🚀 Getting started

1. Create your team in Directory → Teams (the Directory is in your account menu): pick its club (or leave it blank for an independent team), give it a name and a default formation (e.g. 1-3-1-3-1, the first 1 is the goalkeeper).
2. Add your players: on your team's ⚙️ Settings → Squad, add them one by one, or ⬆ Import a list: paste your squad from a spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets, a club export, with its header row: first name, last name or one name column, number, and optionally nickname, birth date, position, foot) or choose a CSV file. Before anything is added, each row is checked against the players you can already see: a child already on PitchTag (in your other team, or a team you were invited to) is added to this team instead of being created twice, and a name that appears twice in the list is flagged.
3. Create a match with ＋ New match (top right; on a phone, the round ＋ button) (or straight from a synced calendar): opponent, date, place, formation and starting lineup.
4. Tag it: on video with the full tagger, live on your phone during the game, or quickly afterwards with light tagging.
5. Read the stats: every tagged match feeds the match page, the season stats and each player's page.

💡 Already on PitchTag because other coaches played against you? Use Claim your team on the Teams page instead of creating it again.

👥 Teams & players

• New club: if your club isn't in the list, add it in Directory → Clubs. You can use it for your team right away; an admin checks it before it joins the shared list (and may point you to the same club already there).
• Managing a club: adding a club doesn't make you its manager. To manage a club's info (address, website, logo), find it in the list and click Claim; an admin confirms it.
• Club managers: the club's owner can add staff (directors, coordinators) by email on the club's page, if they have a PitchTag account. Managers edit the club's info and confirm the teams that say they play for the club: Confirm makes it an official team (a ✓ after its name), Not ours refuses it. They also get a club overview with each official team's record, last results and next games. Managers never see a team's players, stats or video because they run the club: that stays with the team's coach and the people they invite. They also decide whether the club logo may be printed on the teams' t-shirts and mugs.
• Independent team: a team doesn't need a club. Leave the club blank, and pick one later if you join a club. Changing a team's club asks the new club to confirm it again.
• The Directory (account menu): one tab per list (Teams, Players, Clubs, Venues, Fields, Competitions, Calendars). Each list is filtered as you type, with toggles to narrow it (your teams, a team's players, a surface…). Click a row to open it: an edit page with its sections on the left (on a phone, as a row of buttons at the top), each one a card.
• Search instead of long drop-down lists: wherever you pick a team, a club, a player, a venue or a match from a list, type a few letters to narrow it (accents and word order don't matter), then click or press Enter.
• Clubs (Directory → Clubs): your clubs, and the search box also looks through the 4,000+ clubs of the directory (name, acronym, city), with Claim to ask to manage one. A club's page: name, acronym, website, logo, location, home grounds, and for its managers the managers and the teams to confirm. Upload the logo (PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP, 5 MB max): PitchTag keeps its own copy, resized. A PNG with a transparent background, at least 1000 px wide, looks best (it is also used on t-shirts and mugs). Only a club's owner (or an administrator) can change it.
• Teams (Directory → Teams, or the team's ⚙️ Settings tab): club, name, default formation, the squad and its numbers, members, seasons and jerseys. The team's tabs show your current team: switch it with ⇄ Switch team next to its name, or open a team from your dashboard.
• Moving on from a team? In the team's ⚙️ Settings → 🔑 Ownership: hand it to a member (an editor or viewer who accepted your invitation; they get an email, and you can stay on as an editor), or give up ownership: the team becomes an unclaimed team that anyone can claim, its members lose access, and the matches you recorded stay yours.
• Players: name, preferred foot and position, and their teams & numbers: a player can be in several teams and wear a different number in each (the number of the team they play for shows in the taggers, stats, PDF and highlights). Each team's coach sets the numbers of their own team (⚙️ Settings → Squad, or the player's page), even for a player another coach added; only the person who added a player changes their name and details.
• Same player added more than once? Directory → Players spots players that look like the same child (same or close name, never two different birth dates) and lets you merge them: pick the one to keep, and the other's matches, tagged events, teams and numbers and followers move to it. Old links to the merged copy lead to the one you kept.
• Venues and fields: a venue's page lists its fields; add, rename or change a field's surface right there.
• Follow a player: click the ☆ after their name in the team's 👥 Squad tab (it turns into a gold ★), or ☆ Follow on the player's page (you need to see the team: owner, editor or invited viewer). Click again to stop following; My account → Alerts lists the players you follow. During a game tagged live you get their goals, assists, saves, interceptions and penalties won as they happen, and a summary at full time; goals and assists tagged after the game show in your notifications. Followed players get a ★ and a gold row in the stats tables. Only followed players can go on a Team Store t-shirt or mug. Turn on alerts on your phone in My account → Alerts (iPhone / iPad: add PitchTag to the Home Screen first: Share → Add to Home Screen).
• Opponents you add while creating a match are shared with everyone, so other coaches pick the same team. Fix a typo under Opponent teams you added.
• Claim your team: if your team already exists because others played against it, search for it on the Teams page and claim it. If it was added more than once, merge the copies right after claiming.
• Next to a team's name, a Viewer badge means you were invited to follow it, and Editor that you are an editor. Click a team's name to see its recent form, when it is shared.

