Make Finding A Sport To Play As Easy As Ordering Pizza With Find A Player!

The aim of Find a Player is to help make finding sports as simple as ordering a cab or a takeaway. Helping people to organise, find and play sports at the touch of a button.

Find a Player has two unique main aspects within their app that you won’t find anywhere else. First is the sports marketplace where organisers, players, and clubs in local areas are connected with one another. You simply tell Find a Player which sports you are interested in playing, what area you’re from, and when you have availability and they’ll do the rest. Find a Player works with managers to help them find players to fill out teams, so the app works both ways!

The second main aspect of Find a Player is their game organisation system, in which they automatically send out invites, track numbers, and collect payments, as well as offer a group chat function, feedback system and awards! Find a Player aims to make organising your weekly games and training sessions as simple as possible.

You’re perhaps wondering where all of this ties into University sport, well Find a Player has conducted research into the University sports space and has found that there are lots of people who are interested in sports and activities but for numerous reasons aren’t part of the formal University and College club set up. Perhaps you’ve missed freshers week or the more rigid training times don’t suit, but you still want to get involved with a sports club. Find a Player has a built-in system where formal clubs and societies can promote themselves to students and individual students can make a post in order to find others with similar interests, such as a running partner or someone to play squash with.

This all lends itself to building a sports community focused around Find a Player, where students can easily access formal sports clubs, manage their club admin, and find like-minded individuals to play sport with.

Find a Player has a great ethos and provided us with this quote:

“This is a quote from Laz Lake in the Barkley Marathons:

‘If you’re going to face a challenge it has to be a real challenge. You can’t accomplish anything without the possibility of failure.’

Too many people are scared to fail these days… so the message is just to get out and try. Whatever it is you want to do, just go and get stuck in.”

You can read more about the Find a Player app on their website here.