Players RSVP from their own app. The screen shows you who's in, who's maybe, who's out, who's injured.
The Rugby Club Captain App that keeps the squad on one record.
Chase Availability
Pick the Side
Send the Squad
Catch the Reflection
The Tuesday job, but the captain isn't the bottleneck.
Every senior side I've been part of ran availability and selection through three group chats and a Sunday-night spreadsheet. The captain's app for rugby moves the four jobs that actually matter into one screen — the players come to it, you don't chase them.
Drag the starting fifteen into the positions you want, sub the bench, publish the team sheet in a single tap.
What you save as captain is the same record the coach reads and the players open. Nobody is piecing it together from screenshots.
Score, your match notes, each player's reflection, all captured next to the lineup, building the season's record one game at a time.
Why we built it
The record you keep on Tuesday is the record the coach picks from on Thursday and the player opens on Saturday.
The lineup you save Tuesday night, the notes you flag for staff, the reflection prompt that fires at the final whistle — they all live as one squad record the coach reads off and the player opens for themselves.
What the player opens
Pick the side on Tuesday, and by Wednesday morning the player has opened the app and found themselves at 12 — reading off the lineup, the kickoff details, and the Saturday you were already carrying in your phone.
The RSVP they ticked on Monday, the lineup you saved on Tuesday, the Saturday kickoff details, the reflection prompt waiting once the final whistle goes — all read off the one match record. The record they open is the record you saved, and nothing gets forwarded twice in a group chat.
Also in the player view
- Their RSVP for Saturday
- Their lineup spot, 1 through 23
- Saturday kickoff and venue
- Post-match reflection prompt
- The week’s availability poll
- Squad chat once the XV is published
- Their attendance record on the profile
What the coach opens
Coach opens the match the second you save it and reads off the XV, the RSVP count, and the staff notes — picking alongside you instead of rebuilding the team in a separate document on Saturday morning.
Captain and coach work the one shared squad record: the dual-view availability dashboard, the lineup editor for positions 1 through 23, the match notes with their visibility flag, the post-match reflections. Tap publish on the XV and it lands in the coach’s hub that second, and from there the coach picks alongside you from the data you’ve been keeping all week.
Also in the coach view
- Availability dashboard, dual view
- Lineup editor, positions 1 through 23
- RSVP-on-behalf for missing replies
- Match notes with visibility flags
- Squad health stats: active, injured, suspended
- Attendance CSV export
Captains are picking the side
on Frostlete at every level of Rugby
Local Clubs
The amateur captain running a senior side off WhatsApp, a roster, and a Saturday kit run.
Laredo Rugby Club
University
Student captains turning over every two years, picking the side around lectures, exams, and travel.
UTSA Rugby
Top Flight
The senior captain who has a coach picking with him and a roster of seventy keeping it honest.
AAC
Same captain workflow whether you're running a college side
through exam season or holding a senior squad together
across a roster of seventy.
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Free for launch clubs.
First clubs onto Frostlete get the full product free. No card. No expiry. No stripped-down trial. We're working with real clubs first, learning what actually matters, and shaping pricing around the teams using it.
We're accepting a small number of clubs so every setup gets personal attention.
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Selected clubs get founder-led onboarding and direct input into the product roadmap.
This is not a limited trial. Launch clubs get the full club operating system.
From the founder
I know the pain.
I’m a player who’s always ended up in the operations role: treasurer, president, marketing, the club’s social accounts.
I built this app because I wanted it, and it didn’t exist. Every feature on the roadmap is a wish-list item of mine, hand-designed for a team I’m actually in.
I still play at the highest level in the Netherlands. At UTSA I was president of the rugby team for two years, raising the money, planning the travel, running the trainings, booking the socials, presiding over a few kangaroo courts. (That last one is also why moderation and anonymous reporting were the first things I built into the kangaroo court.)
And I know the struggle from the inside: refreshing three group chats to find out which field, the bus waiting on the players who never check their phone, an update landing in another thread, the schedule living in one person’s head, half the squad missing from whichever list you were looking at. This app has been a brain-child of mine for years, and I finally have the skills to ship it.
Brendan Bennett
Founder, Frostlete · Amsterdam
Email me directly at . I answer back.
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Still scrolling
These are the questions coaches usually email me before they sign their club up.
If yours isn't one of these, . I read every one myself.
- How does Frostlete help a rugby captain track squad availability?
- Every fixture and training session sits inside the team's calendar, and every player on the roster sees the ones that apply to them. They tap going, maybe, out, or injured from their own app, on their own time, and the dashboard you open as captain shows the live count: 18 out of 23 confirmed, two injured, one carried over from last week, the rest still silent. You're not chasing seven separate WhatsApps anymore; you're looking at the one screen the captain's app for rugby was built to give you. If you'd rather see it by player, flip the dual-view toggle and the same record lays out as a per-player grid across every upcoming event. For the long version of how the availability surface is wired, see the availability tracker.
- Can a captain pick the matchday XV in Frostlete?
- Yes, and on your phone, which is the part that matters when you're picking the side from a kitchen at 8pm on a Thursday. The lineup board carries positions 1 through 15 by their rugby names (Loosehead Prop, Hooker, Tighthead Prop, all the way through the back three), plus 16 through 23 on the bench. You drag a player into a slot, the app validates the jersey numbers don't collide, and you publish when the side feels right. Templates seed the side from your depth chart so you're not starting from a blank sheet every week. The full mechanics live on the rugby squad planner.
- Does Frostlete write a post-match report for the captain?
- Honest answer: no. The app does not generate a narrative report from match data, and I don't want to claim it does. What it captures is the next best thing: the score, your match notes (tactical, performance, general — each with a visibility flag for staff-only or personal), and every player's own post-match reflection (what went well, what to improve, a 1-to-10 personal rating). All of that lives on the match record next to the lineup, not in a notebook in the boot of someone's car. Over a season it becomes the squad's record of itself. A public, sharable match-report surface is on the future list, not something shipped today. The capture side is documented on match central.
- What does the captain see on their phone on Saturday morning?
- The match hub: kickoff time, location, weather if it's pulled in, the lineup you published, the live RSVPs (so you know who actually made the bus), and the chat thread that opens the moment you hit publish on the team sheet. You don't have to switch apps to send the squad the meeting point. The same record is what the coach is reading and what every player has open in their own app, so when somebody texts to say they're running late, the change you make is visible to the squad inside a second. That's the part the captain's app for a senior side has to get right.
- Who keeps the master squad list, the captain or the secretary?
- Usually the club secretary, and Frostlete is built that way on purpose. The roster is one master list owned at the club level, and the captain works off it. You're picking the side from the same roster the secretary keeps clean, the coach trains, and the treasurer bills. If the secretary adds a new signing on a Wednesday, that player is in your availability dashboard by Wednesday evening, and nobody re-types names into a separate captain spreadsheet. For the secretary's side of that workflow, see Frostlete for club secretaries; the coach's side is on Frostlete for coaches. Or browse all of Frostlete's features if you want the full map.
If you’ve read this far, you and I are probably trying to fix the same Saturday morning.
— Brendan