Key Takeaways
- Socceroof’s original six facilities booked 89% more hours and 94% more reservations year over year after moving to Bond Sports, per Bond’s case study
- Program registrations jumped from about 2,000 in 2024 to over 110,000 in 2025, according to Bond
- The operator grew from six to ten facilities since signing in late 2024, adding New Haven, Wall Street, Lasalle and Toronto
- Socceroof is the first soccer operator to deploy Bond’s enhanced online booking module, with revenue up 73% year over year per the announcement
From Six Facilities to Ten on One Platform
Bond Sports announced a strategic partnership with indoor soccer operator Socceroof on July 20, 2026, making Socceroof the first soccer operator to launch Bond’s new online booking module. Since consolidating onto Bond’s soccer facility software after signing in late 2024, Socceroof has grown from six facilities to ten, with revenue up 73% year over year and its consumer base up 83%, according to the announcement.
The New York-based company signed with Bond while running six facilities across the US and Canada: New Rochelle, Crown Heights, Le Plateau, Long Island City, Hochelaga and Sunset Park. It has since added New Haven, Wall Street, Lasalle and Toronto, per Bond’s case study. Every location runs field rentals, youth and adult leagues, camps, private lessons, memberships and birthday parties simultaneously, spanning multiple time zones, currencies and tax regimes.
The New Haven addition shows what platform consistency unlocks in an acquisition scenario. The facility, CFC Arena, was already a Bond customer before Socceroof acquired it, so folding it into the brand required consolidating an account rather than migrating a legacy system, according to the case study.
The Numbers Behind the Growth
The most telling figure comes from the original footprint, not the expansion. Comparing July 2024 through June 2025 against the following year, the same six facilities that signed with Bond booked 89% more hours and 94% more reservations, per Bond’s case study. That growth came from existing locations performing better, not from adding sites.
Across the full network, monthly booked hours climbed 5.1x, from about 2,200 in December 2024 to a peak of roughly 11,300 in January 2026, on more than 150,000 hours booked since launch, according to Bond. Program registrations rose from about 2,000 in 2024 to over 110,000 in 2025.
“We moved to Bond and it had been great for our business,” said Jonathan Lupinelli, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Socceroof, in the announcement. “The technology is easy to use for our consumers and staff, the Bond team made the transition smooth and is always there to answer questions, and Bond’s pace of innovation allows us to continue to deliver new features and functionality.”
How the Online Booking Module Removed Rental Friction
Before the rebuild, customers had to create an account just to see what a field would cost, a friction point made worse on mobile, where more than 80% of Socceroof’s customers arrive, per the case study. Long-term team rentals running weekly for three to six months required back-and-forth emails and manual invoicing, with no automated payment plans and no way for recreational teams to split costs.
Bond’s enhanced module, deployed first by Socceroof, delivers real-time field availability with dynamic off-peak and prime-time pricing, multi-configuration field dependencies where a single 9v9 booking automatically blocks the four 5v5 fields it comprises, and automated payment schedules for long-term rentals. A shared public invoice link now lets recreational teams split a rental cost across individual players, according to the case study. Staff retain control through membership gating, VIP early-access windows, approval workflows and deposit collection.
“Our customers can now book 24/7, exactly according to the rules we set up,” said Clément Bourret, Director, Northeast Region at Socceroof, adding that the system “has opened up revenue we weren’t capturing before.”
Ten Facilities, One Backbone, and a Booking Curve Still Climbing
Each new Socceroof location has onboarded onto the same GL structure, customer database and reporting layer as the last, per Bond, which is the core argument for vertical software as multi-location operators scale. The features Socceroof requested, including the booking-split link and time-window approval gating for late-night bookings, went from operator feedback to production. With monthly booked hours peaking at roughly 11,300 in January 2026 and the network now at ten sites across two countries, the question is where that curve tops out as the next locations come online.
Source: PR Newswire, July 20, 2026
Source: Bond Sports, https://facilities.bondsports.co/customers/socceroof
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