Play in a tournament

Pickup games are the everyday of Xsporty. Tournaments are the big days: many teams, matchdays, a table, a bracket and a champion. Here's how they work for players.

Find a tournament

• Home: the Tournaments strip above the game feed shows every listed tournament. Each card shows its status — Upcoming, Live or Finished.
• Joined: once you're on a team, the tournament appears in a Tournaments section at the top of your Joined tab.
• Links: organizers share tournaments with a short link. Opening it shows the tournament page, even before you sign in.

Tap Follow on any tournament to get results and podium notifications without being on a team.

Join a team

1. Open the tournament and tap Join tournament (open admission) or Request to join (approval required).
2. Pick your team. You always enter a tournament as part of a team. Choose an existing team, or — when the organizer allows it — Create a new team and name it.
3. Join as a Player, Captain or Coach. A captain plays and approves the team's players. A coach approves players but never plays. Each team has one of each.
4. Wait for approval. Joining an existing team sends a request to its captain or coach; captain, coach and new-team requests go to the organizer. Founding a new team seats you right away as its captain.

Until you're approved the button reads Cancel request. After that it reads Leave tournament — you can leave and rejoin while registration is open. When the organizer locks registration, nobody can join or leave.

Invitations

• Team invite link. A captain, coach or organizer can send you a link. Open it, tap Join {team} and you're on the roster — the link is the approval.
• In-app invitation. You get a notification and the tournament appears in Joined with a banner: You're invited to play for {team}. Tap Accept.
• Captain or coach invite. The organizer can invite you to lead a team: You're invited to lead {team} as {role}. Accept and you'll approve that team's players.

A seat can be refused if the team is full or locked, registration has closed, or you're already on another team.

The team fee

Tournament fees are per team and are collected by the organizer outside the app — look under Payment options on the tournament page. Your team card shows Entry fee paid or Entry fee pending, and the app reminds the team until the organizer marks it paid.

Matches

Every match is a regular Xsporty game, hidden from Home and shown in your Joined tab with a Tournament badge. The roster is set by the tournament, so there's no join or leave on a match — but the match chat and reminders work like any game.

• Games tab: every match by stage — group stage matchdays, then quarter-finals, semi-finals, 3rd place and the final.
• Table tab: standings per group (points, played, wins, draws, losses, goals for and against, goal difference) and the bracket.
• Ranking tab: scorers, assists, cards, goalkeepers by clean sheets, and best players by MVP count.

A referee files each result. After the final whistle you vote for the match MVP as usual, within the tournament's voting window (up to 24 hours). Every match counts toward your games played, record and goals like any game. See Rate players and vote for the MVP.

Chats and awards

Every tournament has a Tournament chat for all players, admins and referees, plus a Team chat for your team. When the tournament ends, the Final standings are posted and pushed to every player and follower: Champions, Runners-up, Third place, Tournament MVP, Top scorer and Best keeper. Your profile header gets a Tournament record with tournaments played, titles and tournament MVPs.