Import from a Tournament

Import from a tournament copies data from one of your other tournaments into the one you're working on. It's the companion to Start next season: if some data didn't fit when you first created the new season, upgrade your plan and import the rest here — any time.

You'll find it in the sidebar under System → Import teams & data.

That page offers two sources, and you pick one at the top:

• From another tournament — this page. Copies teams, structure and settings from a past edition.
• From a file — upload a spreadsheet of teams, players, staff, venues or referees. See Importing from a Spreadsheet.

The page appears when either source is available to you: when you have at least one other tournament to copy from, or when your plan includes spreadsheet import. It's hidden once a tournament is finished.

What it does#

1. Pick one of your other tournaments as the source.
2. Choose what to bring in: Teams (with players & staff), Divisions, Venues, Referees, Structure & rules, and Website design & blocks. Divisions bring their division groups with them, filed as they were — only the groups whose divisions actually came across.
3. Click Import.

MyCup adds the selected data to your current tournament and shows a summary of what came across.

What to expect#

• It respects your plan. Imported teams and divisions are added up to your current plan's remaining capacity. For example, if your plan allows 8 teams and you already have 2, you can import up to 6 more. Upgrade your plan to bring more across.
• It won't overwrite what you've built. Structure and website settings are only imported when your current tournament doesn't already have them. If you've already set up a structure, importing structure is skipped (the summary tells you), so your work is never replaced.
• Results aren't imported. Only the setup data comes across, not scores or match events.
• It copies, it doesn't merge. Teams, divisions, venues and referees are always added as new records — matching names are not detected. Importing the same source twice, or importing a team you already added by hand, leaves you with two of it. This is the opposite of a spreadsheet import, which updates teams it recognises. Import from a tournament once, into a tournament you haven't populated yet, and you'll never see a duplicate.
• Your tournament's own identity stays yours — its name, season, logo and sport aren't changed by an import.

Typical flow: create next season → upgrade the new tournament → open Import from a tournament → pick last season's tournament → import the teams and divisions that didn't fit the Free plan.

When it's not available#

Importing changes your tournament's setup, so the page is hidden once a tournament is finished — import into a tournament while it's still active.

If this is your first tournament, there's nothing to copy from yet, and the tournament source shows an empty list. You can still upload a spreadsheet if your plan includes it.

Note: copying from another tournament cannot be undone from the app — check the summary before you commit, or remove what you didn't want by hand. Spreadsheet imports can be undone for 7 days.