For all my life I have been a big football fan and since I was a small boy my Saturdays were spent with my dad watching our local football team Seapatrick FC. For many years he was involved in the club as both a player and on the committee.
So it was only right that I followed in his footsteps and do my bit to help the club too. For a few years I played for the club myself and then cause of Uni and COVID I decided to stop but I always went to watching games and kept in touch with the lads too.
Then one Saturday in 2022 I was watching a game and the club chairman asked me if I knew anyone who could look after the running of the clubs Facebook page to which I said that I would do it and since the I have been designing fixtures and results for them and loving every minute of it.
To come up with my ideas for the different fixture and results I would go onto google and do an image search for different fixture lists other teams around the world have done. I would even look at what local teams like Irish league teams Crusaders FC and Carrick Rangers FC are doing with theirs.
03 Before & After
When I took over the runnings of the Facebook page The image on the left was what the club was using beforehand and I found it to have too much going on, too much blank space and not telling our users enough information about the upcoming fixture. I also found that it was not clear on what team they where talking about in regards to the firsts, reserves or U17s
So after finding some inspiration, I did a whole new redesign of the fixture posts to make them cleaner and easier to understand. I have gone through a few different iterations from having all three teams in the one post to then changing it to having three separate posts for each team.
Another way I would like to take this project further for the upcoming season is to start uploading the team's match day squads as well as the fixtures. This will all depend on my working status and if I am working Saturdays. The tow images below show some ideas that I have for potential team lineups.
I think this would be a good way to add more professionalism within the club as all professional clubs will show their lineups for each game they have.
Lets people know who is playing in each game for each of the three teams that we have.
Personally, it will give me another way to show off my design skills if I start to do this and the fixtures.
