Pitch Planner can automatically assign your matches to venues and time slots. Here's how to set it up.
- Open your tournament and go to the Venues tab
- Click Add Venue
- Enter the venue name (e.g. "Main Pitch", "Field B") and an optional location
- Set the venue's available days (e.g. Saturdays only)
- Set the time window — the earliest and latest a match can start at this venue
You can add as many venues as you need. Each venue can have its own availability schedule.
Under Schedule Settings, configure:
- Start date — the first day matches can be played
- Match frequency — how many days between rounds (e.g. every 7 days for a weekly league)
- Max matches per day — limits how many games are played in a single day to avoid over-scheduling
- Rest days — minimum days a team must rest between games
Once your venues and settings are configured, click Generate Schedule. Pitch Planner will automatically:
- Distribute matches across your venues
- Respect venue availability windows
- Apply rest day and max-per-day constraints
- Assign start times within each venue's time window
After generating the schedule, you can edit individual matches to change the venue, date, or time. The schedule generator gives you a good starting point — fine-tune from there.
- If you only have one venue, set it to available on all your match days
- You can regenerate the schedule at any time — it won't affect results you've already entered
- If the scheduler can't fit all matches within your constraints, it will place unscheduled matches at the end — you can then assign them manually