Contents
Overview
A competition comprises one or more seasons. Participants who register for each season are allocated to their teams based on the fixtures for that season. PlayHQ supports three types of competitions:
- Domestic: Matches are played at venues linked to your association.
- Home and Away: Matches are played at venues associated with the home team.
- Tournament: Matches are played in a group phase, with or without pools, and include knockout finals.
For managing competition-related tasks, such as updates and amendments, use the Competition Management menu item. Each competition type includes features designed to facilitate the efficient setup and management of the competition.
Create a Competition
To create a competition, select Competition Management in the main menu on the left-hand side, then select the ‘Add Competition’ button to commence the setup process.
You can begin by selecting the Competition type and entering a Competition Name. Next, choose the appropriate Format. You will also need to set the Visibility and activate Transfers or New Player Approvals if applicable. For Home & Away competitions, a new fixture pattern will be applied to prevent three consecutive home or away games, ensuring a more balanced schedule. This pattern is specifically designed for grades with 2 to 20 teams.
Once the required fields have been completed, click ‘Next’ to proceed to the Game Default Settings, which include:
- Ladder Settings.
- Game Sheet template (for printed Game Sheet).
- Total game slot time (the total time from one game to the next).
- Period type (halves or quarters).
- Length of each period.
- Player limits (used to restrict the maximum number of players in a team's game line-up).
- Overtime.
Please note: Game default settings can be refined for each individual grade if required.
After filling out the Game default Settings, click Next and enter the Grade Default settings, which includes:
- Allow club to enter scores.
- Allow clubs to access opposition team lineup.
- Best players.
- Finals eligibility.
- Publishing lineups.
Once you are happy with the settings that are in place (these can always be edited), select the Create Competition button. A competition tile will be created on the Competition Management landing page.
Now that your competition has been configured, you can proceed to set up a Season.
Edit a Competition
To update competition details and settings, select the relevant competition tile and navigate to the Settings tab. From there, you can update the details under under the General, Game Defaults, and Grade Defaults sub-tabs.
Please note: The Competition type cannot be edited. If you would like to change this, a new competition will need to be created.
Once you have updated the information you wish to change, select ‘Update & Save’ button.
Delete a Competition
You can delete a competition by selecting the relevant Competition tile, and then selecting the Settings tab. Under the General sub-tab, you will find the option to click Delete Competition at the bottom of the page
Please note: The Delete competition function will be disabled if the Competition contains one or more Seasons.
When prompted to do so, confirm by selecting ‘Delete competition’, or ‘Cancel’ to return to the previous page.