This page covers what a soccer club actually needs to fund, the constraints that shape how you can raise it, and which event formats fit. If you want the general guide first, start with fundraising by group.
What a soccer club is usually funding
- field maintenance and rental
- goals, nets, balls and training equipment
- referee and league fees
- coaching licences and development
- tournament travel and player scholarships
What makes this group different
These are the constraints that decide whether a fundraiser works here, and they are the reason generic advice underperforms.
- Multiple age groups and teams share one club budget
- Field time is expensive and often the largest single line
- Seasons run in both fall and spring, splitting the calendar
- Club leadership is usually volunteer and stretched thin
Why an event-based fundraiser fits
A skills-based format lets every age group participate in the same event at their own level, which is the practical problem with club-wide fundraising — a single activity that suits both the U8s and the U16s.
What is realistic to raise
Several age groups share one budget, so the practical problem is a single activity that suits both the U8s and the U16s. A skills-based format scales by ability rather than by a fixed standard, which is what makes one club-wide event possible at all.
A working timeline
The dates that matter here are set by this group’s own calendar, not by a generic fundraising season.
- Between the fall and spring seasons, when fields and families are free
- Launch club-wide with per-player pages
- Event day: skills stations scaled by age group
- Report by age group and by what it funded — field time, referees, equipment
What goes wrong
- An activity with a fixed standard, which excludes the youngest or bores the oldest
- Fundraising during either season, when field time and family time are both gone
- Pooling everything with no visibility into what each age group's families funded
Formats that suit a soccer club
You are not doing this alone
Every Get Movin' group is paired with a Personal Event Coach — a former PTO/PTA volunteer who has run this before. Get Movin's company president and all of its fundraising coaches are former PTO/PTA members, teachers and volunteers. For a soccer club, that means someone who has already helped other groups like yours through exactly this.
Your coach:
- strategizes your budget goal with you
- brainstorms incentives that actually motivate your participants
- advises on promotion and timing
- steers you away from the pitfalls they have already watched other groups hit
You also get the FundHub Event Toolbox — 100+ guides, templates, playlists and printables. Meet the coaches.
The platform behind a soccer club fundraiser
FundHub is Get Movin's online donation platform, built specifically for schools, teams and community groups by former PTO/PTA leaders. It carries 35+ tools. These are the ones that matter most here:
- Personalized student webpages. A parent sets one up in about five minutes, and each page raises an average of $140.
- One-click sharing to social, email and text, plus a sharing report showing how many parents are actually using it.
- Sponsor Showcase, with pre-built outreach templates and a section on your webpage for local sponsor names and logos.
- Employer Match Identifier, which finds donors whose employers will match their gift. It located over $1.4 million in matching donations in its first year.
- Automatic ACH payout after the event, straight to the group's account.
See the full platform on the FundHub page, or book a walkthrough with a coach.
How Get Movin’ runs your soccer club fundraiser
- Book a call or a FundHub demo and get matched with your Personal Event Coach.
- Your coach helps you set the goal, pick the date and choose incentives.
- Your group page and student pages go live; parents set theirs up in about five minutes.
- Families share by text, email and social; the coach checks in through the campaign.
- Event day, with volunteers organized through FundHub.
- Funds arrive by automatic ACH transfer after the event.
What it costs and what you keep
Get Movin’ groups keep 95-97% of every dollar raised. Donors pay however they want — cash, check, credit or debit, PayPal, Venmo, or Apple and Google Wallet. Automatic ACH payout after the event, straight to the group's account.
Full detail on the pricing page.
Next steps
See what a soccer club fundraiser costs on our pricing page, or browse free templates including printable pledge sheets.
Common questions
How do you run one fundraiser across every age group?
Choose an activity that scales with ability rather than one with a fixed standard. A skills-based format lets a seven-year-old and a sixteen-year-old participate in the same event without either feeling out of place.
Start your soccer club fundraiser
Get Movin’ has powered 10,000+ events and raised more than $200 million for groups like yours since 2007, with 1,300+ five-star Google reviews.
Take a FundHub tour with a coach, or book your event. Questions first? Contact us or call 248-895-0206. Also useful: the free school grant guide, the parent and donor FAQ, and our fundraising webinars.