Getting Started

Two ways to start a team

You can build a roster by hand, or bring one in with a code from your league:

• Start from scratch. Tap Add your first player on the empty roster screen and add players one at a time.
• Have a code from your league? Tap Have a LeagueRun code? on the empty roster screen and enter it. Your roster and practice info pull in automatically. See Team Info & Roster for the full walkthrough.

Invited to help as an assistant coach?

If a head coach invited you, you're joining their team, not starting your own. Create a SquadRotate account with your own email. Then tap Have an assistant coach invite code? on the empty roster screen and enter the code they gave you, or follow the link they emailed you. You'll land on their team with a read-only view. See Coaching Staff for what that view covers.

The three tabs

The tabs under the top bar follow a coaching week:

• Roster: your players, team size, formation and coaching staff
• Practice: your daily routine and weekly practice plans
• Game-day: plan your rotation, then run the game live

The menu behind the logo

Tap the SquadRotate logo in the top left, or your team name next to it, to open the menu. You can also swipe in from the left edge of the screen. The menu holds:

• Teams: every team you coach or assist. Tap one to switch. The one you're on has a check mark.
• Join a team with a code: enter an assistant coach invite from a head coach.
• Team settings: lineup rules for this team, plus a few settings for this device only. See below.
• Help: this guide.
• Something's wrong?: report a problem. See below.
• Feedback: our ideas board, for requests and suggestions.
• Privacy, Sign out and Delete my account, at the bottom.

The top bar always shows the team you're on, with a short line under it such as 7V7 · HEAD COACH.

The first time you open the app after the October 2026 update, a short two-step tour points out where things moved. For 30 days after that, What's new at the bottom of the menu runs it again.

Note: If there's no menu behind the logo, your app still has the older layout. In that layout, your teams are the buttons on the Viewing row above the tabs, Settings is in the ☰ menu, and Sign out and Delete my account are under Account.

Team settings

Open the menu and tap Team settings.

Lineup rules apply to the whole team and sync to every coach on it:

• Fair balance: Auto-Assign never benches a kid two shifts in a row. On by default.
• Red card replacement: turn this on if your league lets a sub replace a player who is sent off. Off means your team plays one short.

This device only settings stay on the phone or computer you set them on:

• Balance suggestions: shows Auto-Assign All, Auto-fill open spots and the fairness pill on Game-day. Turn it off if you'd rather build every lineup by hand. The Player Rotation Tracker keeps reporting either way.
• Default tab on open: which tab the app opens on.

Assistant coaches see these settings as display only. The head coach sets them.

Switching teams

Each team keeps its own roster, formation, practice plans and games. Switch from the Teams list in the menu.

To rename a team, open the Roster tab and tap the team name at the top. The new name shows everywhere, including the top bar and the menu.

Is my work saved?

The badge in the top right of the top bar tells you:

• Saved: everything is safely in your account.
• Saving…: a change is on its way up.
• Offline, saved on this device: no signal. Your changes are kept on this phone and go up when you're back online.
• Not saved, retrying: a save didn't land. Tap the badge to see why. SquadRotate keeps retrying on its own.

Something's wrong?

Open the menu and tap Something's wrong? to send us a report. During a live game, the ! button on the game screen does the same. If a save fails, tapping the save badge gets you there too.

The report includes what went wrong with the app. It never includes your roster or your players' names. You'll see Thanks, we got it with a reference number once it arrives. If the app can't send it (for example, no signal at the field), you get two buttons instead. Email support@squadrotate.com opens your email app with a message that already holds the reference number, the app version and the sync status. Add a line about what happened and send it. Player names and roster details are never included. Copy details copies the same information if you'd rather paste it somewhere else.

If the app can't load

If SquadRotate can't load at all, you'll see SquadRotate couldn't load with a Refresh button. Tap it. If your team itself can't load, you'll see We couldn't load your team with Try again. Nothing on your team changes until the app can confirm what's saved in your account.