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Location intelligence for sports clubs, stadiums and leagues

Find players, sponsors and venues, and keep match days moving.

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30blocks used
77hours a month saved by them all (an estimate)

Why sports clubs & leagues teams use xMap Flows

Clubs and leagues grow through facilities, players and local partners. xMap Flows ranks areas for academies and new courts by young residents and rival facilities, finds local sponsors and corporate leagues, maps where players live, and runs match days with traffic, weather and fan-zone planning. A chat answers fans about parking, food and transport.

Academies placed by availability

Rank areas by young residents and existing clubs and courts.

Sponsors found through contacts

Local businesses that fit, scored and ready to pitch.

Match day congestion

Closures and weather around the stadium, with alerts.

Fans need answers

A chat with parking, food and transport near the venue.

Clubs, academies, stadiums, leagues and sports brands finding talent, fans, sponsors and the right places to play.

How a flow works for sports clubs & leagues

Every flow reads left to right: something starts it (a schedule, a message, an app event or new rows), it looks at an area, gathers data, lets xMap AI make sense of it, applies your rules, and sends the result where your team works. These are the blocks sports clubs & leagues templates use most.

  1. 1

    Where

    Choose the area: countries, cities, a radius around your own sites, or shapes you draw.

    Area of interest

  2. 2

    Data

    Bring in what is there and what is changing.

    Nearby places · Weather forecast · Demographics · Traffic incidents · Job postings

  3. 3

    AI and your rules

    Score, rank, keep only what is new or fits, and match with your own data.

    xMap LLM · Place classifier · AI agent · Sort and limit · Only new

  4. 4

    Where results go

    Send each result where your team works.

    Email · Show on a map · Reply · HubSpot · Google Sheets

Use cases and templates for sports clubs & leagues

Each template is a real flow on live data. Open it, change the city and the kind of place, test it and deploy it. Grouped by what the team wants to do.

Find customers and leads 9Site selection and expansion 4Competitor watch 1Operations and alerts 6Market data and research 4Chat assistants and APIs 1

Find customers and leads 9 templates

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Schools and clubs near my academy, for talent scouting

AIMediumMonthly

Schools and youth clubs near your academy, invited to a scouting day.

Every term: schools and youth sports clubs within 15 km of your academy, with the sports teacher or coach from Apollo and a scouting day invitation by xMap AI, into HubSpot. The next star plays at a school or club nearby. A steady relationship with their coaches is the scouting network.

Good for
A football academy · A basketball club · A sports scholarship programme
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Big local businesses to approach as club sponsors

AIMediumMonthly

The best-known businesses near the stadium, approved as sponsor prospects.

Every season: the most reviewed businesses within 10 km of your stadium (the ones everyone knows), with the marketing manager from Apollo and a sponsorship idea by xMap AI, approved by you, into HubSpot. Local sponsors want local fans. The businesses everyone already knows are the easiest to sign.

Good for
A football club · A basketball team · A local league
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)
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Sports bars for official fan zones

AIMediumMonthly

Sports bars invited to become official fan zones.

Before each tournament: sports bars in your city, the best-rated and most reviewed first, with an invitation by xMap AI to become an official fan zone, approved by you, emailed. Fan zones extend a tournament across the city. The best-loved bars bring the crowd.

Good for
A national federation · A tournament organiser · A beverage sponsor
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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New padel courts in my region

MediumMonthly

New padel courts in your region, for equipment sales.

Every month: padel courts and clubs that opened in your region in the last year, with phone and website, for the padel equipment brand’s sales team, into HubSpot. Padel is growing fast and every new club needs rackets, balls and nets. Equipment brands reach them first.

Good for
A padel equipment brand · A court builder · A padel booking app
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Running stores and gyms as marathon partners

AIMediumMonthly

Running stores and gyms invited as marathon partners.

Before the city marathon: running and sporting goods stores and gyms in your city, with the owner from Apollo and a partnership offer by xMap AI (training runs, bib pick-up, discounts), into HubSpot. A marathon needs local partners for training runs and bib pick-up. Running stores and gyms bring the runners.

Good for
A marathon organiser · A running club · A sportswear brand
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Independent sports shops to stock my brand

AIMediumMonthly

Independent sports shops with the owner and an approved pitch.

Every month: independent sporting goods stores in your target cities, the best-rated first, with the owner from Apollo and a wholesale pitch by xMap AI, approved by you, sent from Gmail. Independent shops sell to serious athletes. Being on their shelves builds the brand.

