StadiaFi is a loyalty programme for New Zealand sports fans. Back a team, earn points for watching and predicting, then spend them at local businesses or in app. It's free — you never put money in.
No dashboards to learn, no wallet to set up. You back a team, you do a couple of things on match day, and you walk into a local business with something to spend.
Pick the club you actually support. A-League, Super Rugby, the NPC. Your team's form and following decide how fast you earn.
Call the score before kick-off. Turn up at the ground. Watch a short clip when there's one going. Each one adds points.
Convert points into a voucher and use it at a bar, café or shop near your ground. The business gets a customer; you get a pint.
Most loyalty schemes never tell you what a point is worth or where the rewards come from. Ours is simple enough to say in a sentence.
A local business puts up an offer — a free coffee, a discount, a free side — and honours it when you walk in with a voucher. They're paying for a real customer through the door, so there's no pot of money to run dry and nothing for us to hold on your behalf.
A point is worth a fixed amount. Always. It doesn't rise, and it can't fall. There's nothing to speculate on — you just earn points and spend them.
What does change is how fast you earn. Back a team a lot of people support, or one that's on a winning run, and each thing you do earns you more. Back a smaller club with fewer fans and your share is bigger — being an underdog supporter actually pays.
You never pay in. There's no wallet to top up, no card required, and no way to deposit money even if you wanted to. Signing up is free and always will be.
We only ever hand out what's on offer. Points can only be earned while there are real rewards behind them, so what you can earn always lines up with what you can actually claim.
Some rewards may be boosted by a sponsor down the track — a nice extra when it happens — but the everyday rewards come from the local businesses around your ground, and the programme works without a single sponsor.
Plenty of things dressed up as "fan tokens" have burned people. We built this so it can't.
We'd rather tell you exactly where this is up to than pretend it's bigger than it is.
StadiaFi is built in Auckland by Matt — a one-person team, and a sports fan first. It's a registered New Zealand company, not an anonymous project: the details are below, and you're welcome to check them.
That also means when you email, you're talking to the person who built the thing — not a support queue. If something's broken or unclear, I'd rather hear it.
It started from a simple annoyance: fans put in the time, the noise and the money, and the value all flows the other way. Local businesses sponsor clubs and have no idea whether it works. Both problems have the same fix.
Live from our Instagram — the grounds, the fans, the beta in the wild.
Rugby, football, netball, basketball — if there's a local team worth backing, StadiaFi is built for them and the businesses around them.
We're letting people in a few at a time. Leave your email and we'll be in touch — one email when your spot opens, nothing else.
