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LayUp Sports Booking MCP Server

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LayUp Sports Booking is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Search bookable London courts, pitches, lanes and pickup games across every major UK provider.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
1.1%
Uptime 24h
1 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
938 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 26 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

23 Oct a tool description was rewritten create_alert
23 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for create_alert
28 Sep a tool appeared refine_search
28 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_slots
26 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for create_alert, search_slots

LayUp Sports Booking does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 8.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add sports-booking --transport http https://mcp.layupsport.com
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp.layupsport.com
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.sports-booking]
url = "https://mcp.layupsport.com"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sports-booking": {
      "url": "https://mcp.layupsport.com"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "sports-booking": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.layupsport.com"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

alert
create_alert
Set up an email alert for the user: LayUp watches for NEW matching slots (e.g. a cancellation freeing up a peak court) and emails them when one appears. Use when the user can't find a slot now and wants to be notified, or asks to 'monitor'/'watch'/'let me know when'. Requires their email. NARROW IT FIRST. An alert with no venues attached matches hundreds of slots, so the emails read as a dump rather than an alert: of 20 such alerts, 1 was ever confirmed and 8 died unconfirmed at the send cap. Call this without venue_names and the tool will NOT create an alert — it returns the venues LayUp covers in that area so you can ask the user which ones they want, and prompts for the days and times that suit them. Then call again with their answers. LayUp does the watching; the notification arrives by email, not in this chat.
refine
refine_search
Find out WHERE and WHEN there is availability, before asking the user a clarifying question. Takes the same filters as search_slots and returns counts by area, day, time band and price — not slots. Use it when the request is under-specified ('find me a tennis court', 'somewhere for a group') so the question you ask back is grounded in real supply: ask 'Wandsworth (8 venues) or Richmond (7)?' rather than an open 'which area?'. Also use it when a search returned nothing, to say which nearby area or time DOES have slots instead of reporting a dead end.
slots
search_slots
Search bookable sports slots in London across every provider LayUp aggregates. Use when a user wants to find a court, pitch, lane, class or pickup game for football, tennis, squash, padel or swimming. Filter by sport, area/borough, date range, time of day and max price. Returns upcoming slots with venue, London-local time, price, provider and a booking link. Times default to the next 7 days.
sports
list_sports
List the sports LayUp covers with a count of slots available in the next 7 days. Useful as a quick overview before a more specific search.
venue
get_venue
List upcoming bookable slots at a single venue, identified by its venue_slug (as returned by search_slots). Use to drill into one venue after a search.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.layupsport.com streamable-http answering 63 ms 8 min ago

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LayUp Sports Booking — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can LayUp Sports Booking do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_alert, get_venue, list_sports, refine_search, search_slots. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is LayUp Sports Booking working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 1 of 91 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 938 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is LayUp Sports Booking still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
The registry lists LayUp Sports Booking as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect LayUp Sports Booking?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does LayUp Sports Booking need an API key?
No. LayUp Sports Booking completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is LayUp Sports Booking?
It answers our handshake in 938 ms on average, which is faster than 5% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.