Where to find it: Welcome screen → Get started with email (or Continue with Apple / Google)
Creating an account takes five steps: your name, email and password (or Apple / Google), your date of birth (you must be 13 or over; it is never shown on your profile), whether you are an athlete or a coach, one to five sports (coaches are asked which sports they coach), and a username — a suggestion based on your name is pre-filled and you can edit it. Everything else (gender, regions, level, profile details) is optional and added later in Profile → Edit, Settings → Interests or with the AI assistant.
Good to know
Your first sport pick becomes your main sport on your profile; change it in Profile → Edit.
Usernames are 3–20 characters: lowercase letters, numbers and underscores only — no dots.
Your account type (athlete or coach) cannot be changed in the app afterwards.
Where to find it: Settings → Account Type (view only)
Your account type is chosen when you sign up and shapes the app — coaches get Scout search and coaching-specific profile sections, athletes get performance stats and a scouting profile. It cannot be changed in the app; contact support if you need it changed.
Posts, highlights and updates from the athletes, coaches and teams you follow. It only shows people you follow or are connected to, plus your own posts and posts from teams you follow — it is not an algorithmic mix of strangers.
Find athletes, coaches, teams and events across SportNet. Under the search bar: For You (posts personalised to your sports), Trending (who is rising this week), Events, and — for coaches — Scout. The sliders icon at the top right opens "Filter Discover" to pick sports: For You shows posts by athletes in those sports first (nothing is hidden) and Trending narrows to them; the choice stays on until cleared and the icon shows a count while active.
Good to know
The sliders icon filters by sport only, and it goes by the post author's sport — Events and Scout have their own controls.
Scout is only shown to coach accounts and needs verification before it returns results.
The notifications bell is on the Home feed, not on Discover.
Direct conversations with your connections. You can share posts, send photos and voice notes, reply to a message by swiping it right, double-tap to ❤️ a message, and long-press one for more reactions, Copy, Forward or Delete. Drag the thread to the left to see when each message was sent. Swipe a chat left in the inbox to Mute or Archive it. The account name at the top of the inbox opens the account switcher; the pencil icon starts a new message.
Your sports résumé — achievements, experience, stats, and how scouts discover you. It has a Posts view and a Profile view, switched with the tabs near the top. The Profile view shows a summary strip (sport, position, level, experience, height, club), then sections you can jump to with the chip row that sticks under the header as you scroll. Sections you have not filled in are hidden until you tap Edit.
Your notifications, grouped by Today, This Week, This Month and Earlier. Filter chips at the top narrow it to Mentions, Posts, People, Teams or Events. Several likes on the same post, or several new followers, collapse into one row — tap the row to open the post, or tap the stacked avatars to see everyone. Follow, Follow back and Message buttons sit on the right of the relevant rows; Accept and decline appear on connection and team requests. Unread rows are lightly tinted and clear when you leave the screen.
Good to know
Direct messages are not listed here — they live in the Messages tab and its badge.
Tapping a like or comment opens the post; a comment does not yet jump to the exact comment.
Where to find it: Home feed, top of the list (new accounts only)
In your first week SportNet shows a one-tap card at the top of the Home feed asking how you heard about it (Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, a friend or teammate, app store search, or somewhere else). Tap an answer and the card says thanks and folds away; tap the X to dismiss it. Choosing "Friend or teammate" also lets you enter their referral code. It is shown once and never blocks anything.
Good to know
On Android the app can usually tell where the install came from, so the card may never appear.
