Startelf 11
Your soccer team, organized
Free · In‑App Purchases
Startelf brings your amateur football team together in one place: schedules, lineups, team chat, and player profiles – no more paper clutter and no more five parallel chat groups.
Whether it's a match, training session, or tournament: you create a schedule, the team accepts or declines, and everyone instantly knows who's playing that weekend.
SCHEDULE & LINEUP
- Plan games, training sessions, and tournaments – including recurring events
- RSVPs on a first-come, first-served basis
- Automatic call-up list: If the quota is full, players move up the list
- Minimum and maximum number of participants per event
- Reminders for those who haven't yet responded
- Automatic cancellation if too few people RSVP
TEAM CHAT
- Real-time chat per team
- Share messages, photos, videos, and files
- Reply with quotes and emojis
PUSH WHEN IT MATTERS
- Notifications about new events and missing responses
- Exactly when you need them – not constantly
PLAYER PROFILES
- Position, preferred foot, height, country, and appearances per team
- Appearances & goals per player in the statistics
GET STARTED QUICKLY
- Create a team in under a minute
- Add players via QR code or invitation link
- Be in multiple teams simultaneously – switch between them at any time
- Log in with Apple, Google, or Email
Terms of Use: https://startelf.at/en/terms
Privacy Policy: https://startelf.at/en/privacy
more New
• Home screen widget: your next event with countdown, weather and accept/decline right in the widget
• Live score on the lock screen while you run a match in the match center
• Siri and app shortcuts: check your next event, accept or decline
• New coach role: all manager rights, without a spot in lineups or stats
• Enlarge and zoom the team photo with the magnifier
Improved
• Training teams are balanced by form and goals
• Better VoiceOver and TalkBack support, stronger contrast, larger tap targets
3.2.0 4h ago
New
• Form in your profile: wins, draws and losses at a glance – with a performance curve, record per month and all results, filterable by period and match type
• Set a season start per team – stats and the leaderboard then count e.g. from July to June (season 2026/27)
Improved
• Camera and photo permission prompts now appear in your language
3.1.4 5d ago
New
• A reminder 60 minutes before an event starts for everyone who's in
• The team switcher shows which team has something new waiting for you
Improved
• Chats with photos and videos open smoothly at the latest message – no jumping, images in the right format
• The number on the app icon is now accurate and clears once you've read everything
3.1.3 Oct 21
Bug fixes and improvements.
3.1.1 Oct 18
NEW FOR COACHES
• Correct RSVPs: if someone said yes but didn’t show up – or came without answering – record it right in the event, even after the deadline
• The lineup adjusts and the player gets notified
FASTER
• Startelf launches quicker and the home screen loads faster – with placeholders that already look like the finished cards
NOTIFICATIONS
• Once you’ve opened a chat or event in the app, its notifications disappear automatically
ALSO
• Team crests are now round in the chat list and on the home screen
• Times in notifications now appear in your time zone
• Smaller refinements and bug fixes
3.1.0 Oct 17
NEW DESIGN
• Startelf has a fresh look in the style of iOS 26 with Liquid Glass – with the new tab bar on iOS 26
• Menus, forms and messages now feel like the rest of your phone
CHATS
• Message teammates directly or create your own group chats – always with people from your team
• The team chat sits on top, your conversations below; mute chats, block or report people
PLACES & WEATHER
• Pick the location of an event via map search – with address, map preview and directions in one tap
• Your team’s favourite pitches show up right at the top
• Weather at kick-off, up to 7 days ahead
NEW HOME SCREEN
• Your next event as a big card – with weather, RSVP progress, deadline and accept/decline right on the home screen
• Your stats for this year: top-scorer rank, goals per game, RSVPs in a row, training attendance and more
• Your team photo now headlines the team card
EVENTS
• More compact event list and a cleaner event detail view
• Accepted, declined and open at a glance; coaches edit, cancel or delete via the menu at the top
ALSO
• Changelog in the settings
• Lots of smaller refinements and bug fixes
3.0.0 Oct 12
TOURNAMENTS
• Create a tournament right from a tournament event – as a league, with groups, groups + knockout or pure knockout, with an optional third-place match
• Add teams with their squads or bring in your own Startelf teams, then generate the schedule in one tap
• Schedule by time slot, pitch or round – with a team filter, conflict hints and match rescheduling
• Enter results with scorers and penalty shoot-outs
• Standings, best third-placed teams, final ranking, top scorers and the bracket update automatically
SHARE & INVITE
• Public tournament page with a QR code – perfect as a notice at the pitch
• Tournament invitations show up live on the home screen; managers accept in one tap and the event is created automatically
• Decide in the team settings whether your team accepts invitations
ALSO
• Chat: pinch to zoom into photos
• Smaller refinements and bug fixes
2.1.0 Oct 8
ANNOUNCE LINEUP
• Generating a lineup no longer sends a notification – coaches now release it deliberately with “Announce lineup”
• Only then do all players in the lineup get a push, and for games the bench too
• If the lineup changes afterwards, it can be announced again
TEAM CHAT
• Tap the reactions under a message to see who reacted with what
ALSO
• The Player of the Match vote now sits right below its match on match day
• Apple Watch: goals recorded offline are no longer lost
• Error messages now tell you the actual reason
• Smaller refinements and bug fixes
2.0.1 Sep 16
Startelf 2.0 – our biggest update yet!
