Creating a tournament

How to set up a new tournament as an organizer or administrator.

Only users with the Organizer or Administrator role can create tournaments. Once created, a tournament is visible to teams that match its sport so they can enroll.

Before you start

• You must be logged in as an Organizer or Administrator.
• Decide which sport the tournament is for — all enrolled teams must play the same sport.
• Choose a tournament format before you create it. Sport and format cannot be changed after creation.

Creation workflow

1. Navigate to the creation form

   Go to /torneo/crear/. Organizers are taken here from their dashboard; Administrators can reach it from the admin panel.

2. Fill in the basic details

   Complete the required fields:

   Field	Description
   Nombre del Torneo	Tournament name, up to 100 characters.
   Descripción	Optional free-text description of the tournament.
   Número máximo de equipos	Maximum number of teams that can enroll.
   Deporte	Sport: Fútbol, Baloncesto, or Pádel.
   Tipo de Torneo	Format: Liga, Eliminatoria, or Eliminatoria con Fase de Grupos.

   If you are an Administrator (not an Organizer), you will also see an Organizador field to assign the tournament to a specific organizer.

3. Configure format-specific options

   Depending on the format you selected, additional fields appear:

   Liga — optionally configure playoffs and relegation (see below).

   Eliminatoria — no extra fields. The bracket depth is determined automatically from the number of enrolled teams (up to 5 rounds: Dieciseisavos → Final).

   Eliminatoria con Fase de Grupos — two extra required fields:

   • Número de grupos (1–32): how many groups teams are divided into. The maximum number of teams must be exactly divisible by this value so all groups have equal size.
   • Clasificados por grupo: how many teams from each group advance to the knockout bracket. The total number of qualifiers (n_grupos × clasificados_por_grupo) must be between 2 and 32.
4. Configure Liga playoffs and relegation (Liga only)

   For Liga tournaments you can enable two optional end-of-season features:

   Play-offs

   • Check Play-offs to have the top N teams play a knockout bracket at the end of the league.
   • Enter the number of teams in Número de equipos en play-offs (2–32, must not exceed the maximum teams).

   Descenso

   • Check Descenso to mark the bottom N teams as relegated.
   • Enter the count in Número de equipos en descenso (must not exceed the maximum teams).

   If both playoffs and relegation are enabled, the combined count (n_equipos_playoffs + n_equipos_descenso) cannot exceed the maximum number of teams.

5. Submit

   Click Guardar. On success you are redirected to your dashboard. The tournament is now open for team enrollment.

Sport-specific considerations

Fútbol

• Draws are allowed. The standings award 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.
• Player statistics tracked: goals (goles) and assists (asistencias).
• One goalkeeper (portero) per squad can be designated — that player accumulates goals-against statistics.
• Maximum 11 players per side on the field, but squad size in the system is not capped.

Baloncesto

• No draws. The standings award 2 points for a win and 1 point for a loss.
• Player statistics tracked: points (puntos), rebounds (rebotes), and assists (asistencias).
• Every player in the squad is tracked individually across matches.

Pádel

• No draws. Matches are decided by sets (up to 3 sets tracked per match).
• The standings award 1 point for a win and 0 points for a loss.
• In Pádel, the players themselves constitute the team — there is no separate player roster to manage.

Editing a tournament

After creation, an Organizer or Administrator can update the tournament’s name, description, max teams, and Liga settings from the tournament’s information page at /torneo/<id>/informacion/.

Deporte and Tipo de Torneo are locked after creation and cannot be edited.