Feature Deep Dive9 November 2026·11 min read

SquadScore Explained: Every Point, Streak, Prize and Record in SquadGod

SquadScore turns everything your players do for the team into a live points table: appearances, wins, goals, assists, saves, tackles, clean sheets, Player of the Match, training attendance and sprint personal bests.

Here is every value, every bonus, every streak, how each point is calculated, where it shows up in the app, and why it changes how a squad behaves.

⭐ What SquadScore Actually Is

SquadScore is a points league for your own squad. Every action your players take that is worth rewarding — turning up to training, playing, winning, scoring, assisting, saving, tackling, keeping a clean sheet, winning Player of the Match, beating a sprint personal best — is turned into points and added to a live table.

The important part is that nothing is guessed. Each score is built from individual point events, and each event carries a reason and a date. A player can open their history and read exactly why their total moved: appearance against Wendron, two goals at Bude, a training attendance bonus, a coach’s group award after a brilliant session.

Because the total is the sum of those events rather than a number typed in by hand, correcting a match corrects the score, and every screen in the app shows the same figure.

It is the fantasy football feeling applied to a real team, with real consequences for who turns up and who puts the work in.

📋 The Points System: Every Value, and Every Value Is Yours to Change

SquadScore ships with sensible defaults for grassroots football. A coach can rewrite any single value in settings, so a team that values defending can weight tackles and clean sheets more heavily, and a team that wants to drive attendance can raise the training points.

Played in a match: 3 points
In the squad for a win: 3 points
Goal: 3 points each
Assist: 3 points each
Key tackle: 1 point each
Key save: 2 points each
Clean sheet: 5 points
Player of the Match: 10 points
Training attendance: 3 points per session
Sprint personal best: 5 points

Every value is editable from Point Values in the SquadScore screen, so the system fits your team rather than the other way round.

🎯 How Match Points Are Generated

Match points come from the match itself, either from the live match tracker on the touchline or from the Enter Result flow if a phone died or nobody was tracking. As soon as the result is recorded, points are calculated per player in one pass.

A single event is written per player per match, and its reason lists the full breakdown, for example "3 PTS for appearance, 3 PTS for win, 6 PTS for 2 goals". That is why a haul can be traced back line by line.

Appearance points for every player in the matchday squad
Win bonus for the players who were part of a winning squad
Goals and assists at the coach’s configured rate
Saves and tackles, so goalkeepers and defenders earn properly
POTM as the single biggest award of the week
Clean sheets credited to the individuals who earned them, not just to the team

If you re-record or correct a result, the old match events are cleared and rebuilt, so points never double up.

🏃 Training Attendance Points

Attendance is the quiet engine of a grassroots squad, and it is the one thing a player fully controls. Log a session in SquadScore, untick anyone who did not turn up, and every attendee instantly earns the training attendance points.

The same log feeds the attendance leaderboard, the per-player training breakdown you can tap into, and the Tireless streak — so a wet Tuesday in November is worth something in three separate places.

Log the session even when it was a poor one. The record is the point.

💪 SquadStreaks: Bonus Points for Doing It Again and Again

SquadStreaks is the bonus layer on top of the base points. It rewards sustained commitment and sustained performance, because anyone can have one good week — the squad is built by the players who repeat it.

The mechanic is deliberately simple. Hit the activation target, and from that moment the bonus pays out every time you maintain it.

💪 Tireless: 3 training sessions in a row, then points per session
👟 Ever-Present: 3 matches in a row, then points per match
🔥 Conqueror: 3 wins in a row, then points per win
⚡ On Fire: a goal or assist in 3 matches in a row, then points per match
⚔️ Battler: 5 or more tackles in 3 matches in a row, then points per match
🧤 Shot Stopper: 5 or more saves in 3 matches in a row, then points per match
🧱 Brick Wall: 2 clean sheets in a row, then points per match

Every target and every payout is adjustable, and each qualifying streak shows as a glowing dial on the player’s squad card, so players can see what they are close to breaking.

⚡ Sprint Personal Bests

Log a player’s sprint time and SquadGod compares it with their own history. Beat it, and the personal best points are awarded automatically — no coach arithmetic, no argument about whether it counted.

Delete a time that was logged in error and the points are withdrawn with it, so the league stays honest.

🎁 Manual Awards, Deductions and Group Bonuses

Not everything that deserves points happens on a Saturday. A coach can award or deduct points for anything with a written reason: helping with the nets, running the warm-up, a brilliant attitude at training, or being late twice in a week.