Good for
A sportswear brand · A footwear startup · A sports nutrition brand
Each run gives
Approved emails from your Gmail
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)
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Clubs hiring coaches, for my coaching courses

AIEasyMonthly

Clubs hiring coaches, each with a coaching course offer.

Every month: sports clubs and schools advertising coaching jobs in your country, one per club, each with a course offer by xMap AI, for the coaching education team. A club hiring a coach wants that coach trained. A course offer at that moment fits.

Good for
A coaching education provider · A sports federation · A sports science school
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Companies hiring for wellbeing, for corporate leagues

AIMediumMonthly

Companies hiring for wellbeing, invited to a corporate league.

Every month: companies hiring employee wellbeing or engagement roles in your city, one per company, with an invitation by xMap AI to enter a team in your corporate sports league, into HubSpot. A new wellbeing manager needs projects that staff love. A corporate league is one.

Good for
A corporate sports league · A padel club · A team-building company
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Bars to show our league’s matches

AIMediumMonthly

Sports bars that do not show your league yet, with an offer.

Every season: sports bars and pubs in your country’s cities that do not show your league yet (not in your HubSpot), with an offer by xMap AI to become a broadcast partner, sent to the sales team. Every bar showing the league adds viewers. This finds the ones still missing.

Good for
A sports league · A sports broadcaster · A beverage brand
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Site selection and expansion 4 templates

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Where to open the next football academy

MediumMonthly

Blocks with many children and few pitches, for a new academy.

Every year: blocks of your city with the most children aged 5 to 14 and the fewest football pitches within 2 km, for where to open the next academy, emailed and mapped. An academy fills where children live and pitches are scarce. This finds those blocks.

Good for
A football academy chain · A sports federation · A city sports department
Each run gives
A map · An email
Time saved
About 3 hours a month (an estimate)
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Pools with the most children nearby, for a swim school

AIMediumMonthly

Pools with the most children nearby, for a swim school.

Every year: swimming pools in your city with the most children living within 2 km, scored by xMap AI as sites for a swim school, emailed and mapped. Swim schools fill where families live close by. This ranks pools by the children around them.

Good for
A swim school chain · A leisure centre operator · A water safety charity
Each run gives
A map · An email
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)
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Where a climbing gym is missing

MediumMonthly

Blocks with many young adults and no climbing gym nearby.

Every year: the blocks of your city with the most people aged 20 to 39 and the fewest climbing gyms within 5 km, for where to open the next climbing gym, emailed and mapped. Climbing gyms thrive near young adults. The best sites have many of them and no gym yet.

Good for
A climbing gym operator · A fitness investor · A real estate developer
Each run gives
A map · An email
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)
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Where our registered players live

AIEasyMonthly

Where your players live, for the next training centre.

Every season: your registered players (a table with their neighbourhoods), with the football fields near each, on a map and summed up by xMap AI for where to add a training centre. Long trips make players drop out. A training centre where most of them live keeps them.

Good for
A youth football club · A swimming club · A martial arts school chain
Each run gives
A map · An email
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)
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Competitor watch 1 template

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How fans rate stadiums in my league

AIMediumMonthly

How fans rate every stadium in the league.

Every season: the stadiums of your league, judged by xMap AI from their rating and number of reviews, ranked, with a benchmark note for the stadium operations team. Fan experience drives season tickets. A league benchmark shows who does it best.

Good for
A stadium operations team · A league office · A hospitality partner
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)
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Operations and alerts 6 templates

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Road closures around the stadium on match days

AIEasyWeekly

Closures near the stadium, as a ready travel message for fans.

Every match day at 10:00: road closures and roadworks within 5 km of the stadium, and a travel message by xMap AI for fans, posted to the club’s Slack for the social media team. Fans stuck in traffic miss kick-off and blame the club. A clear message on the morning of the match helps.

Good for
A football club · A stadium operator · A league’s fan services
Each run gives
A Slack post
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Match day weather for the pitch decision

AIEasyWeekly

Hourly weather at the ground, with a pitch and kick-off note.

Every match day morning: the hour-by-hour rain, wind and temperature at your ground, with a pitch and kick-off note by xMap AI for the groundsman and the match officials. Pitch decisions need hourly weather, not a city forecast. The groundsman and officials get both.

Good for
A football club’s grounds team · A rugby club · A cricket ground
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Frost and heat warnings for my pitches

AIEasyDaily

Frost and heat warnings for every pitch, the evening before.

Every evening: tomorrow’s lowest and highest temperatures at each pitch in your table, the coldest first, with what to do by xMap AI (covers, watering, delaying training), emailed to the grounds team. Frost ruins pitches and heat dries them. The grounds team acts the evening before.

