Start Next Season

Running the same event again next season? You don't have to set it all up from scratch. Start next season creates a brand-new tournament and copies over whatever you choose from the current one.

There are two ways in, and both open the same screen:

• From a tournament: once it is finished, your Dashboard command centre switches to a Completed state and opens with a Next season band — click Start the next season. The Seasons page has the same button in its header (Start next season, or Start season 2027 when MyCup can tell the next label), and the tournament selector at the top of the panel has a + after its list of seasons.
• From New tournament at the bottom of the tournament selector: choose The next season of one you run, then pick the tournament. Each tournament is listed once, at its latest season.

If that tournament's next season already exists, MyCup opens it instead of making a second one.

What carries over#

Under What to carry over you choose what to bring across, in four groups. Switches for things your tournament doesn't have (sponsors, fees, hotels…) are not shown.

Teams

• Teams — with their players & staff (on), linked to the same library entries. Player accreditation starts again.
• Team managers — off, because they would get access to the new season's team panel.
• Team panel forms — the questions (on), never last season's answers.

Set-up (all on)

• Structure & rules — phases, groups, rounds and points. Matches are generated fresh.
• Divisions — including your division groups.
• Venues — with their opening hours, moved forward to the same weekday a year later, and each division's venue restrictions.
• Referees.

Website

• Pages & blocks and Sponsors — on. Your brand and address are shared by every season anyway.
• Public documents — off: last season's rules and files are usually out of date.

Money & hotels

• Fees — off: prices usually change each season. Tick it to copy the fee list with its payment terms.
• Hotels & packages — on. Never bookings or rooming lists.

Always copied: sport and settings, custom fields (with the answers of the players and teams you carry), time zone and country.

Shared by every season — one version for the whole tournament, whichever season you edit it from:

• Organiser team — add someone, change their role or remove them in any season, and it applies to all of them.
• Invoice details and payment instructions — documents you have already sent keep what they were sent with.
• Website brand — theme, colours, app icon and social links.
• Website address, language and search-engine setting — the new season becomes the current one, so visitors to your address land on it (while its website is switched on), and the previous season stays on the same site under /season/….
• Venue names, addresses, descriptions and photos — each season still has its own opening hours. Removing a venue from one season doesn't remove it from the others.

Never copied: matches and results, registrations, payments and charges, player documents. Registration starts closed with no dates: open it when you know this season's.

Only want the shape, not the teams? Use Saved Formats instead. On the finished tournament's Structure page, open the ⋯ menu and click Save as format, then apply it to any tournament you like — it carries the phases, groups, bracket, scoring and progression wiring, but no teams and no results.

Which plan the new season is on#

After a paid season, the new season runs on that same plan for 30 days as a demo (the form and the Plans page call it a trial and show its end date). Everything the plan allows is carried over — all your teams and divisions — so you can set the whole season up: structure, teams, website, registration. What you can't do yet is enter results: buy a plan for the new season to start playing. Buying any paid plan ends the demo, and the season then runs on the plan you bought. We email you a week before the demo ends, and again when it has ended.

The 30 days count from the first time a next season was started from that tournament. Deleting the new season and starting it again does not restart the demo.

If the demo ends without a purchase, the season falls back to the Free plan. Nothing is deleted, but results stay locked while the season has more teams or divisions than the Free plan allows.

After a Free season, the new season is on the Free plan, which carries up to a set number of teams and divisions. If you have more than that, those toggles are locked on the form, and you'll see a note explaining why.

Have more teams/divisions than your plan allows? Create the new season, upgrade it to the plan you need, then use Import from a tournament to bring the rest across. Nothing is lost — you just bring it over after upgrading.

How to do it#

1. Click Start the next season on a finished tournament's Dashboard, or choose The next season of one you run under New tournament and pick the tournament.
2. Check the New season label. It is pre-filled ("2025" becomes "2026"). The name stays the tournament's own; a year in it follows the label, so "City Cup 2025" becomes "City Cup 2026".
3. Under What to carry over, switch on what you want to bring across.
4. Click Create season 2026 (the button names your label; it reads Create the next season when the label is empty).

MyCup creates the new tournament, adds it to the tournament's seasons (so visitors can switch between editions on your public site), and drops you straight into it with your selected data in place. Generate the matches when you're ready and you're off.