Terms of Service

Beta service

Matchday Lab is provided as a free beta. The service may change, and features may be added or removed as we develop the product. We'll do our best to give you notice of significant changes.

Your account

You sign in with Google, or with Apple in our iOS app. You're responsible for maintaining access to whichever account you sign in with. One person per account — don't share your login.

Matchday Lab is built for adult coaches and team staff aged 18 and older, and it isn't directed at or intended for use by minors. When you enter information about a player — including a player who is a minor — you're confirming you're doing so in your professional capacity as an adult authorized by the club or school responsible for that player, and that you have whatever consent or authority your organization requires. See Player and minor data in our Privacy Policy.

Your data

You own the content you create (team profiles, sessions, debriefs, notes). We don't claim ownership of your coaching data. See our Privacy Policy for details on how we handle your data.

Deleting your account is something we do for you, not a button in the app. Email us and we'll delete your account and its data by hand and confirm when it's done. (Removing a single player from a roster, or a candidate from an open tryout, you can do yourself in the app.) A team can be archived but can't be deleted on its own today — a team's data goes when the organization it belongs to is deleted. Some things outlive a deletion: audit records of administrative changes, coaching text written before a player was removed, and copies sitting in our hosting provider's database backups until those backups age out on their normal schedule. Data retention and deletion sets out exactly what a deletion request does and doesn't reach.

You can export your own data from the app: a roster, schedule, season plan, match results, or season analytics as a spreadsheet or a printable document, and a session plan as a printed page. An organization owner can also download a JSON archive of the organization's teams, rosters, schedule, sessions, match results, coach notes, event reviews, and trials from settings. That archive doesn't cover everything — debrief answers, conversations with the coaching assistant, coaching memory summaries, season intelligence, and the theme and pattern records built from them aren't in it. If you want a complete copy, email us and we'll produce one, as set out under Your rights under GDPR. Once you've exported a file it's outside our systems, and we can't retrieve it, correct it, or delete it for you.

AI-generated content

Session plans themselves are assembled by our own software, not by an AI model — nothing here should be read as a claim that your plans are AI-written. What is model-generated is: the coaching assistant and everything it drafts, including written observations about individual players; the step that turns the free-text brief you write for a session into planning settings; generated and enriched drills; coaching memory summaries, season intelligence, and the answers we ground in it; and the reading of rosters, schedules, and trial registration lists you paste in, the coaching principles and season goals you type into your team profile, and the notes on your season periodization plan. AI processing lists the same features and what each one sends.

All of that is a starting point, not a substitute for your coaching judgment. Model output can be wrong, incomplete, or confidently misleading, and an observation drafted about a player is the model's characterization of your own records rather than a finding of fact. Review what the assistant drafts before you approve it, and check anything we've read out of text you pasted before you rely on it. You stay responsible for what you approve, keep, and act on, and we're not responsible for decisions made on the basis of model-generated content.

Coaching decisions, load and risk signals

Matchday Lab is a training-planning tool. Nothing in it is medical, physiotherapy, nutrition, or health advice, and nothing in it diagnoses, predicts, or prevents injury or illness.

That includes our training-load figures and the wording around them. Weekly load, monotony, and acute-to-chronic ratios are arithmetic our own software runs over the sessions on your schedule and the ratings you enter — not AI output, and not a clinical assessment. Where a session has no rating, we assume a typical intensity for that kind of session, so a figure or a flag can rest partly on values you never entered. When the app says "load spike risk" or "monotony risk", or tells you no recovery day is planned, it's pointing at a pattern in those numbers as something to look at while you plan the week, and nothing more. Those figures are only as good as what was entered, and the absence of a flag is not a sign that a player is fit or safe to train or play.

Decisions about whether a player trains, plays, or needs treatment are yours to make with appropriately qualified medical professionals. The same goes for availability and restriction notes recorded against a player: they're a coaching record, not a medical one. We're not responsible for injury, illness, or any other outcome arising from training, load, or selection decisions.

Acceptable use

Use Matchday Lab for its intended purpose: planning and managing soccer training. Don't abuse the service, attempt to reverse engineer it, or use it in ways that could harm other users.

Availability

We aim for high availability but can't guarantee 100% uptime, especially during beta. We may need to take the service offline for maintenance or updates.

Matchday Lab also runs on third-party services — hosting, domains and DNS, AI, email, analytics, error reporting, and sign-in — and an outage, change, or withdrawal at any of them can take a feature, or the whole service, down with it. Service providers we use lists who they are and what reaches each one. We're not liable for their outages, and you shouldn't treat Matchday Lab as your only copy of anything you can't afford to lose.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product evolves. We'll notify you of material changes via email or in-app notification.

Contact

Questions? Reach us at hello@matchdaylab.ai.