nothing else is really built for you.
No. GoalMate books your time and takes the payment. You keep whatever arrangement you already have for the pitch, and the venue is shown on the booking so the player knows where to go.
Yes. Set the number of places and each player books and pays for their own, which is far simpler than collecting from four people separately.
Nothing to join, no subscription and no commission. The client pays a service fee at checkout: a flat £1 on sessions up to £25, and 4% above that. On a £50 session the client pays £52.99 and you receive £50.