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Product Changelog

See what we've been building. This page covers the notable new features, improvements and fixes — not every small change we make behind the scenes.

v3.4.0 — Stats you can actually read, and every sport in its own words

September 4, 2026

The app now uses your sport's own vocabulary everywhere instead of generic wording, and player and team statistics have been rebuilt so they're readable on a phone.

Feature

Every sport in its own words

Screens now use the language of the sport you actually play. Football talks about goals and matches, darts about legs and checkouts, golf about holes — instead of one set of generic wording for everybody.

Improvement

A statistics grid that fits your phone

Player and team stats have been rebuilt as a clear grid you can read on a mobile, rather than a wide table you had to scroll sideways to follow.

Improvement

A demo worth showing people

The demo account now contains a realistic season that has actually been played, so you can see what the app looks like in use instead of an empty shell.

Fix

Calendar times now match your kick-off times

Fixtures added to a phone or desktop calendar could appear at the wrong time for some people. A 7:30pm start now shows as 7:30pm.

v3.3.0 — Golf

August 27, 2026

Golf joins the list of sports you can run a competition in, played as match play.

Feature

Golf, played as match play

Set up a golf league or cup and score it hole by hole. Holes are won, lost or halved, and a match finishes the moment a player is further ahead than there are holes left to play — exactly as it does on the course.

v3.2.0 — Cups that behave themselves

August 23, 2026

A run of work on knockout and Swiss cups: entrants can now pull out mid-competition, seeded draws are spread properly, and several ways a cup could get stuck have been closed off.

Feature

Withdraw from a cup that has already started

An entrant who drops out part-way through no longer leaves the draw broken. Withdraw them and the remaining rounds are worked out around them.

Feature

The winner shown at the top of a finished cup

A completed cup now shows the winner and runner-up straight away, instead of leaving you to read it off the bracket.

Feature

Live scoring shown on the status page

The status page now checks the live-scoring connection itself, so you can tell at a glance whether real-time updates are working.

Fix

Seeded teams spread across the draw

Seeds were being placed down one side of the bracket, so the strongest entrants could meet far too early. They are now spread out properly, and the top two can only meet in the final.

Fix

Cups with an odd number of entrants no longer stall

A knockout cup where somebody got a bye could reach a round that never finished. It now progresses correctly to the next round.

Fix

No repeat pairings in a Swiss draw

Two entrants could be drawn against each other twice in the same Swiss competition. Each pairing now happens at most once.

Fix

Dark mode on three more screens

Three pages offered a dark mode but always rendered light. They now follow the theme you have chosen.

v3.1.0 — Padel, bulk imports and safer uploads

August 19, 2026

Padel arrives as a fully supported sport, adding a roster is now a spreadsheet upload rather than a typing job, and every photo uploaded is checked before it is stored.

Feature

Padel

Run a padel league, cup or social session. Registered pairs, rubbers and a proper scorecard, with golden point, tie-breaks and championship tie-breaks — plus Americano and Mexicano formats where partners rotate through the session.

Feature

Add your whole roster from a spreadsheet

Upload a list of players and the app adds them for you rather than you typing them in one at a time. If the upload is interrupted, you can pick it up where it stopped instead of starting over.

Feature

Group stages played over matchdays

A cup group stage can now be run as a series of matchdays spread over several weeks, rather than everything being played in one go.

Feature

A proper double-elimination final

You can now choose to give the team coming through the losers' bracket the chance to win two finals, as the format is meant to be played.

Feature

Choose the gap between rounds

Tell the app how much time to leave between rounds when it builds your schedule, instead of fixtures landing back to back.

Feature

Say what a suspension actually covers

When you issue a ban, choose whether it applies to one competition, to everything at one club, or across the board — rather than everyone guessing.

Improvement

Uploads are scanned before they are stored

Every photo and file uploaded is now checked for viruses first, and the list of allowed file types is enforced properly rather than only being suggested in the browser.

Improvement

Dead email addresses stop being retried

When an address bounces repeatedly, the app now notices and stops sending to it. That keeps our mail reputation healthy so everybody else's notifications keep arriving.

v3.0.0 — A directory for finding a competition to join

August 14, 2026

Players and teams can now find you. Public leagues and cups looking for entrants appear in a searchable directory, and individual players finally get a home screen of their own.

