Team Cowboy
Team Cowboy is a website for managing and organizing sports teams, with tools for rosters, schedules, attendance, messages, files, and player matching.
What Team Cowboy is
Team Cowboy is a website for managing and organizing sports teams, with tools for rosters, schedules, attendance, messages, files, and player matching. Its dashboard gathers teams, updates, messages, surveys, and events in list or monthly calendar views. Roster tools include contact details, custom member types, team email, sorting, and control over who can RSVP. Schedules support repeating events, seasons, scores, locations, comments, and RSVP controls. Managers can change player responses, add RSVP comments, and include attendees who are not on the roster. Teams can upload files with descriptions and remove them later. MatchUp offers searchable profiles for teams seeking players and players seeking teams. Listed sports and activities include soccer, football, volleyball, softball, baseball, hockey, basketball, and others. Team Cowboy is free, with donations appreciated. Its REST API is in beta and permits commercial use during beta, though terms may change and fees may apply later. The service terms describe use as personal and non-commercial unless separately authorized by agreement.
Good
- Dashboard includes list and monthly calendar views.
- Managers can adjust RSVPs and track off-roster attendees.
- MatchUp provides searchable player and team profiles.
- Free plan; donations are appreciated.
- Beta REST API allows commercial use during beta.
Watch out
- Terms limit use to personal, non-commercial use unless authorized.
- Beta API terms may change and fees may apply later.
- Mobile app platforms could not be confirmed.
Who it suits
Team Cowboy suits people organizing sports teams who need roster, event, RSVP, messaging, file, or player-matching tools. Its terms describe use as personal and non-commercial unless separately authorized.
Verdict
Team Cowboy combines team organization tools with player matching and a beta API. Review its use terms if you need commercial use, and note that API terms may change.
Plans and prices
From Team Cowboy's own pricing page, checked 14 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | team roster · event schedule · RSVPs · photos and videos · message board · surveys · payment tracker · e-mail reminders · team stores |
The facts
Each one read from Team Cowboy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API authentication
- The API requires an API account with public and private keys, user tokens and signed requests.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API availability
- Team Cowboy offers a REST API in beta and says commercial API use is allowed during beta but fees or terms may change later.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API documentation depth
- The public REST API v1 documentation is dated November 18, 2013 and documents authentication, rate limiting, request signatures, responses and methods for events, messages, teams and users.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Attendance
- Managers can set or override player RSVPs, add RSVP comments, and account for attendees who are not on the roster.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Dashboard
- The dashboard aggregates multiple teams, messages, surveys and events, with list and color-coded monthly calendar views and map-linked event details.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Developer API
- A REST API in beta supports applications that interact with the platform; commercial use is allowed during beta, but terms may change and fees may apply later.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Developer limitation
- The API documentation warns that beta documentation can change without notice and commercial applications may later incur fees.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Event scheduling
- Schedules support repeating events, unlimited seasons, scores for win-loss-tie records, locations, colors, comments and RSVP controls.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Files
- Teams can upload files, optionally add descriptions, and remove files that are no longer needed.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Legal entity
- The terms identify the service provider as Team Cowboy, LLC.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile reliability
- App Store reviews report periods when Team Hero stopped showing teams or otherwise failed to function.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile synchronization
- App Store reviewers report that Team Hero sometimes fails to save availability selections or synchronize attendance and edited names with Team Cowboy.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Matching
- MatchUp lets teams post profiles to find players and players post profiles to find teams, with searchable listings and profile sharing.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Message board
- The message board supports inline comments, dashboard and team-home summaries, and pinned posts.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Mobile access
- Official materials describe iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone access plus a smartphone-optimized mobile website.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Payment tracker
- Payment tracking supports unlimited payment groups with goals, running balances and payments linked to roster players.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Praise: automated reminders
- LearningReviews highlights automatic e-mail announcements and reminders for upcoming events.checked 14 Oct 2026
The company
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Team Cowboy as privately held with 2–10 employees.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Company status
- Crunchbase lists the company as active and for-profit.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Founded
- LinkedIn lists Team Cowboy as founded in 2006.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Crunchbase lists Team Cowboy in Seattle, Washington, United States, with 1–10 employees.checked 14 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Google Play app status
- Google Play identifies Team Hero as an unofficial Team Cowboy app, updated June 29, 2026, with 1K+ downloads.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: third-party app coverage
- Gathr states that it is not affiliated with Team Cowboy and currently focuses on iPhone access, quick RSVPs, guests and upcoming events.checked 14 Oct 2026
Money
- Praise: free collaboration
- LearningReviews praises the free service for helping coaches and players communicate, collaborate, manage rosters and schedules, record scores and track payments.checked 14 Oct 2026
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