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Sports apps live or die on real-time performance.

A sports app that lags during a live match, crashes when ticket sales spike, or shows stale scores isn't a product — it's a reputational problem.

EB Pearls builds sports platforms with the architecture to handle the unpredictable load that comes with live sport.

  • 900+ platforms built
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We work best with these kinds of sports organisations.

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Clubs & sporting organisations

Clubs and associations needing a digital presence for members — fixture management, results, registrations, communications, and the fan engagement layer that builds the community around the sport.

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Fan engagement platform founders

Building platforms to deepen the relationship between fans and the sport they follow — live data, stats, fantasy mechanics, social features, and the notifications that make the app part of how people experience sport.

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Athlete & performance tools

Apps for coaches, athletes, and training environments — tracking, logging, analysis, and the communication layer between athlete and coaching staff that makes the data useful rather than just collected.

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Sports marketplace founders

Building commerce platforms around sport — equipment, coaching, events, tickets, or athlete services — where the marketplace needs to understand the sport context to work well.

What sports app teams actually worry about before a season starts

Sports products earn their place during the moments that matter — kick-off, full-time, finals week, registration cut-off. These concerns come up in nearly every first conversation.
Discuss Your Sports Platform
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"The app works fine on a Wednesday. What happens during the grand final?"

An app that's responsive 99% of the time but breaks during the 1% that actually matters is a product that fans abandon for a competitor's tool by the next season.
Architecture sized for peak load, not average. Load testing against real match-day scenarios — ticket spikes, live data fan-out, push notification storms — before launch.
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"Our live data feeds come from three different providers. Can you actually make that work?"

The platform has to absorb all of it, present it as a coherent experience to fans, and degrade gracefully when one of those feeds goes down mid-match.
Multi-feed integration mapped during Discovery. Fallback behaviour designed for when feeds fail — because they will, usually during the most important match of the season.
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"Generic club management software doesn't fit our sport. We've tried."

Off-the-shelf sports tooling is built for the median sport. The gap between what generic platforms offer and what your sport actually needs is where custom-built earns its cost.
Every platform we build starts from Discovery — mapping your sport's specific data sources, user types, and operational workflows before a line of code is written.
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"Half our users are on a club ground with terrible signal. The app has to work anyway."

Sports happen in places phones don't always work. An app that requires connectivity to be useful gets abandoned for paper the moment someone is mid-match without bars. 
Offline-capable architecture for field-side features — fixture lookups, result entry, attendance, communications — with sync when connectivity returns.
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"We have junior members. Privacy and safeguarding are not optional."

Junior sport involves the data of children — photos, contact, medical information, attendance records — and the platform has to handle that with the rigour of a child protection framework, not the rigour of a generic SaaS product.
ISO 27001 certified. Safeguarding-aware data design from Discovery — consent, role-based access, audit trails. The same rigour we apply to health and financial clients.
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"We need to ship before the season starts. After that, the window is gone."

Sports product timelines aren't negotiable in the way enterprise SaaS timelines are. The season starts on a fixed date. Missing it means waiting twelve months for the next launch window.
Delivery plans built around your competition calendar. Two-week sprints with full Jira visibility — and an honest answer at Discovery about what fits the window.

Sports platforms fail for specific reasons.

Most sports platforms fail not because the technology was wrong — but because they were architected by teams who'd never had to keep a feed responsive at full-time, never absorbed a ticket spike when a finals bracket dropped, and never designed a UI that someone uses while standing in a club canteen between matches.

We've built across this surface — community sports coordination, global coaching brands, athlete education with national health partners. That's the difference between a product that earns its place in the season and one that gets abandoned by round three.
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Architecture sized for peak, not average

Live data, ticket sales, push notification fan-out, real-time scores — sized for finals-week load, not Tuesday afternoon. Load-tested against real match-day scenarios before launch.
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Offline-aware design for field conditions

Apps used pitchside need to work without connectivity. We design with offline capability and sync from Discovery — not as a retrofit after a frustrated club volunteer complains.
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Multi-feed sports data integration

Live scores, stats, fixtures, video, historical data — integrated from multiple providers with fallback behaviour when feeds fail. We've done this across community sports, coaching, and athlete platforms.
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Named leads who stay on the project

Engineering Manager, Business Analyst, and Account Manager — assigned from Discovery and staying throughout. Your team works with people who know the codebase, not whoever is on rotation.

