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1football: a web service for football tournaments

Task:

Make a simple service for amateur football tournaments: the organizer quickly gets a schedule, standings, and results, and players and fans follow the score through a link.

Developed by:

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About the project

1football.site is a service that makes it easy to run any football tournament.

These tournaments are usually run in a notebook or a spreadsheet: the schedule is made by hand, points are recounted after every match, and people ask for the score in the group chat. In 1football the organizer enters the goals and the service does the rest.

How a tournament goes

The videos were recorded on a demo tournament.

1. Create a tournament

Enter a name and a city and add the teams — by hand or with the Sample button. Choose points for a win, draw, and loss, match length, and number of rounds. The service shows right away how many matches and rounds there will be and builds the schedule.

2. Keep the score — fans see it right away

The organizer starts the timer and taps +1 when a goal is scored, optionally with the scorer and the assist. Fans open the tournament by link and see the new score and the match timeline within a couple of seconds. Nothing to install.

Left: the organizer's phone. Right: a fan's phone.

3. Standings and results are calculated automatically

The standings update after every match. When all matches are played, the service shows the champion, the podium, the best attack and defense, the top scorer and the top assister, and prepares a text for a post.

What the service does

  1. 1

    Schedule

    Everyone plays everyone, in one or more rounds, or you set your own pairings. With an odd number of teams, the service adds byes.

  2. 2

    Standings

    Points, wins, draws, losses, goals, and goal difference update after every goal.

  3. 3

    Points and odds

    You can set your own points per result. The service shows how many points each team can still get and who is already out.

  4. 4

    Link for fans

    Share the link in a chat and everyone sees the score and standings right away. Nothing to install.

  5. 5

    Referee on a second phone

    With a separate link, an assistant keeps the score and the timer and marks who scored.

  6. 6

    Results

    Champion, podium, best attack and defense, top scorer, and the highest-scoring match. Plus a ready-made text for a social media post.

Standings and stats

Standings with goal difference and team form, with the odds calculator below.
Tournament stats: matches, goals, draws, and the best attack.

Small things that help

  • No sign-up: a tournament is created right away, and only the organizer and whoever gets the referee link can change the score.
  • The match timer runs on the server clock, so everyone sees the same time.
  • Goals and assists add up to top scorer and top assister lists automatically.
  • The link can be shared in Telegram, WhatsApp, VK, and other networks. Its preview shows the tournament name, the leader, and how many matches have been played.
  • History keeps every tournament you created or opened, and the Hall of Fame keeps their winners.
  • The tournament city can be detected with one tap.

Which tournaments it fits

  • backyard football
  • five-a-side and futsal
  • beach football
  • corporate tournaments
  • school and youth competitions
  • amateur leagues
  • FIFA / EA FC tournaments
  • table football

What we did

  • worked out how the organizer, the referee, and fans use the service
  • drew the logo and picked the dark-and-gold colors
  • made a phone-first interface, so the tournament is easy to run right by the pitch
  • wrote the schedule generator
  • made self-updating standings and the odds calculation
  • made links for fans and the referee — the score updates for everyone at once
  • made automatic tournament results and a text for a post
  • wrote an About page with answers to common questions, so people can find the service in search

The service website

The home screen has one main button — Create a tournament. Below it, you can open a tournament by the code or link from the organizer.
The About page: what 1football does, how points are counted, and answers to common questions.

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Results:

  1. Launched 1football.site.
  2. A tournament takes a couple of minutes to set up; the schedule, standings, and results are calculated automatically.
  3. Fans see the score through a link, with no app to install.
  4. The referee can keep the score from a second phone.
  5. After the tournament the service sums up the results and prepares a text for a post.
  6. Works for all kinds of amateur tournaments — from backyard football to FIFA / EA FC.

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