Create your first tournament

This guide takes you from zero to a published fixture list. Five steps, about ten minutes for a simple tournament.

Before you start

Have three things ready:

• The competition format — round robin, knockout, groups followed by knockout, or Swiss system. Still unsure? Read Competition formats first.
• How many teams will take part. The exact number can change later, but the format depends on it.
• Start and end dates. They shape the calendar and lock nothing down — you can adjust round by round.

Tip Don’t try to enter everything at once. Create the tournament with the bare minimum, publish it, and fill in squads and details as registrations come in.

Step 1 — Create your organization

Everything in Torneyo belongs to an organization: tournaments, teams, athletes and referees. It’s what lets more than one person administer the same competition without sharing a login.

The first time you sign in, you’re taken straight to organization setup. Enter name, city and main sport. If you’ve already been invited to an existing organization, it shows up in the list and you just pick it.

If you run competitions for different clients, create one organization per client. The data stays isolated and the selector at the top of the screen switches context.

Step 2 — Create the tournament

Under Tournaments, click New tournament and fill in:

• Name — this is what appears on the public page and in shares.
• Sport — football, futsal, volleyball, esports and others.
• Period — expected start and end dates.
• Visibility — public (indexed and shareable) or restricted.

On save, the tournament already gets its own public page, even while empty.

Step 3 — Define the categories

A category is an independent competition inside the tournament: U15, Adult Men’s, Women’s, Division A. Each category has its own teams, stages, fixtures and standings.

Only one competition? Create a single category — Torneyo won’t force you to invent divisions that don’t exist.

Step 4 — Register the teams

There are two routes, and they mix freely:

1. Direct entry — you register each team and squad yourself. Faster for closed competitions where you already have the list.
2. Self-registration — you open registrations and each team signs itself up. Teams belonging to your organization are approved automatically; outside teams join an approval queue.

Squad, document and photo details are covered in Register teams and squads.

Step 5 — Create the stages and generate fixtures

A stage is a phase of the category: “Group stage”, “Semi-final”, “Final”. Each stage has a model (round robin, knockout, groups) and produces its own fixtures.

With teams registered, use Generate fixtures on the stage. Torneyo builds the matchups according to the model — a draw for knockout, everyone-plays-everyone for round robin, balanced distribution for groups.

Warning Once any fixture in the stage has a result entered, the stage model locks. This protects standings that have already been calculated. If you need to change the format, do it before entering the first score.

What happens next

With the fixture list generated, the day-to-day is short: enter each result and let the system do the rest. Standings, goal difference, top scorers and cards are recalculated on every confirmed score.

If you use the match sheet pitchside, the natural next step is Digital match sheet step by step.