Football is not for sale. It is for playing.
Football without having a team. You book a spot in a real game near you, pay your share and show up. If it does not fill, you get it all back.
This is how it plays.
The hunger is here. The pitch is not, yet.
We are talking to the pitches of San Fernando. The moment the first one says yes, we write to you and the game is on. Below, four examples so you can see how it will look: tap one and we tell you when that pitch opens.
We do not sell football. We make the game happen.
Six things. The same since day one, and the ones we look at when in doubt.
- 01Football without a team.
You do not need a team, a level, or anyone to call you. You book a spot, show up and play with thirteen people who did not know each other yesterday either. As long as you sweat, nobody will say a word.
- 02The pitch sets the price. We do not touch it.
The price of a spot is the pitch’s call, and every paid spot reaches them whole. Whatever a pitch charges on its own stays theirs.
- 03Our share, in plain sight. Today, one euro.
On a normal spot it is one euro, VAT inside. We have to earn something for this to hold up, and we are still working out exactly how much: when we find the right point, we will say so here. What does not change is where you see it, on the ticket, before you pay.
- 04No game, no charge.
If it does not fill it cancels itself and we give it all back the way it came, our euro too. Nobody has to message anybody.
- 05Your town’s pitches, up to date.
Diary, bookings, games and takings in one place. Today the pitch pays nothing for it: a council pitch run like the best club without putting a euro up front. The day La Mesa has a price, we talk it through with each pitch before charging anything.
- 06Everybody plays. The ball does not ask.
Twenty-two people and a ball. Keepers rotate. 16 and over, with banter, never with abuse.
Three to the pitch. One to us.
It is in plain sight. That is the whole trick. If the game does not fill, you get it all back, this euro too.
The game fits in your pocket.
Book, see who is coming, talk to the group and find the pitch, all from your phone. The website is for looking; the app is for playing.
Both are on their way to the stores. Leave your email and we will write the day they land.
Tuesday at ten is football too.
The hours you cannot fill get filled spot by spot, without changing how you work. Diary, games and takings on a laptop, and today at no cost to the pitch.
Your pitch, up to date. Today it costs you nothing.
This is a pitch from the inside: what comes in, what reaches you and when. A real capture, untouched.
What a pitch keeps, what it does not pay and how your regulars live alongside the app’s games, in detail, on the pitches page. See what a pitch keeps
San Fernando first. Then, the bay.
A town lights up when there is a pitch and fourteen names. Until then we do not say we are there. Leave your email and we write the day there is a game in yours.
Hay partido.
Two words and a full stop: «game on». The stop is the ball, the final whistle and the end of the argument.