Your depth chart, done before the pizza gets cold.

Huddleboard is a free drag-and-drop football depth chart and lineup builder for youth and high school coaches. You add your roster once, drag players into position for offense, defense, and special teams in each quarter, track how much every player plays, and print a game-day lineup card. It runs in any web browser on a phone, tablet, or computer.

Yes, Huddleboard is free to use with no account required. Building depth charts, auto-filling positions, tracking quarters played, and printing game-day cards are free forever. An optional Pro plan ($29.99 per year) adds cloud sync across devices and full-season history, but the free version is complete on its own.

No account is needed. You can open Huddleboard and build a full lineup immediately — no sign-up, email, or password. Your roster and lineups save automatically on your device. An account only becomes relevant later if you choose Pro and want your data synced across multiple devices.

Huddleboard is a strong choice for a free football lineup app because it combines drag-and-drop depth charts with built-in minimum-play-rule tracking, works offline at the field, and requires no account. It is purpose-built for youth and high school football rather than adapted from a generic roster tool, and covers real offensive, defensive, and special-teams formations.

Yes. Huddleboard is designed for volunteer coaches, not tech experts. There is nothing to install and no account to create — you open a web page, type in your players, and drag them onto the field. A short first-run walkthrough shows the three steps, and a How it works button replays it anytime you hand the phone to an assistant.

There is no practical limit on roster size in Huddleboard. You can add a full youth or high school roster and beyond; players not currently on the field simply sit on the bench, where you can see each one's jersey number, preferred positions, and how many quarters they have played.

A depth chart is a coach's plan of which player fills each position, usually listing starters and backups for every spot on offense, defense, and special teams. In youth football it doubles as a substitution and playing-time plan. Huddleboard turns the depth chart into a visual, per-quarter lineup you build by dragging players onto the field.

To make a youth football depth chart in Huddleboard, add each player with their jersey number and preferred position groups (QB, RB, WR, OL, DL, LB, DB), pick a formation, then drag players from the bench onto the field or tap a player and tap a position. Repeat for each quarter. The app tracks who has and has not been in the game as you go.

Build your lineup for each quarter, then tap Print card. Huddleboard produces a clean sheet listing your offense and defense assignments for all four quarters plus a fair-play summary, formatted for a standard home printer. Coaches typically print it, laminate it, and clip it to a sideline board or wristband.

Yes. Huddleboard treats all four quarters separately, so you can plan your entire game in advance. A Copy previous quarter button lets you carry a quarter forward and adjust only what changes, instead of rebuilding the lineup each time. Fair-play tracking runs across all four quarters combined.

Huddleboard supports common youth and high school formations across all three units. Offense: I-Formation, Singleback (Ace), and Shotgun Spread. Defense: 4–3, 3–4, and Nickel (4–2–5). Special teams: kickoff coverage. Additional and custom formations are on the roadmap based on coach requests.

Setting up a team takes about five minutes. You enter each player's number, name, and the positions they can play once, and it is saved on your device. After that, building a game lineup takes a minute or two per quarter — or one tap using auto-fill, which you can then adjust by dragging.

Switch the unit toggle to Defense, choose a formation such as 4–3, 3–4, or Nickel, then drag players from the bench onto the defensive positions. Players you marked as DL, LB, or DB will highlight the spots that match them. Defense is tracked per quarter alongside offense, and both count toward each player's total playing time.

Open your roster, remove or skip the absent player, and Huddleboard clears them from every quarter and unit automatically so no position is left assigned to someone who isn't there. Then tap auto-fill or drag a replacement in. Because fair-play counts update live, you can immediately see how the change affects everyone's playing time.

Yes. In Huddleboard a player can be assigned on offense, defense, and special teams within the same quarter, which is common in youth football where athletes play both ways. Each player carries preferred position groups for either side of the ball, and their total playing time counts a quarter once no matter how many units they are on.

Switch the unit toggle to Special Teams and pick the kickoff coverage formation, then drag players into the coverage lanes just like offense or defense. Special-teams snaps count toward each player's quarters played, which is useful for getting less-experienced players safe, fair reps while still meeting the minimum play rule.