⚽ Matches

• Create or edit a match on the match screen: your squad and its side (home / away), the opponent, competition, venue and field, date, score, YouTube video and the lineup on the formation canvas.
• Lineup: a new match starts with an empty pitch. Build the formation: type it (defence first, like 3-2-1 or 4-4-2: the goalkeeper is added), tap − / + on a line, + Line / − Line, or tap one the team has already played (5v5 to 11v11). Then tap a spot and pick its player (a player already placed swaps spots; Empty this spot clears it), and change the role under the name if you like. ★ Match Favorites fills the spots from players' preferred positions. ↺ Reset clears the formation and the lineup; players marked absent on the bench stay absent.
• Bench: players who are not in a slot. Tap 🚫 on a bench player who did not come to the game: they are hidden in the taggers and not counted as present.
• Your dashboard (Dashboard): everything across your teams: notifications, your followed players' alerts, a card per team (record, form, last and next game, games to tag: a game you won't tag, with no video or details, can be left out with 🔕 next to its tagging badge in the match list or on its stats page; 🔔 brings the reminder back), the games coming up and the latest results of all your teams, the players you follow, and PitchTag news.
• Getting around: Home (your dashboard), Teams (your team's space) and Stats (everything to explore), plus 🔔 for what's waiting and your initial for My account, the Directory (teams, players, all matches, clubs, venues, fields, competitions, calendars), Help and Sign out. On a phone these sit in the bar at the bottom; the round ＋ live-tags or light-tags a game of today, or adds a match.
• A team's space (Teams): the team's name with ⇄ Switch team, then the tabs 🏠 Overview (summary, recent matches, calendar and calendar updates), 🏆 Competitions, 📋 Matches, 👥 Squad, 📊 Stats, 🛍️ Store (t-shirts, mugs) and ⚙️ Settings (name, club, members, seasons, jerseys; owners). The tabs stay at the top while you scroll. Matches, players, clubs and competitions open the same way: a title, then one row of tabs.
• Matches list: the team's 📋 Matches tab (or Directory → All matches for every team), filtered by season or year. The Tagged pill shows how complete the tagging is (red → green). The ⋯ button of a match opens its stats, the taggers, the edit screen and the PDF report.
• A game that has not been played yet shows vs instead of a score; 0 – 0 always means a game that was played.

🏷️ Tagging a match

There are three ways to tag, from every match's menu:

🎬 Full tagging

On a computer, with the match video (YouTube or a local MP4). Tag every pass, shot, duel and foul for the complete stats. Mark the four periods (1st kickoff, half-time, 2nd kickoff, full time) so minutes are right. A game played without a break? Click ⏩ No break around mid-game: it sets half-time and the 2nd kickoff together, so the clock runs straight through. Two screens? ⧉ Pop out video (under the video) plays it in its own window: drag it to the other monitor and double-click it for full screen. Your shortcuts work in either window, a click on the video plays or pauses it, and while the video is out its place in the tagger shows live stats of what is tagged (match, each half and the last 10 minutes of video, the most involved players, and how much is tagged in each 5 minutes). Close the window to bring the video back where it was. Phones are sent to light tagging instead.

📱 Live tagging

On your phone during the game: Kick off now starts the clock, then tap an action and the player. Each tag gets the current minute; adjust it with −30s / +30s. Started the clock late (or early)? Tap the clock and use Clock −30s / +30s: the kickoff moves, every tag stays at the real time it happened, and its minute follows (a goal tagged at minute 13 because you kicked off 2 minutes late becomes minute 15). Use the period buttons for half-time, full time, extra time, penalties and water breaks. No signal? Tags are kept on the phone and sent when the connection is back.

