To add or modify a league, you must be a Community Administrator.
1. Scroll down to 'What would you like to create' section and click the Create League button
2. Insert the name of your league (e.g. Men’s Football 11s) and the start date of your League. You can also optionally add an image, provide end date and description too. The league end date will prevent fixtures and results from being entered beyond this date. Then Click Continue.
3. Input the scoring settings for your league and the order to separate teams equal on points.
4. The next section lets you select whether you wish to have a goals column (and goal difference) visible or hidden. Click Continue.
5. Choose whether to add a linked knockout stage if certain positions will qualify for a knockout tournament and click Continue.
6. In the 'Choose how you would like to populate your league' setting, we suggest choosing 'Build manually' to give you greater control of the teams to be entered, by performing team registration away from BUCS Play.
If you want your students to enter teams themselves, select 'Take entries'. You can then set a team entry deadline, limit the number of teams, and collect payments using Stripe (Click here for further information on payments).
7. Click Add Team on the left side of the page (for further information on how to create teams, click here)
Search for the teams you wish to include in this League. You can search by the Team Type (e.g. Men’s Football 11s) to speed up this process.
Find the correct teams and click them. Once all the teams have been selected, click Add.
8. Drag the teams from the left side of the page into the dashed area marked Division 1.
11. Add or rename the divisions of your league (e.g. 1A and 1B) if needed. You will also be able to choose if each team will play each other twice or not.
12. Select the Fixtures tab with the flashing red dot.
13. From the fixtures page you have 2 options:
- Select each fixture tile and manually add in a fixture date, time, and venue.
OR
- Select Auto Generate Fixtures settings ((our recommendation). This will auto generate the fixtures for your league based on the settings that you populate. You can change the frequency, start date, day played and dates to exclude (such as holidays and exam weeks) for the auto generation of your fixtures.
14. Once fixtures have been added, select Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
15. Scroll up and select Start League, and then Continue.
This will bring up the league Page. Here you can view the league table, fixtures, and results. You can edit the league settings by selecting the Settings Cog in the top right corner.
16. If you wish to make use of team sheets to track which participants are playing in each fixture, click the calendar icon in the top right corner to publish to team calendar.
Set the minimum and maximum number of players allowed in the team sheet per team, and the remaining settings.
Click Publish.