Sprints, middle distance, jumps, throws: four families that share almost no session, yet one track and one membership fee.
Groups by discipline and age category, two seasons, a shared track and performances to measure.
Under-13 sprints, under-17 middle distance, senior throws. Each has its slot, its coach and its capacity — and the athlete finds theirs.
Times, distances, heights, with the conditions. It is three seasons of history that shows progress, not a memory.
Indoor season in winter, outdoor in summer. The dates fall when they fall, and call-ups go to those concerned.
The category governs which events are allowed and what weights are used. The licence governs insurance and the right to compete.
A group per discipline and age category
Performances, dated and comparable
The federation calendar, fixed
Licences and age categories
Families type "children's athletics" plus the town, "athletics club"; experienced athletes look for a specialist coach.
The first audience fills the club and decides on times and distance; the second builds its reputation and decides on results. A page per group serves both.
Show the session times by discipline: it is what nobody can find, and what everybody is looking for.
The integrity check applies to all supervisors of minors, whether employees or volunteers.
Age categories are not a convention: they limit events and loads, to protect growing bodies.
The license covers insurance and opens the competition; its cost is announced with the contribution.
A visitor arrives with four questions: where, when, who for, and with whom. Your site has to answer them without making anyone click three times. Give the track, the group's time slot, the starting age and the coach's name. The club's history and its honours come afterwards: they reassure, they don't decide.
These pages are also what Google reads. A **sports club** that publishes its sessions as text, rather than inside a poster image, becomes findable on very precise searches. If you are unsure what to produce, this article on what content to publish on a website gives the full outline. We offer a bespoke website, designed and search-optimised for the activity, with that structure in place from the **design** stage onwards.
Two intentions cross over. The first is navigational: someone types the club's name, sometimes misspelled, to find the timetable or the sign-up form. The second is local: "athletics" followed by the town, or "athletics for kids" followed by the neighbourhood. In both cases, the person decides in under a minute, on their phone, often in the evening.
The rest of the job is a chain: the search leads to the group page, the group page leads to the session, the session leads to membership. Every lost click costs you a member. With a connected schedule, your sessions are bookable around the clock, with limited places, a waiting list and automatic reminders.
Most athletics clubs in **France** don't have a design problem. They have an updating problem and a journey problem. The site was built by a keen volunteer, and then the season started.
BetterSport is a platform for coaches and sports **organisations** that want to stop improvising. You don't choose between a site and software: it is the same **tool**. The website is bespoke, designed and search-optimised for athletics, and it is wired into the **management** of the **club**. Your groups, your sessions, your licences and your payments all live in the same place.
The benefits show up over the season: full sessions, memberships collected without chasing, and less time spent answering the same questions. You keep your time for coaching and for your volunteers, not for admin. Online payment and the booking widget switch on when you decide. The same principle applies to a running and trail club or a triathlon club, if your club is multi-sport. To get started: talk to an expert or start your free 14-day trial, no card required.
Yes, one per discipline and category, each with its slot and its coach.
Yes, dated, on the athlete's record, and comparable from season to season.
To the athletes in the group concerned, and to parents for under-18s.
Yes, with their dates; expiries surface before competitions.
Yes, the two don't do the same job. Social media talks to the people who already follow you; the site captures those looking for you without knowing you. A post disappears from the feed, a session page stays findable all year. And a site lets you take a membership payment, which a post never will.
Yes, payment is taken at the moment of booking or sign-up, through Stripe. You can use it for the annual membership fee as much as for a camp, an away trip or a race the club organises. Confirmations go out automatically by email. It removes almost all the start-of-season chasing.
You do, without touching any code. Sessions, groups and news are edited from your own interface, and the change is live immediately. Several people on the committee can have access, which avoids depending on a single volunteer. That is often what makes the difference between a living site and one abandoned in January.
Yes, that is precisely what the schedule is there to show. Each group has its session, its facility and its capacity, and nothing overlaps on screen. Athletes see what is open to them, not the whole timetable. If a session changes, the information goes to the people concerned rather than to the whole club.