Leagues

A league is a season-long competition — divisions of teams playing each other over a fixed date range. This guide covers setting one up and keeping it running. For turning the league into a fixture list, see Fixtures & scheduling; for entering scores, see Recording results.

Creating a league

1. Go to Leagues in the sidebar.
2. Select New league.
3. Fill in the League name (required), Season (e.g. "2026 Winter"), a Description, Start date and End date, and Max teams.
4. Select Create league. You'll land straight on the new league's page.

Opening a league

The Leagues list shows every league as a card — status badge, description, date range and team count. Select a card to open it. Inside, the league has its own tabs: Overview, Fixtures, Standings, Bracket (only shown once a division uses the knockout playoff format), Divisions, Teams and Settings.

Setting up and publishing

A draft league shows a Set up this draft card on its Overview tab, with a tick or a cross per line. Selecting a line takes you to the place that fixes it.

• Required before you can publish: start and end dates, and a venue with courts.
• Recommended: divisions, preferred days and times, teams entered (each in a division), and generated fixtures.

Press Publish on the card, or choose Open as the status in Edit. A missing required item stops it with a list of links. Missing recommended items ask you to confirm with Publish anyway. Leagues already out of draft are not affected. A draft league whose start date passes still goes live on its own; publishing is not yet the only way out of draft.

Editing league details

1. From the league page, select Edit (top right).
2. Identity — name, description, season, and status (draft, open, active, completed, cancelled).
3. Schedule — start date, end date, registration deadline.
4. Capacity & fees — min/max teams, entry fee.
5. Game timing (minutes) — total game duration, number of quarters, quarter duration, quarter break, half-time break, changeover time between matches.
6. Select Save changes.

Tip: Scoring (win/draw/loss points, bonus rules, tiebreaker order) isn't in this drawer — it lives on the Settings tab, in the Bonus points & tiebreakers card.

Good to know: Once a league's status is active or completed, the Schedule and Capacity & fees fields lock — you can still edit the name, description, status and game timing, but dates, team limits and the entry fee are frozen to protect a season already under way.

Adding and editing divisions

Open the Divisions tab.

1. Select Add division.
2. Fill in Name, an optional Display name, Age group, and Skill level (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced / Elite).
3. Set Min teams and Max teams.
4. Select Add division.

Each division row shows its team count, current format, and an Edit format button.

Division formats

Select Edit format on a division to choose:

• Single round-robin — each team plays every other team once.
• Double round-robin — each team plays every other team twice.
• Split phase — a round-robin, then the division splits into pots (top teams in one pot, bottom teams in another) for a second phase. Choose a Pot size of 3, 4 or 5 teams.
• Knockout playoff — a round-robin, then a knockout bracket. Choose which pair index feeds the Promotion match and which feeds the Relegation match (e.g. pair 1 is 1st v 2nd, pair 2 is 3rd v 4th, and so on).

Select Save format.

Good to know: Adding, deleting or changing the format of a division is only available while the league is draft or open. Once the league is active or completed, those controls disappear — instead, knockout divisions get Generate playoffs and Lock bracket buttons, and split-phase divisions get Lock split.

Locking a split phase or bracket

Once the round-robin phase has finished and standings have settled:

• Lock split binds the placeholder split-phase fixtures to real teams — top finishers into Pot A, bottom finishers into Pot B. This cannot be undone from the interface, so only lock once the round-robin is genuinely done.
• Lock bracket binds placeholder knockout fixtures to adjacent finishers (1st v 2nd, 3rd v 4th, and so on) based on current standings. Also cannot be undone.

Deleting a division unassigns any teams from it but leaves existing fixtures in place.

Assigning teams to divisions

Open the Teams tab. Each registered team shows its division (as a dropdown — pick a different division to reassign, or No division to unassign), registration date, seed, payment status and fee. Changes save immediately.

Reading standings

Open the Standings tab. If the league has more than one division, each gets its own table; with just one division you get a single combined table. Columns are P (played), W, D, L, GF, GA, GD and Pts, plus a Form column showing recent results.

The Overview tab also shows a quick top-6 snapshot across all divisions, alongside upcoming fixtures and a divisions summary.

Bonus points and tiebreakers

Open the Settings tab and find Bonus points & tiebreakers.

• Base points — points awarded for a win, draw and loss.
• Bonus point rules — select Add rule to create an extra points rule triggered by an outcome: half score while losing, losing by 5 goals or less, scoring at least twice, winning by 5+ goals, losing by 3 goals or less, or a clean sheet. Give the rule a name, pick the trigger, and set how many points it's worth. Toggle a rule Enabled/Disabled, or remove it.
• Tiebreaker order — the order standings ties are broken in (points, goal difference, goals for, head-to-head, by default). Use the up/down arrows to reorder.

Select Save scoring rules when done.

Scheduling rules & venue nominations

Also on the Settings tab:

• Venue nominations — pick which of your organisation's venues this league is allowed to use for fixtures. Move venues between Selected and Available, then select Save venues.
• Schedule shape — a read-only summary of the kickoff times and preferred days the fixture generator defaults to. These are set inside the Generate Fixtures wizard (see Fixtures & scheduling), not here.
• Scheduling rules — constraints the fixture generator must respect: venue preferences, time-slot quotas, and team unavailability.

Archiving or deleting a league

Open the … menu on a league in the list.

• Archive hides it from the list and keeps everything. Restore it any time from Show archived.
• Delete removes the league with all its fixtures, teams and divisions. Only a league with no played matches can be deleted — once results exist, archive it instead.

Good to know

• League status drives most of the locking behaviour in this guide — draft and open are freely editable; active and completed protect dates, capacity and division structure.
• Once fixtures exist, generating or regenerating them is covered in Fixtures & scheduling.
• Scores and results are entered per match — see Recording results.