Recording youth & children under 18

Filming children and young people comes with real responsibilities. This page sums up the guidance from the Danish Sports Confederation (DIF) on streaming youth matches, training and competitions — and sets out our own clear recommendation for using Sports Team Viewer with under-18 games.

Our recommendation

⚠️ We do not encourage live, public streaming of games involving players under 18. Recording the game to keep, review or share within your club is fine. But a public live broadcast — to YouTube or anywhere anyone can watch — is something we ask you to avoid for youth sport.

In short:

Recording an under-18 game for the team, coaches and families — fine.
Live public streaming of an under-18 game — please don’t.
Closed-group streaming (only members and families can watch) is the right model for youth — and it’s coming to the platform, but isn’t available yet.

🛑 If anyone says no, that’s the end of it. If a single player, parent or guardian objects to public streaming — or to being recorded at all — then do not do it. One “no” outweighs any number of “yeses.” Don’t try to talk them round, and don’t single anyone out for it. Respecting that refusal is not optional.

Sports Team Viewer is free of charge, and it must be a safe place for young people. That only works if everyone using it puts the children first — every time.

A video removal request form is now available. If someone changes their mind after a game, they can use it to ask us to take the footage down, and we will remove it from YouTube — even if the video is already marked private. Consent can always be withdrawn.

Why we say this

A public livestream puts identifiable children in front of an unknown, worldwide audience that you can’t see or control. The concerns DIF raises — and the ones we share — include:

Footage of a child can be captured, copied and reshared out of context, far beyond the game.
Once something is live and public on the internet, you lose control of who watches it and what they do with it.
A child (or their parents) may simply not want to be broadcast — and that wish must be respected.
Some children must not be shown publicly at all for safety or personal reasons, and the people filming rarely know who.
Children are entitled to take part in their sport without being put on public display.

None of this stops you from recording the game. It’s the public, open-to-anyone broadcast that we ask you to hold back on for youth sport.

What DIF recommends

The Danish Sports Confederation (Danmarks Idrætsforbund, DIF) has published recommendations on streaming children’s and youth matches, displays, training sessions and competitions. The main points:

Think before you stream. Treat a youth livestream as a deliberate decision, not a default — weigh the benefit against the children’s privacy.
Prefer closed groups. Where streaming happens, restrict it to a known, closed audience (members and families) rather than a public broadcast.
Get consent. Obtain consent from the young people and, for younger children, from their parents or guardians — and make it easy to say no.
Honour an opt-out. Anyone who doesn’t want to be filmed must be able to opt out, and consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Be transparent. Tell players and parents clearly what is streamed, who can watch, and how long anything is kept.
Mind the law. Streaming identifiable people is processing of personal data under GDPR and needs a lawful basis.
Have a club policy. Agree the club’s approach in advance and put someone in charge of it, rather than deciding match by match.

This is our plain-language summary. Read DIF’s full document (in Danish) here: DIF’s recommendations on streaming children’s and youth matches (PDF).

What to do today

While we build proper closed-group streaming, here’s how to use the app responsibly with under-18 games:

Record, don’t broadcast. When you tap ● Start on the camera and it asks “Stream to YouTube?”, choose No for youth games. You still get the full recording with the scoreboard burned in, saved to the phone.
Share it privately. Send the saved video to the team, coaches and families directly, rather than posting it somewhere public.
Check consent and opt-outs first. Make sure parents and players know they’re being filmed, and honour anyone who’d rather not be. Agree it as a club, not on the day.

Closed groups are coming

We’re building closed-group streaming so a game can be broadcast only to a known audience — your club’s members and the players’ families — instead of the whole internet. That’s the right way to stream youth sport, and it’s on our roadmap. Until it ships, please keep under-18 games to recording only.

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