Enter or paste 3–24 teams, choose single or double round robin, and assign courts and match times. Your schedule updates immediately. Print or export it free, with no signup.
Six teams produce five rounds of three matches: 15 games in total. On two courts, each round needs two playing slots. At 20 minutes per slot, that is 200 minutes of playing time before breaks. With three courts, all three games in a round can run together, reducing playing time to 100 minutes. Allow extra time for rest, check-in and delays; changing the number of courts does not change how many games each team plays.
Choose Save & manage this league above to keep the teams and matchups you have already generated. Your draft survives sign-in in this browser tab. Choose your club, confirm the event, then manage results, standings and playoffs. Publish after reviewing the readiness checklist and share a public schedule that each team can filter and add to its calendar.
The circle method is the standard way to build a round robin schedule. Picture one team fixed in place while every other team sits around a circle. Each round, the circle rotates one position, pairing up new opponents until everyone has faced everyone else. With an odd number of teams, a placeholder "bye" seat joins the circle — whichever team lands on it sits out that round. This is exactly what the generator above does automatically, and it also alternates who's listed as home and away so no team gets stuck on one side all season.
A single round robin has every team play every other team exactly once. A double round robin plays that same schedule twice, with home and away reversed the second time — like a normal sports league's home-and-away split. Double round robin doubles your total games and gives a more reliable ranking of teams, but it also doubles the time and court space you'll need.
| Teams | Rounds | Total Games (Single) | Total Games (Double) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| 6 | 5 | 15 | 30 |
| 7 | 7 | 21 | 42 |
| 8 | 7 | 28 | 56 |
| 9 | 9 | 36 | 72 |
| 10 | 9 | 45 | 90 |
Round robin guarantees every team plays the same number of games and produces the fairest overall ranking, but it takes far more games than single elimination — a 10-team round robin needs 45 games versus just 9 for a single-elimination bracket of the same size. Use round robin for small fields (3-8 teams), league play, or pool play stages. Use single elimination when you have more teams and less time. Many tournaments combine both: round robin pool play to seed teams, followed by a single elimination bracket. See our pool play bracket guide for the full walkthrough.
Add more courts or fields to shrink your event's total time — with 2 courts, each round's games run in parallel instead of back-to-back. Build in a short buffer between rounds so teams and refs have time to reset, and if you're running a double round robin, consider spacing the two legs across different days or sessions rather than back-to-back so the rematches feel fresh.
If you're planning a whole season rather than a single event, set a start date and frequency in the options above, or use our league schedule maker to put real dates on every round from the start.
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