Clubs, teams and stadiums

Clubs, teams and stadiums are closely connected. Setting them up correctly saves a lot of work later.

Club vs team

A club is an organization. A team is one concrete squad inside the club.

Example:

Club: FC Example
Teams:
- FC Example A
- FC Example B
- FC Example youth

One club can therefore have multiple teams.

Creating a club

Open:

Components → JoomLeague → Clubs → New

Important fields:

• club name;
• address;
• city;
• country;
• phone;
• email;
• website;
• logo;
• notes.

Automatic team and stadium creation

When creating a club, you can enable:

• Automatically create team;
• Automatically create stadium.

If enabled, saving the club creates the first team and stadium and links them to the club.

This is the recommended workflow for new clubs.

When to disable automation

Disable it if:

• the team already exists;
• you want to create the stadium manually;
• the club has no home ground;
• the club is only an administrative record.

Stadiums

A stadium or playground is a place where matches are played.

Open:

Components → JoomLeague → Stadiums

Important fields:

• name;
• short name;
• address;
• postal code;
• city;
• country;
• capacity;
• website;
• assigned club;
• picture;
• notes.

Multiple stadiums per club

One club may have several grounds:

• main stadium;
• training ground;
• artificial turf;
• secondary pitch.

Teams can use different default stadiums.

Teams in projects

Creating a team is not enough to make it part of a competition.

Assign the team to a project:

Project → Teams

Only then can it be used in rounds, matches, standings and statistics.

Common issues

If a team is not available when creating a match, it is probably not assigned to the project.

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