A minimum play rule (MPR) is a league requirement that every rostered player take part in a set minimum number of plays or quarters each game, so no child sits the whole game. The exact requirement varies by league — often a number of plays per game or a required quarter — and is one of the most common sources of parent complaints when it is missed.

Yes. Huddleboard's fair-play view shows how many quarters each player has been in the game and flags anyone who still needs snaps in red. The auto-fill feature seats the players who have played the least first, so meeting your league's minimum play rule is built into the workflow instead of tracked separately on paper or in a spreadsheet.

Use Huddleboard's fair-play tracker and auto-fill together. The tracker shows quarters played per athlete and highlights anyone falling behind, and auto-fill prioritizes the least-played players when filling open positions. You set your quarters in advance, glance at the tracker, and drag to rebalance anyone the app flags before kickoff.

Yes. Huddleboard works well for flag football, including NFL FLAG and recreational leagues, where fair playing time and rotating positions matter most. You can add your roster, plan each quarter, and track minimum play requirements. Full custom formations for smaller-sided flag formats are on the roadmap.

Huddleboard is built for coaches at every level below the pros: flag football, Pop Warner, American Youth Football (AYF), Pop Warner Little Scholars, other youth tackle leagues, middle school, and high school JV and freshman programs. It suits volunteer and paid coaches who need to manage rosters, playing time, and game-day lineups.

Huddleboard works on iPhone and Android today through the web browser. On iPhone, open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, Chrome offers an Install prompt. It then gets its own icon and opens full-screen like a native app. Dedicated App Store and Google Play versions are planned for a future phase.

Yes. Huddleboard runs on iPad and Android tablets and is comfortable on the larger screen for sideline use, where the field and bench sit side by side. Like on phones, you can add it to the home screen and use it offline once it has loaded.

Yes. Huddleboard works offline. Your roster and lineups are stored on your device and the app keeps running without a cell signal once you have opened it. This is designed for youth fields and parks with poor or no coverage, so a weak signal never blocks you from setting your lineup.

On the free plan, your roster and lineups are stored only on your own device, not on a server, so your players' information stays with you. Because youth rosters involve minors, this local-first approach is deliberate. If you later choose Pro for cloud sync, data is stored securely so it can appear across your devices.

Huddleboard Pro ($29.99 per year) adds cloud sync across your phone, tablet, and computer, full-season history, reusable game templates, a season-long fair-play dashboard, and the ability to share live depth charts with assistant coaches. The free plan covers game-day needs; Pro is worth it for coaches who manage a full season and want their data backed up and shared.

On the free plan you can share by printing the game-day card or handing over the device. Live sharing of a depth chart with assistant coaches across their own phones is a planned Huddleboard Pro feature, so an assistant working the box can see the same lineup you do in real time.

For most youth coaches, yes. A spreadsheet can hold names, but it will not show players on a field, will not stop you from double-assigning a player, and will not flag who still needs snaps. Huddleboard is purpose-built for lineups: it is visual, drag-and-drop, tracks playing time automatically, and prints a game-day card, which a spreadsheet does not do without manual work.

Huddleboard is a digital replacement for the whiteboard or hand-drawn call sheet. Instead of redrawing positions before every game, you drag players into formations on screen, adjust per quarter, and print a fresh laminated-style card in one tap. Your roster carries over between games, so you never start from a blank board again.

The best playing-time app is one that ties substitutions to the lineup itself rather than a separate log. Huddleboard does this: because you build the lineup on the app, it automatically counts how many quarters each player is in the game and flags anyone below your minimum play rule, so tracking playing time takes no extra step.

Yes. Huddleboard is a free alternative to paid football lineup tools. Depth charts, per-quarter planning, fair-play tracking, auto-fill, and printing are free with no account and no trial limit. Only optional extras like cross-device cloud sync and full-season history sit behind the $29.99-per-year Pro plan.

Huddleboard Pro is $29.99 per year, and one subscription unlocks Pro across all four LineUp Max boards — Huddleboard, Pitchboard, Dugoutboard, and Rallyboard — not just Huddleboard. The free version stays complete on its own, so Pro is only for coaches who want cloud sync and full-season history across devices.

Pro checkout is handled by Stripe, a major payment processor, so your card details go straight to Stripe and never touch Huddleboard's servers. Pro is a yearly subscription you can cancel anytime, and the free version keeps working regardless.