Create a tournament bracket: free tournament generator

Enter the participants above, one name per line (2 to 128), choose the tournament format and click “Create tournament.” The bracket or schedule is ready immediately and updates as you enter results. The tournament generator is free, requires no sign-up or download, and works for clubs, schools, darts, table football, LAN parties and esports.

Four formats: single elimination with an optional third-place match; double elimination with a winners bracket, losers bracket and grand final (with an optional bracket reset); round robin, including multiple groups and home-and-away matches; and the Swiss system. In the Swiss system, participants with similar records play each other in each round, either for a fixed number of rounds or in a Major format where each team plays until it reaches a set number of wins or losses (1 to 5, default 3).

Choose “Round Robin.” The tool assigns every match to a matchday to create the schedule. Enter the goals, and the standings automatically calculate matches played, wins, draws, losses, goals, goal difference and points. By default, a win is worth 3 points and a draw 1 point; you can change both. There is a separate option for home-and-away matches. The tool does not schedule pitches, kick-off times or referees.

In Single Elimination, the number of matches is always the number of participants minus 1: 7 matches for 8 teams. In Round Robin, each team plays every other team once: 6 matches across 3 matchdays for 4 teams, 10 across 5 matchdays for 5 teams, 15 across 5 matchdays for 6 teams, and 28 across 7 matchdays for 8 teams. With an odd number of teams, one team has a bye each matchday. The table above also lists 10, 12 and 16 teams.

Choose “Round Robin” and set the number of groups. Participants are distributed among the groups, each with its own standings. Once the matches are played, choose how many teams advance from each group and use “Prepare knockout tournament” to move them into a new knockout bracket, seeded by their standings.

In Single Elimination, each participant is eliminated after one loss. In Double Elimination, losers first move to the Loser Bracket and are eliminated only after a second loss. That’s fairer to teams having a bad day, but it takes almost twice as many matches: 2n-2 instead of n-1, plus a reset match in the Grand Final if needed.

Your list order determines the seeding, with seed 1 at the top. Alternatively, the tool can shuffle participants randomly for a draw. If the number of participants is not a power of two (such as 6 or 11), the bracket is filled to the next power of two. The empty spots become byes assigned to the highest seeds, who automatically advance to the next round.

You don't need a template to download: the generator creates the tournament bracket for your number of participants and calculates the standings. There is no Excel or PDF export. You can save the bracket as an image (PNG) to print or insert into a document, copy the current standings as text, or share the link.

With “Share link,” the tournament state is compressed into the link itself; nothing is stored on a server. Anyone who opens the link edits only their own copy. Your current tournament is stored locally in your browser. Only if you explicitly publish a live view with a banner image do we store the tournament state on our servers, until 30 days after the last change. It is then deleted automatically.