The Scouting Department
in One System
Smartclub turns match assignments, scout reports and provider data into one pipeline — from first observation to signed contract.
Your Scouting Knowledge Is Leaking
Four failure points every scouting department recognises:
Data Silos
Reports scattered across spreadsheets, emails, and WhatsApp.
Subjectivity
Lack of unified evaluation scales leads to inconsistent scouting.
Manual Overload
Scouts spend more time on admin work than watching the game.
Information Loss
When a scout leaves, their knowledge leaves with them.
From the First Name on a List to a Signed Contract
One pipeline instead of six tools. Five chapters, end to end:
Find the Player — or Add Him Yourself
Search everything you're connected to
Providers you already pay for and your own database answer the same search — by name, position, club or ID. One player identity across every source, so two records never drift apart.
The ones nobody indexes
An academy trialist, a lower-league name, somebody a scout saw at a tournament. Create the record yourself and it behaves like any other profile: assignable, reportable, comparable.
Assign, Watch, Report
Assign a player, or a whole match
Two tracks in one plan: send a scout after a specific player, or hand him a fixture and a position brief. Every assignment is tracked through to a delivered report.
Five report types, your scale
Full, short, data, game and match reports. Fields and rating scales are configured per club, so two scouts describing the same player produce output you can actually compare.
Everything Known About the Player
Profile and analytics on one page
Career statistics, best performances, last matches, contract and agent — the whole file on one page instead of four tabs and a spreadsheet.
Physical output, measured
Running volume, sprints and intensity per match, charted over the season — the physical side read next to the tactical one, not in a separate report nobody opens.
The provider metrics you already pay for
Feed statistics land on the same profile, with the metric set you choose — percentiles against position peers, not a raw dump.
Every move, every club
The full transfer history with fees and the agents behind them — the record that tells you who you'll actually be negotiating with.
What he earned, and where
Salary history over the career, so the first conversation about wages starts from a number instead of a guess.
The injury record
Time missed, recurrence and the pattern behind it — the part of due diligence that gets skipped until it costs a transfer fee.
Compare, Shortlist, Decide
Candidates on one scale
Radar and scatter comparison across normalized metrics and scout ratings. The argument stops being whose intuition is louder.
A shortlist that stays current
Thousands of observations become a live list per position, reordering itself as reports come in — not a spreadsheet somebody remembers to refresh.
The squad as it would look
A shadow team per formation, with your targets in the slots they'd actually fill. Departures and new reports update it in place.
The AI Read, and the Board Dossier
Dozens of reports, one brief
An AI summary reads every report and metric on a player and writes the brief a sporting director actually has time for — with the source reports one click away.
Export what the board will read
Pick the pages — profile, career, physical, injuries, salary, transfers, provider stats, scout reports, comparison — and the dossier comes out as a PDF that needs no login and no explanation.
Connect the providers you already pay for, import via CSV or API, add your own indices — one player identity across every source. The methodology belongs to the club, not the platform.
The Whole Department, in Your Pocket
Smartclub installs on any phone or tablet as an app — no App Store, no separate, cut-down mobile product.
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Installs Like an App
Add Smartclub to the home screen on iOS or Android straight from the browser. Updates arrive on their own.
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Built for Match Day
Report forms designed for a phone in the stands — filled in during the game, not retyped that evening.
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One Account, Every Device
The same data and the same permissions on phone, tablet and desktop. Nothing is missing from the mobile view.
Built for Every Role
Scouts
- Clear tasks and priorities
- Easy-to-use report forms
- Fast access to player data
- Minimal administrative workload
Heads of Scouting
- Full control over workload and quality
- Unified evaluation methodology
- Transparent reports and short-lists
- Faster decision cycles
CEOs & Management
- Transparent and controlled scouting operations
- Time and resource efficiency
- Reduced transfer and financial risks
- Scalability for multi-club structures
Agencies & Partners
- A controlled view of your list
- Submit players without email attachments
- Every submission logged
- No access to the club's internal data
Your Database Stays Yours
What you put in, you can take out:
- Role-based access down to report level
- Export everything, any time — no lock-in
- GDPR-compliant processing of player data
- Single-tenant deployment available for multi-club groups
You keep your provider contracts, your data and your exit.
Questions We Get on Every Call
Do we have to change how we scout? +
No. Report forms, scales and priorities are configured to your existing methodology.
Do you supply the data? +
We integrate providers and your own sources. You keep your contracts and your data.
What about our historical reports? +
Imported, searchable, part of the same database.
How long does setup take? +
Discovery, configuration and import, then a single training session for your scouts. Weeks, not seasons.
We are a multi-club group. Does that work? +
Separate club spaces with a group-level overview, and a single-tenant deployment if you need one.
What does it cost? +
Per club, based on squad scope and number of users. Ask on the demo call.
Build a Scouting and Analytics System around Your Club's Philosophy
Smartclub connects football, data, and business into a single controlled ecosystem.