✍️ Light tagging

After the game, without video: choose the length of the halves, then enter goals (with the assist), cards, substitutions… at the minute they happened. The goal checklist tells you how many goals are still missing compared with the final score. 🔀 Swap records two players changing positions (the keeper going up front, for example); each player button shows the position at that minute.

In both, when you pick a player, the ones on the pitch are drawn where they play at that minute (your attack at the top): a substitute takes the spot of the player who went off, and a 🔀 swap moves both players. The bench is listed below. The spots come from the formation on the match's Edit page.

Moving a period mark

• Events tagged on the video stay on their frame: when a mark moves (e.g. you fix the kickoff), their match minute follows.
• Events entered with light tagging keep their minute and move with the marks. Events tagged live stay on the clock in the live tagger (moving the kickoff there means the clock started late) and keep their minute in the full tagger.
• Light or live match, then the video: open it in the full tagger and Shift + click 1st Kickoff at the kickoff in the video, then Halftime, 2nd Kickoff and Full Time. The events already tagged move onto the video at their minute, and the match now counts as tagged on the video.

In the full tagger

• Tag: click a player on the pitch, then an action (or the other way round). The event is saved at the current video time.
• Buttons with outcomes show a small title over their choices: ✓ (completed, won) or ✗ (incomplete, lost) for passes, throw-ins, dribbles, interceptions and duels; On / Off target for shots; Won / Given for fouls and penalties.
• Goals: ⚽ Goal for us (open play, free kick, penalty, corner) needs the scorer. Opp OG is an opponent's own goal: it counts for us, with no player. Under Goal against, Opp needs no player and Own is one of our players scoring in our net.
• Substitution: ⇄ Sub on a bench player, then click the player going off.
• Position swap: select a player, then Shift + click another player on the pitch.
• Fix an event: Shift + click it in the feed, then pick the new action / player. Delete with ✕ (click twice).
• Duels and dribbles: ⚔️ Duel won / lost for a 1v1 challenge (tackle, shoulder, 50/50), Dribble ✓ / ✗ when a player takes a defender on (a failed dribble already counts as a ball lost: no need to tag Ball lost too). Interception is for cutting out a pass, Recovery for picking up a loose ball (keeper or not), Clearance for sending it away under pressure.
• Toggles: switch ✈ Aerial on before a duel or an interception in the air, and ↗ Cross before a pass that is a cross (it still counts as a pass). A toggle stays lit until the next event it applies to is saved.
• xG: click +xG on a shot to place the shooter, keeper, defenders and where the ball went.
• Highlights: star ★ the events you want in the public highlight reel.
• Tag mode hides everything but the video and the controls.

💡 Only one person tags a match at a time. If someone else is tagging it, an editor's tagger opens read-only until they are done.

⌨️ Tagger shortcuts

Stream Deck: with the PitchTag Stream Deck plugin (ask us for it), one deck shows your lineup like the formation, names included, and follows subs and position swaps; press a player to select them. A second deck holds the tagging actions (passes, shots, interceptions, duels, throw-ins, fouls, corners… and a second page). It works even when the browser is not the active window.

📊 Match stats

• Before the game: a match that has not started shows a preview instead of statistics: when and where (with a map link), both teams' recent form, your history against that club and your place in the competition. The statistics take over at kickoff, or as soon as someone starts tagging.
• Overview: possession, passing, finishing, duels, xG, game state (minutes ahead / level / behind), 1st vs 2nd half and the match flow.
• Shot map: the shots that have an xG picture (+xG in the tagger); it only shows once one shot has one. Filter goals / saved / off target with the legend. Click a shot to see its details and xG picture, and to play its clip from the video.
• Players: minutes and rotation shifts, then every player's actions. Click a name to open that player in this match.
• History vs the opponent: past results and facts like "never lost at home against them".
• Barely tagged match (under 25%, or light / live without detailed metrics): only goals, assists, cards and the game state are shown; the rest is greyed out until the match is tagged.

