For Ball Close Game

For Ball is the companion app for amateur football — Sunday leagues, works teams, university sides and any group that plays a regular fixture and wants a real record of it. Create a team or join one with an invite code, fill the squad, schedule fixtures, and record the match minute by minute. Every table and every statistic is derived from the matches your team actually played. RECORD THE MATCH LIVE • Log goals, assists, cards, substitutions, own goals, penalties, saves, corners and free kicks as they happen • A server-authoritative match clock so every teammate sees the same minute • One device records at a time; teammates on the bench or at home follow the score in real time • Swipe to correct a mistake and the timeline updates for every viewer • End-of-match summary with final score, scorers and cards, confirmed in one tap FIXTURES AND RESULTS • Upcoming fixtures, results and full season history in one list • Opponent, kickoff time, home or away, venue and competition • Squad availability with yes, no and maybe counts on every fixture • A live match is pinned to the top with the running score MATCH DETAIL • Set the lineup by dragging players onto the pitch, with 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 3-5-2, 5-3-2 and 4-2-3-1 formations • Full event timeline plus paired match statistics for both sides • Player ratings from one to ten, averaged across the whole squad • Shared match notes and system share sheet export SQUAD AND PLAYERS • Roster grouped by position with shirt numbers, appearances, goals and assists • Captain's armband, preferred foot and unique shirt number validation • Removing a player keeps their historical match events intact • Per-player season totals, minutes, cards, saves and clean sheets • Per-ninety rates, rating form chart, goal involvement chart and a position map STANDINGS • League table with played, won, drawn, lost, goals for and against, goal difference and points • Your own club row stays visible and highlighted • Top scorer and clean-sheet races • Global drill rankings for today, this week and all time TRAINING • Keeper Wall — goalkeeper reaction, tap the shots before they cross the line • Sprint Timing — ten repetitions scored on median reaction and consistency • Passing Precision — flick the ball to a moving target zone • Dribble Control — drag through a slalom of cones on time and clean gates • Personal bests, median of your last ten runs, run counts and sparklines • A weekly plan of three drill targets chosen from your recent history • Your global percentile for each drill MATCH DAY QUIZ • A fresh football trivia deck every morning, identical for every player that day • Timed multiple choice on competitions, rules, history and famous matches • Answer review, daily standings and a streak of consecutive days WORKS OFFLINE • Squad, fixtures, match events, ratings and training runs are stored on device • A whole match can be recorded with no signal and synced afterwards • Events are keyed locally so a retried upload never double-counts a goal • Cached tables and leaderboards keep rendering instead of blanking NO ACCOUNTS • No email, no password, no third-party sign-in • An anonymous device identifier is the only identity the server ever sees • Team membership is a link established by an invite code • Your avatar is picked from your Photo Library and never leaves the device SETTINGS • Match reminders a chosen number of hours before kickoff • Haptics on recording an event and keep-screen-awake during the clock • Default match length, automatic availability prompts and a reduced-motion switch • Export your season as a JSON file, or reset local data For Ball keeps one clean record of your team's season: what you played, who scored, and where you finished.