Player Development
Every player on a plan. Driving it themselves.
Most development plans are written once, filed and forgotten. Clubhouse rethought the IDP as a living experience the player drives — a running conversation with their coaches, all season.
The player's plan
Development the player wants to open.
The plan lives in the player’s own app, written to them in second person. It starts with how they see their game — and from then on, every training session and match is a chance to move it forward.
Your self-assessment
How you see your game
First touch under pressure
Keeping the ball under control when an opponent closes you down
Rated by Sofia · lands in her coach’s inbox
It starts with their voice
Before any coach writes a word, the player walks the four corners of their game — technical, tactical, physical, psychological — and rates every attribute Strength, Building or Focus area. Even a ten-minute job for the youngest players, done with a parent.
Block 2 of 4 · Progression
First touch under pressure
Take your first touch away from pressure so you can play forward more often.
Post-match reflection · Sat v APIA Leichhardt
Goals that live at training
Every goal comes with cues for training and match day. Players tap “I worked on this” after sessions, build streaks through the block, and rate themselves after each match — not yet, getting there, nailed it.
Goal activity
First touch under pressure
Rushed it here — should’ve taken the extra touch.
Sofia · Turnover · 38′ · Sat 5:40pm
Good spot, Sofia. Watch how much time you actually had — scan once more before it arrives and that’s an easy turn.
Coach Russo · Sun 9:12am
A conversation, not a report
Players pin their own match clips to their goals with their own take — and coaches reply. Development becomes an ongoing dialogue between player and coaching staff, running all season instead of one meeting a term.
For coaches
A rich plan in four steps.
The player’s self-assessment lands in the coach’s inbox ready to build. The coach reviews the same attributes in the same language, agrees the focus areas — capped at four per ten-week block, so plans stay honest — and Clubhouse assembles full SMART goals from your club’s curriculum, personalised to the player and ready to edit.
Review, focus areas, goals, confirm. What used to be an evening per player is minutes — and no two coaches start from a blank page.
Build Sofia’s plan
Focus areas · this block
2 of 4 maxTake your first touch away from pressure so you can play forward more often.
Measurable · forward passes after your first touch, counted at training
This 10-week block
Submit for approval → your Technical Director signs off
Your curriculum
Written in your club’s football language.
Behind every goal sits a development curriculum your Technical Director owns — position profiles across the four corners, with each attribute articulated in the club’s own words. Your playing philosophy and game model flow straight into it, so a goal about scanning reads the way your club talks about progressing through the thirds.
The result: every plan at the club teaches the same football, and the TD shapes all of it from one place — no rewriting per player, per coach or per season.
Development curriculum
Attacking Midfielder
8
Technical
8
Tactical
5
Physical
5
Psychological & Social
Scanning before receiving
Published“Check your shoulder before the ball arrives so you already know your next action — how we Progress through the thirds.”
Your TD’s words — every goal at the club speaks your football
Oversight
Every plan through the TD. Nothing published cold.
Every plan goes to the Technical Director before a family sees it — approve and publish, or request changes. A single to-do queue surfaces what needs attention: plans awaiting approval, goal threads waiting on a staff reply, review bookings for the week.
Families book their player’s review themselves from the app — a fifteen-minute conversation, scheduled without a single reply-all email. And because plan coverage, player-led activity and review meetings are exactly what FNSW’s development criteria assess, your Club Standards evidence builds itself in the background.
Individual Development Plans
To do
Plans to approve
GYL U15 · GYL U16
Needs your reply
Goal activity waiting on staff
Review bookings
Families booked this week
Players on a published plan
87%112 of 129 across four programs
Getting started
Elite academy structure. Club-sized effort.
A club goes from zero to every player on a plan in one setup: load your philosophy documents, shape the curriculum with your TD, send the self-assessment invites — and the loop runs itself from there. The framework of a professional academy, run by volunteer coaches in minutes a week.
We’re starting with one club. Yours could be next.
We’re opening the doors to a small number of clubs each season. Register your interest and we’ll be in touch when places open.