Run a tournament without the spreadsheet
For the organiser
One page per competition. Four formats.
Round robin. Groups, then knockout. Straight knockout. Pools, then cup, plate and bowl. A limit on each player's minutes is a rule the scheduler obeys, read from your own rules card.
A competition is one page with tabs: Entries, Draw, Schedule, Map, Pack, Scores and the public page. On a test club. Nothing to pay to run it, whatever the size.
- Enter from the squad you already have. A club joins with the team sheet it keeps all season.
- The draw lands in every parent's app the moment it's made: pitch, kick-off and the site map, not a PDF in a group chat.
- Results feed back live to a public page that carries no child's name.
For the organiser, and everyone who turns up
The paper half of running a tournament.
Every tournament builds an eighteen-page pack by hand every summer. Here every section already exists, so the pack assembles itself. It prints to A4 and A3, with the site map and a code for the gate.
- One pitch name, everywhere. “1 North” on the map, in the schedule, on the public page and on the parent's screen.
- Sixteen symbols, nothing to upload. Drawn to the ISO standards: first aid, toilets, the tea hut, parking, drop-off, officials, changing rooms, step-free access.
- Anything it can't fill in is marked as missing rather than left blank.
The day's fixtures land in every entered club's Season table and calendar, on a test club here. The pack itself prints to A4 and A3 from the Pack tab.
Questions
- What does it cost to run a tournament?
- Nothing. If you charge entry fees they're collected in the app, with our 1% shown as its own line; an event with no entry fee costs nobody anything.
- Will children's names appear on the public page?
- No. The public fixture page shows team names and scores only, with no login and no ads.
- Who can enter scores?
- You decide: you, a named referee, or a group such as every coach in the pool. Every change is kept with who made it and when.
- Do teams have to be on Whole Team to take part?
- No. A club that is not on Whole Team is entered by name, and pays its entry fee by a link that needs no account.
- Which formats are supported?
- Round robin, groups then knockout, straight knockout, and pools then tiered knockouts such as cup, plate and bowl.
The short guide to Whole Team
Five emails over a month: what it does, what a Saturday looks like, and how to set a club up. One click stops them, and we never pass your address to anybody.