12 Team Round Robin Schedule Generator: how it works
This 12 team round robin schedule generator builds all 66 games: 11 rounds of six, each team against the other 11 once, nobody sitting out. The example fills a day on three courts, 8:30 to 3:50. Swap in your own teams, courts and slot length.
66 games: three courts, six, and nothing in between
On the example's three courts, six games a round means two 20-minute slots: 22 in all, over at 3:50. A fourth or fifth court ends the day no sooner, because six games still need two slots. Six courts play a whole round at once and finish at 12:10; two courts need three slots a round and run to 7:30 pm.
A 12 team round robin tournament: whole field or pools
Played in full, 66 games leave no room for playoffs on three courts. Two pools of six play 15 games each: 30 games, ten slots on the same courts, done by 11:50. Three pools of four play 18 games in six slots. Then seed a bracket from the pool tables: the top two of each six make semi-finals, the top four quarter-finals.
Tips
- Press Double for home and away: 22 rounds, 132 games, and on six courts the same 22 slots the single schedule takes on three.
- Untick Random draw, press Make schedule, and odd lines of your list are at home in six of their 11 games, even lines in five. Give the odd lines to the teams that travel furthest.
- For a weekly league, clear First match starts and the time column drops out. Press Print, or save as PDF from your browser's print window.
Questions and answers
Is 11 games in one day too many?
At 20 minutes a game each team is on court for 3 hours 40 minutes of a 7 hour 20 minute day, never plays more than two games running and never waits more than 40 minutes. That suits short formats such as small-sided soccer or one-set tennis. For full-length games, run it as an 11-week league or split into pools.
Is a 12 team round robin bracket the same as a 12 team bracket?
No. People say round robin bracket for the chart on this page, where nobody is knocked out. A knockout bracket for 12 is only 11 games, with a first-round bye for the top four seeds.
What if our 12-team league is not 11 weeks long?
For fewer weeks, play the chart's first rounds and ignore the rest: after eight weeks each team has met eight opponents, four at home. For more, press Double: in a 14-week season, weeks 12 to 14 replay weeks 2 to 4, home and away swapped. Agree first that rematches count in the table.