The group bonus does the same thing for several players at once, which is how you reward a whole squad for a great session or a tournament weekend without twenty separate entries.

Points can be positive or negative
A reason is required, and it is shown in the feed and in the player’s history
Group awards write one event per selected player, so individual totals stay accurate
Only the team owner can award or deduct points

Deductions work best sparingly. The system motivates because it mostly gives.

🏆 The Rankings: Ties, Medals and Movement

The SquadScore screen is a proper league table. Players level on points share a rank rather than being split arbitrarily, the top three carry gold, silver and bronze markers, and anyone on zero is left unranked until they earn something.

Rank movement arrows are rebuilt from the last seven days of point events, so the arrows show genuine climbers and droppers rather than whatever this phone last remembered.

Tap any player to open their full points history
Share the leaderboard as a card straight into the team chat
Prizes appear against the positions that earn them, with a prize-zone divider across the table
Share link available for anyone who should be able to follow the race

🔥 Biggest Match Hauls

Under the table sits the biggest match hauls board: the five highest single-match point totals of the season, each naming the player, the opponent, the date and the total.

Tap a haul and it opens up to show where every point came from that afternoon. This is usually the moment a defender discovers that nine tackles, a clean sheet and a win add up to more than a striker’s tap-in.

It also gives you an answer when someone asks who really had the best game of the season.

📜 The Feed and the Player History

The SquadScore feed is a chronological record of everything that has happened in the league. It is grouped sensibly: a training session is one line rather than twenty, and a long match haul is condensed into one entry naming the top earners amongst other points.

The player history view is the personal version. Filter it by category, see the positive and negative events, read the match context for each entry, and understand the total without needing the coach to explain it.

🥇 Prizes, Season Awards and What Happens at the End of the Season

Coaches can set prize tiers — a match ball, first pick of the training tops, captain for a day, whatever motivates your group — and they appear on the leaderboard next to the position that earns them.

At the end of a season, SquadScore feeds the end-of-season picture: the top scorer on points is recognised as the SquadScore winner in player progress reports, and the season summary can name the points leader.

Starting a new season carries every player over with stats and SquadScore reset to zero
The points configuration is copied forward, so you do not rebuild the system each year
Streaks all end at the season boundary and begin fresh in August
Archived seasons become read-only, so last season’s table stays exactly as it finished

🛡️ Who Can Do What

SquadScore is visible to the whole squad but editable only by the team owner. Assistant coaches, statisticians and supporters can follow the race without being able to move it.

If a coach would rather the table stayed in-house, SquadScore can be hidden from viewers entirely, and the public team page only shows a SquadScore leaderboard if the coach opts in.

🔗 Everywhere Else It Shows Up

Because it is built from the same event history as everything else, SquadScore appears throughout the app rather than sitting on one page.

Squad cards: a SquadScore tile that flips to show the average earned per match
Streak dials on each player card, with a full explanation of how close they are to the next one
My Player: each player and their family see their own points, history and league position
Team analytics: the top point earner for each match in the season timeline
Progress reports: SquadScore alongside goals, assists, POTM and attendance
Public team page: an optional SquadScore leaderboard for the whole community

One record, many surfaces — which is why nobody has to update anything twice.

🧠 Why It Works for Squad Engagement

Most grassroots motivation problems are really feedback problems. Players cannot see progress week to week, so effort feels invisible. SquadScore closes that loop in a way a league table cannot, because it scores the things a league table ignores.

It rewards the goalkeeper, the tackler and the trainer, not only the goalscorer
It makes attendance matter in a visible way, without a lecture
It creates a weekly talking point in the group chat, which is free engagement
It gives coaches a factual basis for selection conversations instead of opinion
It makes streaks and consistency the thing players chase, which is exactly what you want in February
It gives parents something specific and positive to ask their child about

⏱️ Setting It Up in Ten Minutes

Open SquadScore from the Team Dashboard, adjust the point values to suit your squad, decide whether Streaks should be on, set any prizes, and then just use the app the way you already do.

Record your next match live, or enter the result afterwards, and the first points will appear immediately
Log one training session and watch attendance points land
Share the leaderboard card into the team chat after the first match — that is what starts the race
Review the biggest hauls after a month and tell the squad what the current record is

Set up your squad’s points league tonight

SquadScore builds itself from the matches and training you already record. Free to start, adjustable in minutes, and the whole squad can follow the race from day one.

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