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Choosing between a portable and a built-in scoreboard mostly comes down to where you play and where the board can live between games. A portable board suits a shared ground or a school oval, and a built-in board suits a home ground, where it can stay up all season.
Portable scoreboards
A portable scoreboard rolls out for game day and packs away after. It suits clubs that share a ground, play on school ovals or have nowhere to fix a board. Dianella Morley AFC uses a full colour scoreboard on wheels that runs the same software as our built-in screens.
Trailer scoreboards
A board on its own trailer suits clubs and associations that move between venues during a season.
Built-in scoreboards
A built-in scoreboard stays up all season and can be much bigger. Calingiri Sporting Club’s 4 × 5 m full colour screen shows live scores, sponsors, video and movie nights. A fixed board may need council approval, and we help with that at no extra cost. Read do you need council approval for an LED sign.
Do you need internet at the ground?
Switch the board on at the wall and it boots straight to the scoreboard. It runs its own Wi-Fi network, so you don’t need internet at the ground; your phone or tablet joins the board’s network.
The software is the same either way
Run a simple board from your phone with Basic, the iCatcher Scoreboard app, or run the whole game from a tablet with Advanced, Olympyx, including the automatic siren and sponsor videos.
Need one for a day?
We hire out portable scoreboards in Perth and WA for carnivals and tournaments. Read should you buy or hire an LED scoreboard.
Ask us
We set up each board for its sport: AFL and footy, cricket, basketball and netball, or soccer, rugby and hockey. Tell us your sport, your ground and roughly where the board will go. Applying for a grant? Read scoreboard grants for sports clubs first, because programs treat portable and fixed boards differently. For the other things that change the cost, see what affects the cost of an electronic scoreboard. See our electronic and LED scoreboards, get a free quote, or call Aaron on 0416 053 335 or the office on (08) 9335 7944.