Sports products built for the people who use them on match day.

Community sport, global coaching, and athlete education — three different sports problems, the same discipline of building platforms that hold up when the season is live.
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Teameup: Local sports community platform · Team formation, partner discovery, in-app coordination

Teameup was built to solve a specific sports coordination problem. EB Pearls delivered user profile creation with sports interests and availability.

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Coerver Coaching: Globally recognised football coaching brand · Ages 5-16 · Skills, sportsmanship, parent enrolment

Coerver Coaching is a globally recognised football skills brand serving players aged 5-16. EB Pearls delivered a complete website redesign.

Explore Coerver Coaching Story
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The Juice: Athlete education on PIEDs · Hepatitis Australia & AIVL partnership · Public health platform

The Juice was built in partnership between Hepatitis Australia and the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) to educate athletes about Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs (PIEDs). EB Pearls delivered a content-rich, responsive website.

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The platforms that power sports products that scale.

Generic sports tooling is built for the average competition. If your product has multi-feed live data, peak-load match-day scenarios, junior member safeguarding requirements, or sport-specific operational workflows — custom-built is the answer.

Everything below is something we've built before — in live sports environments, for clubs, brands, and platforms in active operation across the season.
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Fan Engagement Apps

Live scores, match commentary, push notifications, fantasy integration, and the social layer that turns passive viewers into active community members — built to handle traffic spikes during live matches.

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Club & Association Management

Member registration, fixture and draw management, results tracking, team communications, and volunteer coordination — the operational platform that runs the club without a paid administrator to manage it.

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Live Data & Statistics

Real-time score feeds, player stats, match timelines, and historical data — integrated with sports data APIs and presented in ways that are useful to fans, coaches, and media rather than just technically correct.

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Athlete & Performance Tracking

Training logs, performance metrics, video analysis tools, and coach-athlete communication platforms — designed for the real-world environments where athletes actually train, including offline use.

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Ticketing & Event Management

Ticket purchase, seat selection, QR code entry, and event communications — built to handle the demand spike when a final is announced, not optimised for average daily traffic.

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Sports Marketplace Platforms

Two-sided platforms connecting coaches, venues, equipment, and participants — where the marketplace logic has to account for scheduling, availability, booking, and the specific trust requirements of the sports context.

Built for match day, not just average load.

Sports products have peak-load realities, multi-feed integrations, and seasonal rhythms that need to be mapped before building anything. Our process front-loads that work.
Book a Free Discovery Call
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Discovery

We map your user types, your data sources, your peak load scenarios, and the integrations your platform needs before quoting. Fixed price. All outputs yours.

Real-time data architecture and peak load design scoped here.
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Design & Architecture

Architecture designed for the traffic spike that comes with live events — not just the average Tuesday. Data feed integrations mapped and tested before the build starts.

Load testing architecture reviewed before first sprint.
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Build & Test

Two-week sprints with full visibility. Live data feeds tested against real match scenarios. Push notification systems validated under load. ISO 27001 throughout.
Full IP ownership on delivery. Load tested before launch.
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Deploy & Evolve

Post-launch support structured around your season — with monitoring during major events and feature iteration between fixtures when the pressure is off.

SLA-backed support. Event-aware monitoring available.

Heard from clients who've been through it

I’m a solo entrepreneur and not very good with tech. EB Pearls made it easy, mentoring me through everything. Highly recommend!
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Charmaine Hilario

Founder, Whitebow Gift registry

The client is delighted with EB Pearls’ ability to deliver within the established deadlines through a professional approach. They use various communication tools to ensure a solid project management experience. The team also praises their overall good service and constant commitment to learning new things.
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John Walton

They included a wide range of tasks and responsibilities that are critical to creating effective and engaging digital products. By combining research, design, and testing, their UI/UX designers create products that are visually appealing, intuitive, and easy to use.
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Raul Vazquez

We’re extremely impressed with EB Pearls’ work, technical skill, and ability to adapt, iterate, and learn new skills. Their high attention to detail and eternally positive attitude make working with EB Pearls a wonderful experience.

