Onside: Learn Football vs Onside: Football Team Manager

They are two unrelated apps that share a first word. Onside: Learn Football (by Vilde Vevatne; we make it) teaches football, which Americans call soccer, to new fans: the rules, positions, tactics, fan culture and the calendar. Onside: Football Team Manager (by Rutger Klaassen) is a match-day app for amateur coaches: lineups, a live match clock, automatic stats, attendance polls and animated tactics. If you coach or manage a team, you want Onside: Football Team Manager. If you’re trying to understand the game you’re watching, you want Onside: Learn Football.

Written by the maker of Onside: Learn Football, so we have a stake in this page. Nobody paid to be included. Every fact about another app comes from its own US App Store listing, checked November 8, 2026, and linked so you can check it.

At a glance

What Onside: Football Team Manager does better

Everything to do with running a team. Its listing describes building a lineup on an interactive pitch, a live match clock, logging goals, assists, subs and cards in one tap, a shot map after the match, season stats with top-scorer and MVP leaderboards, attendance polls for matches and training, and a spectator mode for parents and club staff. Onside: Learn Football has none of that: it doesn’t track a team, players or matches you play in.

What Onside: Learn Football does that the Team Manager doesn’t

It explains the professional game to someone new to it: offside in one sentence, what a 4-3-3 means, why teams pass backwards, how relegation works, how to pick a club and what to say in the group chat. You can ask its on-device AI “why was that offside?” mid-match, and its listing says it “will never invent scores or results.” Free to download for iPhone and iPad (iOS 17 or later). Free: the first 4 lessons of the 14-day course, the basics of all five pillars, and a few Ask Onside questions. Onside Pro is $4.99 a month or $24.99 a year (US prices).

Other apps called “Onside”

A US App Store search for “onside” on November 8, 2026 also showed these, none of them connected to us:

• Onside Training (Onside Studios ApS): a football drill library and tactics board for coaches and players, a companion to onside-training.com. Free drill library; Pro $10.99/month or $109.99/year.
• Onside - Athlete Network (ONSIDEAPP LIMITED) and Onsides - Youth Sports App (Onsides, Inc.).

Other ways new fans learn the game

• Laws of the Game and Football Rules by The IFAB: free iPhone apps from the IFAB, the body that writes football’s rules. The first has the full official Laws; the second a simplified version. Better than Onside for the exact rule. See what’s the best app to learn football rules?
• The Laws themselves, free on theifab.com.
• Watching full matches with a fan who’ll answer questions. See how to understand soccer as a new fan.

How to tell them apart on the App Store

• Look at the developer name under the title: Vilde Vevatne for Onside: Learn Football, Rutger Klaassen for Onside: Football Team Manager.
• Look at the subtitle: “Learn football by kickoff” versus “Squad, stats & match tracker.”
• Use the full name when you search: “Onside Learn Football” or “Onside Football Team Manager.”

FAQ

Are the two Onside apps made by the same company?

No. Their App Store listings name different developers: Vilde Vevatne and Rutger Klaassen.

Can Onside: Learn Football manage my kid’s team?

No. It has no lineups, stats or attendance features. For that, look at Onside: Football Team Manager or another team app.

Is Onside: Learn Football about American football?

No. It’s about association football, called soccer in the US.

Why should I trust a comparison written by one of the apps?

You don’t have to. Every fact about the other apps comes from their own listings, linked above. If something is wrong or out of date, email vilde@vevatne.no and we’ll fix it.