Creating a tournament consumes one licence entitlement. Once you complete email verification, your account receives a non-expiring Free licence; your account may also hold other licences. You choose which licence a tournament is created from.
Steps
- Tap “New tournament” on the Home page or in My Tournaments. If you have exactly one licence that can create a tournament, the form opens with that licence directly.
- If you have more than one licence, My Licences opens: tap “Create tournament” on the card of the licence you want to use. Your Free licence and your other licences are listed together; each card shows the remaining tournament entitlements and the end date. A licence with no entitlements left or that is not active shows a short explanation instead of the button.
- The selected licence is shown at the top of the form. To use another licence, tap that field: your licences open in their package colours, and those you cannot use are faded with a short reason. Switching the licence keeps what you have typed and does not use an entitlement.
- Enter the tournament name. It must be at least 3 characters long. When saved, the first letter of every word in the name and the organiser is capitalised (“gebze okul ligi” → “Gebze Okul Ligi”); all other letters you typed, such as abbreviations like GMHD, stay as they are.
- Optionally enter the organiser (for example a municipality, club or school) and the season (for example 2026). Both are optional and can be left empty; you can add them later under Tournament Settings › General.
- Optionally choose the location: country, region and district. The location is optional; it appears as a short line on the tournament page, is not a venue address and does not change the time zone. You can change it later under Tournament Settings › General.
- Check the time zone. Your browser time zone is suggested automatically.
- Create the tournament.
The time zone is the source of truth for match times and for the scheduled draw presentation time. Choose the time zone where the tournament is actually played. Around daylight saving changes, a time that does not exist is not saved; for a time that occurs twice (match, draw or deadline) you choose which occurrence you mean.
What is the Free licence?
The Free licence is granted automatically to every new account once its email verification is complete, never expires and requires no purchase. Every licence keeps the features and limits of the package at the moment it was granted; the Licence Detail page shows the current entitlements and limits of your licence.
What if my licence has no entitlements left?
If the licence you picked has no tournament entitlements left, you cannot create a tournament from it; a new tournament entitlement needs a new licence. If you have a campaign code, you can redeem it to add a licence. A tournament stays permanently bound to the licence it was created from; it is never moved to another licence later.
What happens to my tournaments when the licence expires?
The tournament is neither ended nor deleted: when the term expires it waits in read-only mode, and if the licence is not extended within 30 days it is archived. Entitlements, term extension, reopening from the archive, special access periods and the “status review” note are explained in the “My Licences: entitlements, term and extension” guide.
How many tournaments can be in progress at the same time?
A licence's tournament entitlement sets how many tournaments you can create in total. Some licences also limit how many tournaments can be "In progress" at the same time. If such a limit exists, it appears as "Tournaments in progress" on the My Licences page and on the create tournament page; unlimited licences do not show it.
You can still create and prepare a new tournament while the limit is full: add teams and prepare the format, draw and fixtures. A tournament becomes "In progress" when its first official match starts or gets a result, and the limit applies only at that moment. Once one of your tournaments in progress is completed, you can start the first match of the new one. While the limit is full, the Overview page of the tournament in preparation says so in the "Needs attention" section.
Other actions that start a tournament follow the same limit: withdrawing or disqualifying a team in a tournament in preparation records forfeits for its unplayed matches and so starts the tournament; restoring a tournament in progress from the Trash also takes a slot. While the limit is full, these actions are not carried out and nothing changes.
What comes next?
The tournament opens as an empty shell: no teams, no format, no draw. The next step is adding the teams that will take part.