Teamer Is Shutting Down — Here's Where to Move Your 5-a-Side

Teamer, one of the original sports team apps, is closing on Monday 5 October 2026 (per its own help centre). If you run a weekly 5-a-side, 7-a-side or 8-a-side game on it, you need a new home for your squad, invites, standby list and match payments. For casual football specifically, the closest fit is Capo — it covers the same organising jobs and adds AI-balanced teams, full player stats and AI-written match reports. It's free for organisers.

A lot of groups have run on Teamer for a very long time — we've spoken to organisers who've used it for their game for over twenty years. This isn't a takedown; Teamer earned that loyalty. It's a practical guide to moving a football game somewhere new without losing the way you run it. If you're starting from scratch instead, read our full guide to organising a five-a-side.

Teamer is closing — what we know

Teamer's help centre carries this notice: “Teamer will close on Monday 5th October 2026.” Check teamer.net for their official FAQs and the latest details. The practical takeaway is simple: if your game runs on Teamer, the squad list, event history and payment records live in an app that is going away, and it's worth moving before the final week rather than during it.

Teamer deserves its send-off. It described itself as the original sports team management app, and its core loop — pick a lineup, notify the team, auto-call a replacement from the standby list when someone declines — is exactly what a weekly game needs. Millions of organisers ran their teams on it, across every sport, for free. The good news is that none of those ideas die with it.

Moving your Teamer setup to Capo, piece by piece

Capo is a football organising app built for the same organiser Teamer served: one person, a regular pitch, and a squad of mates to wrangle — whether you play fives, eights, or anything in between. Here's how each part of a typical Teamer setup maps across.

Your Teampage members → paste your squad in one go

You don't re-add 40 players one at a time. Capo's bulk add takes a pasted list of names — one per line — and creates the whole squad in about a minute. Phone numbers, emails and app invites can all come later; players don't even need the app to book, because every match has a shareable web booking link.

Your lineup → Tier A regulars with priority booking

In Teamer you picked a Team list and prompted them. In Capo you mark your regulars as Tier A, and when you create a match with tiered booking, they're invited first — automatically, with a push notification. Semi-regulars go in Tier B and get invited after a delay you choose (24 hours by default); everyone else is Tier C, invited last, only if spots remain. Friday invite for a Tuesday game, regulars first, subs a day later — that whole rhythm is the default behaviour, not something you re-do weekly.

Your standby list → tiers plus an automatic waitlist

Teamer's standby list could auto-notify a replacement when someone declined. Capo handles dropouts with an automatic waitlist: when the match is full, further bookings queue up, and if a confirmed player drops out the spot is offered to the waitlist with a claim window — no organiser chasing required. Our no-shows survival guide covers the wider strategy.

Event prompts and responses → live booking status

Teamer's accepted / declined / no-response view maps directly to Capo's match control centre: you see who's in, who's out, who hasn't answered and who's waitlisted, in real time, with an activity feed of every change. Reminders to non-responders are built in.

Payments → pay-to-book via Stripe

Both apps let you collect money. Capo ties payment to booking — players pay when they confirm their spot, so the pitch is covered before kickoff, with season passes for the prepay-up-front crowd. You connect your own Stripe account and Capo facilitates collection; it works in 30+ countries. See how bookings and payments work together, or read our guide to collecting money without losing mates.

What you get that Teamer never had

Teamer organised the admin. It didn't make the game itself any bigger. This is where Capo is genuinely different:

• AI team balancing — fair teams picked from whoever's confirmed, every week, using a genetic algorithm. Nobody blames the organiser for stacked teams again. How the balancing works.
• Full player stats and league tables — goals, wins, streaks, form and fantasy-style points for every player, all season. Why stats change everything.
• AI-written match reports — every game gets a story, delivered to the group before the shirts are in the wash.
• AI player profiles — every player gets a career write-up they can't edit and will definitely argue about.

One honest note on ratings, because Teamer migrants sometimes ask: player ratings exist in Capo so the app can pick balanced teams for you. You never have to rate anyone — the system learns from results.

Capo vs Teamer: side by side

Teamer details verified against teamer.net and its help centre in September 2026 — check teamer.net for the latest on the closure.

If your Teamer team isn't a football team

Honest signposting: Capo only does football. If you used Teamer for rugby, GAA, hockey, netball or a youth club with parents to manage, a general club platform like Spond is the better fit — we've written an honest comparison of Capo and Spond that explains who each is for. And if you want the whole landscape, our roundup of the best five-a-side apps covers every option from dedicated apps to WhatsApp and spreadsheets.

The 15-minute migration checklist

1. Create your club in Capo (free, takes a couple of minutes).
2. Paste your squad — copy your player names out of Teamer and bulk-add them in one go.
3. Set your tiers — regulars to Tier A, standby players to B or C. This recreates your lineup/standby split.
4. Create your first match with booking enabled and Tiered invites — your regulars are invited first, automatically.
5. Share the booking link in your group chat. Players can book from the web straight away and install the app whenever they like.

If you collect money, connect Stripe whenever you're ready — it's not needed for the first game. For the longer view on running a squad with regulars, semi-regulars and fillers, see how to manage your five-a-side squad.

Frequently asked questions

Twenty years of Tuesday night football shouldn't end because an app did. Move the game, keep the ritual — setting up in Capo takes about fifteen minutes.