📈 Season & player stats

• Stats: everything in one place. Its tabs (Clubs, Teams, Players, Matches, Competitions) stay at the top while you scroll, with the period (season, year, all time) on the right. Under the title, 💡 Related suggests what to look at next: the latest result, the next game, a team on a hot streak, the biggest win, a player who just had a great game, and when you look at something, the moments linked to it (a team's top scorer, a player's best game, the last meeting with an opponent…).
• Browse: each category lists all of yours, described (record, form, top scorer, scorers of each game, your record against each club…); type in Filter to find one. On a player, the tabs switch between their Season, one Competition or one Match.
• Team Stats (the team's 📊 Stats tab): record, form, scoring first, xG vs goals, goals by period, match-by-match trend, results by surface, head-to-head, the leaderboards and the 🔬 Player Explorer: pick any two numbers (goals, shots, passes, pass %, balls won, duels, xG…) for the two axes, and a third for the size of the dots, as totals or per 60 minutes (games with detailed metrics only, 30 minutes at least). One dot per player, coloured by where they play most (tap a colour to hide it); the dashed lines are the average, so top right means high on both. The presets (Passing, Finishing, Creating, Defending, Duels, Ball security) set both axes in one tap, and a click on a dot opens the player.
• Competitions: click a competition name (match list, match stats, tagger) for that team's record in it: W-D-L, goals, form, clean sheets, biggest win, the opponents met, the players' goals and assists and every match, by season, year or all time. Add the league's official results page to the competition (Directory → Competitions) to get a link to it there.
• Importing results: at the bottom of a competition page, Import results. Paste rows from a spreadsheet / CSV with a header row (for example an export your league or club shares) (Date, Time, Home, Away, Score, Venue, Field, Division, Bracket, Stage). The format is recognised automatically. PitchTag suggests which teams and fields they are (and remembers your choices), then lists every game: new ones, games already in PitchTag (same teams, same day, whoever is at home: never added twice) and the ones to check. Nothing is saved before you click Import. Paste again later to update the scores. Status words on the league page ("Scheduled", "(postponed)"…) are left out of the team names; a cancelled or postponed game is marked Check. To start over, Undo the import removes the other teams' imported games and the teams it created, unlinks your own games (they stay) and forgets the remembered names. The page then shows the standings of every bracket (yours open, the others folded under it) and every team's form.
• Your team's competitions (Teams → 🏆 Competitions): the ones coming up or in progress, then the past ones, each with the record, goals, ranking (from imported results), next game and every result. Schedules come out late, so the team's owner and editors can register the team as soon as they know it plays: ＋ Register for a competition, pick it, then its dates (and a division if you like). It shows on the team's calendar right away (🏆 on each day of a tournament, on the first and last day of a league), and its games join it as they are added.
• Crossovers and final phase: in a tournament with several brackets, a crossover is a game against a team of another bracket. PitchTag finds them by itself: each team belongs to the bracket most of its games are listed under, and a game between teams of two brackets is marked ↔ Crossover. It counts in each team's own table (untick Crossover games count in the standings in the competition's standings rules when it shouldn't). Quarter-finals, semi-finals, the final, the 3rd place game and other placement games are the 🏁 Final phase: they never count in the standings and get their own card on the competition page, with the winner and any penalty shoot-out, while your team's Competitions tab says how far it went (🏆 Champions, 🥈 Finalists, Semi-finalists, 5th place…). The stage comes from the import (a Stage column, or words after the game number such as "429 Final"; a shoot-out in the score: 2-2 (4-3 PK)). When the league page doesn't say it, set it under 🏷️ Stages & shoot-outs at the bottom of the competition page: a later import keeps your choice.
• Editions: the same competition can run several times a year and every year, so each time is an edition with its first and last day ("Fall 2026", "Spring 2027"). The games of the competition between those dates belong to it: its standings, its record. Editions of a competition never overlap. Whoever added an edition, the competition's owner and admins can change its dates (on the team's Competitions tab, or Directory → Competitions → Edit → 📅 Editions). On a competition's page, pick an edition at the top right to see only its games and table.
• Standings rules (Directory → Competitions → Edit): points for a win, a draw and a loss, and the tiebreakers used when teams have the same points, in your order (drag them or use ↑ ↓; untick one to leave it out): head to head, goal differential, goals for, most wins, fewest goals conceded, fewest red cards, fewest yellow cards. Head to head is a mini-league of the games between the tied teams. A ⓘ next to the points says which tiebreaker placed a team. Many tournaments also cap the goal differential: set the goal differential cap per game (e.g. 4) and a 7-1 win counts as 5-1 for goals for, goals conceded and goal differential in the standings, while the match keeps its real score.
• Players is the season table of the squad, in four tabs: Overview (games, minutes, share, goals, assists, +/-, results when playing), Attacking (shots, accuracy, conversion, xG, minutes per goal or assist), Passing (passes, pass %, per 60', touches) and Defending & discipline (balls won / lost, fouls, cards), plus 🧤 Goalkeeping (saves, goals conceded, save %, clean sheets, conceded per 60') when the squad has keepers. Click a column to sort.
• Goalkeepers are the players whose preferred position includes GK (e.g. "GK, RW"), or who played an hour in goal. Their stats count only the time they spent in goal: a clean sheet means nothing conceded while in goal for at least half the game.
• A player's page (click a name): their record, per-60 comparison with the team, positions, connections and match log. 🏆 Awards compare them with the rest of the squad over the same period (Top Scorer, The Wall, Metronome, Fair Play, Super Sub, Lucky Charm…, and for goalkeepers Golden Glove, The Cat, Shot Stopper and Fortress, compared with the other keepers), with personal milestones (brace, unbeaten run, on the rise). Every player who played gets at least one. Open a player from a match to see the awards of that game.
• Ball recovery time: after losing the ball, how many seconds of play it takes to win it back (match stats, 1st vs 2nd half, and Team Stats over the fully tagged matches), with the share won back within 5 seconds. Moments cut by half-time, a water break or a goal don't count. On the Players table (Defending), Quick regains counts who wins the ball back within 5 seconds, and the best of them get the ⚡ Counter-Presser award.
• Duels, dribbles, aerials, crosses, recoveries and clearances show on the match stats, Team Stats, Players, competition and player pages once they are tagged.
• Filter by season, calendar year or all time (top right), or click a season on the timeline.
• Detailed metrics (minutes, possession, passes, pass %, xG…) only come from fully tagged video matches, and from light / live matches where you switch them on (on the match stats page). Goals, assists, shots and cards count from every tagged match.
• Player page: click a player's name for their full record, rates per 60 minutes compared with the team, positions played, connections (the teammates they pass to most, and who scored from their assists; a pass counts when the next tagged action is that teammate's, with a pitch for each position they played showing arrows to the positions they pass to most; light or live games with no substitution or position swap tagged count in the list but not on the pitch, since PitchTag cannot know who played where after kickoff) and match log. In the match log, minutes, shots, pass %, balls won/lost and +/- show — for matches that are not fully tagged.

