Their football, in your calendar
Every fixture and training session for the players you follow, in the calendar you already live in - added once, kept correct by itself. Here is how to set it up, choose what syncs, and take it away again - on iPhone and on Android.
One tap gives you one calendar with the football of every player you follow in it - your children, or the players whose fan club you have joined. A fixture without a kick-off time yet shows as an all-day entry saying so; the moment the time is decided, it becomes a timed event with a reminder for when to set off. If a kick-off moves, the event moves. If a game is called off, the event disappears - even while the app is closed. We only ever update or remove events we created; everything else in your calendar stays private to you.
Add their football and choose what syncs
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Where do I find it?
Open the Calendar tab in the app. The card at the top says In your phone's calendar - tap it.
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Add their football
Tap Add to your calendar. One button covers every player you follow - there is nothing to pick per person.
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What happens before anything touches your calendar?
A sheet explains exactly what will happen first. Tap Continue when you are happy, or Not now to leave it.
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Why does it ask for full access?
Your iPhone will ask next - tap Allow Full Access. It has to be full access: that is the only level iPhones offer that lets an app update or remove the events it created, and updating events is the whole point when a kick-off moves or a game is called off. We never look at anything else in your calendar, and the sheet you just read promised exactly that.
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Which calendar should it live in?
Calendar (Default) is your iPhone's usual calendar - pick it and the football lands where you already look. Or choose Its own calendar, on this phone for a tidy separate one. You can remove and choose again any time.
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Done - and you choose what syncs
The screen now shows how many events are in your calendar and keeps the count up to date. Below it, What syncs lets you switch one player's events off, and decide whether games you have said no to stay in your diary - normally a declined game leaves the calendar so your weekend is honestly free.
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What does it look like in my calendar?
Like any other event. A Sunday with a game shows it at the top of your day; until the kick-off time is decided it is an all-day entry, and it fills itself in when the club decides. The (H) or (A) after an opponent means home or away.
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How do I take it away again?
Tap Remove on the same screen. If we made the calendar, it is deleted whole; if you chose one of your own, only the events we added are removed and everything else in it is untouched.
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It says calendar access is switched off
If access was refused earlier, the app cannot ask again - tap Open Settings.
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Turning it back on in Settings
Open Settings takes you straight to GrassrootsManager's own page. Tap Calendars - yours will say None until you change it - set it to Full Access, and go back to the app. Add to your calendar will work now.