Helping grassroots footballers get seen with Player Profile Hub

A verified, safeguarding-first platform for youth football, built from the ground up — FIFA-style player cards, a highlight feed, coach discovery and five profile tiers, on web and a React Native app.

0→1built from the ground up
3surfaces — web, iOS, Android
5profile tiers, Standard → Platinum
verifiedprofile verification and visibility controls

Player discovery with safeguarding built in

The product serves young footballers and their parents, which makes verification and visibility controls central to the design. We built the web and React Native apps around these requirements: profile verification, controlled sharing of highlights and coach discovery with defined access rules.

From a first profile to a coach’s shortlist

A social product for a sensitive audience — the polish of a consumer app, with verification and safeguarding underneath every screen.

01

Verified player profiles

FIFA-style player cards with a PPH rating, position, age, club and dominant foot — the profile a young player actually wants to build and share.

02

The Hub

A highlight feed with For You and Followings, filtered by age, position, tier, foot and coach-only, and searchable by name, club or team.

03

Highlight moments

Players capture and upload highlight clips; others follow, like, comment and share — with a TikTok-style vertical player on the phone.

04

Verification & safeguarding

Document verification and email verification wired in from the first screen, so a profile is trustworthy and a parent can track their child's development safely.

05

Tiers & progression

Five profile tiers, Standard through Silver, Gold, Black Elite and Platinum, with an upgrade flow and celebration animations that make progress feel earned.

06

Discovery for coaches

A multi-facet filter engine — age, position, dominant foot, tier, coach-only — plus search, so a coach can actually find the right player.

What the work enabled

  1. A verified, safeguarding-first profile platform for grassroots football — built from the ground up, web and native app.

  2. FIFA-style player cards with PPH ratings and five tiers, so a young player's profile is something they want to build.

  3. A highlight feed — upload, follow, like and share — with a TikTok-style vertical player on mobile.

  4. Document and email verification wired in from the first screen, because the users are children and their parents.

  5. A multi-facet discovery engine (age, position, foot, tier, coach-only) so coaches can actually find players.

  6. Built to clear App Store review for a safeguarding-sensitive app — icons, sandbox accounts and the review dialogue that a families' app demands.

How the platform fits together

  • React
  • Expo
Mobile
React Native — iOS & Android
Web
Responsive web app — Home, Hub, Discover, Dashboard
Highlights
Video upload, feed and per-clip engagement
Profiles
Tiered player cards & PPH ratings; player / coach roles
Trust
Document verification + email verification
Discovery
Multi-facet filtering (age, position, foot, tier) + search
Distribution
App Store & Google Play
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