Creating a club

You can found a new badminton club on the platform whether or not you personally play. The flow is the same; what changes is how you appear inside the club afterwards.

Where to start

There are a few doors into the club-creation form:

The Start free button on the clubs page.
The Start a club button on your My clubs page.

All of them open the same form at /create-club.

Before you start

Have a name and short URL slug in mind (e.g. Riverside Wing Smashers, riverside-wing-smashers).
Decide who the club is for (adults, adults and juniors, or juniors only).
Decide whether you'll also be a playing member of the club, or only its administrator.

The flow

The steps depend on whether you're already signed in.

Club details: enter the club name, URL slug, and an optional contact email. The slug must be unique.
Your account (only if you're not signed in): enter your name, email, and password to create your account at the same time. Signed-in founders skip this step; we reuse your existing account.
Who is this club for? Choose Adults, Adults and juniors, or Juniors only. There is no default, so you have to pick one. This choice shapes your starting membership types:
- Adults: a single Monthly Member type is seeded, open to everyone.
- Adults and juniors: an Adult Member type (adults only) and a Junior Member type (juniors only) are seeded side by side, so each group lands on the right tier.
- Juniors only: just a Junior Member type is seeded. (If you say you'll play yourself in the next step, an Adult Member type is added too, since you're an adult.)
For junior and mixed clubs, junior setup tasks also appear on your onboarding checklist. Safeguarding setup (the junior declaration and a welfare officer) is required before you can enrol any child.
Will you play at this club? Choose Yes or No.
- Yes: you become both an admin (chairman role) AND a playing member with the default membership type. You appear in the member list and your name shows up in lineups, applications, etc.
- No: you become a chairman admin only. You do not appear in the member list and no membership fee applies to you. You can still administer everything, settings, members, teams, finances.
Create club: submission seeds default data (membership types, role catalogue) and emails you a welcome.

After creation

You land on a success page with links to your new club's dashboard. From there:

Invite the rest of your committee, see Inviting a non-playing admin. Treasurers, secretaries, welfare officers etc. can be invited without becoming players.
Adjust the seeded membership types (names, prices, durations) from Settings → Memberships. They all start free so you can invite members straight away.
Start adding members directly, or open applications.

Changing your mind later

You said "no" but now want to play: join your own club from /me/clubs like any other member.
You said "yes" but now want to step back from playing: archive your member record from Admin team → Members. Your admin role stays.