From an empty phone to a live score, step by step

STEP 1

Download Pingel and create a team

Pingel is free on the App Store and on Google Play. You do not make an account. The first screen asks one question: is this a new team, or one somebody else already runs?

1. Starting fresh? Tap Create a Team.
2. Another manager already set the team up? Tap Join a Team and skip to chapter 2.

On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, the next screen can read the team off your club's website. Paste the link to your team's page and tap the sparkle button: the name, the kit colours and the squad are filled in for you. The page is read on the phone and never sent anywhere. No club page? Tap Skip.

STEP 3

Add the squad

Type a first name and press return. The field stays open for the next one, so the whole squad goes in without lifting your thumb. Made a typo? Tap the × on the name.

Tap Finish and you land on your team's home screen, ready for the first match.

MANAGERS

Share the team with other managers

Coaches, assistants, the parent who does the away games. Everyone shares one squad and one season, and any of them can keep the score. If two managers log the same match, Pingel merges their goals into one timeline.

1. You: tap ⋮ → Team Setup, then the QR button at the top right.
2. They: tap Join a Team and scan the code, or tap the link you sent with Share.
3. They tap Manage Team, and the team, squad and every match so far are on their phone.

A manager invite works for 24 hours. Showing a new one cancels the old one, so an invite forwarded to the wrong group chat is easy to kill.

ANYONE WITH THE LINK

Share one match live, no app needed

For the aunt abroad, the teammate who is ill or the other team's parents. They open the link in any browser and watch the clock, the score and every goal as it happens.

1. On the match screen, tap the antenna button at the top left, or Share Link before kick-off.
2. Tap Share to send it, or read out the six letters: they type them in on pingel.app.

The page shows first names only. It works from the moment you share the link until 12 hours after full time. Every manager keeps the same link updated, so handing the phone over at half time is fine.

BEFORE KICK-OFF

Set up the fixture and kick off

1. Tap Start Match on the home screen and type the opponent's name.
2. Playing away? Tap ↕ between the two teams to swap home and away.
3. Tap 8 playing to choose who plays today. Helping out just for today? Add them as a guest.
4. Tap Start Match. You are on the match screen at 0:00, a good moment to send the live link.
5. At the whistle, tap Start Match once more and the clock runs.

Lock the phone and the match carries on. The score and the clock sit on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

HALF TIME AND FULL TIME

Pause, carry on, end

Tap pause at the top right whenever play stops. Then pick what comes next:

1. Continue for a stoppage.
2. Start Second Half after the break. You never tell Pingel it is half time: a pause once the half is over reads as the break.
3. End Match at the final whistle.

The Full time card shows the score, scorers and assists. Tap Share to send it to the group chat as an image, and ✓ to save the match.

RESULTS AND STATS

The whole season at a glance

The home screen shows the top scorer, top assists and the last three results. A match that is still going has its own card, with Continue Match.

Tap a result to read its whole timeline back. Tap the top scorer for Stats: goals and assists for every player, guests included.

Started halfway through the season? Tap + on Stats and type in each player's goals and assists so far.