This 8 team bowling schedule runs seven weeks: every team bowls the other seven once, four matches a week on lanes 1 to 8. Each match gets a lane pair, and the pairs are shared out across the weeks.
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8 teams on 4 lane pairs: 7 weeks, 28 matches
Nobody sits out. Over the seven weeks every team bowls on each lane pair at least once and on none more than three times. Choose Twice under Play each team and the 14 week season gives every team three or four nights on each pair.
Longer seasons, odd team counts
Set Weeks in the season to 28 and every team gets six to eight nights on each pair. With seven or nine teams one is off each week, and a round lasts as many weeks as there are teams.
For a position round, add a spare week under More options and write in first v second, third v fourth.
One page for each captain: pick the team under Show only, then print its opponent and lanes, week by week.
Questions and answers
How many weeks is an 8 team bowling schedule?
Seven for one round. A longer season repeats the round: 14 weeks is two rounds, 21 three, 28 four and 35 five. A position round or a spare week adds one more.
How many lanes does an 8 team bowling league need?
Eight. Four matches bowl at once, and a league match is usually bowled across two lanes, the teams switching lanes after every frame. If your league starts on another lane, rename the pairs under More options: Lanes 9-10, 11-12 and so on.
How do I make a bowling schedule for 6, 10 or 12 teams?
Type that many team names and the weeks follow: 5 weeks a round for 6 teams, 9 for 10, 11 for 12. Then set Lane pairs in use, under More options, to half the team count. The list below covers 4 to 24 teams.
Does this bowling schedule keep standings?
No, it is the schedule only, and nothing is saved online. A printed standings sheet filled in after each week does the job on paper; standings and averages that update themselves take league software.
4 team bowling schedule3 weeks a round: 2 matches a week on 4 lanes, 6 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 0 to 3 times in one round, 3 times in two.
5 team bowling schedule5 weeks a round, one team off each week: 2 matches a week on 4 lanes, 10 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair twice in one round, 4 times in two.
6 team bowling schedule5 weeks a round: 3 matches a week on 6 lanes, 15 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 or 2 times in one round, 3 or 4 times in two.
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4 to 9 teams, continued
7 team bowling schedule7 weeks a round, one team off each week: 3 matches a week on 6 lanes, 21 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair twice in one round, 4 times in two.
8 team bowling schedule7 weeks a round: 4 matches a week on 8 lanes, 28 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 or 4 times in two.
9 team bowling schedule9 weeks a round, one team off each week: 4 matches a week on 8 lanes, 36 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
10 to 24 teams 15
10 team bowling schedule9 weeks a round: 5 matches a week on 10 lanes, 45 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
11 team bowling schedule11 weeks a round, one team off each week: 5 matches a week on 10 lanes, 55 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
12 team bowling schedule11 weeks a round: 6 matches a week on 12 lanes, 66 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 or 4 times in two.
13 team bowling schedule13 weeks a round, one team off each week: 6 matches a week on 12 lanes, 78 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
14 team bowling schedule13 weeks a round: 7 matches a week on 14 lanes, 91 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
15 team bowling schedule15 weeks a round, one team off each week: 7 matches a week on 14 lanes, 105 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
16 team bowling schedule15 weeks a round: 8 matches a week on 16 lanes, 120 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
17 team bowling schedule17 weeks a round, one team off each week: 8 matches a week on 16 lanes, 136 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
18 team bowling schedule17 weeks a round: 9 matches a week on 18 lanes, 153 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
19 team bowling schedule19 weeks a round, one team off each week: 9 matches a week on 18 lanes, 171 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
20 team bowling schedule19 weeks a round: 10 matches a week on 20 lanes, 190 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
21 team bowling schedule21 weeks a round, one team off each week: 10 matches a week on 20 lanes, 210 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
22 team bowling schedule21 weeks a round: 11 matches a week on 22 lanes, 231 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
23 team bowling schedule23 weeks a round, one team off each week: 11 matches a week on 22 lanes, 253 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
24 team bowling schedule23 weeks a round: 12 matches a week on 24 lanes, 276 matches in all. A team bowls on any one lane pair 1 to 3 times in one round, 3 to 5 times in two.
How this list was compiled: Twenty-one bowling league sizes, 4 to 24 teams, worked out by Wheel of Teams and counted by script on 2026-10-09. For each size the script builds one round and two rounds with the schedule tool of this page itself, on as many lane pairs as there are matches in a week, and confirms what the description says: that every two teams meet once in one round and twice in two, that every team bowls or is off exactly once a week, the number of weeks, the matches a week and in all, the one week off each team gets in a round when the team count is odd, and the fewest and the most times any team bowls on any one lane pair. A round follows the circle method described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_tournament (one team stays put and the others move round one place each week; with an odd count an empty chair is added, and the team beside it is off), read on 2026-10-09. That a league match is bowled across two lanes, the teams switching lanes after every frame, was read at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_league on 2026-10-09; that position rounds (first place against second, third against fourth) are often put into a season was read at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenpin_bowling the same day. Wikipedia text is under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; only facts and the method were taken from it. The counts are arithmetic on the schedule, not search numbers. Your own league's rules decide the length of the season and where a position round goes. No real league, club or bowler appears in this dataset. Licence: own work
Sample teams used in the example
Made-up names, replaced by your own 8
Frame Foxes
Gutter Geese
Hook Hares
Lane Llamas
Pin Penguins
Spare Otters
Split Sloths
Strike Storks
How this list was compiled
Eight sample bowling team names made up by Wheel of Teams on 2026-10-09 so that the example schedule opens filled in: each joins a word from the lanes with an animal. The example uses all eight, and the first team a visitor types replaces them. Licence: own work