Teams

Everything in Hobbit hangs on a team: trainings and matches, attendance, debriefs, fee accounts and income are all kept per team. The team page runs from top to bottom: the team's schedule, a map when the team has grounds, the captain, the team photographer and the public page, then three columns (Team brain, Material and Squad) and, at the bottom, the team knowledge base. On a phone the three columns become three tabs, one at a time.

Creating a team

On the team page, press "Create Team".

• Name: anything you like. Hobbit never guesses the age from the name; the age group field is the authority.
• Age group: one number, U8 for example, never a range. When you ask for a session plan in the chat, the form takes its age group from here; the lineup's default format follows it too.
• Training ground: required, and you can add several. Every training takes place at one of them, and each can be pinned on the map.
• Public page address: cannot be changed after creation, so shared links stay valid forever. If it is taken, pick another.
• Badge and team colour: upload a badge and its main colour is picked automatically; or choose one of eight colours, or a custom one. The calendar, the workspace and the public page show the team in that colour.
• Founded: the public page shows "founded in".
• Time zone: the time zone the team's trainings are scheduled in.

Squad

Add players by hand: name, number, gender, birthdate, height and weight, preferred foot, joined date, parent name, phone and email, medical and other notes. Only the name is required.

AI Import (Pro): Excel, CSV, PDF, a Word document (.docx or the older .doc), a screenshot, or a list pasted straight from a group chat. A spreadsheet is read column by column first, and you can correct what each column means; PDFs, Word documents, screenshots and text are read by the AI into teams and players, several teams at once, and a team whose name matches one you have is added to. It takes about 20 to 40 seconds.

Import from other teams: the same child on two of your teams comes across from the other team. When you add a player by hand and one of your other teams already has a child with that name, Hobbit asks "Same child?". If it is, the two share one profile and one fee account.

The joined date is worth getting right: sessions before it are not that child's sessions. The attendance board marks them "not on the team yet" and the attendance rate is unaffected.

Captain: set at the top of the team page. The team photographer uses the captain to set the style of the whole squad's player cards.

The Squad column has one row per player: attendance rate, sessions left or the paid-until date, and a status (Active, Renew soon, Expired, No show 30 days, Inactive). Open a row for the full profile; see Players and fees.

Team brain

This column is what Hobbit knows about the team. The "→" tags next to each heading show where it is used.

Memory (Pro): every time you save a debrief or a match result, Hobbit rewrites the team's "Recent state" and "What's next" from the latest debriefs, scores, attendance and the things you confirmed, and dates it. You can edit either by hand, and it will not overwrite what you edited. When a training in the workspace has no debrief yet, its "Next focus" comes from here.

Team memo: things you told Hobbit, kept until you delete them. "Thursdays we only have half a pitch, plan for 30×20", "Sam's mum wants him encouraged to ask for the ball". Add them here, or say "remember..." in the chat and press "Save" on the card.

Philosophy & culture: how you play and what you value. This is the paragraph most worth writing: the chat and every session plan follow it, parent previews talk about it, and the public page shows it. If you are stuck, the AI can draft it with you (Pro).

With one team, Hobbit brings all of this into every chat; with several, name the team in the message.

Material

About & honors: the team's introduction and what it has won. Shown on the public page, and parent previews draw on the introduction.

Coach: your coaching profile (years coaching, credentials, club, city), shown on the public page.

Session library: the plans this team has used. A plan put on this team's calendar is filed here on its own, and "Import +" adds any saved plan by hand. Ask the chat to "put the passing session on Thursday" and Hobbit looks here first.

Team knowledge base

Curricula, photos, match video; drag them in (Pro). Hobbit reads the text inside documents and PDFs, so "what does our curriculum say for week three" gets an answer in the chat. 5 GB per team. After a subscription lapses, files are removed on the date shown. Do not upload files with players' personal or medical details.

Schedule and season

The top of the team page is the team's schedule, and every event carries four dots: plan or lineup, preview, attendance, debrief, lit once done. Press an event to open it in the coach workspace.

The whole season's attendance, results and each player's appearances are in Coaching career, the first page of your account: under "Attendance by team", press "Season" on the team.

Public page

"Public team page" at the top of the team page is the link for parents. See Public team page.

More than one team

Every team has its own brain, calendar and public page; U8 and U14 never mix. Switch in the sidebar. In the chat, naming the team is enough to say which team you mean.

The free plan includes one team; Pro is unlimited.

Coaching staff

A team has one coach account today. Several coaches sharing one team is not built yet.