📅 Seasons

On your team's page (your team's ⚙️ Settings tab), add seasons with a name and dates (e.g. Fall 2026). The timeline shows them with your matches as dots. Stats then default to the season you are in, and every stats page can be filtered by season.

🗓️ Calendars

• Add your team's iCal / webcal feed (from your league, club or team app) in Directory → Calendars. PitchTag checks it every 30 minutes.
• Nothing is added automatically. New games show up on your team's page (🏠 Overview; the dashboard counts them): + Add match opens the match screen already filled in (date, side, opponent, venue, competition); Ignore hides an entry (you can bring it back).
• Practices and placeholders arrive already ignored. If a game you added moves or is cancelled in the calendar, you are asked whether to update the match. Some platforms (Sprocket…) drop games from their feed a few months after they are played: in the calendar's settings (Directory → Calendars, When a past game disappears from this calendar), choose an age, e.g. 3 months, and older games that disappear are no longer reported; their matches stay.

🤝 Sharing a team

• On your team's page, add people by email as Viewer or Editor. They accept the invitation from their dashboard.
• Who can invite: the team's owner invites editors and viewers. An editor can invite viewers (✉️ Invite tab of the team (or Directory → Teams → Invite viewers) and resend or cancel the invitations they sent. Viewers don't invite. Only the owner changes someone's access or removes a member. When an editor invites someone, the owner gets an email.
• Adding matches: the owner and editors add matches for the team. A viewer can too once the owner ticks adds matches on their line in the team's members; the viewer then edits and tags the matches they added.
• To limit emails, each person can send a set number of invitations per day (resends count).
• Viewers see the team's matches, players and stats.
• Editors can also tag the team's matches and set their lineup, video and jerseys. They change only the events they tagged; you (the owner) and the match's creator can change everyone's.
• Anyone in the team can create a match for it and then fully manage that match.
• Switch someone between viewer and editor, or remove them, at any time.
• Share recent form: let anyone see your last 5 results (win / draw / loss, opponent and score only).

