Knockout bracket generator
Enter your teams in seeded order and get the whole bracket, from the first round to the final.
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Put your teams in and press generate. The whole competition appears here, and you can take it away as a CSV.
How this works
Teams are paired first against last: the top seed meets the bottom one, the second meets the second-bottom, and so on, so the two strongest can only meet in the final. If the number of teams is not a power of two the shortfall becomes byes, and the best-placed teams are the ones who skip the first round — which is what a real cup does with an awkward entry list. Every later round is shown with its slots empty, so the shape of the competition is visible before a ball is kicked.
Questions
What if I do not have a power of two?
Who gets the byes?
How many matches is a knockout?
Why is the first round called the quarter-final when only four teams play?
Run it as a real competition
This is the same fixture engine Dawrify uses. In the app the schedule comes with live scoring, a standings table that sorts itself, player statistics, matchday graphics and a public page for every team — and the fixtures are the ones you just generated.
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