# Score a quick match on your phone

> Anyone can score a squash, tennis, padel, pickleball or badminton match on their own phone at sportsclubos.net/score, and let others watch with a code.

Who this is for: Anyone: no sign-in needed.
Last checked in release 2026.10.28, on 28 October 2026.
Source: https://sportsclubos.net/help/competitions/quick-match/

A quick match is a match you score on your own phone, with no account and no club, in squash, tennis, padel, pickleball or badminton. It uses the same scorer as a club's match. The match is kept on that phone only, until you choose to let others watch. It is free; the [Free match scorer](https://sportsclubos.net/free/scoring/) page says more about it.

## Before you start

Open [sportsclubos.net/score](https://sportsclubos.net/score/) on your phone. It works offline once the page has been opened, so you can score where there is no signal.

## Make the match

1. Press **Create quick match**. The steps are numbered at the top, such as **Step 1 of 4**, with **Back** to go to the one before.
2. Under **Which sport?**, press **Squash**, **Tennis**, **Padel**, **Pickleball** or **Badminton**. Each names the rulebook it is scored by, such as **World Squash Singles Rules 2025**.
3. Under **Singles or doubles?**, press one. Padel is played only as doubles, so it skips this step.
4. Under **Who is playing?**, type a name for each player (four in doubles). Any names will do; they stay on the phone. You can also type a name under **Name the match (if you like)**, such as "Thursday night".
5. Press **Next: the rules**. **The rules** shows the sport, the rulebook and the scoring, for example **Best of 5 games to 11. At 10-all: two clear points.** The rulebook is used unless you change it: press **Change the rules** to choose another format or one of the older or local rules, and **Back to the built-in rules** to undo that. **The built-in rules in words** lists them.
6. Press **Start the match**. The scorer opens at **Ready to play**.

Score it as you would a club's match: the warm-up, the toss, then press the side that won each rally. Press **More** for the rarer calls. Each sport's calls are in its own article: [squash](https://sportsclubos.net/help/competitions/score-live/index.md), [tennis and padel](https://sportsclubos.net/help/competitions/score-tennis-padel/index.md), [pickleball](https://sportsclubos.net/help/competitions/score-pickleball/index.md) and [badminton](https://sportsclubos.net/help/competitions/score-badminton/index.md).

## Let others watch

1. Press **Share** at the top of the scorer, beside **Dark**. It is there from **Ready to play** until the match ends. **Let others watch** under **More** does the same. Sharing needs an internet connection.
2. A code such as **Q-7K3MX** and a QR code appear. Anyone who scans the QR code, or types the code at **sportsclubos.net/score** under **Enter a code**, sees the score as it changes. They cannot change it.
3. Press **Close** to go back to scoring. While the match is shared, its code shows at the top in place of **Share**, with a green dot. Press the code to show the QR code again.

Nothing about the match leaves the phone until you press **Share** or **Let others watch**.

Anyone with the code or the link can see the names and the score. The shared match is deleted automatically a day after its last point. Press **Stop sharing** to delete it sooner.

## At the end

When the match is over, the scorer shows the summary. Press **Record the result**. Then:

- **Email the result**, right under the result, opens your own email app with the result in a new message. To fill in who it goes to, type one or more email addresses in **Send to (optional)** first. Sports Club OS sends nothing and keeps no address.
- **Share the result** opens your phone's share sheet with the result written out. It shows only on a phone that has a share sheet.
- **New match** starts another quick match.
- **Matches on this phone** opens the list of every quick match kept on the phone.

## Your earlier matches

The home page at sportsclubos.net/score lists the three latest matches under **Matches on this phone**, newest first. Each row gives the players, the sport, the match's name if it has one, the date and where it is up to: **Not started**, **Warm-up**, **In play** with the score, **Finished: the result is not saved yet**, or who won. A shared match also says **shared as** and its code.

- Press a match to open it in the scorer, where you left it.
- With more than three, **Show all previous matches** (with the number) opens a page listing every match on the phone. Press **Back** to return.
- To delete a match, press the bin at the right of its row. It changes to **Press again to delete**; press it again within four seconds. Deleting takes the match off the phone for good, and stops sharing it.

## If something goes wrong

- **Sharing needs an internet connection.** The phone is offline. Scoring carries on; press **Share** again when you are connected.
- **There is no shared match with that code.** The code is mistyped, the match finished more than a day ago, or the scorer stopped sharing it.
- A quick match is kept in the phone's browser. Clearing the browser's data removes it.