Rosters and discipline
Most tournaments run perfectly well on team names alone. Two things need players by name: a roster you publish, and a sanction you record against a person rather than a side.
Rosters
A team can carry a player list — first name, last name and an optional jersey number. Rosters are optional everywhere: a team with no players behaves exactly as it always did.
Players arrive three ways:
- With a registration. A club registering its team can add its players in the same form. Under a per-person entry fee this is not optional — each player joins and pays for their own place, so the roster is the payment list. See fees and payments.
- On the team. Added or edited from the team's page at any point.
- With an import. A private roster can be uploaded as an
.xlsxfile rather than shared as a public Google Sheet.
Turning on discipline
Settings → Schedule & format → Track player penalties switches it on. It adds a Discipline section to every match detail page and a discipline log to the Control room.
It is off by default, which is right for most youth tournaments — nobody wants to administer cards at an under-9 festival.
Recording a sanction
On a match, Record opens a short form: the player, the sanction type, an optional minute, and an optional note for context. The sanction types come from the tournament's sport, so you get the vocabulary the referees actually use:
| Sport | Sanctions |
|---|---|
| Football, futsal | Yellow card, red card |
| Handball | Yellow card, 2-minute suspension, red card, blue card |
| Basketball | Personal foul, technical foul, unsportsmanlike foul, disqualifying foul |
| Volleyball | Warning (yellow), penalty (red), expulsion, disqualification |
| Ice hockey | Minor, bench minor, double minor, major, misconduct, game misconduct, match penalty, penalty shot |
| Generic team sport | Warning, penalty, send-off |
| Taekwondo, judo | None — sanctions are not tracked |
Anything that removes a player from the fixture is badged Send-off in the list, so a glance tells you who is actually off rather than only cautioned. A sanction recorded by mistake can be removed.
The discipline log
The Control room carries the accumulated total: every sanction in the tournament, most-sanctioned player first.
This is the view you want on the Sunday morning of a weekend tournament, when someone asks whether a player is suspended for the final and the answer is currently spread across nine match cards.
Ice hockey's timed sanctions carry their length in the name — Minor (2 min) — rather than as a number FairGame adds up, so penalty minutes (PIM) are not offered as a statistic or a fair-play tiebreaker. Count them by hand if your competition rules need them.
Who can record one
Sanctions are recorded by whoever is entering the match's result — the organizer, or the assigned referee working from their own referee link. A coach entering a score for their own team can only enter the score; they cannot record sanctions or change anything else.
Recording a sanction uses the shared compact editor. Player, sanction type, optional minute and note remain available. Save and Cancel stay visible; unsaved changes require confirmation before closing. Existing roster and minute validation still apply.