Good for
A club’s grounds team · A school sports department · A golf club
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 8 hours a month (an estimate)
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A scout’s weekend route through clubs and pitches

AIMediumWeekly

Clubs and pitches around your academy in the best order for a weekend of scouting.

Every Friday: the best-rated football clubs and pitches around your academy, put in the best visiting order for a weekend of scouting from the academy and back, with directions, in a plan by xMap AI emailed to the scout and mapped. A scout sees more players when the weekend is planned around the map, not the calendar. A ready route makes every hour count.

Good for
A football academy · A professional club’s youth department · A talent agency
Each run gives
An email with the route · A map
Time saved
About 4 hours a month (an estimate)
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Golf course weather note for members each morning

AIEasyDaily

A morning tee-time weather note for golf members.

Every morning at 5:30: the hour-by-hour forecast at your golf course, and a tee-time note by xMap AI for members (best hours to play, wind, rain), sent from your Gmail. Members want to know the best hours to play. A short note each morning fills the tee sheet.

Good for
A golf club · A resort with a golf course · A driving range
Each run gives
An email from your Gmail
Time saved
About 8 hours a month (an estimate)
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Weekly club brief: weather, roads and rivals

AIMediumWeekly

Weather, roads and new rival venues in one weekly club brief.

Every Friday: the weekend weather at your ground, road closures near it and new sports venues in your city, joined by xMap AI into a one-page brief for the club’s operations meeting. Club operations need one page before the weekend. Three signals joined make it.

Good for
A club operations manager · A stadium team · A sports centre manager
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 4 hours a month (an estimate)
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Market data and research 4 templates

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Physios and sports medicine near the club

AIEasyMonthly

The best physios and sports clinics near the training ground.

Every season: physical therapists and sports medicine clinics within 10 km of your training ground, the best-rated first, each with what they treat by xMap AI, in a sheet for the medical team. Fast, good care keeps players on the pitch. The medical team always has trusted partners nearby.

Good for
A professional club’s medical team · A sports academy · A running club
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Hotels near the stadium for away fan packages

MediumMonthly

Hotels near the stadium for away fan packages.

Before each season: hotels within 3 km of the stadium, the best-rated first, with phone and website, in a sheet for the ticket office building away fan travel packages. Away fans need beds near the ground. A rated list makes packages easy to build.

Good for
A club ticket office · A sports travel agency · A tournament organiser
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Sports complexes and fields for my amateur league

AIMediumMonthly

Fields, courts and complexes for amateur league fixtures, in one sheet.

Every season: sports complexes, football fields and basketball courts in your city, with phone and rating, sorted by kind, in the sheet the league uses to book match venues. Amateur leagues spend hours finding venues. A current directory makes fixtures quick.

Good for
An amateur football league · A corporate sports league · A youth basketball league
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Cricket grounds directory for my league

MediumMonthly

Cricket grounds and clubs in one directory for fixtures.

Every season: cricket grounds and clubs in your cities, with phone and rating, kept in the league’s Google Sheet for fixtures and umpire travel. Fixtures and umpire travel need a current list of grounds. The league keeps one without effort.

Good for
A cricket league · A school cricket programme · A cricket equipment brand
Each run gives
A Google Sheet · A map
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)
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Chat assistants and APIs 1 template

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Injury helper chat for athletes

AI agentEasyWhen it happens

A chat that finds sports doctors and physios near any athlete.

A chat for your athletes and members: they say where they are and what hurts, and an AI agent finds the nearest sports medicine clinics and physios, with ratings and distances. Injured athletes want help fast. The chat points them to good care nearby in seconds.

Good for
A running club · A sports academy · A fitness app
Each run gives
A chat page
Blocks
Chat → AI agent → Nearby places → Reply
Time saved
About 25 hours a month (an estimate)
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Stories: what teams build

One-minute narrated stories of a flow at work. The scenarios and figures are illustrative, not customer results.

City traffic

Roadworks cleared before sixty thousand fans arrive

The challenge. Rafael is a traffic officer in Sao Paulo. On match days, the roads around the stadium in Morumbi are his. Sixty thousand fans arrive in two hours. One forgotten roadworks site can block an avenue, and he usually finds it at kick off, from a helicopter feed. Then it is too late to send a crew.

The flow. With xMap Flows, Rafael built Radar. On match days at nine, within three kilometres of the stadium, Radar finds every closure and roadworks site, keeps the roadworks, writes a work order for each, sends them to the crew chief, and pins them on the match day map.

