What happens to your euros.
Your spot, whole, to the pitch. One euro to us. No game, and you get it all back.
An example ticket. Yours will carry its pitch and hour the day the first one opens. Each pitch sets its price.
Football is not for sale. The floodlights are.
What it costs for a game to happen, who pays for it today in this business, and what we mean to do with that euro. Bluntly.
- 01Running a pitch in 2026 is not easy.
The electricity, the water, the turf replaced every few years, the insurance, the person who opens at seven and locks up at midnight. And the empty four o’clock hours, which cost the same as the full ones. A neighbourhood pitch does not live off the Champions League. It lives off fourteen people turning up on a Tuesday at seven.
- 02The industry does not help. We are part of it.
The norm in this business is to charge the pitch a monthly fee for existing and a commission on every booking. And then, on top, charge the player a «handling fee» for pressing a button. Neighbourhood football has filled up with middlemen who never step on the grass. We are a middleman too. The difference is on the ticket: one euro, to the player, in plain sight. To the pitch, zero.
- 03We charge something because something costs.
Servers, messages, the payment rail, the people who build it. That euro is not a price: it is a budget, and we are still balancing it. Whatever comes out is shown whole before you pay, not tucked into the small print.
We swim against the current. No investors, just bibs.
- 04What we still do not know. And we will not pretend otherwise.
We do not know whether a euro a spot holds this up. It might; or La Mesa may one day carry a price for the pitch too, something small: a fee or a one-off. If that day comes we talk it through pitch by pitch, with time, and we say so here. What we do know is where we want to fight on price alongside the pitches: cheaper off-peak hours and full pitches rather than expensive ones, so that playing costs as little as possible.
- 05The same euro pays for what comes next.
La Mesa costs the pitch nothing today: regulars, phone bookings and Haypartido games in one diary, payouts every Monday. What comes next is decided by the pitches and players who use it: neighbourhood leagues, the club’s teams, the Saturday school, the town tournament. Every feature we add comes out of that euro, not out of a funding round.
- 06If we ever get rich, it will be selling shirts.
Until then, what there is: one euro, a clear ticket and a Thursday at nine. Game on.
The rules, in full.
The pitch sets the price.
We do not touch it. A spot is the hour’s price divided by the format’s spots, rounded up to the next 5 cents. Every paid spot reaches the pitch whole once the game is played. If someone drops out with less than 24 h to go, the pitch is still paid for that spot; if someone else takes it, the one who dropped out gets it back as credit and the pitch is paid once.
Our share, in plain sight.
Today it is 5 % of the spot, with a €1 minimum and a €6 maximum, VAT inside: on a normal spot, one euro. You see it on the ticket before paying and on the receipt after.
Today’s service is today’s.
That euro pays for what it costs the app to exist: servers, messages, the payment rail. We have to earn something to hold it up and we are still working out how much. Up or down, it gets decided in plain sight: we say so here and you see it on the ticket before paying, never after.
It cancels itself.
If the game has not reached its minimum by the deadline, nobody needs to call anybody: it cancels, we tell you, and everyone gets theirs back the way it came, service included.
You drop out.
Up to 24 h before you choose: all of it as credit straight away, service included, or the spot’s price to your card in 5–10 days (the service stays: it covers the cost of the card payment). After that nothing comes back, but if someone takes your spot, its price comes back to you as credit.
What the pitch charges on its own, we do not touch.
If a pitch charges someone in person, that money does not pass through Haypartido and carries no service.