Club management · Play-Cricket syncComparison · checked 9 October 2026
MVP Cricket vs Pitchero.
Pitchero is a club website and admin platform for many sports, with an official Play-Cricket integration and a full membership system. MVP Cricket has no website builder, but costs far less and is built around what players open every week: their MVP points.
The short version
If your priority is a full club website with sponsors, ticketing, lottery and membership in one platform, Pitchero does that and MVP Cricket doesn’t. If your priority is running the cricket (availability, selection, team sheets and match fees, with a leaderboard that gets players into the app), MVP Cricket does it for a fraction of the price, and alongside any club website you already have.
Side by side
| Feature | MVP Cricket | Pitchero |
|---|---|---|
| Price for the club | Free £0 (1 team, 40 players). Club £99 a year or £9.99 a month (6 teams, 150 players). Premier £199 a year. | Free (1 team, with third-party ads, no payment processing). Standard £38 a month or £418 a year (up to 20 teams). Pro £99 a month or £1,089 a year. |
| Card payment fees | Stripe’s standard rate, charged by Stripe to the club’s own account (1.5% + 20p on standard UK cards). MVP Cricket takes nothing. | Standard: 2.42% + 17p (VAT-registered) to 2.90% + 20p (neither VAT-registered nor a charity). Pro: 1.84% + 17p to 2.20% + 20p. Deducted from what the club collects. Paid plans only. |
| Play-Cricket | Daily sync at 06:00 of fixtures, results, full scorecards and stats, on every plan. Connect with your site ID only. | Official ECB Play-Cricket integration: fixtures and results sync automatically, with league tables and detailed scorecards. |
| MVP points and leaderboards | Yes: club-configurable MVP points from every scorecard, a public leaderboard and Player of the Match. Free. | Player stats, match stats and player profiles. No MVP points or leaderboards found; Pitchero’s cricket page says “Use Play Cricket for stats.” |
| Availability | One tap per match day, covering every fixture that day; reminders only to players who haven’t answered. | Player availability through the free Pitchero Manager and Club apps. |
| Selection and team sheets | Draft and publish the XI, one-tap confirmation, only changed players re-notified, a branded team sheet image for WhatsApp. | Team and squad selection with notifications to players; choose players from other teams. |
| Membership and subs | Match fees on Club. Membership subscriptions with instalments, invoicing and club accounting on Premier. | Full membership system: forms, family accounts, renewals, recurring payments and instalments, financial reports; plus lottery, ticketing and fundraising. |
| Club website | No website builder. A public leaderboard page, plus a feed your existing club website can show. | No-code club website with sponsor logos, custom domain and club email on paid plans. |
| Apps | Installs from the browser to the home screen. No app store, no passwords. | Pitchero Club and Pitchero Manager apps for iOS and Android, plus the website. |
| Sports | Cricket only. | Multi-sport. |
Where Pitchero is the better fit
- You want your club website, sponsors, lottery, ticketing and membership on one platform.
- You need club email accounts and a custom domain from the same provider.
- You run teams across several sports.
Where MVP Cricket is the better fit
- You already have a club website, or don’t need one, and want the season run from the app.
- You want an MVP leaderboard and Player of the Match from every scorecard, free.
- You want to collect match fees without a £418-a-year plan and a percentage on top of Stripe’s.
- Captains want published team sheets with one-tap confirmations and a shareable team sheet image.
What it costs a club in a season
Take a club collecting £15,000 in a season, in 1,000 card payments averaging £15, all on standard UK cards.
On MVP Cricket’s Club plan that costs £99 for the year, plus Stripe’s own fees of £425 (1.5% + 20p a payment), paid to Stripe from the club’s account: £524 in total, and none of the £425 comes to us.
On Pitchero, collecting payments needs a paid plan. On Standard (£418 a year), at the rate for a club that is neither VAT-registered nor a charity (2.90% + 20p), the same season costs £435 + £200 = £635 in fees: £1,053 in total. On Pro it’s £1,089 plus 2.20% + 20p: £1,619.
So on these numbers MVP Cricket is around £530 a season cheaper than Pitchero Standard, though Pitchero’s price also buys a club website.
One caveat in fairness: on MVP Cricket, premium and corporate cards cost more at Stripe (2.8% + 20p), so a club whose members pay mostly on premium cards will pay a little more in Stripe fees than these figures.
Switching
Every club starts on MVP Cricket’s Free plan: connect Play-Cricket with your site ID and the leaderboard and stats fill from the season you’ve already played, so you can run both side by side before deciding. How the Play-Cricket sync works.
Sources
Try MVP Cricket alongside Pitchero: the leaderboard and Play-Cricket sync are free forever.