Free Tournament Manager: Leagues, Knockouts, Groups and Double Elimination

Your tournaments

These are kept in this browser only. Log in when you create tournaments and they show on every device you log in on.

Create a tournament

1. The event Tournament name

Sport Scoring app for referees

Number of courts (optional) Matches can then be put on a court and shown in order of play. Called

Date End date (optional)For a tournament over several days. Venue (optional)

2. Format

LeagueEveryone plays everyone (full round robin), once or home and away. Groups + knockout"World Cup" style: round-robin groups, then the top entries go into a knockout. Single knockoutLose once and you're out. Optional third-place match. Double eliminationOut after two losses, with a winners and a losers bracket. Double elimination to the semi-finalsA winners and a losers bracket until two are left in each. They cross over in grand semi-finals (no rematches where possible), then a final and a third-place match. Progressive knockoutEveryone keeps playing and every place, from 1st to last, is decided.

Each pair plays Points for a win, draw and loss

When entries are level on points "Score" is the match score: goals, runs, sets, frames or legs. Points difference uses the game-by-game scores sent by the scoring apps.

3. Entries and seeding

Entries are

Enter them nowType or paste the full list below. Check in as they arriveAdd players or teams on the day, then press Start tournament to make the draw.

Seed manuallyThe order of the list is the seeding (or make a random draw). Seed by ranking pointsGive each entry a number (ranking points or level). Highest is seeded 1; seeds are set when the tournament starts.

One entry per line, best seed first Add players after a colon if you want them filled in on the scoring app, e.g. "Smith/Jones: Ann Smith, Kim Jones" for a doubles pair. For series rankings, add each player's ID after a #, e.g. "Ann Smith #A1001" (a membership number works well – please don't use ID numbers).

Club team code Did a club give you a team code? Add the team with its players in one go.

Make a random draw (ignore the order above)

Add your entries to see how many matches there will be.

4. Series ranking (optional)

Is this tournament part of a series? Its final placings then earn ranking points in the series. Get the join code from the series manager, or set up a series.

Series join code Tournament ratingPoints for 1st place Date played

5. Your manager PIN

PIN (4 to 8 digits) PIN again

You'll get a private manager link. To make changes you need both the link and this PIN. We can't recover a lost PIN.

How it works

Create the tournament and keep your manager link and PIN.
Share the public link with players and spectators. Standings and draws update by themselves.
For each match, either type in the result, or give the referee the match code. They enter it in the scoring app, the names are filled in, the live score appears for everyone, and the result goes straight into the tournament.

Running a season or a circuit? Link tournaments into a series ranking and players earn ranking points by how they finish. List your tournament on Upcoming events so players can find it.

Which format should I choose?

Our articles explain each format with worked examples: round robin, knockout seeding and byes, groups and knockout, double elimination, and club series with ranking points.

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