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Getting started for coaches

From sign-up to your first week with the team: account, invites, practices, matches and analysis.

1. Create your account

As a Coach you create the team. You can sign up in two ways:

The first two fields are nationality and app language: the screen switches language immediately, without losing what you typed. Details in Account and security.

2. Create the team

After sign-up a guided flow starts. Everything can be changed later from Settings.

  1. Team details: name, gender (men's, women's or mixed) and league.
  2. Logo: PNG or JPG, square is best. You can skip it and upload later.
  3. Plan: the 15-day free trial with Pro plan features is already active, no card required. See Free trial, Pro and Club.
  4. Quick invites: create the invite link to share.
  5. Roster: the flow ends on the team page, where you add players.

The Dashboard shows the First steps checklist: each item opens the right screen and ticks itself off. When you no longer need it, close it with the X.

3. Bring in athletes and staff

  1. Open More → Settings → Invite new users and share the invite link or the team code.
  2. Each person signs up choosing their role (athlete or staff) and requests to join.
  3. Approve requests: create a roster card, link to an existing card, or approve only.
  4. In Settings → Members and permissions decide who can use each feature: events, documents, videos, scouting, attendance, roster, polls, weight training plans and physical tests.
Access by invite and by permission. Joining the team doesn't mean seeing everything: each feature follows the permissions you assign and the app's privacy rules. For example, without extra permissions athletes see their own statistics and tests, not their teammates'; physiotherapy and absence reasons stay private. Details in Invites and members.

4. Your first week: before, during and after the match

Before: prepare the practice

  1. Create practices in the calendar, one by one or importing from Excel (Events and schedule).
  2. Open a practice and tap Prepare the exercises: write exercises with focus and duration, check available players by position and publish the plan. Guide: Practice planning.
  3. Note absences reported in advance in Attendance → Planned absences.

During: organise the match

  1. Create the match and link it to the calendar; the whole roster is already included, call-ups are optional (Matches).
  2. On the bench, start live scouting from the match page, or rely on your scout.

After: analyse and move on

  1. Import the .dvw file into the match and upload any box scores you received (Statistics).
  2. Open Game analysis, save a private note and link it to your next session.
  3. Record attendance for the week's events (Attendance).
Practice planning, the match page, Game analysis and the monthly dashboard are part of version 2.2.0: web app available now; iPhone and Android available after updating the app to 2.2.0.

5. Free trial, Pro and Club

Prices, payment and invoices are explained in Subscriptions and billing.

6. Other features

You use the same account on iPhone, Android and the web app at www.volleycontrolcenter.app.

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