Feature

Competition directory

A browsable, searchable list of public leagues and cups that are looking for players or teams. People can find your competition and ask to join, instead of waiting for you to invite them.

Feature

Captains can enter a whole team

Found a league in the directory? A captain can put their entire team forward in one go, rather than only entering themselves.

Feature

A dashboard for individual players

Players who compete as themselves rather than for a team now get a proper home screen showing their next fixtures, recent form and the competitions they are in.

Feature

Choose your own tiebreakers

Decide how teams level on points are separated — head-to-head record, difference, matches won — in whatever order your competition rules actually say.

Feature

Withdraw a team mid-season

When a team drops out halfway through, withdraw them properly. The table and the remaining fixtures are adjusted rather than left in a broken state.

Improvement

Better tools for our support team

New internal screens for reviewing security activity and for retrying anything that failed in the background, so problems are spotted and fixed before you notice them.

v2.9.0 — Team management, and a serious tightening up

August 8, 2026

Team captains get a dashboard of their own with per-member permissions, setting up how your sport is scored gets much quicker, and a broad security review closed several issues.

Feature

Team admin panel

Captains now have their own dashboard covering members, guest players, statistics, the competitions the team is in, and team settings.

Feature

Give specific jobs to specific people

Hand one person the ability to enter results and another the ability to manage the squad, without giving everybody full control of the team.

Feature

Proper team profiles

The team page is now a full profile — squad, recent form, upcoming fixtures and competition history in one place.

Feature

Quick setup for scoring formats

Setting up how your sport is scored no longer means working through a long form. Pick a ready-made format or build one a step at a time.

Feature

Coin toss and bull-up

Decide and record who throws or breaks first, the way you already do it on the night.

Improvement

Moving to a smaller plan no longer costs you anything

If you switch to a smaller plan, nothing is deleted and any season already under way finishes normally. You are simply prevented from starting something new until you are back within the plan.

Fix

Security fixes

We closed a way for unwanted content to be placed on a public league page, added stronger protection against repeated password guessing, and made sure sign-in sessions are only ever sent over a secure connection.

v2.8.0 — Set up a competition in minutes, and one place to run it

July 31, 2026

A guided wizard takes you from nothing to a competition ready to play, and every admin setting for a league or cup now lives in a single dashboard.

Feature

Quick Start wizard

Answer a handful of plain questions and the app creates your league or cup, sets up the divisions, builds the fixtures and sends the invitations. Nothing to a playable competition in a few minutes.

Feature

League admin panel

Every league and season setting now sits in one dashboard, opening on an overview page that tells you what needs your attention — missing results, unconfirmed fixtures, players still to accept.

Feature

Cup admin panel

The same for cups. Entrants, rounds, the draw, venues and settings, all in one place instead of scattered across the app.

Feature

Cleaner pages for players and fans

Separate season and cup pages for everyone who is not running the competition, showing the table, fixtures and results without admin controls in the way.

v2.7.0 — Announcements, and bringing an existing season with you

July 24, 2026

Joining part-way through a season no longer means starting again, results can be entered by hand if that suits you better, and you can now message your members directly.

Feature

Bring a season that has already started

Signing up in February with half a season already played? Enter the teams, players, fixtures and results so far and the app works the tables out from them. You do not have to wait for next season to begin.

Feature

Enter results by hand

Prefer to keep score on paper and type in the final result? Any league or cup can be run that way, without recording every leg, frame or set as it happens.

Feature

Announcements to your members

Send a message that appears as a banner in the app, as an email, or as a notification on their phone. Narrow it down so it only reaches the people it actually affects.

Feature

Email everyone in your season

League admins can email everyone taking part in the current season straight from the admin panel, with replies coming back to you rather than to us.

Feature

Who is available on match night?

Players can mark themselves available or unavailable for a fixture, so captains know who they have got before they turn up.

Improvement

Rewritten help guides

Seven new guides and four rewritten ones, covering the parts of the app that had moved on since they were written.

v2.6.0 — Notifications on your phone, and easier sharing

July 14, 2026

Fixture reminders and results can now reach you as a notification on your phone, and every invite or public page has a short link and a share button built in.