MATCH CENTER
• Create games with an opponent and pitch size (5-a-side to 11-a-side)
• Nominate the match squad – nominated players get notified
• Set your starting lineup on the tactics board, bench included
• Live match: goals, substitutions (re-entry allowed), yellow/blue/red cards – a 2nd yellow becomes yellow-red, time penalty of 5 or 10 min (team setting), half-time and a match timeline
• Player of the Match vote after the final whistle
• The next game as a card on your home screen
FAMILY
• Create profiles for your children – no separate account needed
• Manage your child's events, RSVPs and absences
• Link additional guardians via a link; later your child can take over the profile with its full history
• Coaches can add children directly to the roster
ALSO
• Nudging: coaches can remind players who haven't answered yet – with RSVP buttons right in the push
• Open player profiles right from an event, view profile photos full-size
• Game statistics now count actual appearances (started or subbed in)
• Email verification opens the app directly
• Lots of smaller refinements and bug fixes
2.0 Aug 28
• Offer codes and subscriptions purchased in the store are now detected automatically and linked to your account – no need to "restore purchases" anymore.
• Profile: the camera button and the absence badge on the player photo are no longer cut off.
• Sign-in: the logo now displays without a dark box in the light theme.
• Plus smaller refinements and bug fixes.
1.5 Aug 22
• Absences: set the periods when you're unavailable right in your profile – from when to when and why (vacation, injured or other).
• Events during your absence are declined automatically. You can still accept individual events at any time.
• The player photo shows at a glance who is on vacation or injured, in the squad list and on profiles – with a legend at the end of the squad list.
• The app is now available in Italian, too – including notifications and emails.
• Videos in the team chat can be played full screen, and the video controls are tidier.
• Plus many refinements and bug fixes.
1.4 Aug 14
• Dark mode: light and dark themes – follows your system automatically or your choice in settings. Plus a dark app icon on iOS and a themed icon on Android.
• RSVP straight from the push notification – no need to open the app.
• Player of the Match: voting is now much easier – a new voting view with match results and goal scorers, a golden card on the home screen while voting is open, and the notification takes you straight to the vote.
• Update notice: the app lets you know as soon as a new version is available.
• RSVP buttons for today's event are always visible.
• Log goals on matchday with clearly recognisable buttons.
• Plus many refinements and bug fixes.
1.3 Jul 30
• Player of the Match: vote for the best player after every match – secret until voting ends. With multiple matches you crown a Player of the Day. The result image is posted to your team chat and the event automatically, titles count towards stats & leaderboard – and the winner can share their image.
• Now in 6 languages – German, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese (Brazil & Portugal), including push notifications and emails.
• Apple Watch: follow and run your matchday from your wrist – start matches, log goals, works offline.
• Guest players: add guests to your lineup and as goal scorers.
• Recurring events: create and edit whole event series.
• Event duration: set start and end times for events.
• Live updates: the lineup and RSVPs update in real time on the matchday, event list and home – and if you decline, you're removed from the lineup automatically.
• New notifications: final score after the match, birthday reminders for teammates, and per-type notification toggles.
• Attendance rate now on player profiles.
• In-app feedback form with screenshots.
• Plus many refinements and bug fixes.
1.2 Jul 24
- Rangliste im Kader: Bestenliste nach Einsätzen und Toren – für die aktuelle Saison oder „All Time".
- Team-Chat: übersichtlichere Tages-Trenner, GIFs werden als GIF erkannt.
- Trikotnummern werden zuverlässig aktualisiert, gesetzt und entfernt.
- Kleinere Verbesserungen und Fehlerbehebungen.
1.1 Jul 10
New
• Home screen widget: your next event with countdown, weather and accept/decline right in the widget
• Live score on the lock screen while you run a match in the match center
• Siri and app shortcuts: check your next event, accept or decline
• New coach role: all manager rights, without a spot in lineups or stats
• Enlarge and zoom the team photo with the magnifier
Improved
• Training teams are balanced by form and goals
• Better VoiceOver and TalkBack support, stronger contrast, larger tap targets
more Version 3.2.0 4h ago
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