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Sligo
County Board provides a new Scoreboard
Service for GAA Clubs
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Each GAA club in Sligo
will be provided with their own personalised Club
Scoreboard. A Club Scoreboard is a mini web-page
which receives a ‘live’ feed of official
club results, fixtures and league tables direct
from the County Board. Match results are typically
returned to the Scoreboard within 30 minutes after
a match. Leagues tables are automatically re-calculated
‘live’ as each result is returned. If
the Sligo county fixtures secretary changes a fixture
it is immediately updated to the club Scoreboard.
Many sports clubs have a website but find it a major
struggle to update. The most popular area in any
club website is the fixtures, results and league
tables. Keeping this up-to-date is the biggest headache
for a club. A Club Scoreboard will dramatically
improve a club website; it is bolted on to an existing
club website or it can be used as a stand-alone
webpage for a club. The Scoreboard is powered by
eSports Manager, a web and SMS platform developed
by an innovative web company based in Castlebar
in Co Mayo. www.21stcentury.ie
A Club Scoreboard does not cost a club any money;
in fact it provides an opportunity for a club to
generate revenue. Sligo GAA Clubs can activate their
scoreboard by selling 2, 5, 10, or 18 adverts on
their Scoreboard to local businesses. Clubs can
make up to €2,600 towards their own club funds;
depending on how many adverts they sell.
Seamus Kyne, Managing Director of eSports Manager
explains that “GAA clubs are under constant
pressure to raise money by selling raffle tickets,
match programmes and lotto tickets. They are always
looking at new ways to make money for their club”.
The Scoreboard offers a unique opportunity for clubs
to make some money and provide accurate and timely
results and fixtures to club members, supporters,
players, parents, underage and ex-pats
21st Century Sport in conjunction with Sligo County
Board have commenced the roll-out of the Club Scoreboard
service in Sligo and surrounding counties. The service
can be provided in 26 Counties and to over 1,900
GAA clubs in Ireland. The Scoreboard can also be
provided to Leinster and Connaught rugby, some Ladies
Gaelic, Camogie, handball, Irish American Football
League and a few soccer leagues.
eSports Manager software has been in use by sports
bodies since 2005. The software is the first of
its kind and has been specifically designed for
grassroots amateur sports. In 2009, in GAA alone
the eSports system will manage 1,800 club competitions
and collect results for over 33,000 fixtures. Results
are returned from match officials for adult, divisional
and underage competitions from U12 upwards for 1,900
Clubs. This year, the GAA Scoreboard will provide
results, fixtures & league tables to 12,000+
teams and an estimated 700,000+ supporters.
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reduces workload by up to 15 hours
per week
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automates routine work
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input data once only
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returns match results instantaneously
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automated feed of ‘‘Live’
of results,
fixtures & league tables
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guarantees accurate results &
league tables
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update your website in 10 mins
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no downloading or installing software
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make money for a club
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increases volunteer satisfaction
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communicate & co-ordinate
referees, coaches and managers
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check player availability by text
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