👕 Jerseys

Add your team's jerseys on its page (name, main color, optional second color) and choose the default. On each match, pick the jersey worn by each side, or a color from the palette for an opponent. The colors show next to the team names in the taggers, stats and highlights.

🎬 Highlights & PDF

• A match with a YouTube video and set to public gets a shareable highlight reel (Highlights in the match menu): goals and big moments automatically, and the events you starred.
• A player's highlights: 🎬 Highlights on a player's page plays their goals, assists, shots on target, saves and starred moments from every game of the period that was tagged on a YouTube video, one after another. The banner at the bottom says which game each clip comes from (date, competition, opponent). Open a player from a match to see that game only. It is private: only people who can see the player and the game can watch it.
• PDF prints a one-page match report: every player's numbers, the match story (goals with scorers and assists, game state, match flow), key numbers (xG, possession, longest passing move, ball recovery time, 1st vs 2nd half, goalkeeping, discipline) and the standout players (player of the match, who was best at what, the best passing links).

🎯 Games (quiz, Who am I?, cards, predictor)

• The team's 🎯 Games tab has a quiz about the team and its players, built from your tagged games: “Who scored twice against …?”, “Who set up …'s goal?”, “Who wears number 7?”, “Which award does … hold?”, “How many games have we won this season?”… 4 choices each; keys 1 to 4 answer on a computer.
• Three ways to play: 🎲 Free play (10 new questions every time, as often as you like, with your best score), 🔥 Survival (until your first wrong answer: the team board shows the best streaks) and 📅 Daily challenge (the same 10 questions for everyone in the team today, one try: the most right answers wins, then the fastest. A new one every day at midnight, US Central time; its card shows today's board and the best of all time, each player's best day). Every game's card shows its team board (top 5, and you if you are further down).
• 🕵️ Who am I?: clues about a mystery teammate appear one at a time (“My shirt number is odd”, “I play mostly in defence”, “I've set up between 3 and 5 goals this season”…). Tap the name you think it is: right with one clue wins 5 points, with two clues 4 points, and so on. 💡 Another clue gives the next one, and so does a wrong name. Five teammates a game; the board shows the best scores.
• ⚖️ Higher or lower: “Who has made more saves this season?” Two names, tap one. It starts with big gaps and gets closer and closer; one miss and it's over. Only numbers above 0 are compared, never a tie.
• 🃏 Collect the squad: every player has a card (number, name, where they play, their season numbers and an award). Tap a ? card and answer questions about that player (what number they wear, how many games they've played, which team they scored against…): 2 right out of 3 wins the card. All 3 right makes it ✨ shiny; you can go back for the shiny version of a card you have. Your collection is yours, and the Top collectors board shows who has the most. A card can be won once a player has a few games tagged.
• 🔮 Match Predictor: predict the team's next game: the score (− / + for each team), the line-up (formation and starting players), or both for more points. For the line-up, build the formation (type it, like 3-2-1 or 4-4-2: the goalkeeper is added; tap − / + on a line, or + Line / − Line; or tap one the team has already played), from 5v5 to 11v11, then tap each spot on the pitch and choose a player (tap a player already placed to swap them); ↺ Reset empties it. You can change your prediction as often as you like until kickoff, for example when you hear a player won't be there (players the coach marked absent can't be picked). Points: the right result (win, draw or loss) 2, the exact score 5; the formation 3, each starter you guessed 2, +1 when in the right line (goalkeeper, defence, midfield, attack). They come once the game has its result and the coach records the line-up. A line-up saved after the coach has entered it on the match (before kickoff) scores no points, since it can be seen there; the score still counts. The Top predictors board adds up everyone's points.
• Only good news: goals, assists, saves, awards, wins and streaks; never a mistake, a card or a defeat. Every player gets their turn: the quiz features the players who weren't an answer lately first. Players are named by their nickname or first name (with the first letter of the last name when two share it), never their full name. Minutes, passes and positions only come from games tagged in detail.
• Who can play: the team's owner, editors and invited viewers, once the team's coach switches the games on (at the bottom of the tab: ⚙️ Games settings). There the coach can also leave a player out of every game completely: never an answer, a wrong choice, a clue, a card or a name in a question.
• Your name on the boards is your first name, or the name you pick under the boards (kids playing on your phone? Try “The Smiths”).
• The questions are about the season running today (once it has 3 games), else every game so far. Tagging more games makes more questions.