Feature

Notifications on your phone

Fixture reminders, result confirmations and cup draws can now arrive as a notification on your phone or desktop. Choose exactly which ones you want, and turn any device off without affecting the others.

Feature

Add it to your home screen

The app can be installed to your phone home screen and opened like any other app, with no app store or download involved.

Feature

Short links and share buttons

Invites and public pages now come with a share button and a short, tidy link that is easy to paste into a WhatsApp group without filling half the message.

Feature

Scan to join

The big-screen match display shows a QR code that players can scan with their phone camera to sign up on the spot.

Feature

Cup statistics and leaderboards

Cups now record player statistics the same way leagues always have, each with their own leaderboards.

Improvement

Records survive when somebody leaves

When a player closes their account, the fixtures, results and history they were part of stay exactly as they were. Their name simply shows as a former member rather than the page breaking.

v2.5.0 — Invite-only rollout and early access

June 21, 2026

We're opening the doors gradually while we scale up. New sign-ups can request early access, and approved requests get a personal invite code by email.

Feature

Early access requests

Submit your name, email and sport on the early access page to be considered for an invite while we are in invite-only mode.

Improvement

Team invites always work

An invitation to join a team skips the invite-only gate entirely. Being invited by a team is always enough to get in.

v2.4.0 — Printable sheets, stream overlays and embeds

June 20, 2026

A batch of tools for organisers who run events on-site or stream them: print-ready match sheets, a live overlay for streaming, embeddable standings for your own website, and season photo galleries.

Feature

Printable match sheets

Generate a print-ready sheet for any fixture, with participants, venue, matchup slots and a signatures row — handy as a paper backup on match night.

Feature

Live stream scorebar

A see-through live score graphic for any match that updates itself. Add it straight to your stream in OBS or another streaming app.

Feature

Embed your league on your own website

Copy a small piece of code to show live standings and upcoming fixtures for any public league directly on your club website.

Improvement

Season photo galleries

Teams and league admins can upload match-night photos to a gallery for the season, resized and optimised automatically.

v2.3.0 — Promotion and relegation between seasons

June 14, 2026

A much-requested feature for anyone running a multi-division league: teams can now move up and down between seasons automatically, based on rules you set once.

Feature

Automatic promotion and relegation

Set how many teams go up and down in each division — top two up, bottom two down, or whatever your rules say. When you start a new season, choose to carry the previous one forward and the movement is applied for you.

Improvement

Change it before you commit

League admins can drag teams between divisions and override any placement before confirming and locking in the new season line-up.

v2.2.0 — Public portals and your own branding

June 13, 2026

Custom themes and branding for your public league pages, so fans and sponsors see something that looks like your competition rather than ours.

Feature

Portal themes: Stadium and Esports

Switch your public pages between Default, Stadium (sleek card panels) or Esports (high-contrast dark with neon accents).

Feature

Sponsor banners

Upload and position sponsor banners across your standings tables and portal headers, so your competition can earn from its own pages.

Improvement

Full white-labelling on Pro and Enterprise

Turn off our branding, add your own favicon, and use your own web address such as portal.yourleague.com.

v2.1.0 — Live scoring, as it happens

June 6, 2026

Score matches leg by leg or frame by frame, with the result appearing instantly for players, fans and on your public pages.

Feature

Live scoring

Big, mobile-friendly buttons for whoever is keeping score on the night — dart throws, checkouts, pool frames — with everything updating live for anyone watching.

Feature

Guest scoring by link

Create a temporary, secure link that lets someone enter scores without signing up for an account at all.

v2.0.0 — Knockout cups and tournament brackets

May 28, 2026

Full tournament support arrives. Create cups, choose the structure — single elimination, double elimination or group stage — and draw the fixtures.

Feature

Automatic bracket generator

Build and display a standard knockout tree, with byes handled for you when the number of entrants does not divide neatly.

Improvement

Plate cups for early exits

One click gathers everyone knocked out in round one and creates a second consolation bracket, so nobody has a wasted night.