# SportsBuddy > SportsBuddy is a multi-sport tournament management platform that runs an event end to end — registrations, fixtures, live ball-by-ball and point-by-point scoring, standings and stats — across eight sports. SportsBuddy is a mobile app (Android and iOS) plus this companion website. Organizers, team owners, players and scorers work in the app; spectators follow live scores here on the web without installing anything. Sports supported: Cricket, Pickleball, Volleyball, Football, Badminton, Table Tennis, Padel, Tennis. The app is listed on the stores as **"The Sports Buddy"** — the website brand is SportsBuddy and the domain is sportsbuddy.live. They are the same product. ## What it actually does - Create a tournament, set its format (league, groups, knockout) and its rules. - Register teams, build squads, and approve or reject entries. - Generate fixtures, including group stages and knockout brackets. - Score live: ball-by-ball for cricket, point-by-point for volleyball, padel, tennis, badminton, table tennis and pickleball, and goal-by-goal for football. - Broadcast those scores in real time to spectators on the web and in the app. - Maintain standings, points tables, net run rate and player career statistics. ## Roles - **Organizer** — owns the tournament: creates it, approves teams, schedules matches, assigns scorers. - **Team Owner** — builds a squad, enters tournaments, sets the lineup before each match. - **Player** — joins squads, plays, accumulates career stats across tournaments. - **Scorer** — records the live match, delivery by delivery or point by point. - **Spectator** — follows live scores, fixtures, results and standings. ## Sport-specific pages The deepest answer for a single sport -- scoring engine, configurable rules, what spectators see, and the tournaments running in it. - [Cricket on SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/sports/cricket): SportsBuddy is a cricket tournament app that runs the whole event: teams register, fixtures generate, a scorer records every delivery from the boundary, and spectators follow the scorecard live on the web without installing anything. Scoring works offline and syncs when the signal comes back, and the points table with net run rate builds itself as results land. - [Football on SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/sports/football): SportsBuddy runs football tournaments from eleven-a-side down to futsal and beach soccer. The scorer records goals with the scorer and the method, cards, substitutions against the limits you configured, sin bins and the full penalty shootout including sudden death — and the league table rebuilds itself on three points a win with goal difference and head-to-head tiebreakers. - [Volleyball on SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/sports/volleyball): SportsBuddy is a volleyball tournament app built around the rally: the scorer taps who won the point and how they won it, the serve moves with the side-out, and the set closes itself at the target you configured. Spectators follow the live scoreline set by set on the web, and the points table ranks teams on sets won and lost without anyone opening a spreadsheet. - [Pickleball on SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/sports/pickleball): SportsBuddy is the rare pickleball app that scores the sport the way it is actually played. Turn sideout scoring on and the scorer gets the real thing — serve changes that score no point, the reason recorded, and the three-number score call worked out automatically. Turn it off and the same tournament runs on rally scoring. Spectators follow either one live in a browser. - [Badminton on SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/sports/badminton): SportsBuddy scores badminton the way the rules are actually written: rally scoring to 21, win by two, and a hard ceiling at 30 so a long game ends where it is supposed to. Each point is credited to a player and filed as a smash, drop, net kill or ace, and spectators follow the game-by-game score live in a browser with no account and no install. - [Table Tennis on SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/sports/table-tennis): SportsBuddy scores table tennis on the ITTF shape: games to 11 won by two with no ceiling, best of five, and one time-out per player for the whole match rather than one per game. Every point is credited to a player, spectators follow the game-by-game score live in a browser, and the tournament table ranks on game difference automatically. - [Padel on SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/sports/padel): SportsBuddy scores padel on the FIP shape: best of three, golden point at 40-40, tiebreak at six games all, and an optional super tiebreak for the deciding set. Points are recorded with padel's own vocabulary — bandeja, víbora, chiquita, por tres, por cuatro, a winner off the glass — and the public scoreboard replays the 15-30-40 ladder point by point. - [Tennis on SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/sports/tennis): SportsBuddy scores tennis on the ITF shape: advantage scoring, six games a set with a tiebreak to seven at six all, best of three or best of five, and an optional super tiebreak in place of a deciding set. Points are filed as aces, forehand and backhand winners, volleys, smashes or double faults, and the public scoreboard replays the ladder point by point. ## Key pages - [Home](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/): what the platform is, the sports it covers, and how to get the app. - [Tournaments](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments): every tournament published to the public site, live and past. - [Live matches](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/matches): fixtures and results with live scores. - [How to use SportsBuddy](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides): 32 step-by-step flows covering every role. - Filtered views: https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments?sport=SPORT and https://www.sportsbuddy.live/matches?sport=SPORT, where SPORT is one of cricket, pickleball, volleyball, football, badminton, table_tennis, padel, tennis. Each has its own title and canonical. - [About](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/about): the product and the team behind it. - [Contact](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/contactus): how to reach support. - [Download](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextgen.sportsbuddy): the