Run5 is a basketball team management app for coaches, players and parents. It was created by a basketball player who lived the same friction every program knows: fixtures in one place, dues in another, scores on paper, licences in email, and a chat thread that never sleeps.
The idea was simple. If the app was going to ask a coach to trust it on matchday, it had to understand basketball the way players do. Quarters. Fouls. Bonus. Box scores. Season form. Roster reality. Not a generic “sports club” template with basketball stickers on top.
Run5 is free for players and parents, and the free core always will be. Teams can run home, roster, chat, events, RSVPs and season fee basics without paying to belong.
Why Run5 exists
Basketball programs in the UK grow in messy, human ways. A grassroots club adds another age group. A university side rotates captains every year. A volunteer coach scores a game on a clipboard, then spends Sunday typing numbers into a sheet nobody opens.
Broad team apps try to serve every sport at once. That breadth sounds efficient until tip off, when the tool cannot speak the language of the game. Run5 was built the other way around: basketball first, then everything a program needs around it.
Created by someone who has been in the gym
Run5 was shaped by a basketball player who knows what it means to chase RSVPs before practice, hunt fee screenshots before league night, and rebuild the same roster list every September. The product is not a theory about sports tech. It is a response to courtside reality.
That is why Live Game Stats feels like a scorer’s table. Why licence fields sit on player profiles. Why season fees sit next to the people who owe them. Why the coach dashboard shows what matters next, not a wall of unused widgets.
Who Run5 is for
- Grassroots clubs running multiple teams across school halls and hired courts
- Amateur coaches who want less admin and more coaching time
- University and BUCS pathways that need roster clarity, events and eligibility hygiene
- Players and parents who just need the next game, the RSVP and a clear fee status
Free forever at the core
Run5 believes the basics of belonging to a team should never be locked away. Team home, roster, profiles, chat, events, RSVPs, season fee tracking basics, team details and notifications stay free. Players can enter England Basketball licence details on their own profile without paying a wall.
Run5 Pro unlocks deeper tools when a program is ready: live scoring, club finance, staff licence dashboard, match sheets, playbook, season intelligence and opponent discovery. New teams get 30 days of Pro to try that layer. The free foundation remains.
The promise
Run5 will keep building for basketball people. Not every sport. Basketball. From the first invite to the final whistle, the aim is one app that feels like it was made by someone who has worn the kit, carried the clipboard and still showed up for practice the next morning.