The result. On Sunday, Radar found four roadworks sites at nine in the morning. Crews cleared three by noon, and the fourth was coned into one lane. The fans reached their seats, and Rafael watched the second half. Rafael used to find the roadworks at kick off. Now they are gone by lunch.

9 a.m.roads checked on match day
4roadworks sites found
3cleared before noon

Blocks: Schedule → Area of interest → Traffic incidents → Filter → xMap LLM → WhatsApp Business → Show on a map

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The blocks behind it

Blocks are the building pieces of every flow. These are the ones sports clubs & leagues templates and stories use, most used first. Each has its own page with its settings, examples and a short film.

ScheduleTriggerStarts the flow on a timetable.EmailActionSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.Area of interestWhereSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.Nearby placesxMap dataPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or axMap LLMxMap AITell the AI what to do in plain words.Sort and limitLogicPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.Show on a mapActionShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.HubSpotAppPowerful CRM that offers tools for sales, customer service, and marketing automation.Google SheetsAppCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets onlineApolloYour dataThe people to talk to at each company, and the company’s details, from your own Apollo account (apollo.io): decision makers by job title with their LinkedIn and work email; or the company’s size, induWeather forecastxMap dataThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.Only newLogicLets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.ApprovalLogicStops the run until someone says yes.DemographicsxMap dataWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).Remove duplicatesLogicKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.Traffic incidentsxMap dataRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.Calculated fieldLogicAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.My dataYour dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.GmailAppEmail service by GoogleJob postingsxMap dataLive job postings: who is hiring, for what, and where.Map business scanxMap dataFinds businesses on online maps live: name, category, rating, address, phone, website and whether it is open.SlackAppChannel-based messaging platformPlace classifierxMap AIAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.Route plannerLogicPuts the places that reach it in the best order to visit them in a day, from a start you pick: one route, one for each rep (by a field such as owner), or shared out between a number of reps.CRM lookupYour dataLooks each incoming item up in your CRM through its own search: is this company already a customer, is this email a contact?ChatTriggerStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.AI agentxMap AIAn AI agent: for each incoming message it thinks, uses the blocks you link to its Tools port (data, xMap AI, lookups, your tables, other flows, apps), remembers the conversation and writes an answer in {{reply}}.ReplyActionAnswers whoever started the flow, on the same channel: the app or system that called its Webhook / API gets the answer back, and a message from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, SMS, Outlook or DiscorFilterLogicKeeps only the items that match a rule.WhatsApp BusinessAppSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.

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Learn and get help

The ideas behind these flows, step-by-step guides and help articles for the blocks this industry uses most. More in Resources, or see how xMap Flows compares with other tools.

Guides and decks

The xMap Flows guide and deck

How the product works, every block and 33 worked use cases, in 23 languages.

How it works

The whole product in one page: five steps from a question to an answer, what is live, AI, costs and security.

Questions

Can xMap Flows help open a new academy?

Yes. It ranks areas by children and young adults (Demographics) against the clubs and courts already there.

Can it find sponsors?

Yes. Local businesses that fit your audience, with the marketing contact through Apollo.

Does it help match day?

Yes. Traffic incidents and the weather around the stadium, with alerts and a fan chat.

Which data is live?

Live: xMap's places database (300M+ places of more than 5,000 kinds), live business listings from online maps, job postings, road incidents, ships (AIS), satellite pictures, weather forecasts, news from the feeds and pages you choose, travel-time areas and routes on the road network, and residents by age (Demographics, in about 100 countries), live road speeds and congestion (Traffic Flow; it does not count cars), footfall around each place (Mobility Footfall, in most of the world, about 10 days behind), plus regional datasets where xMap offers them, such as cars counted on the roads of the United Arab Emirates (Road traffic history). Catchment returns sample figures for now, and every result made from it says so.

Do I need to write code?

No. A flow is built from blocks on a canvas, from a ready-made template, or by describing it to Ask xMap in a sentence; Ask xMap builds it, tests it and fixes what fails. Developers can also use the API and the MCP server.

How fast can a sports clubs & leagues team start?

Hire one of the AI employees above: answer two questions (the city and the kind of place), or write one sentence to make it yours ("for dental clinics in Lyon, to WhatsApp every Monday"), and it runs in your own account with results you can see. A new account can also type its website and meet three AI employees already tried in its city. Or try the home page first: no account needed.

Can an agency or consultancy offer this to its clients?

Yes. Your logo and colour on the app, emails and reports, emails from your own domain, the app on your own address, and a read-only page for each client with its results, map and weekly report. See the Partners page.

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