How do I create and schedule fixtures?

Fixtures are the list of matches to be played in a stage, and they are created on the Fixtures page. Fixtures can be created only after that stage’s draw has been made official; a knockout stage fed by the previous stage’s ranking needs no separate draw.

If your tournament has more than one stage (for example League → Groups → Knockout), the Fixtures page shows a tab for each stage. The selected tab tells you which stage you are working on: the team and match counts, the draw status and the “Generate Fixtures” button belong to that stage only.

Participants not known yet

The previous stage is not complete, so this stage’s teams are not known yet. They are determined when the previous stage ends.

Draw required

The teams are known, but this stage’s draw is not official yet. “Go to Draw” takes you straight to this stage’s draw.

Tie-break draw required

The previous stage has ended, but some teams are level in the ranking and cannot be separated by the ranking criteria, so it is not yet known who advances. “Go to Tie-break Draw” takes you to this stage’s tie-break draw on the Draw page. After that draw, you continue with the stage on the Fixtures page.

Create your fixtures

The stage is ready. You see the team and match counts and create only this stage’s matches with “Generate Fixtures”.

Creating the matches automatically

When the stage is ready, the screen shows a short summary of the team, group and match counts and the “Generate Fixtures” button. The button creates all of the stage’s matches at once, based on the official draw. In single round-robin league and group stages, home and away order is spread evenly across the teams.

Entering the matches yourself (group stage)

If you made the draw in a hall or prepared the pairings elsewhere, in a group stage you can open the “Create the matches yourself” panel instead of “Generate Fixtures” and enter the pairings one by one. This path also requires an official draw. The panel shows how many matches have been entered per group; the same pairing cannot be entered twice, and the week / round is optional. You schedule date, time, venue and referees through normal scheduling after the matches exist.

• A stage is created either fully automatically or fully by hand: while the stage has matches, “Generate Fixtures” is not offered, and once automatic fixtures exist no matches can be added by hand.
• While you are entering matches you can delete a match that has not started. When you enter the last pairing, the fixtures count as complete and the panel disappears; after that, the structure cannot be changed by deleting a single match.
• The stage does not count as complete until every match between the active teams of each group has been entered and decided, and the next stage cannot be created before that. Matches not yet entered for a team that has withdrawn are not awaited. Once the next stage exists, no new match can be added to the previous one.
• Today only group stages can be entered by hand; league and knockout fixtures are generated automatically. In a knockout stage whose first round has not started, you can later change the pairings with “Edit pairings” on the Draw page (see “What is the draw and when is it made?”).

Viewing matches by week and team

In league and group stages a week strip sits above the match list: “All”, “Week 1”, “Week 2”… When the page opens, the current week is selected; choosing a week lists all of that week’s matches. With many weeks, the strip scrolls sideways.

• To see one team’s or group’s matches, choose “All” and open “Select team” (“Select group / team” in a group stage) below the strip. When you make a selection, the list shows that team’s or group’s matches across all weeks; the section closes and its heading shows your selection.
• Team and group selection exists only under “All”. Switching to a week clears the selection and shows all of that week’s matches; going back to “All” does not bring the old selection back.
• A knockout stage has no week strip; rounds appear in one list under their headings, and team selection works across all rounds.
• The Fixtures tab on the public tournament page works the same way.

Scheduling: date, time, venue and referees

• Each match’s “Schedule” button opens the “Match Settings” window: on the “Match Settings” tab you enter the date and time (and the venue, if your package includes Venue Management); if your package includes Referee Management, you assign the referee team on the “Referees” tab. Switching tabs does not save; the button at the bottom of each tab saves only that tab. The time is saved in the tournament’s time zone.
• The same team or the same pitch cannot be scheduled for two matches at the same time; this rule can never be overridden.
• If your package includes both Automatic Scheduling and Venue Management, the “Automatic Scheduling” card on the Fixtures page prepares suggestions for unscheduled matches: “Create suggestion”, “Show another suggestion” if needed, and “Apply schedule” for the one you choose. Matches you scheduled by hand do not change. In the Scheduling Settings you set the team rest time, the preparation time between matches on the same pitch and the playable days / hours; in manual scheduling these rules only warn you, and you can save with a deliberate confirmation.
• If your package includes Referee Management, referees are assigned on the “Referees” tab of the match’s window; the same tab is also in the window opened with the gear button on the Live Match screen. If you cannot schedule matches but can assign referees, the match only shows a “Referees” button (see the “Referees” guide). A finished match has no such button; the assigned referees remain visible on the match card.

Resetting fixtures and returning a stage to the draw

Reset fixtures

When the draw is right but you want to rebuild the fixtures: deletes the matches and their date, time and venue details; the official draw is kept and you create the fixtures again from the same draw. Not available once the first official match has started.

Return stage to draw

When the draw is wrong: deletes the stage’s matches, draw result (groups and team order) and match scheduling; you make the draw again. The tournament format and the draw history are kept. A stage with a started match, or one used by the next stage, cannot be returned to the draw. Both actions ask for confirmation; if referees are assigned to matches, remove those assignments first.

Both operations delete real data. Once a match in the stage has been played or has a result, these paths close; the sporting record is not deleted.