Every rotation planned. Every kid gets minutes.

Pitchboard is a free drag-and-drop soccer lineup and rotation planner for youth and high school coaches. You add your squad once, drag players into a formation for each rotation window of the match, track planned minutes per player, and print a match-plan card. It runs in any web browser on a phone, tablet, or computer.

Yes, Pitchboard is free to use with no account required. Building lineups, planning rotations, tracking minutes, and printing match plans are free forever. An optional Pro plan ($29.99 per year) adds cloud sync across devices and full-season history, but the free version is complete on its own.

No account is needed. You can open Pitchboard and build a full match plan immediately — no sign-up, email, or password. Your squad and lineups save automatically on your device. An account only becomes relevant later if you choose Pro and want data synced across multiple devices.

Pitchboard is a strong choice for a free soccer lineup app because it plans the match in rotation windows the way coaches actually substitute, tracks minutes per player automatically, flags players who need game time, works offline at the field, and requires no account. It supports 11v11, 9v9, and 7v7 formats.

Yes. Pitchboard is designed for volunteer coaches, not tech experts. There is nothing to install and no account to create — you open a web page, type in your players, and drag them onto the pitch. A short first-run walkthrough shows the three steps, and a How it works button replays it anytime.

There is no practical limit on squad size in Pitchboard. Players not currently on the pitch sit on the bench, where you can see each one's shirt number, preferred positions, planned minutes, and whether they are flagged as needing game time.

Most coaches chunk the match into 15–20 minute rotation windows rather than tracking a running clock, because high-running positions like winger, fullback, and central midfield need regular breathers — midfielders often cover 5 to 7 miles a match. Pitchboard is built around this: you plan a lineup per window, and the app warns when a player has been in a high-work position too long.

Pitchboard converts your rotation plan into minutes automatically. Each window you assign a player counts its length toward their total, so the Minutes view always shows planned time per player against the full match length, sorted so the lightest-used players surface first. There is no separate stopwatch or paper tally to keep.

The pre-halftime window is a common unwritten coaching practice: to get a backup real game time without disrupting the tactical core of the match, sub them in about 5 minutes before halftime or 5 minutes before the final whistle. Pitchboard surfaces these two moments automatically whenever a player has zero planned minutes, so morale subs don't get forgotten in the moment.

Flag them with the ⚑ needs-minutes marker. Auto-fill then puts flagged players on first when building a window, which supports the multi-game approach many coaches use: picking a favorable matchup on the schedule and deliberately starting bench players for most of the match. The flag persists between games on your device until you clear it.

Usually not. Most soccer leagues have no automated minimum play requirement, which is exactly why playing time disputes are common — nothing forces the issue. Coaches manage it themselves with rotation windows, minutes tracking, and morale subs. Pitchboard builds those three practices into the planner so fair time happens by design instead of memory.

A ! badge appears on a player who has been assigned a high-running position — winger, fullback, wing-back, or central midfield — for more than two consecutive rotation windows, roughly 40 minutes of continuous high-output running. It is a prompt to plan them a breather or move them to a lower-work spot, mirroring the rotation caps coaches keep on paper.

Add each player with their shirt number and preferred position groups (GK, DF, MF, FW), pick a formation such as 4-3-3 or 4-4-2, then drag players from the bench onto the pitch — or tap a player and tap a spot. Repeat for each rotation window. Minutes and warnings update as you go, and Print plan produces the match card.

Pitchboard supports 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, and 3-5-2 for 11v11, plus 3-3-2 for 9v9 and 2-3-1 for 7v7 youth small-sided games. Every position carries a work-rate rating used by the long-shift warning. More formations and custom formations are on the roadmap based on coach requests.

Yes. Pitchboard treats every rotation window separately — four or six windows depending on your settings — so you can plan the entire match in advance. A Copy previous window button carries a lineup forward so you adjust only the substitutions, and halftime is marked in the window tabs.

Remove the absent player from your roster and Pitchboard clears them from every window automatically, so no position is left assigned to someone who isn't there. Then tap auto-fill or drag a replacement in. Because minutes update live, you immediately see how the change affects everyone's planned time.

Yes. Pitchboard includes small-sided formats directly: a 2-3-1 formation for 7v7 and a 3-3-2 for 9v9, alongside full 11v11 formations. Match length and rotation windows are configurable from 50 to 90 minutes, so the same planner covers U8 through high school.

Tap Print plan. Pitchboard produces a clean sheet showing your lineup for every rotation window, halftime marked, plus a planned-minutes summary per player with needs-minutes flags. It is formatted for a standard printer — print it, laminate it, clip it to your clipboard.

For most coaches, yes. Paper tracking sheets work, but they can't recalculate when a player is absent, can't warn about long shifts in high-running positions, and have to be redrawn every match. Pitchboard keeps the same window-based method coaches already use on paper, then automates the counting, the warnings, and the printing.

The best playing-time app ties minutes to the lineup itself rather than a separate log. Pitchboard does this: because you plan rotations in the app, it automatically totals planned minutes per player and surfaces who isn't on yet, so tracking time takes no extra step during the match.

Yes. Pitchboard is a free alternative for the lineup and rotation side of team management. Formations, window-by-window planning, minutes tracking, morale-sub reminders, and printing are free with no account and no trial limit. Only cross-device cloud sync and season history sit behind the $29.99-per-year Pro plan.

Pitchboard works on iPhone and Android today through the web browser. On iPhone, open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, Chrome offers an Install prompt. It then gets its own icon and opens full-screen like a native app. Dedicated App Store and Google Play versions are planned.

Yes. Pitchboard works offline. Your squad and match plans are stored on your device and the app keeps running without a cell signal once you have opened it — designed for fields and parks with poor coverage, so a weak signal never blocks a substitution decision.

On the free plan, your squad and lineups are stored only on your own device, not on a server, so your players' information stays with you. Because youth rosters involve minors, this local-first approach is deliberate. If you later choose Pro for cloud sync, data is stored securely so it can appear across your devices.

Pitchboard Pro ($29.99 per year) adds cloud sync across your phone, tablet, and computer, full-season history, reusable match templates, a season-long minutes dashboard, and sharing live plans with assistant coaches. The free plan covers match day; Pro is worth it for coaches managing a full season across devices.

Pitchboard Pro is $29.99 per year, and one subscription unlocks Pro across all four LineUp Max boards — Huddleboard, Pitchboard, Dugoutboard, and Rallyboard — not just Pitchboard. The free version stays complete on its own, so Pro is only for coaches who want cloud sync and full-season history across devices.

Pro checkout is handled by Stripe, a major payment processor, so your card details go straight to Stripe and never touch Pitchboard's servers. Pro is a yearly subscription you can cancel anytime, and the free version keeps working regardless.