How do I track game time for FNSW compliance?

Game time tracking is a Football Operations requirement in the FNSW Club Standards. Clubhouse automatically calculates player minutes from your match events, so you don't need to track them manually.

The Club Standards assess your game time records on several criteria:

• A detailed policy and process for logging game time
• Data that is updated regularly after each match week and accessible to coaches and the Head of Program
• Game time information that feeds into player development decisions — squad placement, individual reports, and learning plans
• Evidence that game time is used for retain/release assessments and player profiling
• Records that include position played, not just total minutes

Two different things are scored, and Clubhouse keeps them straight: your record quality (a complete weekly record of minutes and positions is what FNSW scores) and the equity rule itself — a 50% minimum in the Youth Leagues (BYL and GYL), and an even share of minutes in the JDL (Mixed and Girls').

When coaches manage matches through the live match feature, Clubhouse automatically calculates each player's minutes from lineup and substitution events:

• Starting players are recorded from kick-off
• Substitutions — the replaced player's clock stops and the incoming player's clock starts
• Sent off players — their clock stops at the event time
• Half times and full time — the match clock determines total available minutes

After the match, the Post-Match Summary shows each player's total minutes played. This data flows into:

• Player profiles — accumulated minutes across the season
• Squad-level reports — game time distribution across all players
• Program reports → Season Stats — season-wide results, scorers, and discipline

The program Reports section — which holds the season-wide Season Stats view — is currently hidden from the sidebar while we review how much it is used. Ask your super admin if your club needs it switched back on.

In the meantime, match-by-match minutes are on each match's Post-Match Summary, and individual player minutes are on the player's profile page within a squad.

Game time has its own page under the club's Compliance section — Game Time. It gives every youth squad a row (an All youth filter plus a filter per programme narrow it), with columns for Matches (90d), Players in scope, Meeting share, Equity and FNSW Gold — so a squad drifting out of equity shows up while there's still season left to fix it. Only youth programmes appear (BYL, GYL, Mixed JDL, Girls JDL); senior squads aren't in FNSW's game-time scope. See How do I use the compliance dashboard? for the broader hub.

FNSW expects game time records to inform development decisions. Use Clubhouse data to:

• Identify players with low minutes who may need additional game time through friendlies or play-up opportunities
• Review positional variety — are players getting experience in multiple positions?
• Support retain/release conversations with evidence of opportunities provided
• Set game time expectations per age group as part of your annual plan

When a player from a younger age group plays up in an older squad, Clubhouse records their minutes in both the original and play-up squads. The Promotions Report (part of the program Reports section, currently hidden — see above) shows all cross-squad appearances, sessions attended, and minutes played — useful evidence for FNSW's Progression & Retention component.