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Fragmented opportunities
Athletes often navigate scattered tournaments, trials, camps, and programs with limited centralized guidance.
NextPlay Sports Private Limited
Turning Hidden Talent into National Hope.
NextPlay Sports is building a technology-enabled sports pathway for young athletes to become more visible, organized, and opportunity-ready.
We are working to make sports discovery more accessible for athletes and more structured for the people who support, train, and identify talent.
Athlete pathway
Profile to opportunity
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Profile
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Feedback
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Opportunity
AM
Athlete Profile
U-17 | Football | Jaipur
Matches
18
Videos
06
Progress
74%
Video frame
Progress clips become easier to organize and review.
Upcoming trial match found
Relevant opportunities surfaced with structured context.
The problem
Talent is everywhere. Access is not.
Many athletes struggle to find the right opportunities at the right time. Sports pathways are often fragmented across informal networks, local contacts, scattered events, and offline systems.
A talented athlete should not lose their chance because the right tournament, scout, or training pathway never reached them.
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Limited visibility
Potential can remain unseen when access depends on geography, networks, or affordability.
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Manual discovery
Scouts, academies, and organizers still rely heavily on offline and inconsistent processes to identify talent.
Our mission
A fairer pathway for every athlete.
NextPlay exists to help athletes build credible sports identities, discover relevant opportunities, and move through their sports journey with more structure and visibility.
Visibility
Access
Structure
Trust
Opportunity
What NextPlay is building
Technology built for real sports pathways.
The platform is designed around structured athlete identity, opportunity discovery, useful progress context, and a more organized sports ecosystem.
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Digital Athlete Profiles
A structured way for athletes to present their sports journey, achievements, videos, and progress.
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Opportunity Discovery
A centralized way to help athletes find tournaments, trials, camps, and sports programs.
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Technology-Enabled Feedback
Tools that can help convert performance videos and progress data into more useful insights over time.
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Sports Ecosystem Network
A platform designed to connect athletes with academies, scouts, organizers, and partners in a more organized way.
Who we serve
Built for the people around the athlete.
NextPlay is shaped for athletes and the ecosystem that helps them train, compete, get noticed, and grow.
For Athletes
- Build a credible profile
- Discover opportunities
- Track progress
- Become more visible
For Academies & Scouts
- Find emerging talent
- Review structured information
- Reduce manual discovery gaps
- Support better decision-making
For Sports Partners
- Reach athletes more effectively
- Organize opportunities
- Build transparent pathways
- Support grassroots sports growth
Recognition
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow India 2025 winners.
Team NextPlay AI won Samsung Solve for Tomorrow India 2025 from over 20,000 applications and was nationally recognized for building a startup that uses sports and technology for social impact.
National Recognition
Recognized as a winning startup in India
From an applicant pool of more than 20,000 teams across India, NextPlay AI emerged as a Samsung Solve for Tomorrow India 2025 winner under the theme of social change through sports and technology.
This recognition validates our mission to make athlete pathways more visible, more accessible, and more structured for young talent.
Competition
SFT India 2025
Applications
20,000+
Result
Winner
Founding team
Built by people who have lived the problem.
Our founding team's experience in competitive sport shaped a simple belief: talent should not be limited by visibility, access, or geography.
Bhagyashri Meena
Co-Founder
Competitive sports experience shaped her belief that talent deserves better visibility and access.
Aadish Shelke
Co-Founder
Focused on building structured pathways that help athletes and sports communities move with clarity.
What we believe
Simple principles for a better sports pathway.
Talent deserves visibility
Access should be more equal
Technology should support, not replace, human judgment
Sports pathways should be more transparent
Grassroots athletes deserve better systems
Start a conversation
Let's build a better sports pathway.
We are open to conversations with athletes, parents, academies, coaches, scouts, sports organizations, partners, and supporters.
nextplayindiaofficial@gmail.com