How to organise a football tournament
The essential steps: pick the football type and the format, gather the teams and the players, book pitches and dates, generate the fixtures and publish a public page to keep everyone up to date.
Guides to organising a tournament
Practical advice for organising a 5-a-side, 8-a-side or 11-a-side football tournament: from building the teams to choosing the format, from the fixtures to running live coverage. The full articles are coming soon; here are the topics we will cover.
How to draw the teams
Three ways to draw (pure random, by position, balanced by skill level), the constraints that keep players together or apart, and why goalkeepers should be treated as a category of their own to get balanced teams.
Which format to choose
Single group, multiple groups, straight knockout, groups with a final stage or a home-and-away league: how to choose based on the number of teams and the time available.
Handling results and live coverage
How to enter results, start matches and tell the story minute by minute, so standings and statistics stay current with no manual work.