Everyone gets off the bench.
Benchwarmer works out every player's fair share of the minutes, tracks it live during the match, and carries what they're owed into the next one.
Download on the App StoreFree. No account. Works with no signal.
It's the twenty-fifth minute, and you don't know.
A parent is asking why their kid is still on the bench. You've been watching the ball, not the clock, and you honestly cannot say how long anyone has been on. Benchwarmer is built for that moment: a team manager for coaches who care that the minutes come out even.
Fair playing time, without the mental arithmetic.
Benchwarmer works out each player's fair share of the match and shows who is owed time, updated live as you make changes. The debt carries across the season, so the kid who sat out last week comes up first this week. Players who weren't available are never charged for a match they couldn't play.
Line-ups you drag into place.
Drop players onto a half-pitch to build your starting eleven, or your starting six. Every format from 5-a-side to 11-a-side, with formations generated for each one. Swap two players by dragging one onto the other.
A clock that survives real life.
Lock your phone, take a call, or restart the app mid-match. The clock is rebuilt from timestamps rather than ticked along, so it still reads correctly when you come back. Nudge it by ten seconds when the referee disagrees. Quarters or halves, your choice.
rebuilt from timestamps — lock your phone, it keeps counting
Tap a player. Log what they did.
Goals, assists, fouls and cards, recorded in seconds. Goals nobody could attribute still count in the score, without inventing a scorer — because youth football produces goalmouth scrambles. A red card takes the player off and recalculates everyone else's fair share for a squad playing a man down.
Every player's season, on one screen.
Minutes, appearances, starts, goals, clean sheets and the positions they actually played. Season statistics fold out of the match logs rather than sitting in a totals table, so correcting a goal in March fixes the table in May.
Training, not just matches.
Schedule your sessions ahead of time, then mark who turned up, who didn't, and who had a reason. Rate the players who came on effort, performance, attitude and teamwork, and watch each player's attendance rate and averages build over the season. An excused absence, for injury or a holiday, never counts against anyone.
Built for a cold Saturday morning.
The touchline is not a desk. Benchwarmer is designed for the real conditions of coaching youth football.
Big touch targets
Made for gloved hands on a cold touchline.
High-contrast mode
Readable when the low winter sun is straight in your eyes.
One screen, no scrolling
The whole match on a single screen while it is live.
Your data stays on your phone.
No account, no sign-up, no server. Benchwarmer works with no signal at all, which matters on the pitches that don't have any. Everything lives on your device, and you can export a team to a file whenever you want to move it or keep a copy.