For managers and owners

Register and create your organization

If you are setting up a new organization on League Portal, begin by creating an account. Choose one of the available sign-in methods and complete any account verification requested during registration. If another owner has already invited you, use the invitation instead of creating a duplicate organization.

After signing in for the first time, choose Create organization. Enter the organization's full name, unique public link, short name, and primary time zone. You may also provide a contact email and description. Review the details and create the organization; your account becomes its first owner.

New organizations begin on the free plan without payment information. Once the organization is ready, create its first season and choose its sport, name, dates, time zone, and public season link. See Create a season for the complete season-creation workflow.

Begin with the season overview

After creating the organization or accepting an invitation, open the season from the organization menu. A brand-new season shows a numbered setup checklist that leads from its basic details through teams and bookings to the first generated round.

As each requirement is completed, the checklist advances to the next useful action. Once setup is complete, it leaves the Overview so returning managers can focus on announcements, upcoming activity, responsibilities, and pending work.

Configure the competition

Open Season settings before generating the first round. Choose the competition system, standings and points rules, match format, schedule format, score-entry access, and the season time zone.

Share the season's public information with anyone by copying the Public season link under Season settings > Season details. The control beside that link determines whether visitors can see public competition data; each document's audience independently determines whether it appears in the public Rules & docs library. Use Preview as public to verify exactly what an unsigned visitor will see.

• Use Balanced round robin, Tiered ladder, or the Elo rating system for matchmaking and rankings.
• Review supported sports and scheduling formats before committing to a format.
• Use roles and permissions to decide what managers, captains, and members can do.

Add people, teams, and court time

• Create teams and manage rosters, then use People and invitations for organization and team access.
• Add the venues, courts, dates, and times the season can use under Court bookings.
• Assign responsibilities such as refereeing or venue setup, and choose who can see listed responsibilities in Season settings.

Decide who should register

Not every teammate needs an account. Decide whether your league wants every participant to register, only captains and people with platform responsibilities, or something in between. Send For captains to team leaders and For team members to participants so each group has a short guide written for its role.

When Make competition data public is enabled, anyone with the public season link can browse bookings, published rounds and schedules, standings, saved scores, published tournaments, and documents marked Public. They do not receive roster membership, personalized information, or editing access.

Registered participants can additionally join a roster, submit availability, receive notifications and responsibility requests, see participant-only documents and personalized team information, track their own roster details where enabled, and enter scores when the league grants that permission.

Generate and publish the first round

Follow Rounds and scheduling to choose participants, generate a proposal, make any permitted adjustments, and publish it. Published schedules become visible to participants and can trigger responsibility requests and reminders.

During the season, review scores and standings, send announcements, maintain documents and rules, and use exports and backups for operational safety.