Got a Koach invite? How to link your player account

A message from your coach with a Koach link? That means they want to connect you to your player profile in the team app. Accepting the Koach invite takes just a few minutes — here's the step-by-step, including what to do if you already have an account or the link has expired.

What exactly is that invite link?

Your coach creates a personal invite for each player in Koach, tied to your player profile on the team (that happens through inviting players). The link you receive is yours alone: valid for 30 days and usable once. Use it, and your login gets connected to your profile — including the statistics and attendance your coach was already tracking for you. Everything you'll see and do afterwards is covered in the player account explained.

How do you accept the Koach invite with a new account?

1. Open the link your coach sent you — your phone is the handiest, so Koach is right there on the device you bring to the gym.
2. Create your account: name, email address and a password. That's all there is to it.
3. Done: your account is connected to your player profile. From now on your coach sees a black checkmark next to your name in the roster — so they instantly know it worked.

Do this in the browser and one more screen follows: “You're in the team!” with a download block. On an iPhone that holds the App Store button, on an Android device the Google Play one, and on a laptop both. The reason is spelled out alongside: practices, matches and attendance in your pocket, and notifications reach you on your phone rather than in the browser. Would you rather stay in the browser? Then tap Continue in the browser. Open the link in the app that's already on your device and you won't see this screen at all — the app confirms straight away that you're connected.

Already have a Koach account?

Then don't create a new one: open the link and choose to log in with your existing account. Koach then connects your login to the player profile on the new team. One account can be tied to multiple teams — and the roles can differ. Coaching the youth squad while joining Men's 3 as a player yourself? With the same login you stay coach of one team and become a player on the other. (Playing on the team you coach yourself works slightly differently — see the playing coach.)

This route ends the same way in the browser: the “You're in the team!” screen with the download block and the Continue in the browser button. Inside the app itself it stays a short confirmation.

Invited as a coach or as a parent?

Then the route is the same: open the link, create an account or log in with the one you already have. Only the role on that team differs. As a coach you get coach rights in the team — what that collaboration looks like is covered in working with multiple coaches. As a parent you're linked as the parent of your child, not to the player profile itself: you see the calendar and sign your child up or out. Exactly what a parent account shows is in Koach for parents.

What do you see once you're connected?

After logging in you land on your 'My overview' dashboard: your attendance percentage and your points for attack, block and serve. From there you can sign up or out for practices, check the team calendar and follow your own statistics and badges. Good to know: you only see your own numbers — coaching notes and teammates' statistics stay private, as explained in privacy and data. Exactly how it should be in a good volleyball app.

What if the link has expired?

A link older than 30 days — or one that's already been used — no longer works. No disaster and nothing lost: your player profile with all its data is still right there. What you get to see depends on where you are.

If you don't have an account yet (the ordinary route above), you first fill in your name and email address, and after sending you get a message in your own language: “This invitation has expired”, “This invitation has already been used” or “This invitation link is not valid”. Ask your coach for a new link in that case; they create one in a few taps via your player in the team overview. New link, same steps, and you're connected after all.

If you're already logged in to Koach, a whole screen opens with those same three messages, each with one line of explanation underneath: for an expired link “Ask your coach for a new link”, for one that's already been used “You are already in the team — nothing left to do”, and for a link that isn't right, the question whether you opened the whole of it. At the bottom sits a button to carry on: on your phone it opens the Koach app (or the store, if you don't have it yet), on a laptop you continue in the web version.

Frequently asked questions

Further reading

What does a player see in Koach? The player account explained Inviting players to your team with a link The volleyball app for players: your own stats, schedule and attendance Managing your own profile and details as a player

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