Comparison
FutbolCRM vs Kananas
Kananas is a management platform for grassroots and amateur football clubs: it centralizes players, teams, categories, online registration, fees and payment tracking, events, documents and segmented messaging to families and coaches, with a 30-day free trial without a card. Its AI is a drafting assistant — newsletters, call-up announcements, reminders, internal communications, meeting minutes — and its prices are now published: free up to 50 contacts, €99/year for 250. FutbolCRM is a football club CRM from €49/month, published (Pro Club €149/month): per-player files with documents and family contacts, automatic fee collection with per-family reconciliation, and AI agents that go after new money — grants and sponsorship outreach. Choose Kananas to centralize a grassroots club and lighten its communications; choose FutbolCRM when fees, families and funding are the weekly job and you want a price you can take to the board.
Updated · Sep 18, 2026
Head-to-head
| FutbolCRM | Kananas | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Fixed plans, published: from €49/month (Pro Club €149/month) — the price is the price, however many members you have | Freemium, published: free up to 50 contacts, €99/year for 250 (prices shown as contact-count steps, scaled up on its pricing calculator). Online payments are fee-free if payers leave the suggested tip; if they decline, 2.4% + €0.25 per transaction |
| What the AI actually does | AI agents included in every plan that do work for the club: they chase grants and sponsorship outreach — money, not text | A drafting assistant: it writes newsletters, call-up announcements, reminders, internal communications and meeting minutes. Useful, but it produces content — it does not converse with families on WhatsApp or hunt funding |
| Fees & reconciliation | Automatic monthly fee collection with per-family reconciliation — the treasurer's spreadsheet disappears | Fee and payment management with pending-payment tracking and online registration — the tracking work exists, and closing each family's balance stays manual |
| Proof & transparency | Scope and price published up front: what the product covers and what it costs, before any call | Publishes “more than 11,000 associations” — the parent company's count across all kinds of organizations, not football clubs — while its football page shows no customer-results figures backed by published methodology |
| Football depth | Football-native: per-player file with documents and medical data, call-ups and match ops tied to the record, and a path into scouting, video and finances | Solid grassroots administration — players, teams, categories, tournaments, camps, documents and surveys — with no scouting, match analysis or video layer mentioned anywhere on its club page |
| Best for | Clubs and academies whose weekly pain is fees, families and funding — that want a price they can take to the board | Grassroots and amateur clubs, academies and camps in Spain and LatAm that want one platform for admin, events and family communications — and are happy to test for 30 days before talking price |
Verdict
Different scopes that share a search result. Kananas is a genuine all-in-one for grassroots club administration — registration, payments tracking, events, documents and segmented messaging — and its drafting AI genuinely saves communication time; its Spanish support, GDPR posture and EU servers fit Spain and LatAm well. The two open flanks: its freemium pricing scales by contact count (free to 50, €99/year at 250) rather than by club size, so a 200-player club pays for a contact figure that includes every family member, volunteer and coach in its database; and its AI writes texts instead of going after money — no conversational agent, no grants, no sponsorship outreach. FutbolCRM publishes from €49/month (€588 a year at entry), reconciles fees per family and includes agents that chase grants and sponsors. If your club mainly needs to be organized and better informed, Kananas is a reasonable 30-day test; if your week is fee collection per family and finding funding, the fixed-price football CRM does that work.
When to choose Kananas
Kananas genuinely fits when the problem is centralizing a grassroots club: academies and amateur clubs that want players, registrations, pending payments, tournaments, documents and family messaging in one place; clubs in Spain or LatAm that value Spanish-language support, GDPR and EU-hosted data; smaller clubs that stay within its free 50-contact tier. If you need a price that scales by playing members instead of database contacts, per-family fee reconciliation or agents that hunt grants and sponsors, it is not your tool.
FAQ
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How much does Kananas cost?
Kananas now publishes its prices: a free plan up to 50 contacts, then yearly tiers scaled by contact count — €99/year at 250 contacts on its pricing calculator. One catch for clubs: a “contact” is any person in your database — members, families, volunteers, coaches — so your player count is not your contact count. Payments are fee-free while payers leave the suggested tip; declining it costs 2.4% + €0.25 per transaction. The 30-day trial without a card remains, and after it your account drops to the free plan. For reference, FutbolCRM publishes fixed plans — from €49/month (Pro Club €149/month), €588 a year at entry — independent of how many people are in your database.
What is the difference between Kananas' AI and FutbolCRM's AI?
Kananas' AI is a drafting assistant: it creates newsletters, call-up announcements, reminders, internal communications and meeting minutes — content work that saves an hour here and there. FutbolCRM's AI is agentic: agents included in every plan chase grants and sponsorship outreach, tasks that bring new money into the club. One saves you writing time; the other hunts revenue.
Is Kananas a good option for football clubs in Spain?
As an administration platform, yes: it offers a Spanish-language product aimed at grassroots and amateur clubs, support for Spain and Latin America, GDPR compliance and EU-hosted servers, plus centralization of players, payments, events and documents that covers the basics well. Its limits show on three fronts: pricing that scales by database contacts (families, volunteers and coaches included) rather than by playing members, a content-drafting AI with no conversational agent (its messaging lists email, SMS and WhatsApp as one-way send channels) and the absence of customer-results figures with published methodology. If your priority is per-family fee control and funding, compare it with a football-specific club CRM.
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