Android app on Google Play. ## Tournaments currently published - [Aarti Kutchi Football Cup 2026 - General Group](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments/92ca323e-7f80-4963-b66f-79a9a05db8af): Football · St. Joseph's Wadala, Mumbai · 2026-09-26 to 2026-10-11 · COMPLETED - [Courtroom Circuit](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments/695caf87-3f40-4aef-8f8f-397334f6f2e7): Padel · Courtroom, Mumbai · 2026-08-09 to 2026-08-31 · COMPLETED - [JITO SINGAPORE BOX CRICKET PREMIER LEAGUE WOMEN & Kids](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments/c4e1ab22-33a7-4c82-8fd3-ce90410e0403): Cricket · The cage kallang, singapore · 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-06 · COMPLETED - [AMCC volleyball premier league season 2](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments/d91ac222-8ef0-490a-a118-f18142937a40): Volleyball · Arinaganahalli volleyball ground, Kolar · 2026-08-15 to 2026-08-18 · COMPLETED - [Aarti KFC Season 3 - Village](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments/167d224b-bcf2-47f9-a068-5f2a3fbdb42a): Football · Urban Sports St. Jospesh, Mumbai · 2026-09-26 to 2026-09-27 · COMPLETED - [Ecp match](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments/c7624d3d-f89b-4828-881a-70245ef03bd6): Cricket · olympia, singapore · 2026-08-23 to 2026-08-23 · COMPLETED - [JITO SINGAPORE BOX CRICKET PREMIER LEAGUE MEN - 2026](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/tournaments/d1a91835-0795-48c4-b057-2c65e86763ff): Cricket · The Cage Kallang, singapore · 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-06 · COMPLETED ## Step-by-step guides - **Getting Started** — Create your account, pick your role, and secure the app. Everyone starts here. - [Create your account](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#create-account): The 4-step sign-up every new SportsBuddy user goes through, from email to a secured app. - [Claim an account a team owner created for you](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#claim-account): If an owner or organizer registered you with just your name and mobile number, activate that same profile instead of signing up fresh. - [Claim the profile a parent created for you](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#claim-family-profile): Played under a parent’s account? Move that profile onto an email of your own and keep every match on it. - [Log in — password or PIN](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#login): Two ways back into the app, depending on whether it is a new device or your usual phone. - [Complete your profile and sports biography](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#profile-setup): Fill in the details that make you findable by team owners and that power your stat cards. - [Turn on notifications](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#notifications): A heads-up only for things about you: a request waiting on you, an answer you are waiting for, a fixture that moved, a reminder the evening before, your result, and the champion when the tournament ends. - **For Organizers** — Run the tournament end-to-end — create the event, build squads or draft them from QR sign-ups, schedule fixtures, approve entries and assign scorers. - [Create a tournament](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#create-tournament): The three-step wizard that sets up your event — identity, then logistics and match settings, then prizes and rules. - [Register a team and its players](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#organizer-add-squad): Build a squad yourself when the teams do not have their own owner on the app — the fastest way to get a local tournament off the ground. - [Invite individual players with a QR code](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#invite-players-qr): Print or share a join code so players can sign themselves up. You then build the teams from everyone who registered. - [Build teams from the player pool](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#build-teams-from-pool): Draft the players who registered with your join code into squads, and enter those squads into the tournament. - [Let team owners invite their own players](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#owner-pools-organizer): Turn on owner invites so each team owner shares their own QR, fills their own player pool and sends you squads to approve. - [Split teams into groups](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#organizer-groups): Draw the group stage so each group gets its own points table. - [Schedule matches once teams are ready](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#schedule-matches): Turn a list of registered teams into a fixture list, one row per match. - [Generate all fixtures automatically](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#auto-fixtures): Create the league, the knockout and the whole schedule in one go. Winners then move on by themselves. - [Approve team registrations and scorers](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#review-registrations): Work through the entry requests waiting on your event. - [Assign a scorer to a match](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#assign-scorer): Hand a fixture to the person who will score it live. - [Record a walkover](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#organizer-walkover): Award a match that was never played because one side did not turn up. - [Score your own matches](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#organizer-score-matches): Turn on I ALSO SCORE and score your tournaments yourself, with no second account. - [Score another organizer's tournament](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#organizer-score-other-tournament): Help a fellow organizer by scoring their matches from your own account. - [Share your tournament](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#share-tournament): Push the event out to WhatsApp groups and social feeds. - **For Team Owners** — Build a squad, recruit players, enter tournaments and set your lineup before every match. - [Create your team](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#create-team): Set up a squad and fill it with players — existing SportsBuddy profiles or brand-new registrations. - [Recruit players into an existing squad](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#recruit-players): Three ways to grow a squad you