BAND isn't a sports app at all — it's a general group-messaging app that a lot of youth teams, class parents, and entire leagues repurpose for schedules because it's already on everyone's phone. Its calendar can absolutely feed Google Calendar; the trick is that BAND has two calendar features that sound almost identical and do opposite things. You want Export, not Subscribe.
This guide walks the exact path on both sides — Export Band Calendars in BAND, then the From URL step in Google, which only exists on the website — plus two pieces of honest fine print: the anniversary events that ride along in the export, and how slowly Google picks up schedule changes.
Open your group in BAND. Go to the specific group or team whose schedule you want — BAND groups can be a team, a whole club, or even a classroom, so make sure you're in the right one.
Open the Calendar tab. Every BAND group has a Calendar tab alongside its chat and photos.
Tap Manage Events. This sits inside the calendar view, usually as a menu option or button near the top.
Tap Export Band Calendars — not Subscribe via URL. This is the one you want — it's available to every member, not just admins, and it hands you a URL you can subscribe to elsewhere. Subscribe via URL does the opposite: it pulls an outside calendar into BAND.
Copy the URL. If the group has several calendars listed, pick the specific one your child is on rather than the group's default calendar.
Open Google Calendar in a browser — the phone app can't do this part. On a computer, go to calendar.google.com. On a phone, the Google Calendar app has no way to add a calendar from a URL — open calendar.google.com in your phone's browser instead (and use your browser's Request Desktop Site option if the mobile page hides the settings).
Add calendar → From URL → paste → Add. In the left sidebar, click the + next to "Other calendars" and choose From URL. Paste the exported BAND link and click Add calendar. If Google rejects a webcal:// link, change webcal:// to https:// and try again.
Check it on your phone. Events show up on the web within a minute. In the Google Calendar phone app, open Settings, find the new calendar under your account, and make sure Sync is turned on so it appears on your phone too.
Two things worth knowing before you rely on this. First, BAND puts its own anniversary events into the group calendar — entries like “The Band was created 1 year(s) ago on this day” — and the export carries them through, so a DIY Google subscription shows them alongside the actual games. Google has no per-event filter for subscribed feeds, so there is no way to hide them there. Schedule Caddie filters them out automatically on import.
Second, Google refreshes subscribed feeds on its own cycle — typically every 12 to 24 hours — and never notifies you when an event changes. A practice someone moved in BAND this morning can still show the old time at pickup, and the group chat is doing the alerting instead. Schedule Caddie checks the same exported feed every day and emails you exactly what changed.
Paste the link into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and it works — since BAND is general-purpose, groups mix event types freely — practice reminders, team dinners, fundraiser deadlines, plus BAND's own anniversary entries. Direct subscription brings all of it into Google exactly as posted, so it's honest but noticeably noisier than a dedicated sports app, and Google gives you no way to filter any of it out.
I only see "Subscribe via URL," not an export option
Subscribe via URL does the opposite of what you want — it imports an outside calendar INTO BAND. The option you need is Calendar tab → Manage Events → Export Band Calendars → Copy the URL.
My group has multiple calendars listed under Export Band Calendars
Some BAND groups run separate calendars for different sub-teams or age groups. Pick the specific one your child is on rather than the group's default calendar.
My calendar now says "The Band was created 1 year(s) ago on this day"
Nothing is broken — BAND adds anniversary events to the group calendar automatically, and the export carries them along with the real games and practices. In Google Calendar there's no way to filter them out of a subscribed feed, so you either live with them or delete the subscription. (Schedule Caddie strips these automatically when it imports a BAND feed, so they never reach your calendar.)
There's no "From URL" option in my Google Calendar app
There isn't one — the phone app genuinely can't add subscribed calendars. This step has to happen at calendar.google.com in a browser. Once it's added there, the calendar syncs to the app on its own.
Someone changed a practice in BAND but Google Calendar still shows the old time
That's Google being slow, not the export being broken. Google refreshes subscribed calendars on its own cycle — typically every 12 to 24 hours, with no button to force it — and it never tells you when something changed. Schedule Caddie checks the same exported BAND feed daily and emails you what changed.
Subscribe via URL pulls an outside calendar (like a school calendar) into BAND for the group to see. Export Band Calendars does the reverse — it hands BAND's own events out as a link. They look similar in the menu but move data in opposite directions, and only the export one feeds Google Calendar.
BAND generates anniversary events for the group automatically, and they ride along in the exported feed — so a DIY Google Calendar subscription will show them next to the actual games. Google gives you no way to filter individual events out of a subscribed feed. Schedule Caddie recognizes these anniversary entries and filters them out on import, so what lands on your calendar is only the real schedule.
Yes. Export Band Calendars is available to any member of the group, not just admins or managers.
Google decides on its own — typically every 12 to 24 hours, sometimes faster, and there's no setting to change it or way to force a refresh. Changes also arrive silently: the event just moves, with no notification that it moved.
No. Subscribed calendars update quietly in the background, so you'd be back to watching the group chat to catch changes. Schedule Caddie watches the same exported BAND feed daily and emails you exactly what changed — new time, old time, which group.
Each app means another link and another separate calendar in Google, with nothing merging or color-coding them. That's the point where one family calendar beats five subscriptions: Schedule Caddie takes the same links (BAND, TeamSnap, GameChanger, school PDFs) and merges them into one color-coded calendar with conflict detection — and, in BAND's case, drops the anniversary noise on the way in.
Every kid, every schedule, every app — merged, color-coded, and watched for changes.
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