Finishing & Seasons

Every tournament has a life cycle: you set it up, run it, and eventually it wraps up. This section covers what happens once a tournament is finished, and the two tools that let you reuse your work — Start next season and Import from a tournament.

In this section#

• When a tournament is finished — what gets locked, what stays editable, and how your finished tournament lives on as a permanent archive.
• Start next season — spin up next season's tournament and carry your teams, divisions and structure across instead of rebuilding from scratch.
• Managing seasons — keep every season in one place, choose the current one, add a tournament you already ran as a season, and show a season menu on your website.
• The tournament library — one list of clubs, players and staff across all seasons, filled automatically, with tools to link and merge.
• Import from a tournament — bring data from one of your past tournaments into a current one at any time.

The short version#

• A finished tournament is locked for structural changes (structure, teams, divisions, rules, match line-ups) but its results and website stay fully editable, and it stays online forever as a shareable archive.
• To run the event again, use Start next season — it creates a new season and copies over what you choose. All seasons sit together on the Seasons page and share one library of clubs, players and staff.
• Need to pull data across after the fact? Import from a tournament copies teams, divisions, venues, referees, structure and website settings from one of your other tournaments into the current one.