Everything your club needs to get payment admin sorted before the season starts – trusted by 1,500 clubs collecting subs with a 97.3% first-time success rate*.
Whether you're a club treasurer chasing unpaid subs or a league secretary drowning in admin, find helpful guides, how-to video content and exclusive offers for a winning payments strategy.
Collect 97.3% of recurring subs payments on the first try.*
Trusted by 18 County Football Associations across the UK.
We serve 1,500 football clubs across the UK and Ireland.
Connect to platforms you already use like Pitchero, Coacha and Xero.
*GoCardless Payment Success Rates, 2025
Faversham Strike Force freed up time for the pitch, not the paperwork
850 members. 58 teams. One treasurer. Here's how Faversham Strike Force switched 90% of their club subs payments to Direct Debit – and got their evenings back.
"They say in football that the referee has had a good game if you don’t notice they’re there. You want the same from payments, and that’s exactly what we’ve got with GoCardless."
Colin Bowden - Commercial Development Officer, Hemington Hammers
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90% of Faversham Strikeforce members pay via GoCardless. Here's how the club freed up time for the pitch, not the paperwork.
"If a payment does fail, we don’t even have to chase people because the Success+ feature automatically retries three times – we've really seen an upturn in our income since we started using that."
Jo Starkey - Coach, Faversham Strike Force
"Our debts have reduced by around 95%"
Amaranth FC were down £3,000 in unpaid subs. After a year with GoCardless, they halved the time spent managing accounts and were owed less than £100.
"Using GoCardless has halved the time I spend doing the accounts, which means I can spend more time doing what I joined to do – coaching my son’s team."
Paul Swift - Coach (and Treasurer), Amaranth FC
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Already using Xero, Pitchero, LoveAdmin or MyClub Pro? GoCardless connects to over 350 partner platforms, so you don’t have to worry about learning a new system.
Integrate with tools you're familiar with
Integrating GoCardless with your chosen software is straightforward and comes with plenty of benefits from day one.
Organisations that collect payments. Whether one-off or recurring, scheduled or instant. Collect directly from customers’ bank accounts – quick, easy, and reliable.
Yes. GoCardless are the Official Payment Partner of 18 County FAs. We process over US$130bn annually for 100,000+ organisations. Most importantly, we move league data off personal laptops and into a regulated environment, helping to protect your committee from liability.
To welcome you to GoCardless, we are giving you 90 days without transaction fees (the “Promotion”)! You will not be charged any GoCardless transaction fees for transactions successfully collected by GoCardless during the Promotion Period – up to to a total transaction volume limit of £5,000 if you are located in, United Kingdom.
If you're a registered charity and are not a merchant on custom pricing, then you’re eligible for our Charity Pricing plan which has been in place since 1st January 2022.
The Charity Pricing plan provides registered charities and non-profit organisations with a 25% discount on the standard transaction fees for all of our direct debit and instant bank pay schemes. Find out more.
You decide when you receive your payouts, so it's most convenient for you without the added admin or reconciliation. Choose from daily, weekly or monthly payouts and get your funds exactly when you need them.
No. While we are famous for automated recurring payments (perfect for seasonal subs), our Instant Bank Pay feature works for one-off fines or affiliation fees. It allows clubs to pay you instantly via their banking app, with the funds settling much faster than traditional transfers. You can also split the transaction into instalments on a schedule that works for you.
We offer transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing with no committments. Because we use bank-to-bank payments, we help businesses significantly reduce the cost of taking payments compared to cards. Plus, as part of this campaign, you may be eligible for 90 days of fee-free transactions.
When you connect GoCardless with Xero, it creates an automated system for your league. Send digital invoices from Xero and clubs pay instantly via a GoCardless link. As soon as they pay, the systems sync to automatically reconcile the fees. Transforming your manual bookkeeping into a real-time digital ledger.
Refer clubs in your league and get £100 for each club that processes £2,000 in payments with GoCardless.
Complete six (6) Eligible Payment Actions (see below) using your GoCardless account before the end of the Promotion Period and get either £300 in Kelme UK gift cards for a new football kit for your football team or a £150 SportsNetWorld voucher towards training equipment (the “Prize”).
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