Setting Up Venues and Scheduling

Pitch Planner can automatically assign your matches to venues and time slots. Here’s how to set it up.

Adding venues

1. Open your tournament and go to the Venues tab
2. Click Add Venue
3. Enter the venue name (e.g. “Main Pitch”, “Field B”) and an optional location
4. Set the venue’s available days (e.g. Saturdays only)
5. Set the time window — the earliest and latest a match can start at this venue

You can add as many venues as you need. Each venue can have its own availability schedule.

Schedule settings

Under Schedule Settings, configure:

• Start date — the first day matches can be played
• Match frequency — how many days between rounds (e.g. every 7 days for a weekly league)
• Max matches per day — limits how many games are played in a single day to avoid over-scheduling
• Rest days — minimum days a team must rest between games

Generating the schedule

Once your venues and settings are configured, click Generate Schedule. Pitch Planner will automatically:

• Distribute matches across your venues
• Respect venue availability windows
• Apply rest day and max-per-day constraints
• Assign start times within each venue’s time window

Manual adjustments

After generating the schedule, you can edit individual matches to change the venue, date, or time. The schedule generator gives you a good starting point — fine-tune from there.

Tips

• If you only have one venue, set it to available on all your match days
• You can regenerate the schedule at any time — it won’t affect results you’ve already entered
• If the scheduler can’t fit all matches within your constraints, it will place unscheduled matches at the end — you can then assign them manually