The words the app uses

People and roles

Who someone is at a club. A role is club-wide; everything else is a relationship to particular records.

Owner

The person who registered the club. Everything an admin can do, plus deleting the club, transferring ownership and exporting a child's data. A club always has exactly one.

owner

Admin

Runs the club's office: members, sponsors, supporters, tickets, audit log, and all the football.

admin

Director

Runs the football: seasons, teams, players, assessments, training, matches, notes, exercises. Not members or money.

director

Staff

A club member with no appointment yet. Can see the club exists and its seasons — nothing else until appointed to a team.

staff

Member

Anyone in one of the four club roles. Parents, players, sponsors and supporters are never members.

member

Head coach

Appointed to one team season. Assesses, plans training, writes notes, manages the roster and staff list. Needs a confirmed email; in production, an authenticator app.

HEAD_COACH

Coach

Appointed to one team season. Assesses, plans training, writes notes; does not change the roster or staff.

COACH

Assistant coach

Like a coach, but does not manage development plans or the drill library.

ASSISTANT_COACH

Team manager

Appointed to one team season for logistics: fixtures, attendance, availability. Sees the roster, never a child's development.

TEAM_MANAGER

Guardian

A parent or carer who follows one child. Not a member. Reads the child's development and family-visible notes, records the child's training.

guardian

Player (own login)

A child whose record is linked to their own account. Sees themself only: their development and this week's training, which they can mark done.

self

Sponsor representative

Represents a sponsor company. Sees the sponsor's page and counts across the clubs it backs — never a player. Admin representatives invite colleagues.

SPONSOR_ADMIN · SPONSOR_MEMBER

Supporter

Anyone who chose to follow a club. Sees the club's public face and what is on sale.

supporter

Ticket owner

The account a season ticket was issued to. Reaches that ticket and the club's public listings.

ticket-owner

The club

The container everything else lives in.

Club

A football club or academy. In the system it is a Better Auth organization; its profile (country, timezone, badge) is ClubHub's.

club · organization

Season

A named period at a club, e.g. 2026. One is current.

season

Team

A team as an identity that outlives a season — U10 Tigers.

team

Team season

A team entered into one season. Staff are appointed to it and players rostered on it. Most coaching screens are about a team season.

team season

Appointment

A staff member's role on one team season. Ended, never deleted.

team staff assignment

Roster

The players assigned to a team season for the season.

roster

Registration

A player registered with a club for a season. This is what puts a child inside a club's boundary.

player registration

Transfer

Moving a rostered player to another team season. The old assignment is marked transferred and a new one opens.

TRANSFERRED

Staff invitation

The club office inviting someone to become a member in a role. Accepted on a confirmed address.

invitation

The player

A person, not a club's record.

Player

A child (or adult) who plays. Has a profile, may have an account, may be registered with more than one club.

player

Position

Primary position, plus optional secondary positions.

GOALKEEPER · DEFENDER · MIDFIELDER · FORWARD

Preferred foot

—

LEFT · RIGHT · BOTH

Player status

Active, inactive (paused) or archived (kept, hidden).

ACTIVE · INACTIVE · ARCHIVED

Has account

Whether the player's record is linked to their own login.

linkedUserId

The development loop

The heart of the product: assess, prioritise, assign, reassess.

Skill

One thing to be good at — first touch, positioning, resilience. Scored 1 to 5 in half steps.

skill

Skill category

An FA 4-corner area: Technical, Game IQ, Physical, Psychological, Social (the default; a club can have its own).

skill category

Taxonomy

The club's full set of categories and skills. Seeded when the club is created.

taxonomy

Assessment

One coach's scoring of a player's skills on one day. Never edited or overwritten — a new assessment is a new record.

assessment

Assessment context

What kind of occasion the assessment was. Required on every assessment.

FORMAL · TRAINING · MATCH

Assessment template

What a coach is asked on that kind of day: criteria from the club's taxonomy, per context and age group, core first. It shapes the sheet, never forces a write.

assessment template

Core criteria

The handful every player gets on a normal day — in training: effort, focus, technical execution, decision making, teamwork, coachability.

core

Coach's picks

On one assessment: what stood out, the development point, the next focus — up to three skills each, plus a comment.

strength · development point · next focus

Not observed

A criterion left blank. Never forced, never recorded — the analytics only hold what a coach actually saw.

omitted

Self-assessment / In their own words

The player's answer after training or a match: what went well, what was hard, what to improve, plus effort · confidence · enjoyment. Written by the player or a guardian; read beside the coach's picture, never averaged into it.

player self assessment

Assessment sheet

The whole squad, every skill, last scores — one screen so a coach can assess a team in minutes.

assessment sheet

Bulk assessment

Saving the sheet: all players at once, all or nothing.

bulk

Score / Level

Whole levels 1–5, each with a name: Needs Support, Developing, Competent, Strong, Excellent. Children see the name and dots, never the number.

1–5

Level

The child's word for a score: dots filled out of five. The banner's level is the average of every skill.

level

Development Engine

The one place strengths, priorities, improvements and consistency are computed. Every screen renders its answer; none recompute it.

engine

Strength / Superpower

A skill the player is already strong in. Superpower is the child's word.

strength

Priority / Work on next

Where the next block of work should go. One thing at a time.

priority

Improvement / Getting better

A skill that went up between the two most recent assessments.

improvement

Progress

The engine's summary for one player: strengths, priorities, improvements, category averages, consistency, match form.

progress

Trend

A skill's full score series over time, for charts.

trend

Goal

A target score on one skill, set by a coach with the player. Achieved is stamped once.

