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RUN YOUR CLUB’S IN-HOUSE LADDERS, LEAGUES, TOURNAMENTS AND FRIENDLY MATCHES

Free Racket Sport Competitions Manager

Ladders, box leagues, round robins and knockout draws for squash, tennis, padel, pickleball and badminton. You run them; players score from a QR code on their phone, and the clubhouse TV follows every point. Free.

Start a free competition ↗Watch it run ↓

Only the organiser signs in. Scorers and TVs need no login.

Setting up a knockout: the kind of competition, and the draw it will make
Setting up a knockout: the kind of competition, and the draw it will make.
The draw on a phone, with a match in play
The draw on a phone, with a match in play.

The real Competitions pages, scorer and TV board, driven by a script. Invented club and players; nothing leaves this page.

FOUR KINDS

Ladders, box leagues, round robins and knockouts

Choose the sport and the kind, and see what you will get before you make it. The usual rules are filled in, and you change only what you need.

Ladder

A standing list that never ends.

  • Challenge someone up to three places above.
  • Win, and you take their place.
  • Who has moved in the last four weeks is marked.

Box league

Small groups of a similar standard.

  • Everyone in a box plays everyone else over a round of a few weeks.
  • The top go up a box and the bottom go down.
  • The boxes are made from the club rating.

Round robin

Everyone plays everyone, once or twice.

  • A round at a time, with a table of points.
  • The top of the table wins.
  • Singles or doubles.

Knockout

A seeded draw: win and you go through.

  • The top players are seeded and kept apart; byes go to the top seeds.
  • A plate gives first-round losers a second event.
  • Several grades and sports in one event, with one order of play.
A ladder: each place, the club rating, who has moved, and the open challenges
A ladder: each place, the club rating, who has moved, and the open challenges.
A box league: who goes up and who goes down
A box league: who goes up and who goes down.
A round robin table for doubles
A round robin table for doubles.
A knockout draw, with two semi-finals in play
A knockout draw, with two semi-finals in play.

YOUR SPORTS

Each sport scored by its own rules

Each match is scored point by point by the sport’s current rulebook, with older and local rules as options. You choose which ones your competitions offer.

Squash

World Squash Singles Rules 2025: point-a-rally to 11, best of five games. Also best of three, to 15, and hand-in hand-out to 9.

Tennis

ITF Rules of Tennis 2026: best of three tie-break sets with advantage. Also no-ad, Fast4, a match tie-break and pro sets.

Padel

FIP Rules of Padel 2026, with the Star Point at deuce. Also golden point and advantage. Doubles.

Pickleball

USA Pickleball 2026: side-out scoring, one game to 11 with the server’s number called. Also best of three, and rally scoring.

Badminton

BWF Laws: best of three games to 21, and the new games to 15 from 4 January 2027.

SCORE FROM A CODE

Players score from a QR code, with no login

Each match has its own code, such as GPHC-7K3M, and a QR code. Whoever scans it can score that match on their phone, point by point.

  • Print the codes.Make codes for every match ready to play, then print them as cards: six to an A4 page, with the players, round, court, time and QR code.
  • One phone scores.The first phone to start scoring a match scores it to the end. Every phone that opens the match after that watches it live.
  • The result counts.Record the result and the draw, the table or the ladder moves on, with the club rating.
  • Hand it over.The scoring phone can let the match go, and another carries on from the same score.
Scoring a competition match from its code
Scoring a competition match from its code.
The match’s code and QR code, for another phone
The match’s code and QR code, for another phone.
The printed code cards: the players, round, court and time, the QR code and the code
The printed code cards: the players, round, court and time, the QR code and the code.
A phone that has scanned a card: ready to play, with the marker’s name
A phone that has scanned a card: ready to play, with the marker’s name.
Another phone that opens the code watches the match live
Another phone that opens the code watches the match live.
Making the codes for every match ready to play, then printing them
Making the codes for every match ready to play, then printing them.

ON THE CLUBHOUSE TV

Live on the clubhouse TV

Open a screen’s link once on the TV’s browser and leave it there. It needs no sign-in, and changes when you choose another board.

  • A knockout draw, scored live.Every match on court scored in its box, flashing gold when the score changes.
  • A scoreboard for each court.The players, the games, the points and who is serving, with the match’s code to scan and watch.
  • Ladders, boxes and tables.What is on court now, then the ladder, the boxes or the table, in turn.
  • Light or dark.Each screen in the colours that suit the room.
A knockout draw on the clubhouse TV, scored live
A knockout draw on the clubhouse TV, scored live.
A court’s scoreboard, with the code to watch on a phone
A court’s scoreboard, with the code to watch on a phone.
A ladder on the TV, with the challenges and who is playing
A ladder on the TV, with the challenges and who is playing.
The same scoreboard in light colours
The same scoreboard in light colours.

PEOPLE

Names on screens, and nothing more

  • Juniors by first name and initial.Anyone under 18 is shown as a first name and initial on the TVs and the printed cards.
  • Names and scores only.Boards never show ratings, member numbers or contact details.
  • A club rating.Every result counts towards each player’s rating in that sport, which seeds the draws and makes the boxes.
  • Rankings for each sport.The club rankings list every player by their rating in that sport.
The club rankings for squash: each player’s rating, matches and last five results
The club rankings for squash: each player’s rating, matches and last five results.

QUESTIONS

Questions about the free competitions manager

Step-by-step instructions are in the Help centre: Competitions.

Is it free?

Yes, for any club or organiser. It carries the Sports Club OS name.

Who needs to sign in?

Only the organiser. Scorers open a match by its QR code or code, and a TV opens its screen link once. Neither needs a login.

Which sports?

Squash, tennis, padel, pickleball and badminton, singles or doubles (padel is doubles only).

Do we need the rest of Sports Club OS?

No. This is the competitions part of Sports Club OS, on its own. The rest runs members, courts, staff and functions, if you ever want it.

What does a scorer need?

A phone with a web browser. They scan the QR code on the card, or go to sportsclubos.net/score and type the code. Nothing to install, and no account.

Can someone take the scoring from the phone that is scoring?

No. The first phone to start scoring a match scores it. Anyone else who opens the code watches. The scoring phone can hand the match over when it needs to.

When does a code stop working?

When the match’s result is recorded, or 14 days after it was made if nobody started scoring. A lost card can be replaced with a new code.

Can we run several grades or sports in one event?

Yes. An event holds several competitions, a grade or a sport each, with one order of play for the courts they share.

Can we change the rules?

Yes. The usual rules are filled in when you make a competition, and you can change them until it starts: how many places a ladder challenge reaches, the size of a box, the seeds, a plate, and how each match is scored.

Do the TVs need a computer?

Only a web browser. Open the screen’s link once on the TV’s browser and leave it. It needs no sign-in.

Can the result of a match be corrected?

Yes. The organiser can correct or remove a result afterwards, and the draw, table or ladder follows.

What about a friendly match?

Score it with Sporty Score, the free match scorer, on your phone with no account.

WHY FREE?

Why these tools are free

We make our living from the full club system. The free tools are free because clubs that use them tell us how to make them better, and some later ask about the rest. They carry our name on the screen. That is the whole arrangement.

START

Start a free competition

Tell us who you are and we will set you up.

The free tool is the competitions part of Sports Club OS. The rest runs members, courts, staff and functions, if you ever want it.

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