Add Your Board Game Club

Board Game Clubs is community-maintained and hosted on GitHub. Anyone can add a new club or update existing information.

Submit via our form

The easiest way to add your club is to fill in our form on GitHub. No technical knowledge required - just fill in the details and we’ll do the rest.

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Adding a Club via Pull Request

If you’re comfortable with GitHub, you can add a club directly:

1. Create a new file

Create a new file in the _clubs/<country>/ folder on GitHub, where <country> is your ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code in lowercase (gb, de, at, ch, nl, be, it, pl, fr, dk, es). Name the file using the format your-club-name.md (lowercase, hyphens instead of spaces). For names with diacritics, use ASCII-folded versions: ä→ae, ö→oe, ü→ue, ß→ss, é→e, etc. (e.g. spieletreff-muenchen.md).

2. Copy this template

Paste the following into your new file and fill in the details. Set country and permalink to match the folder.

---
country: "GB"          # ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: GB, DE, AT, CH, NL, BE, IT, PL, FR, DK, ES
permalink: /clubs/your-club-slug/   # For non-GB: /<country-lowercase>/clubs/your-club-slug/
name: "Your Club Name"
type: ["Board Games"]
days: ["Thursday"]
time: "7:00pm - 10:00pm"
frequency: "Weekly"
location:
  name: "Venue Name"
  address: "Full Address, Town, Postcode"
  lat: 53.0000
  lng: -1.0000
cost: "Free"
age_restriction: ""
image: ""
website: ""
meetup: ""
facebook: ""
discord: ""
bgg: ""
description: >-
  A short description of your club. What games do you play?
  Are newcomers welcome? Any other useful info.
---

UK clubs use permalink: /clubs/your-club-slug/. Clubs in every other country use /<country>/clubs/your-club-slug/, e.g. /de/clubs/..., /nl/clubs/..., /fr/clubs/....

3. Fill in the details

Field	Description
`country`	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code: `GB`, `DE`, `AT`, `CH`, `NL`, `BE`, `IT`, `PL`, `FR`, `DK`, `ES`
`permalink`	`/clubs/your-club-slug/` for GB; `/<country>/clubs/your-club-slug/` for everywhere else
`name`	Your club’s full name
`type`	Array of types, e.g. `["Board Games"]`. Options: “Board Games”, “RPG”, “Wargames”, “TCG”, “BOTC”
`days`	Array of days you meet, e.g. `["Thursday"]` or `["Monday", "Friday"]`
`time`	When you meet, e.g. “7:00pm - 10:00pm”
`frequency`	“Weekly”, “Fortnightly”, “Monthly”, or “Ad-hoc”
`location`	Venue name, full address (with postcode), and coordinates
`cost`	“Free” or a money amount in your local currency, e.g. “£2”, “€3”, “CHF 5”, “kr 20”, “zł 10”, “£5 (First Session Free)”
`age_restriction`	Any age restriction, e.g. “18+”. Leave empty if none
`image`	A URL or filename in `assets/images/clubs/` (see step 5 below)
`website`	Link to your club’s website
`meetup`	Link to your club’s Meetup group
`facebook`	Link to your club’s Facebook page or group
`discord`	Discord invite link
`bgg`	BoardGameGeek guild or group link
`description`	Free text. Basic Markdown is supported — blank lines split paragraphs, and lines starting with `-` become a bulleted list. See examples below.

Formatting the description

The description field is rendered as Markdown, so you can use paragraphs and bulleted lists. Keep the YAML block-scalar indentation (two spaces) on every line — that’s what keeps Jekyll happy.

description: |
  We're a friendly group meeting in central Leeds. Newcomers are always
  welcome and rules are explained.

  Typical evening includes:

  - A medium-weight Euro to kick things off
  - Lighter card or party games later
  - Plenty of breaks and chat

The >- style from the template collapses line breaks into one paragraph — useful for a single short description. Switch to | (as above) when you want to keep paragraph breaks and lists.

4. Find your coordinates

To get the latitude and longitude for your venue:

Go to OpenStreetMap
Search for your venue’s address
Right-click on the map and select “Show address”
The coordinates will appear in the URL bar (lat and lng)

5. Adding a logo

You can add a logo or image for your club:

Upload your image to the assets/images/clubs/ folder in the repository (PNG or JPG, ideally square and under 200KB)
Set the image field in your club file to the filename, e.g. image: "your-club-logo.png"

Alternatively, you can use a direct URL to an image hosted elsewhere, e.g. image: "https://example.com/logo.png"

6. Submit a pull request

Commit your file and open a pull request. We’ll review it and merge it in.

Don’t see your country?

We currently list clubs in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Poland, France, Denmark, and Spain. If your club is somewhere else, open an issue — adding a new country is a small change and we’re happy to do it.

Updating an Existing Club

Find the club’s file in the _clubs/ folder on GitHub, make your changes, and submit a pull request. Or just open an edit request and we’ll update it for you.