🛍️ Team Store (t-shirts, mugs)

• The team's 🛍️ Store tab starts with the products: 👕 T-shirts and ☕ Mugs, each shown with a design made for your team. Pick one, then a design, the color (the shirt, or the mug's background), the text colors, the stats and facts to print, a player you follow and a line of your own. The preview changes as you choose: Front, Back and Sleeves for a shirt; Side 1, Side 2 and All around for a mug, which is printed all the way round (the team on one side, its stats or a player on the other).
• Everything comes from your games in the period chosen at the top (a season, a year, or all time) and is always positive: wins, goals, streaks, comebacks… never a loss or an opponent's name. 🎲 Surprise me picks facts at random; Sideline fun adds a few jokes.
• Players: only the players you follow (★), by their nickname or first name (with the first letter of the last name when two players of the squad share a first name). Never a full name. With a player on the shirt or mug, the 📊 Stats are theirs (goals, assists, games, balls won…); pick No player for the team's.
• Colours: Auto picks the text and highlight colours that read best on the shirt, in your team's colours. You can choose your own for each (🎨 = any colour); a warning shows when one is hard to read on that shirt.
• The club logo is only offered when the club allows it: its managers switch it on in the club's page (🛍️ The logo on t-shirts and mugs), which covers the files you download and what our print partner sells, and the logo must be uploaded to PitchTag. Otherwise the designs use the club's acronym.
• ⬇️ Download the print files gives a zip of PNG images at 300 dpi, ready for a local print shop or a print-on-demand site: for a shirt, a transparent background (front and back 12 × 16 in, sleeves 4 × 4 in); for a mug, one 8.5 × 3.5 in image printed all the way round an 11 oz mug, background color included.
• When it is switched on, 🛒 Order on … opens the shirt (front and back) or the mug on our print partner's site, which takes the payment, prints and ships it. Mugs can be ordered once the partner is set up for them; until then, download the print file. PitchTag sends it the print files (they hold a player's nickname or first name, never a full name) and never sees your payment.

🔔 Notifications & emails

• 📢 News on your dashboard: what's new on PitchTag.
• The red badge next to your name counts what is waiting for you: team invitations, new games in your calendars, calendar changes, your followed players' alerts. They are listed on the dashboard (calendar updates on each team's page).
• Pre-match email: about 24 hours before a game, the date, place (and your record there), your recent form, your history against the opponent and in the competition. When the competition's results are imported, it also shows the standings, what's at stake (positions, what a win changes, results against common opponents) and the other games around yours worth watching.
• Weekly team summary: every Monday, your teams' results of the last 7 days, the games coming up (time, place, the opponent's form) and the standings of your bracket. Like the pre-match email, it never names a player.
• Newsletter: news about PitchTag now and then, only if you switch it on.
• Turn emails on or off in your account (click your name), or with the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of the summary and the newsletter.

📲 The app & offline

PitchTag installs on your phone or computer like an app: its own icon, full screen, no browser bars. There is nothing to download from a store.

Android (Chrome)

Tap Install on the dashboard banner, or open the ⋮ menu and choose Install app / Add to Home screen.

iPhone / iPad (Safari)

Tap the Share button ⬆️, then Add to Home Screen.

Computer (Chrome / Edge)

Click Install on the dashboard banner, or the install icon at the right of the address bar.

Without signal at the field

• Each time you open the dashboard, the Live tagging and Stats pages of your games from yesterday to the next 7 days are saved on the device. Open the dashboard once before you leave home.
• Kick off now works offline: the clock runs on the phone, and the kickoff and every tag are kept there (⏳ shows how many are waiting) and sent as soon as the connection comes back. Keep the page open, or come back to it before closing the browser.
• Pages you opened recently can be read offline; they show what they showed the last time you were online.
• Signing out removes the saved pages from the device.

👤 Your account

Click your name in the top right to change your name, email (confirmed by a link sent to the new address) or password, choose which emails you receive, or delete your account. Keep me signed in (ticked by default on the sign-in page) keeps that browser signed in for 60 days after your last visit; untick it on a shared computer. Kept signed in on your account page lists those devices and signs the others out; signing out or changing your password forgets them too. Show dismissed tips again brings back the messages you closed with ✕, and Show tips hides or shows the suggestion cards on your dashboard and Team Stats.

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