For football organizers running 7-a-side and 11-a-side competitions
Football eats pitch hours faster than any other format, and the schedule is the thing that decides whether you finish before dark. Tournamyx builds it, keeps the table live, and publishes one link the clubs actually check.
Free for up to 8 players · $9 per event beyond that · Nothing to install
If any of these sound familiar
We built Tournamyx for football organizers in exactly this situation.
Field guide — football organizers
Football is the format where the arithmetic bites hardest. A 7-a-side match with two twenty-minute halves and a changeover occupies a pitch for about fifty minutes. An 11-a-side match with two forty-five minute halves occupies it for closer to one hundred and five. Very few one-day competitions can absorb the second number at any meaningful field size.
Sixteen teams in four groups of four is twenty-four group matches before a single knockout game. At 7-a-side on two pitches that is twelve slots — about ten hours, which is not a day. On four pitches it is six slots, around five hours, and the quarter-finals through final add three more sequential slots for another two and a half. That is a long but genuinely achievable Saturday.
At 11-a-side the same twenty-four group matches on four pitches is over ten hours before the knockout starts. The honest options are fewer teams, more pitches, or more days. Work it out with the tournament schedule maker before you publish a format you cannot finish.
16 teams, four groups of four, 24 group matches
| Format | Slot length | 2 pitches | 4 pitches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-a-side (2 × 15) | ~35 min | ~7h 00m | ~3h 30m |
| 7-a-side (2 × 20) | ~50 min | ~10h 00m | ~5h 00m |
| 9-a-side (2 × 30) | ~70 min | ~14h 00m | ~7h 00m |
| 11-a-side (2 × 45) | ~105 min | ~21h 00m | ~10h 30m |
Football tables are three points for a win, one for a draw, then goal difference, then goals scored. It is a simple hierarchy that becomes surprisingly laborious across four groups and twenty-four matches, because every result changes two rows and the version everyone is looking at is a photo of a whiteboard taken forty minutes ago.
Draws are what make football different from most tournament sports here. They are common, which means groups finish level far more often than in volleyball or basketball, and goal difference does more of the work of deciding who goes through. Getting it wrong by one goal in one row changes who plays in the quarter-final.
Tournamyx recomputes the full table — played, won, drawn, lost, goals for and against, difference, points — on every saved result, and publishes it on the same link the clubs already have. If you are running the group-into-knockout shape, the group stage + knockout generator will build it and place the qualifiers when group play ends.
Plenty of football competitions are not one-day events at all. A ten-team league playing everyone once is forty-five matches across nine rounds — one evening slot a week for most of a term. Home and away doubles it to ninety matches over eighteen rounds, which is a full season and a genuinely different administrative problem.
The difficulty in a league is not generating the fixtures, it is that the table has to stay correct and visible for months while results arrive one or two at a time from different people. Spreadsheets survive a Saturday. They rarely survive a season, because the file gets copied, edited offline, and eventually two versions disagree about whether a match was played.
Keeping the fixtures and the table in one place that every club reads and only authorised people can edit removes the whole class of problem. Roles are assigned per competition, so a club secretary can submit their own result without being able to edit anyone else’s, and the round robin generator shows the fixture count for any league size before you start.
Questions
Pitch hours, not entries, decide the format. Tournamyx lays the fixtures out a round at a time across the pitch count you enter, so a round runs in parallel and the next follows. Enter your real slot length including changeover, because that is what turns a fixture list into a finish time.
Four groups of four is 24 group matches, since each group of four plays 6. The knockout for the eight qualifiers adds 7, so 31 in total. A full round robin across 16 teams would be 120 matches, which is a season rather than a Saturday.
Yes. Tournamyx recomputes the league table on every saved result — played, won, drawn, lost, goals for and against, goal difference and points — and publishes it on the same public link every club already has, so nobody maintains a whiteboard or a spreadsheet during the day.
Tournamyx generates a round robin and lays the rounds across as many match days as the season needs, with scores staying live between them and the public link unchanged. Tournamyx does not generate home-and-away league fixtures, so a double round robin has to be set up as two rounds of fixtures.
The comparison
Every tournament hits the same five moments. The difference is whether you handle them from a spreadsheet or from one link.
| The moment | The usual way | With Tournamyx |
|---|---|---|
| The schedule | An Excel sheet that lives on one laptop | One link, always current, on every phone |
| Score updates | 47 unread WhatsApp messages on match day | Standings update themselves as scores go in |
| A team drops out | Redraw the bracket by hand, again | Drag, drop — the bracket adjusts on its own |
| “What time is our match?” | Answered forty times, individually | Answered by the link, once |
| After the final | Typos on the printed bracket sponsors saw | A clean recap sponsors actually post |
If the middle column reads like your last event, Tournamyx was built for you.
What it handles
It has to hold up at the moment something goes wrong. Five places where most tournaments fall apart — none of them will be yours.
01/Scheduling
Enter your teams, groups, and courts. Tournamyx lays the whole schedule out across them, round by round — the job that used to eat your Saturday night.
02/Preview
Walk through every fixture, field assignment, and standing before you publish. Spot the imbalance or the awkward matchup while nobody’s watching.
03/Changes
Thirty minutes before kickoff, someone always cancels. Drag the team out, drop a replacement in — the bracket and the public link adjust on their own.
04/Scoring
The scorer picks the match, types the result, hits save. Standings recalculate, the bracket advances, and the public link shows it — before the teams have left the court.
05/Collaboration
Invite co-scorekeepers with the right permissions and divide the venue between you. Every score lands in the same live standings — no “who has the latest sheet?”
Case study — IIUMRC, Jul 2025
In July 2025, Tournamyx ran the IIUM Robotic Competition — the annual international robotics tournament at IIUM Gombak, where school teams from Malaysia and abroad battle in sumo, robot soccer, and time-rush events. 406 teams across three categories, 755 matches scheduled and scored live, every standing on one public link. If it can run an international robotics championship, it can run your Sunday futsal night.
Read how we did it →
Kickoff
Enter the teams, let Tournamyx lay out the draw, and share one link that stays current for the rest of the day.
Free for up to 8 players · $9 per event beyond that · Nothing to install
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