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Sarah Scaife

Product owner, BAXTA

I have found EB Pearls great to work with. They offer high level, innovative and affordable app development. I appreciate that they view our business relationship through a long term lense, always working to find a solution that will help my business's growth.  I look forward to continuing to work with the EB Pearls team.
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Lisa Brown

Founder, Impact apps

They’re a very tight group. They all sit in the same office. They’re very hardworking and determined, as well as friendly and easy to talk to. They always put you first, listen to you, and make you feel like a superstar.
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Mitchell Gunner

Owner, Achieved Music

Approachable and accommodating to our exact needs and requirements. Our mobile app’s reception and engagement have been great, and the design is very user-friendly. EB Pearls is very professional, always on track, and always delivers to our expectations.
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Roberto Peresa

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Questions sports teams always eventually ask

We'd rather answer these upfront than have them surface after a commitment has been made.

A focused MVP — member or fan profiles, a core operational flow (fixtures, registrations, or feed delivery), one data integration, basic notifications — typically runs 14 to 20 weeks from Discovery to launch. Adding ticketing, multi-feed live data, video analysis, or marketplace functionality extends that timeline. We'll be specific about what fits your competition calendar during Discovery, not after the contract is signed.

We integrate with whatever provider your sport actually uses — Sportradar, Stats Perform, Opta, local federation feeds, custom data sources, or a mix. Integration mapping is part of Discovery: we identify which feeds you need, what the rate limits and reliability profiles look like, and where fallback behaviour matters. We're not tied to one provider, and we'll tell you honestly if a feed isn't worth integrating.

Full IP ownership on delivery — code, data models, infrastructure configurations, and design assets. No licensing arrangement, no lock-in, no proprietary components you can't take to another team if you choose to. Written into the contract from the start.

Support is structured around your competition calendar. During major events — finals, finals series, season launch — we provide elevated monitoring and on-call response. Between fixtures, we move into feature iteration and product enhancement work. The off-season is build season. SLA-backed support throughout, with the team that built the platform.

The architecture is designed for your peak-load scenarios — not the average. Auto-scaling infrastructure, optimised data fan-out, and graceful degradation when feeds fail are designed in from the start, with load testing against real match-day patterns before launch. The whole point of doing this work in Discovery is to avoid finding out the platform doesn't scale during the grand final.

Safeguarding is designed before the first feature ships — parent consent flows, role-based access for coaches and officials, photo permissions, audit trails for data access, and the kind of data minimisation that aligns with junior sports governance. We treat children's data with the same rigour we apply to health and financial clients, because the consequences of getting it wrong are equivalent.

Yes — most sports products need at least two of the three, often all three. We've shipped Swift/Kotlin native builds (Teameup), WordPress and responsive web platforms (Coerver, The Juice), and cross-platform stacks across our portfolio. Which exact stack we recommend depends on what your product does — fan apps and athlete tools optimise differently.

Often, yes. Adding fixtures, results, fan engagement, ticketing, or athlete tools to an existing platform is one of the four scenarios this service is built for. Integration mapping is part of Discovery: we identify what needs to connect, what doesn't, and where data has to flow. The new functionality is designed to sit alongside what's already there rather than force a rebuild.
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  1. 1 Share a few details
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  3. 3 Privacy comes first
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What to expect

  1. 1 Share a few details
    Complete the form with your contact details and what you need help with.
  2. 2 Book your free discovery call
    Once you submit the form, choose a time that suits you for your discovery call.
  3. 3 Privacy comes first
    Sign an optional NDA to ensure the highest privacy level and protection of your idea.
  4. 4 Discovery call
    We’ll discuss your goals, the support you need and answer your questions. If we’re a good fit, we’ll outline the next steps.