Leave a game and late withdrawals

Things come up. The best thing you can do for your game is free your spot early, so someone on the reserve list can take it.

Leave a game

1. Open the game from Up next in Home or from your Joined tab.
2. Tap Leave Event and confirm.
3. That's it. If there's a reserve list, the next player moves into your spot and gets notified.

Co-admins stay co-admins after leaving as a player. If you're the only admin, assign another admin first or delete the game.

Late withdrawals

Leaving a game 3 hours before kickoff is the single most damaging thing in pickup sports, so Xsporty records it. From 12 hours before kickoff until 30 minutes after the game ends, leaving opens a sheet: Leaving 3h before kickoff. You can add a reason — Injury, Illness, Work, Family, Transport or Other — and a short note, then tap Leave anyway.

What happens next:

• The event chat gets a line: "{name} left the event — 3h before kickoff", and you get a receipt in your inbox.
• After the game, the players who were left short see your exit, your reason and whether the reserve list refilled your spot. They can rate how it was handled — Fair enough or Left us short — and only your Responsibility rating is affected. Nothing is sent unless someone chooses to rate it.
• A player with a broken ankle or a sick child is not unreliable, and teammates can see that. Adding a reason helps.

Organizers who remove a player for not showing up or for behavior go through the same step, and the squad can rate that too. See Rate players after a game.

If you paid

Refunds follow the organizer's policy, usually in the event description. Many organizers refund if someone from the reserve list takes your spot and don't refund last-minute drop-outs. Leave as early as you can — a spot that gets refilled is the one most likely to be refunded — and message the organizer in the event chat. See Pay for a game.