Loosie vs. Canva vs. Scrum: the best rugby matchday graphics tool for 2026

Every club media officer has had the same Tuesday night: kickoff is Saturday, the team sheet just landed in the group chat, and somehow a graphic needs to exist before training. Here's how the three most common routes actually compare.

Canva

Canva is the default because it's free and everyone's used it once. The trade-off is that nothing is built for rugby specifically. No Starting XV layout, no rugby positions, no scrum-cap-shaped hole where your club crest goes. You're building from a generic template, renaming text boxes, and hoping the 15 names don't overflow the card. It works. It also takes 25 to 40 minutes if you're doing it properly, and it looks like every other club's Canva post because you're all pulling from the same template library.

Scrum

Scrum is closer to the mark. It's built specifically for rugby clubs, with matchday, lineup, and player-profile templates you register your colours and badge against once. If your club just needs fast, functional graphics and doesn't mind a template-forward look, it's a reasonable free tier. Where it's thinner is on the editorial side: layouts skin your data into a fixed template rather than composing a page, so everything tends to read as "a graphic" rather than "a page from something."

Loosie

Loosie starts from the same place, your badge, colours, and squad, set up once, but treats the output as a magazine page, not a template fill. Team sheets, score cards, and player-of-the-match posts are laid out with the same restraint you'd expect from a match programme: proper hierarchy, real typography, a masthead. The point isn't more features, it's that the finished graphic doesn't look like it came from a generator.

The other difference is what sits behind the card. Canva and Scrum are design tools: you bring the information, they make it look like something. In Loosie the graphics are an output of the club itself, the squad you selected, the result you logged, the sponsor you signed, so the card is a by-product of work you had to do anyway rather than a separate Tuesday-night job.

Same team sheet. One obvious winner, in about 90 seconds instead of 30 minutes.

Which one should your club actually use?

• If you already know Canva and only post occasionally, it'll do. Budget the time.
• If you want rugby-specific templates fast and don't mind a templated look, Scrum's free tier is solid.
• If matchday content is part of how your club presents itself (sponsors, alumni, recruiting), Loosie is built for that job specifically.
• If the same person also keeps the playbook, the fixture list and the sponsor money straight, Loosie is the only one of the three that touches those at all.

Free during beta, no card required. Set your club's colours and see the first card in under two minutes.