The software that fills your 5-a-side evenings
Ten players by default, a game played mostly after work, a whole team to get together: indoor football has its own rhythm. SportFinder handles it natively and sets it up your way — squad size, deposit, evening rate — so that your best slots do not stay empty.
Your five, your rules
Ten players, five a side, is the most common setting — but nothing imposes it everywhere: each pitch offers the format and the payment method that suit it.
- 8, 10 or 12 players, pitch by pitch: from 4v4 to 6v6, the expected squad size is set per surface, not for the whole club — one pitch stays 5v5 while another, bigger one offers 6v6.
- One payer, or ten shares: the organiser pays and gets paid back by the players, or everyone pays their own share online. You choose who pays, pitch by pitch — most 5-a-side centres keep a single payer, some the split payment.
- Open when your players play: at Hi Five, booking runs from 7am to midnight, seven days a week, with a deposit set at 30% for football and 25% for padel — two sports, two settings, one club.
A centre that mixes football and racket sports is run from our multi-sport software, without changing tools.
The deposit that secures your evenings
In indoor football, a team that books and then does not turn up is not one missing player: it is ten empty places at once, on the most expensive slot of the day. A deposit sorts that out without blocking the booking.
- The pitch is held as soon as the deposit is paid — on a €60 pitch with a 30% deposit, that is €18 to hold the slot, with the balance paid afterwards.
- Everyone pays their share, or one person fronts it — €6 per player for ten, as the club chooses.
- The deposit can follow the player’s history — lighter for a regular who always pays, higher for a profile that has cancelled before. Each club sets its own threshold.
The evening is your peak hour
In indoor football, the slot that sells best is not the midday one: it is 8pm on a weekday, when your players finish work. At a 5-a-side centre already using SportFinder, the same pitch for one hour rents at €40 during the day and €60 in the evening. That is the hour your software has to hold — not the afternoon one.
- Your best slots sell themselves, around the clock, even when the centre is closed and nobody is answering the phone.
- The right price applies at the right time, without you having to switch a price grid by hand every evening.
The right price, at the right moment
Your rates follow the real local calendar, without you touching them. You set your rules once; the software applies the right price every day, on your behalf.
- Peak hours, off-peak hours — the evening slot can sell for more than the daytime one, automatically.
- School holidays, for the right zone — the “holiday” rate follows your zone in France (A, B or C) or your community in Belgium (French-, Dutch- or German-speaking), even for a club whose region is not the same as its neighbours’.
- Bank holidays — a bank holiday switches to the rate you have chosen, with no intervention.
No opening the centre for nothing
A single game booked at the last minute on an isolated slot, and you still have to open, light and heat the whole centre for it. SportFinder can avoid that: you can ask for a last-minute online booking to open only if a neighbouring slot is already booked — a way to group activity rather than turn the lights on for an orphan match.
It is a rule that leaves you in control: you, at the desk, can always add an isolated booking when you decide to. It only holds back public bookings, never you — and you switch it on if your centre needs it.
Your whole week, at a glance
- A single calendar for the whole week: free evening slots jump out at you, pitch by pitch, with live updates.
- Your centre in your pocket — the back office works from your phone, not just from the computer at the desk.
- Your players notified by text message — booking confirmations and useful notifications go out by SMS as well as by email, without you having to pick up the phone.
A busy evening slot earns
Booking software is only worth something if it holds your peak hour. The real sum — what a better-filled evening slot or a better-set deposit could earn you — is done on the demo, on your own figures; our prices are already published. And if we take your occupancy this seriously, it is because we only earn when your pitches fill up.
Changing rooms, showers, lighting: self-service access control also opens these extra doors, handy indoors — and deposits and payments are settled the way your club prefers.
Indoor football: what centres ask us most
Is indoor football really supported, or just tolerated as a secondary sport?
Natively. Football is a recognised sport on the platform, with five-a-side squads by default, a one-hour duration and a two-hour maximum. Online booking, payment, calendar and statistics work straight away, with no development for your club.
Can I offer several formats on my pitches (4v4, 5v5, 6v6)?
Yes. The squad size is set pitch by pitch — eight, ten or twelve players — so that each surface offers the format that suits it, without imposing the same number everywhere in your club.
Does payment have to be split between the ten players?
No, you choose. A single payment — the organiser pays up front and the others pay them back — or split payment, where everyone pays their own share. Most 5-a-side centres opt for the single payment; others, like Hi Five, keep split payment switched on. It is a club setting, not a constraint.
How do I limit teams that book and then do not turn up?
With a deposit: the pitch is only held once a deposit is paid (or the full squad is confirmed). You set the percentage — thirty per cent, for example — and it can even adjust to the player’s history, lighter for a reliable regular, higher after repeated cancellations.
Can my rates follow evenings, school holidays and bank holidays?
Yes, on their own. The evening slot can sell for more than the midday one, and the rate follows the real local calendar: the school holidays of your zone in France or your community in Belgium, and the country’s bank holidays. You declare your zone once, and the right price applies on the right dates.
30 minutes to see your five-a-side centre in SportFinder
Squad size, deposit, evening rate: we configure your pitch together, on your real settings.