ourleague.app

What It Is

Our League is a cloud-based management app for weekly five-a-side matches or regular football games among friends. It is not aimed at formal tournament scheduling; instead, it moves everyday match organization—attendance confirmation, team balancing, match records, stats leaderboards, and fee arrears—out of spreadsheets and WhatsApp group chats. The site says it launched in 2020 and is already used by hundreds of active players.

Core Features

The product covers the full workflow of a recurring football group: create a group, add players, schedule matches in advance, or enter results after the game. It can record scores, goals, assists, own goals, and also supports pitch-side live goal tapping to generate a match timeline. Automatic team balancing is one of its highlights: it can balance teams based on historical performance and provides visual balance indicators. Stats include attendance rate, winning and absence streaks, goals, assists, wins/draws/losses, leaderboards, seasons, player profile cards, head-to-head comparisons, and player-of-the-match voting. It also offers extra features such as AI match reports, per-game fee debt tracking, birthday reminders, and weather information.

Pricing and Deployment

The main page clearly states that users can create a league and start recording matches for free. The privacy policy describes it as an ad-supported app provided free of charge as is. No paid plans, subscription pricing, usage limits, or payment methods were found. It is deployed as a cloud service, with data accessible across devices, and supports both web and mobile access. Self-hosting is not mentioned.

Collaboration, Security, and Integrations

For collaboration, it supports shared groups, multiple users accessing and managing matches and players, and separate management of users and players. However, it does not disclose fine-grained permissions such as roles, approvals, or audit logs. On security, it says data is stored in the cloud and that commercially acceptable methods are used to protect personal information. It also uses third-party services such as Google Play Services and Firebase Analytics. No GDPR, SOC 2, or ISO certifications are disclosed, and there is no information about an API or developer support.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

Its strengths are a highly focused use case, lightweight data entry, free availability, and the fact that not every player needs to install the app—making it easy for one organizer to get started. The drawbacks are limited general-purpose flexibility, a privacy concern for sensitive groups due to the ad-supported model, and insufficient information on enterprise-grade permissions, compliance, data export, and integrations. It is best suited to organizers of regular amateur football teams, five-a-side friend groups, and internal company football groups.

Access from China

The site does not provide information about network access, payments, or localization for China, so its accessibility status is unknown. If access to Google/Firebase-related services is unstable, users in China can use WeChat groups, Tencent Docs, Feishu Sheets, or WPS Spreadsheets as alternatives, though automatic team balancing and detailed football statistics would require building custom templates.