The digital transformation is a must in all industries, and sporting clubs is one of these industries that has missed innovation opportunities that they need to focus on acquiring in 2025. Mobile applications can be developed to revolutionize sporting clubs, allowing them to update their members, enhance their experiences, and more. 

In this blog post, we’ll explore how mobile applications can enhance member’s experience. 

1. Easier membership renewal: 

Renewing your sporting club’s membership doesn’t have to be in long queues and through papers and pens to track record.  

Mobile applications can be an innovative way to simplify renewing memberships for sporting clubs.  

The mobile app can allow users to: 

• Sign up or renew their memberships through the app and pay the membership fees with their cards in a secured payment gateway. 

• Receive reminders through the app for their next renewal payment. 

• Receive promotions or offers notifications through the app on their membership plans. 

These mobile apps could be a way for the administration to manage the club’s database effectively and track their club member’s activities to be able to provide them with personalized ways to engage more in the club’s activities in the future. 

2. Providing club’s activity updates: 

Since various activities take place in sporting clubs such as football, basketball, squash, swimming classes and trainings, club’s mobile applications could send members real-time updates. 

Examples of some features to include in the app: 

• Calendars for scheduling the kid’s and young adults swimming, basketball, football, squash classes, and other activities for the parents to be on track with their kids.  

• For court’s reservation, especially tennis, football, and squash courts, the application could show the availability and bookings of these courts and allow application users to reserve these courts through the app. 

• Alerts and notification features where it updates members about events occurring at the club  

• Provide direct communication channels between club’s trainers and coaches for any updates or inquiries 

3. Enhancing member's overall experience 

Mobile apps could be a method to enhance the member’s overall experience at the club through some features: 

These features include:  

• Food ordering: Members could pre-order their snacks and meals from the club’s cafes and restaurants beforehand without waiting in long queues and come only for pick-up. It’s a convenient way that saves time 

• Navigation maps: for larger clubs, a navigation map can help members to easily go to places they want and know where everything is located.  

4. Services request: 

Through the sporting club's mobile applications, club members could request for specific services such as maintenance services for club areas and certain activity request from the club administration. 

More features to consider including in the mobile apps: 

1. Loyalty program and rewards: 

Offer the club’s members rewards in terms of points for the activities they do in the club.  

For example, they could get rewarded for attending certain classes regularly, buying from a certain cafe or restaurant at the club, and more. 

This encourages the members to continuously engage with the club’s community and activities. 

2. Virtual training sessions: 

Club members could receive recorded or even live training sessions where they can do it at home. This way club members will be engaging with the club even if they’re not physically there.  

3. Feedback and survey feature: 

This feature will allow the club’s members to write their recommendations and suggestions for the club.  

By this way, the club administration can gather insights into what their members are thinking and feeling about their experience at the club, coaches, facilities, and classes. 

This insight can help the club’s administration to constantly improve the club to increase the member’s satisfaction and encourage them to come more often to the club. 

Consideration for mobile apps: 

Since the club’s mobile apps are innovative, it should consider various factors including: 

• Security measure for the app and add secured payment gateway for club members to renew their membership through the app with their credit cards 

• Make sure the application includes simple and easy processes for the elder people that might use the app who are not good with technology, so they don’t find using the app challenging. 

Conclusion: 

It’s 2025, with various technological advancements that continue to increasingly grow. If sporting clubs continued to operate traditionally with outdated methods, it is more likely they will stay behind. 

Not many sporting clubs has adopted this idea so it’s an opportunity for clubs to start adopting mobile applications for an easier and enhanced members experience to stay ahead in the competition with its innovative solutions. 

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