ACTIVE · ACHIEVED · ARCHIVED

Observation / Coach note

Something a coach wrote about a player, with an explicit audience.

observation

Visibility

Who a note (or other record) is for. Private is the author's alone — even from the club office.

PRIVATE · COACHING_STAFF · CLUB · FAMILY

Training

What the family does between sessions.

Exercise / Drill

An entry in the club's drill library, linked to the skills it develops.

exercise

Routine / Training plan

A weekly plan a coach assigns to one player: a few drills, each so many times a week. Assigning a new one retires the old.

ACTIVE · COMPLETED · ARCHIVED

Activity

One drill inside a routine, with its times-per-week target.

training activity

Completion / Mark done

The family's — or the player's own — record that an activity was done. The one thing a family writes.

training completion

This week

The last seven days, not the calendar week.

rolling 7 days

Weekly target

The sum of every activity's times-per-week.

target

Streak

Consecutive weeks that met the target. The current week never breaks it.

streak

Consistency

Per-week completions capped at the target, summed, over what was expected. Null with no plan; 0 with a plan and nothing done.

0–1

Training session

A team's session on the pitch, with its register.

training session

Attendance

Who was at a session.

PRESENT · LATE · ABSENT · EXCUSED

Availability

Whether a player can make sessions and matches; managed by the family and the team manager.

availability

Matches

Context beside the development picture — never a skill score.

Match / Fixture

A team season's game: opponent, kick-off, venue, result.

SCHEDULED · PLAYED · CANCELLED

Venue

—

HOME · AWAY · NEUTRAL

Lineup

Who played, started, minutes, goals, assists, and the coach's rating.

lineup

Match form

A player's last 90 days of matches in one number and a few counts. Context only.

form

Coach review

The coach's notes on a match after it was played.

review

The story

One feed, written as things happened.

Story / Timeline

Every moment in a player's development, newest first, in chapters by month.

timeline

Moment / Event

One entry in the story.

ASSESSMENT_COMPLETED · GOAL_CREATED · GOAL_ACHIEVED · TRAINING_ACTIVITY_COMPLETED · COACH_OBSERVATION · MATCH_PLAYED · PLAYER_SCORED · DEVELOPMENT_PRIORITY_CHANGED

Highlights

What the story is made of: counts of trainings, assessments, matches, goals.

highlights

Big moment

An assessment, a goal reached, a goal scored — outlined in the story.

big

Families and invitations

How anyone who is not staff gets in.

Relationship invitation

An email link to one address that opens one relationship: a guardian to a child, a player to their own login, a representative to a sponsor. Never club membership.

GUARDIAN · PLAYER · SPONSOR_MEMBER

Accept

Signed in on the invited address, the person accepts — the moment the relationship exists.

accept

Access grant

A guardian's reach into one child at one club. What the API reads. Revoked, never deleted.

ACTIVE · REVOKED

Relationship kind

How a guardian relates to the child.

MOTHER · FATHER · PARENT · LEGAL_GUARDIAN · CARER · OTHER

Family

The child's guardians and, when linked, the child's own login. The Family tab on the phone; the Family card on the web.

family

Give a login / Account invitation

Inviting a player to their own account. Links only when accepted on the address.

account-invitation

Link account

Tying an existing account to a player, for an address that already has one. Fresh sign-in required.

link-account

End access

Revoking a guardian's grant. The record stays.

revoke

Sponsors, supporters and tickets

Relationships with a club that are not membership and reach no child.

Sponsor

A company that backs one or more clubs.

sponsor

Sponsorship

A sponsor backing a club, or one team season: tier and dates.

ACTIVE · ENDED

Sponsor analytics

Counts across the clubs a sponsor backs — teams, registered players, matches, sessions. Nothing names a child.

analytics

Follow / Supporter membership

Choosing to follow a club. Anyone signed in can.

ACTIVE · CANCELLED

Ticket product

What a club sells for a season: name, price, seats per ticket.

season ticket product

Season ticket

A ticket issued to an account. Ownership reaches that ticket, nothing else.

ACTIVE · CANCELLED

Holder

A person a ticket admits, named by its owner within the seats.

holder

Entitlement

What a ticket admits to, and whether it was used.

HOME_MATCH · EVENT

Sign-in and security

Session

Being signed in on one device. Listed under Security; any one can be ended.

session

Sign out everywhere

End every session, on every device — a lost phone.

revoke sessions

Authenticator app / Two-factor

A six-digit code from an app, after the password. Required for owners, admins, directors and head coaches in production.

TWO_FACTOR_REQUIRED

Backup code

One-time codes for when the authenticator is lost. Shown once at enrolment.

backup code

Fresh sign-in

Some actions need a session younger than 15 minutes: transferring ownership, removing an admin, linking an account, turning off two-factor.

FRESH_AUTH_REQUIRED

Confirmed address

An email address proven by clicking its link. Needed to accept staff invitations.

emailVerified

Permission

A named ability, e.g. player.read. Nobody has one; a relationship carries it over what it is held over.

player.read · development.read …

Not found

What anyone outside a record's reach is told — the same answer as for a record that does not exist.

404

Audit event

A record of a sensitive change or security event: who, what, when. Children are involved.

audit