The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11 in Mexico City and runs for 39 days across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It's the first World Cup with 48 teams — 12 groups of 4, then a Round of 32, then single elimination through to the Final.

If you want to run your own version with friends, family, classmates, or office colleagues — whether you're scoring real matches as they happen, simulating in a video game, or running a sweepstake — Score7 ships a free template you can duplicate in one click. This guide shows you how.

You exported a fixture list from your old tool. The column names are in your native language — Hazai, Vendég, Időpont. You upload to Score7. Every row comes back as "unknown column". The validator can't help — every field is a mystery to it.

That problem just disappeared. Score7's CSV import dialog now has a Download an example CSV link that gives you a working template — the exact column names Score7 expects, plus a couple of placeholder rows you can replace with your own data. No more guessing the column list; no more rebuilding the file three times.

Running a corporate event, a school sports day, or an invitation-only league? You probably don't want your bracket sitting on a public link that anyone could stumble onto. Score7 now lets you add a password gate to your tournament — viewers see a prompt for a code before they can open the bracket, scores, or standings. Pick a password, share it with your people, and the public link becomes private-by-default.

The most common reason a CSV import fails isn't a formatting issue inside the CSV — it's that the file isn't a CSV at all. Score7 now spots a PDF, an Excel spreadsheet, or an image instantly and tells you exactly what to do next.

You can now hide the entire Overview tab from public visitors while keeping it visible to yourself and your fellow organizers. One toggle in Advanced Settings, and your participants only see the tabs they need.

BracketFast is a free online bracket generator focused on quick, no-signup brackets you can share or print. It covers single elimination, double elimination, and round-robin from 4 to 128 teams. Score7 is a tournament management platform built around multi-stage formats, scheduling with venues and referees, and per-player statistics.

Both tools build brackets. They aim at different jobs — BracketFast is a generator; Score7 is a platform.

My Bracket is an iOS-first bracket maker that's been on the App Store since 2012, with a 3.9-star rating across 5,100+ reviews. It focuses on quick setup — add teams, generate a bracket, share a screenshot or link. Score7 is a web-based tournament platform aimed at organizers who need multi-stage formats, scheduling with venues, and per-player statistics.

Both create brackets. One is a compact iOS app; the other is a full platform for running events.

If you organise a tournament, you know the post-match drill: half the captains text you their score on the night, half don't. The rest you chase by Sunday morning, sifting screenshots and trying to remember who actually won the third set. Match by match, your job becomes data entry.

You can stop doing that. Score7 now lets your participants report their own results — and when both sides agree, Score7 records the result for you automatically. You only step in when there's a disagreement.

You're running a 12-team weekend league. Most teams are happy with Saturday matches, but Team Atlas only practises on Wednesday evenings — that's the only night the school hall is free for them. Until now, Score7's auto-scheduler treated every participant as available during the same global time slots, so you'd run the scheduler, then manually drag Team Atlas's matches to Wednesdays one by one.

Per-participant availability fixes that.

If you've run more than a handful of Score7 tournaments, your My Tournaments page can get long. This is a quick orientation guide: how the page is organised, how the "Show all" button works, and what to do if you've run so many tournaments that you can't see all of them at once.