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Engage residents
Make it easy for people to discover and access opportunities in their local area.
Empower providers
Give clubs and activity providers a simple way to promote and manage their sessions, competitions, events, and memberships.
Prove impact
Turn search and participation data into insights that help you and your funders make better, more informed decisions.
WHY UNIVERSITIES CHOOSE PLAYWAZE
Run leagues and social sport on one connected platform
Universities need to deliver high quality leagues and social sport with limited staff time - and still report on participation and impact. Playwaze combines competition management with bookings and insight, in a way that works for staff and students.
Intramural and campus leagues made manageable
Use Playwaze to run your intramural sport and campus leagues - fixtures, results, tables and communication - across multiple sports and formats.
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Leagues, knockouts, ladders
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Add friendly and ad-hoc fixtures
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Player stats and team sheets
Self-serve bookings for social sport programmes
Manage turn up and play sessions, Just Play style programmes and recreational sport using bookings - so students can book in seconds.
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Bookings for free and paid sessions
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Waiting lists and capacity management
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Attendance, consent, communication
Support one-off events
Use events to support Welcome Week activity, This Girl Can campaigns, charity events and taster days alongside your regular programme.
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Welcome Week and Freshers’ events
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One-off festivals
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Entries, registers, and follow-up
communication
Evidence participation and impact
Turn your leagues and sessions into insight - who’s taking part, in what, and how often - to support reporting to internal stakeholders.
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Participation by sport, programme and
team -
Term by term and year on year
comparisons -
Exportable data
Reduced admin, better visibility, and more confidence in your data.
But don't just take our word for it..
Playwaze has a proven track record of supporting the delivery of community sport. We regard them as a key partner who have a significant impact on our business. Working with Playwaze has allowed us to have a single platform for members, participants, and administrators, gain insight into our audiences, and change our commercial approach.
John Smith, COO
BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sport)
BRANDED DIGITAL EXPERIENCE
Your sport, on your own subdomain and app
Make Playwaze feel like an extension of your NGB, not a separate tool. Give your sport a consistent digital experience on web and mobile.
A dedicated home for your campus sport
Launch Playwaze on a university-branded subdomain, so students and staff always know they’re in the right place for leagues, bookings, and events.
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University-branded web experience
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Custom navigation for your sport offer
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Space for IMS, club and social sport activity
Campus sport in students’ pockets
Give students access to your leagues, fixtures, bookings, and events through the Playwaze app - with your branding reflected in the experience.
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App access to fixtures, results, and bookings
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Notifications for fixtures, changes and reminders
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Consistent experience across web and app
ACTIVITY FINDER
A single place for students to discover what’s on
For universities that want a one-stop shop for social sport and campus activity, Playwaze can power an Activity Finder - bringing together programmes, sessions and events in a single, searchable student experience.
Show students everything in one view
Surface your social sport, leagues and programmes in one place -
filtered by activity type, time, and accessibility - so students can quickly find something that works for them.
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Searchable campus Activity Finder
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Filters by time, type, cost, etc.
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Direct link through to bookings
Start with leagues and bookings, add Activity Finder later
Most universities begin with competitions and social sport bookings. Activity Finder can be added when you’re ready to centralise discovery for students.
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Optional feature
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Build as you grow your campus sport offer
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Ideal for wellbeing and engagement strategies
HOW IT WORKS
From a single programme to your full campus sport offer
You don’t need to transform everything at once. We normally start with intramural competitions or a core social sport programme, then grow into a full campus sport ecosystem as the model proves itself.
Shape Playwaze around your programmes
We work with your team to map your intramural and social sport offer, then configure competitions and bookings that match your reality.
Pilot with selected programmes
We roll out with a focused set of leagues or social sport sessions, support your staff and student workforce, and establish a clear student experience.
Expand, brand and add insight
Once proven, we extend to more programmes, switch on your branded subdomain and app experience, and help you use data to guide future decisions.