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How do I navigate the admin portal as a Technical Director?
As a Technical Director you work inside a programme — the sidebar you see belongs to the programme you're currently in, not to the whole club. Here's how it's laid out.
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- Go to dashboard.clubhouseapp.com.au on your computer or tablet.
- Select the Club Staff tab.
- Enter your email and password, then tap Log in.
- On a device Clubhouse hasn't seen before, you'll see Verify it's you. Tap Send Verification Code and enter the 6-digit code sent to your mobile by SMS.
Once you've verified a device, Clubhouse remembers it for about six months — so you won't be asked for a code every time, even after signing out and back in. On a new phone or laptop you'll get a fresh code.
Tip: The portal works on a phone, and the bottom bar carries your main sections. But squad planning, the season plan and anything with a table in it are far easier on a larger screen.
There is no club-wide home page for a Technical Director. Signing in takes you straight to the dashboard of your first assigned programme — so if you look after Boys Youth, you land on Boys Youth.
That dashboard shows the next training session and next match, recent results, the league position where the programme plays in a league, and, in a second column, daily wellness and the injury list.
If a programme hasn't played yet — a programme your club is standing up for next season — the dashboard is replaced with a short planning page. It links to the places where next season's work actually happens. It switches to the normal dashboard by itself once the programme's season has a training session or fixture scheduled. At season's end it becomes a wrap card. Once it moves, one card lists what to Finish and what to Set up.
| Section | What it does |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | The programme snapshot described above |
| Contracts | The senior roster: who is signed, on what money, against the salary cap — plus offers, e-signing, the wage bill and the squad planner |
| Squads | Squads, rosters and player profiles for this programme |
| Training | Sessions, schedules and session plans |
| Matches | Fixtures, results, lineups and live match day |
| Wellness | Daily check-in responses, where squads in this programme use them |
| Workouts | Who is completing the strength and conditioning programme their squad was set, for this programme's squads. Appears once your S&C staff have published a block to one of them |
| Calendar | Every training session, match and club event — the whole club's week, not just this programme's. It opens showing your assigned programmes, with one tap to expand to the whole club |
| Presentations | Match review and pre-match presentations for the squads, and pre-season lineup plans for next season's |
| S&C Testing | Testing phases and results for this programme's players |
| Recruitment | The scouting board and expression-of-interest inbox |
| Training Library | Session-plan library — currently a "coming soon" holding page while it's rebuilt |
| Coaches | Your coaches, their licences and plans |
| IDPs | Individual Development Plans — the plans themselves and coach invitations |
| Retention | The end-of-season decisions board for this programme |
| Season Plan | The programme's phases, parent-meeting windows and key dates |
| Compliance | The programme's FNSW scorecard |
| Training Schedule | The weekly pattern each squad trains to |
Several of these appear only when they apply to the programme you're in. Contracts opens only for staff your club has given Contracts access, Wellness needs at least one squad using daily check-ins, Workouts needs a published S&C block on one of the programme's squads, and IDPs, Recruitment, S&C Testing, Retention and Compliance depend on what your club has switched on and the access you've been given. So two programmes at the same club can have different sidebars, and that's expected.
Season Plan and Training Schedule sit in the Season group, lower down, because they're set once or twice a season rather than weekly.
Your role and programme sit at the bottom of the sidebar. Click them and, under Switch roles, you get a row for each programme you're assigned to. Choosing one switches the whole sidebar to that programme.
The same menu is where you jump across to another portal if you also coach, or into Clubhouse if you're a parent at the club.
If your programme also plays a second competition alongside its league season — the Australian Championship at Sutherland Sharks — it stays one section rather than becoming a second one. See Where do I find the Australian Championship?.
Below the programme sections sit destinations that cover the whole club rather than one programme:
- Surveys — the club and coach survey results.
- Finance — the club's fees, payouts and reconciliation.
Training Schedule (in the Season group above) is one board for the whole club. A change there moves every future session for that squad. To move or cancel one session only, open it from the programme's Training page or the Calendar and choose Modify.
Surveys and Finance open only for staff your club has given access to them, so you may see both, one, or neither.
Select your name at the bottom of the sidebar to open the account menu, then Settings, which covers your own account — password, notification preferences and your profile. The bell beside your name opens your notifications, with its unread count.
Settings is also where the club-level football documents live: Key Documents under the Club section holds your values, playing style and curriculum documents. That corpus is club-wide rather than per-programme, so whichever programme you're in when you open it, you're editing the same documents.
Sidebar sections follow your programme assignments and what your club has switched on. If something you need isn't there — a programme you've taken over, or a section a colleague can see — ask your club administrator to check your assignments rather than working around it.
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