With your competition, venue and teams ready, you can create a match. Most of the settings fill in from your competition, so creating a match is mostly about picking who, when and where. This article walks you through every field on the form and what happens when you save.
Before you start
A competition. See How to create a competition.
Two teams that are both in that competition. See How to add teams to a club.
A venue created in Assets. See How to add a venue.
Create a match
Go to the Matches tab and click Create Match. The match form opens.
Competition. Pick this first, for example LIGR Demo League. The competition controls which teams you can choose, and it fills in the rest of the match settings for you. If you skip it, the team lists won't show the teams you expect.
Home team and Away team. Choose each team, for example Harbour City (HCF) as the home team and Ridgeview (RVR) as the away team. Only teams in the competition you picked appear in these lists.
Date and Time. Set when the match starts. This is the start time shown for the match in your Matches table, so double check it before you save.
Venue. Pick where the match is played, for example LIGR Demo Stadium. Only venues created in Assets appear here.
Live Scorer. This is optional. It's the person who logs match events, such as goals, cards and substitutions, in the LiveScore app. You can leave it empty now and set it later.
Check the settings that were filled in from your competition. Each one is explained below.
Click Create and Return or Create and Configure.
Settings filled in from your competition
When you pick the competition, the rest of the form fills in from its settings. Check them before you create the match. Any change you make here only affects this match. It doesn't change the competition or any other match in it, which makes it handy for one-off games such as a shortened friendly.
Period config
The timing for the match. For football this is the half length and half-time length in minutes, and whether extra time, golden goal or a penalty shootout is used. The options shown depend on the sport.
Stats
The level of stat coverage, either Minimum for the essentials or Standard for more detail.
Players
With Players on, you get player graphics and player events, such as who scored. You can also choose which player events are logged. With Players off, the match runs without player names.
Line-up settings
The starting line-up size and the most players allowed on the bench, for example 11 starters for football.
Advanced
Clock settings: whether the match uses a clock, whether it counts up or down, cumulative time and injury time.
Create and Return or Create and Configure
Create and Return saves the match and takes you back to the Matches table. Use it when you're adding several matches in a row.
Create and Configure saves the match and takes you straight to its streams and overlays, so you can start getting it ready to go live.
Either way, your match now appears in the Matches table. Any default streams and overlays from your competition are already attached. To go live, the next steps are to add an overlay, add a stream, then go live.
Tips and common mistakes
A team doesn't appear. It isn't in the competition you picked. Add the competition on the team's General tab. See Why teams don't appear when creating matches.
The venue doesn't appear. It hasn't been created in Assets yet, or it was archived.
No player names in the match. Make sure Players is on, and that both teams have players before the match.
Wrong competition picked. Choose the competition again before you fill in the other fields, as it resets which teams and settings are available.
You can change everything later on the match page, but only until the match starts.
Creating many matches at once? See How to import multiple matches using CSV.
Next: Match page and settings