Men’s firsts. Women’s. U18s. A development side. University programmes that field more than one BUCS squad. The moment you grow, the “one team chat” model snaps.
Fixtures collide. Fee lists multiply. The same coach becomes the human API between five muted threads.
The provoke: more squads, more chaos — unless the club has a home
A second team is not “just another group.” It is another roster, another set of RSVPs, another fee season, another place for licences and matchday notes to live. If each squad is a silo, handover dies when one volunteer leaves — and nobody can see the whole club.
What to teach: Club HQ + coach portal
Run5 multi-squad Club HQ lets coaches run several squads under one club. Work from the phone courtside, or from the desk on the web portal.
- Run up to 5 squads under one club with Run5 Pro, and switch between them in one tap from Home or Settings
- See every squad’s record in the club overview, and bring squad chats together with combined club chat
- Run A and B teams from one squad (“Plays as two teams”), sharing the roster and chat while each team keeps its own record
- Manage rosters, fixtures, availability and payments without rebuilding from zero
- Use the coach web portal when a laptop is faster than a phone
- Import roster rows from a CSV when you already have a spreadsheet
- Store club documents where staff can find them — not buried in email
Open the portal: admin.run5basketball.com/login (also linked as Coach login across the site).
How Run5 solves it: one club home instead of a pile of chats. Start in the free app core for a single squad; use Club HQ and the portal when the programme needs a real HQ. Related: Growing past one team · Club calendar · Features · Club HQ.