Set up your SportFormIQ account, create your first session, and invite the coaches who'll help you evaluate players. Most directors are ready to run a tryout within 30 minutes.
Are you a coach, not a director? Read For Coaches instead, it's focused on your role.
After purchasing a SportFormIQ plan, you'll receive a welcome email from support@sportformiq.com with a link to set up your account. Click the link, set your password, and you'll land on your dashboard.
For all future visits, sign in at sportformiq-app.vercel.app. We recommend bookmarking the app and adding it to your phone's home screen for one-tap access on tryout day.
On iPhone, open the app in Safari, tap Share, then "Add to Home Screen." On Android, tap the menu in Chrome and "Add to Home Screen." The app will work offline once installed this way.
Your dashboard is the home base for everything you do in SportFormIQ. From here you can:
The bottom navigation on mobile (top navigation on desktop) gives you quick access to Sessions, Players, and Settings.
A session is a single tryout, evaluation event, or camp. Most clubs create one session per age-group, per tryout date.
To create a session:
SportFormIQ uses the session's cutoff date to determine each player's age group from their birthday. You don't store age group on the player, we calculate it from DOB every time. If your league uses a January 1 cutoff instead, just change the field when creating the session.
SportFormIQ imports your roster from a CSV file. The column mapper auto-detects most fields from GotSport, TeamSnap, SportsEngine, and Otto Sport (formerly Demosphere). If you use a different platform, or maintain your roster in Excel or Google Sheets, that works too.
The general path is the same on every platform: open your registration list, choose Export as CSV, save the file somewhere you can find it. Make sure date of birth and parent contact columns are included.
If you're working from a spreadsheet rather than a registration platform, Excel and Google Sheets both export CSV from File → Save As (Excel) or File → Download (Sheets).
If the button is dimmed, there are blockers above it, usually missing required mappings. The orange CONFIRM badges tell you which mappings to verify before importing.
Uploading Your Roster covers step-by-step export instructions for each platform, the manual Excel and Google Sheets path, how the column mapper works, re-importing as registrations roll in, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Coaches are the people who'll actually evaluate players during the session. Each coach gets their own login and only sees the players they're assigned to.
To invite coaches:
The coach receives an email with a one-click link to set up their account. They can sign in on their phone and start evaluating immediately.
Send your coaches the Running a Tryout guide the day before, it covers what they'll see and how to evaluate players quickly on the field.
Once your session is set up, players are imported, and coaches are invited, you're ready for tryout day. Read the Running a Tryout guide next, it covers what happens on the field, how to handle walk-up players, and how to send outcome emails after evaluations are complete.