Run your flag football club
from one app.
Flag football is the one sport we support whose rule book is being written while the season runs. The federation published its first one for high schools in 2025, states are sanctioning it a few at a time, and most of the country still plays it under a national club program instead. So the first question a new club has is not how to run a season, it is whose season they are running.
What a flag football season asks you to keep track of
Mostly people, and most of them are new. The sport grows by recruiting families who have never run a club before: nearly 69,000 girls played at high school level in 2024-25 across more than 2,700 schools, which was a jump of more than thirty percent in a single year. A club that doubles in a season is not managing a roster, it is teaching twenty volunteers what a roster is. Short seasons make that harder, because there is no quiet month in which to learn.
Whose rules you play under depends on your state, this year
There are three answers and your state has exactly one of them. Seventeen state associations have sanctioned girls flag football as a high school sport, and those programs play under the federation’s rules with everything that comes with being a sanctioned sport. Another handful vote on it each spring. Around fifteen more run independent or pilot programs, which look like school sport and are not governed as it. Everywhere else it is club football under a national program such as NFL FLAG or USA Football. The honest advice is to find out which of the three you are in before you copy anybody else’s season plan, because the three do not share deadlines, eligibility or paperwork.
The rule book is new, which has a practical cost
The federation wrote its first flag football rules book for high schools rather than adapting an existing one, which means the people running your league learned the sport under something else: a national club program, a city parks rule set, or whatever the league used last year. For a coach that shows up as small disagreements about things nobody argues about in an established sport. For an administrator it shows up as a rule changing between seasons and nobody being certain which version is current. Write down which rule set your league adopted and the year, because next season somebody will ask.
Five positions, and one of them is a defender
The list most flag programs use is quarterback, receiver, running back, center and rusher, and the last one is the tell that this is its own sport rather than football with the tackling removed. A rusher is the defender permitted to go after the quarterback once a count has passed, and the count is the thing that keeps the sport non-contact. Somebody coming from tackle football will look for a defensive line and find a rule about timing instead.
A short season is a different administrative problem
Six or eight weeks does not leave room for a slow start. The roster has to be right in week one because there is no week six to fix it in, volunteers have to be recruited before anybody has seen a game, and a rained-off Saturday is a tenth of the season rather than an inconvenience. The clubs that find this easy are usually the ones that set the season up once and did not have to tell forty families anything twice.
What a roster can say about a flag football player, and what it cannot
We record one position per athlete, which in a five-a-side sport where most children play both ways is less of the picture than it is anywhere else. It also cannot tell you which rule set a player is eligible under, because that depends on whether your program is sanctioned, piloted or club, and that is a fact about the program rather than about the child.
Rostered does not know which rule set your league adopted, does not track sanctioning status and cannot tell you whether your program counts as a school sport this year. Those are questions for your state association or your national program, and in this sport the answer genuinely changes from one spring to the next.
What we are for is the part a first-time club underestimates: setting a season up once so nobody has to be told twice. Fifteen division templates arrive configured, which matters when a club is inventing its age groups in the same month it is recruiting coaches. Volunteer jobs attached to the events that need them, so the parents who said yes in March are findable in September. And one schedule where a canceled Saturday reaches everybody, in a season short enough that one missed message is most of a child’s year.
What flag football clubs get
- Positions
- Quarterback, Receiver, Running Back, Center, Rusher
- Youth ages
- 5 to 17
- Governing bodies
- USA Football, NFL FLAG, Pop Warner Flag
- Also included
- Polls, volunteer jobs, release forms, in-app club email, translation, locations with the forecast.
- Cost to families
- Free. No ads.