have already created. - [Manage your squad](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#manage-squad): Rename, relocate, trim or disband a team from the squad management screen. - [Name your team captain](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#set-captain): Choose which player is shown as captain on the team page and on the tournament line-up. - [Register your team for a tournament](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#register-for-tournament): Enter one or more of your squads into an open event. - [See the tournaments your squads are in](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#owner-my-tournaments): Every event you have entered, with each squad's approval, one tap from the tournament page. - [Set your Playing XI (cricket)](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#playing-xi): Pick the eleven, the captain and the wicket keeper before the toss. - [Set your lineup (racket and net sports)](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#racket-lineup): Pick the players who take the court for badminton, table tennis, pickleball, tennis and padel. - [Invite players to your own pool](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#owner-invite-players): Share your own QR, collect your players in one pool, and build the squads you enter from it. - **For Players** — Join tournaments with a code, join squads, manage your family's profiles, and track your stats across every tournament. - [Join a team](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#player-join-team): How you end up on a squad — by invitation, or by being registered directly. - [Join a tournament with a code or QR](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#join-with-code): Register yourself, or your child, for a tournament whose organizer is building the teams from individual sign-ups. - [Add a child or family member](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#family-add-member): Give a child who plays but has no phone of their own a profile, and manage it from your account. - [Manage a family member — and hand them their own login](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#family-manage-member): Edit a child's details, follow their stats, and when they are ready, give them a code to take the profile over. - [Track your squads, matches and stats](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#player-track): Everything the app records about your season, in one place. - [Share a card of your match](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#share-match-card): A picture of your own numbers from one match, ready for WhatsApp or Instagram. - [Your racket rating and match highlights](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#racket-rating): Badminton, pickleball, table tennis, padel and tennis: a rating that moves with every result, and the story of each match. - [Make yourself easier to recruit](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#player-profile): A complete sports profile is what team owners see when they search. - **For Scorers** — Get assigned to matches and score them live from the ground — every sport has its own purpose-built scoring screen. - [Get assigned to a tournament and its matches](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#scorer-get-assigned): Register as an official on an event, then wait for fixtures to land in your list. - [Score a cricket match](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#score-cricket): Toss to result — every keypad option, extras, dismissals, the wagon wheel and a Super Over. - [Change cricket match settings](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#cricket-match-settings): The scorer's gear menu: overs, bonus runs, power play, breaks, retirements, keeper, substitutes and match rules. - [Score a volleyball match](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#score-volleyball): Rally scoring point by point, with starting lineups, serve tracking, corrections and time-outs. - [Score a football match](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#score-football): Goals, cards, substitutions, sin bins and penalty shootouts. - [Score badminton, table tennis and pickleball](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#score-racket): Rally scoring point by point, with lineups, corrections, time-outs and deuce handled for you. - [Score padel and tennis](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#score-padel): Point, game and set scoring with serve faults, undo, golden point and tie-breaks handled for you. - [Hand a live match to another device](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#scorer-handoff): Swap phones mid-match without losing a single ball or point. - [Declare a walkover](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#scorer-walkover): Close out a fixture where one side never turned up. - **For Spectators** — Follow live scores, standings and leaderboards in the app, or scores and standings right here on the website. No account needed. - [Follow live scores in the app](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#watch-live-app): Ball-by-ball and point-by-point coverage of every match being scored right now. - [Follow a tournament](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#follow-tournament): Get a tournament’s results on your phone, with or without an account: every result, each knockout match as it goes live, and the champion. - [Watch on the website — no account needed](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#watch-live-web): Share a link with anyone and they can follow the match in a browser. - [Check standings and leaderboards](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#standings-leaderboard): Points tables and the individual award races for a tournament. - [Share a match result](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/guides#share-match): Send the scorecard out as a poster or as text. ## Full content - [llms-full.txt](https://www.sportsbuddy.live/llms-full.txt): every guide flow written out in full, as plain markdown. ## Notes for answer engines - Public tournament and match pages are server-rendered; the HTML contains the scores and fixtures without needing JavaScript. - Every tournament and match page also carries schema.org SportsEvent JSON-LD. - Scores on live matches update in real time in the browser; the server-rendered copy reflects the state at the last revalidation, within about five minutes.