SoccerJi: End-to-End Football Community & Management Platform
A unified digital ecosystem built to connect players, parents, clubs, ground owners, and tournament organizers-covering everything from discovery and bookings to performance tracking and tournaments.
The Challenge
Grassroots football ecosystems are highly fragmented. Players struggle to find trials, clubs, and tournaments. Club owners lack tools to manage squads and scouting. Ground owners face booking inefficiencies. Tournament organizers rely on spreadsheets and manual coordination. The vision behind SoccerJi was to create one integrated platform that could serve multiple stakeholders while remaining fast, scalable, and mobile-first. The system needed to support players, parents, club managers, field owners, and tournament admins, real-time discovery of grounds, tournaments, and opportunities, mobile-first experience for young players and parents, scalable backend for location-based data and events, secure authentication and role-based access, and reliable infrastructure capable of handling growth.
The Solution
Designed and developed SoccerJi, a full-stack football ecosystem with mobile apps + web platform + scalable backend infrastructure. The solution consists of React Native mobile app for players, parents, and organizers, React web platform for marketing, onboarding, and admin workflows, Node.js backend APIs powering all user roles, MySQL database for structured relational data, Dockerized infrastructure managed with Portainer, and Nginx reverse proxy for performance and secure routing. SoccerJi centralizes football discovery, management, and engagement into a single, intuitive platform.
Key Features Delivered
- Player & Parent Experience with player profiles featuring stats and performance insights, discovery of nearby grounds, clubs, and tournaments, career visibility and scouting exposure, and match participation tracking
- Club Owner / Manager Dashboard with squad management, player scouting and evaluation, trial organization and performance review, and club stats and insights
- Ground / Field Owner Module with ground listing with availability, booking and scheduling management, and event hosting for matches, tournaments, and practice sessions
- Tournament Admin System with tournament creation and management, team registrations and scheduling, live updates and match tracking, and centralized control for organizers
- Location-Based Discovery with map-based UI to explore football opportunities, geo-tagged grounds and events, and optimized search and filters
- Mobile-First Football Community built for Android and iOS using React Native with smooth, high-performance UI designed for young athletes and parents
- Infrastructure & Deployment with fully containerized backend using Docker, service orchestration and monitoring via Portainer, Nginx as reverse proxy and load handler, and scalable setup designed for rapid growth
The Impact
SoccerJi helps modernize grassroots football by connecting players directly with opportunities, reducing manual coordination for clubs and organizers, improving visibility for young talent, and creating a digital backbone for local football ecosystems. The platform empowers football communities to learn, play, evolve-all from one place.
Tech Stack
Services Provided
- Full Stack Web Apps
- System Architecture
- UI/UX Design