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Assess
An anchored 1–5 skill ladder and the 4 corners — scored by coach, player and parent, with relative-age context built in.
For UK ice hockey clubs & academies
Every player
deserves a plan.
RinkTracker runs your whole club around one development loop — assess, plan, develop, review — then handles everything around it: the schedule, the subs, the tournaments, the shop and a safeguarding-first portal for families.
Invite-only onboarding · Every club fully isolated · Families always free
9 Plan on track
Centre · U14 · Born Oct–Dec
Oliver Smith
Skating
L4
Game IQ
L2½
Puck control
L3½
Tick = the U14 age-band target. Levels are anchored, 0–5.
Confidence
3.4/5
Connections
4.0/5
Character
3.6/5
This term’s focus
Game IQ → age level (L3)
Scored by coach, player & parent · review 12 Jul
1–5
anchored skill ladder, scored against age-band targets
U10–U19
age bands with their own expectations
3
voices on every review — coach, player, parent
£0
for parents and players, on every plan
The development loop
No. 01One loop, the whole season.
Most club software stores information. RinkTracker closes a loop: what you assess becomes what you plan, what you plan becomes what you train, and what you train shows up at the next review — for every player, every term.
How player development works02
Plan
Gaps become goals, tasks and practice priorities. One development plan per player, owned by the coach.
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Develop
Sessions, off-ice programmes, drills and video — the week's work, tied back to what each player is building.
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Review
Evidence-rich reviews and reports families actually read — approved by the coach before a parent ever sees them.
The programme
No. 02Everything a club runs on.
Browse all featuresNo. 01
Player development
Anchored assessments, the 4 corners, goals and reviews — one loop per player.
Read page 01No. 02
Coaching tools
Practice planning, a drill library, video analysis and an AI planner that works from your gaps.
Read page 02No. 03
Club operations
Schedule, availability, game-day rosters, tournaments and The Loop team feed.
Read page 03No. 04
Finance
A real ledger, Direct Debit subs, invoices, budgets, VAT and the team shop.
Read page 04No. 05
Parents & players
A consent-gated portal, players' own safe logins, and families on the same plan.
Read page 05No. 06
Safeguarding & governance
Roles, audit history, medical gating and imagery consent — the foundation, not a feature.
Read page 06Finance
No. 03Subs that collect themselves.
Set the plan, invite the family, and Direct Debit does the chasing. Every payment — subs, kit, tournament fees, shop orders — lands in one club ledger, so the treasurer sees the season, not a shoebox of receipts.
- Direct Debit subscriptions via GoCardless, with failed payments retried automatically
- One payments ledger across subs, invoices, the shop and events
- Budgets, forecasts and VAT that reconcile against real collections
- A branded team shop whose orders post straight into the ledger
Subscriptions · July
£1,240
collected by Direct Debit
Jack Davies
U14 monthly subs
Maya Kowalski
U12 monthly subs
Sam Whitehouse
U14 monthly subs
Lily Chen
Goalie clinic
Failed payments retry themselves; every payment lands in the club ledger.
Match day
No. 04Showcase Cup · Sunday
16 games · 2 surfaces
09:00Northern Blades v Sheffield Steel3–2Surface 1
09:25Storm Juniors v Bristol Bears1–1Surface 2
09:50Ice cut — all surfaces10 min
10:00Semi-final 1Surface 1
Planner works forward from 09:00, cuts includedFinish 13:35
Run a full tournament without leaving the app.
From weekly practices to a two-surface showcase weekend: availability, rosters and duties for the season — and a tournament planner that works forward from the first face-off, ice cuts included, onto a public hub with live standings and brackets.
- Season schedule with RSVPs, attendance and game-day rosters
- Tournament planner that calculates the day — gaps, resurfacing, finish time
- A public hub for schedules, standings and brackets
Families
No. 05Parents in the loop. Children protected by it.
Families get a portal scoped to their own child — progress, schedule, payments and the team feed — only after consent is recorded. And every player can have their own safe login, so they check their own training without ever touching a parent's account.
- Child-scoped portal: progress, reports, RSVPs, payments
- Consent-gated — nothing shared until a parent agrees
- The Loop: posts, polls and updates with read tracking
Player loginsNew
Give your player their own sign-in — a simple username and 4-digit PIN you set up in seconds. They see only their own training; finance, medical and messages don't exist for a player login, and no child contact details ever reach the coach.
Player login
Signed inJACK · U14
Their own username & PIN — never a parent’s account
Skills practice · Tue 18:15Going
Backhand homework — 2 clipsTo do
Your level — 3½ of 5+0.2
Username
jackd7
KHTeam
Coach Hughes
The Loop · U14 · 2h ago
Big weekend — two wins and the best forecheck we have played all season. Poll: which start time for the Christmas friendly?
Sat 16:0072%
Sun 09:1528%
18 votes6 commentsRead by 21 of 24 families
Coaching
No. 06Practice plan · U14 · Tue 19:00
Built from this squad’s gaps
10′Warm-up — edges & escapesSkating
20′2v2 small-area game, scan ruleGame IQ
15′Net-front tips & retrievalsShooting
10′Conditioned scrimmageGame IQ
Squad gap: Game IQ below the U14 target — the plan leans into it. Coach edits, then publishes.
Development report · Spring
Coach approvedOliver Smith — moving up.
Skating is ahead of the U14 target; Game IQ sits just below it. Confidence reads strong across coach, player and parent. Focus for next term: reads in the defensive zone.
Born Oct–Dec — context applied4 corners scoredRead by parent ✓
Coach the gaps, not the guesswork.
The planner knows what your squad needs because the assessments feed it. Draft a session from the drill library in minutes, attach video evidence to reviews, and let AI polish the writing — never the judgement. Coaches approve everything families see.
- AI practice planner that works from your squad's real gaps
- A drill library wired into session plans
- Video clips and evidence attached to players and reviews
- AI-polished reports — always coach-approved before publishing
Safeguarding
No. 07Built around the people you protect.
UK junior hockey is under-18 hockey. Safeguarding is not a setting you switch on — it is the foundation the platform is built on, from imagery consent to who can open a medical record.
Consented, child-scoped access
Parents see and manage only their own child, and only once consent is recorded. Never another player.
Permissions that match your bench
Coaches and staff get exactly the access their role needs — medical details stay gated to senior staff.
Isolated by design
Every club is a separate, walled-off workspace. No club can see another club's players.
Safeguarding record · Jack Davies
Imagery consent
Photos in team posts — allowed
Medical details
Visible to head coach and above
Parent access
Consent recorded · own child only
Medical note viewed — K. Hughes (Head coach)
Today 14:02
Consent updated by parent
Tue 19:44
Every look at a sensitive record is logged.
Pricing
No. 08Priced for club budgets.
Flat monthly plans, families always free, and no cut of your subs. Direct Debit fees pass through at cost.
Foundation
£49/month +VAT
The development core for a single club finding its feet.
Up to 60 players
Academy
Most clubs£119/month +VAT
The whole operating system — development, money and matchday.
Up to 150 players
Performance
£249/month +VAT
For large programmes that want a partner, not just a platform.
Up to 400 players
Help & docs
No. 09Getting started
Create your academy, add teams and your first players.
ReadRoles & permissions
Who can do what, and how the hierarchy is enforced.
ReadParent portal & consent
How safeguarding-first family access works.
ReadWondering about children's data? Read the privacy policy and safeguarding policy.
See it with your club in mind.
A 30-minute walkthrough tailored to your age groups, then an invite code to set your academy up properly.