Club management · Play-Cricket syncComparison · checked 9 October 2026
MVP Cricket vs Spond.
Spond is a free, multi-sport team app that’s strong on events and payments. MVP Cricket is built only for cricket: it syncs your scorecards from Play-Cricket every day and turns them into stats, MVP points and published team sheets.
The short version
If you want a free, general-purpose app for events, RSVPs and collecting money, across several sports, Spond is a good choice. If you want the app to know it’s a cricket club, with results, scorecards and stats from Play-Cricket, a leaderboard your players check every week and proper team sheets, that’s what MVP Cricket is for.
Side by side
| Feature | MVP Cricket | Spond |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | The app and Spond Club’s core features are free. Club Website is a paid add-on at £19 + VAT a month. |
| 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. | 2.5% + 20p a transaction, including Stripe’s costs. Paid by the club by default, or switched onto the payer. |
| Play-Cricket | Daily sync at 06:00 of fixtures, results, full scorecards and stats, on every plan. Connect with your site ID only. | Imports fixtures into the season planner (built with the ECB). Spond says later changes in Play-Cricket need updating by hand. We found no mention of results, scorecards or stats syncing. |
| MVP points and leaderboards | Yes: club-configurable MVP points from every scorecard, a public leaderboard and Player of the Match. Free. | Attendance tracking and stats. No player performance stats or leaderboards found. |
| Availability | One tap per match day, covering every fixture that day; reminders only to players who haven’t answered. | Event RSVPs, reminders and availability requests, from which an admin creates the event and invites players. |
| Selection and team sheets | Draft and publish the XI, one-tap confirmation, only changed players re-notified, a branded team sheet image for WhatsApp. | Pick players from an availability request into an event and message those not picked. No line-up or team sheet feature documented. |
| Membership and subs | Match fees on Club. Membership subscriptions with instalments, invoicing and club accounting on Premier. | Spond Club: member register, custom fields, payment requests with instalments, subscriptions and financial reports. |
| Club website | No website builder. A public leaderboard page, plus a feed your existing club website can show. | Club Website add-on, £19 + VAT a month. |
| Apps | Installs from the browser to the home screen. No app store, no passwords. | Native iOS and Android apps, plus a web version. |
| Sports | Cricket only. | Multi-sport. |
Where Spond is the better fit
- You want a free app and are happy to pay a transaction fee instead of a subscription.
- Your club runs several sports, or you mostly need events, RSVPs and group messaging.
- You want native apps from the App Store and Google Play.
- You want a hosted club website from the same provider.
Where MVP Cricket is the better fit
- You want results, full scorecards and player stats synced from Play-Cricket every day, not just a fixtures import.
- You want an MVP leaderboard and Player of the Match from every scorecard: the thing that gets players opening the app.
- Captains want to draft, publish and get confirmations on a team sheet, with only changed players re-notified.
- You want card fees at Stripe’s own rate with nothing added on top.
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 Spond the app is free and the transaction fee is 2.5% + 20p, which includes Stripe: £375 + £200 = £575, deducted from what the club collects unless it passes the fee to payers.
So on these numbers the two cost much the same, with MVP Cricket about £50 a season cheaper. The real difference is what you get for it: daily Play-Cricket scorecards, stats, the leaderboard and team sheets.
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 Spond: the leaderboard and Play-Cricket sync are free forever.