Every player and manager knows the feeling. The opposition cries off on Thursday night, or the league fixture’s called off — and the game you’d circled all week is gone. Gutting. Rugby Matchmaker® gets you back on the pitch: broadcast the date and find a replacement fixture in minutes, often closer to home.
● Free for all 55 Kent clubs, right through to December 2026.
Kent County RFU
Kent County RFU is introducing Rugby Matchmaker® to help every club in the county find more games, more easily. Here’s how it works: when you’ve got a date to fill, you hit broadcast, and every available club sees it at once. The right one replies — and you’ve got yourself a fixture.
What used to mean hours of your fixtures secretary chasing round a Facebook group now takes one tap and a few minutes, with a real opponent at the end of it.
Love local
Broadcast introduces you to clubs you might never have played — some across Kent, some just over the border, and often nearer than a side on the far side of your own county.
Closer games make for more appealing rugby, and more appealing rugby gets more players out — across every team you run, week in, week out.
It protects real money, too. A missed fixture can cost a club £500 or more in lost revenue — so a single replacement from Rugby Matchmaker® across the season pays for the whole year on its own.
More over the bar
Every home game is takings over the bar. Picture a Saturday where your 1st and 2nd XVs are away and your 3rds are at home — then their opposition cries off, and the one home game of the day is gone. One broadcast gets it back on, so the rugby’s played and the bar stays busy.
Fill a single home fixture across the season and the bar takings alone cover your £149 a year, several times over.
Better together
Rugby Matchmaker® works better with more clubs on it. The more Kent clubs that join, the more games there are for everyone — which is why Kent County RFU is bringing the whole county in, free until December 2026.
Add your club and help build a network across Kent and its neighbours where a game is always within reach.
From Kent County RFU
Kent County RFU introducing Rugby Matchmaker® means more games played for Kent clubs, less time chasing fixtures, and shorter trips for our teams — a real win for community rugby in the county.
Getting started
Your fixtures secretary or a manager downloads the app and signs up. They become your club’s admin.
Other managers, captains or organisers join by searching for your club.
Broadcast your date, connect with clubs across the county, and replace that disappointment with your perfect match.
Join the Kent clubs already using Rugby Matchmaker® to fill fixtures, find closer games, and keep the bar busy.