Run a floorball tournament,three periods and a hall that is full
You pick the match length per category and the schedule works with it, changeover time included. Teams enter themselves and players confirm themselves. Penalty shots go in as an ordinary result, so the pool table is right without anyone having to explain it.
What makes a floorball tournament different
Four things that belong to floorball, and what PlayTour does with each.
Making your hall hours
Three periods instead of two halves is the shape of this sport, and how long they run depends on the competition your teams come from. You pick the playing time per event, so the seniors and the youth can run their own clocks on the same day.
- Three periods of 20 minutes, the regular IFF game time
- Three periods of 15 minutes, the NeFUB time for under-18s
- Three periods of 10 minutes for small field and 3v3
- The playing time belongs to the event, not to the day
Penalty shots with no fuss in the table
Where football keeps a shoot-out outside the score, floorball puts it inside: the winner of the round is credited with one extra goal. The NeFUB records the round on the sheet as a fifth period, and in PlayTour you simply enter the final score.
- A league draw pays a point to each side
- The winner of the penalty shots gets one extra goal
- 5-5 becomes 6-5 and the table reads a win
- Goal difference and goals scored as tiebreaks
You book the hall for the hours you actually need
The IFF stops the clock at every whistle, but a federation may be allowed to let it run, and the NeFUB does exactly that across its youth competition and per division for the seniors. The same sixty minutes of play then cost half an hour less in the hall, and that difference goes into your changeover time.
- The time reserved is playing time, not hall time
- Three periods of 20 on an effective clock run well past ninety minutes
- Intervals and changeover time are set separately
- Clashes flagged before the schedule goes out
Teams level? Your tiebreaks are ready
When teams are level on points the NeFUB looks first at the matches between the tied teams and only then at the figures across the whole pool. That is how PlayTour has it set, and the order is yours to change per event.
- First the points from the matches between them
- Then goal difference and goals scored in those matches
- Then goal difference across the whole pool
- Then goals scored across the whole pool
Setting up a floorball tournament
Four decisions, and PlayTour works each one out against your hall hours.
- 1
Pick the format and the playing time
The full rink with three periods of twenty minutes, the youth format of three times fifteen, or small field and 3v3 at three times ten. You set it per event, so a youth pool and a senior pool can run alongside each other.
- 2
Let teams enter themselves
The team manager enters the team and invites the players, who confirm for themselves. You set the minimum and maximum squad size per event, so a 3v3 group and a full side with a keeper both fit.
- 3
Draw the pools across your courts
Pools, pools into a knockout, or a straight elimination draw. The schedule is laid across every court at once, inside the hall hours you gave, and flags a clash before you publish.
- 4
Play and count
Goals come in from the court and the pool standings keep up. If a match went to penalty shots, you enter the final score with the extra goal in it and the winner moves on by itself.
Floorball tournament questions
How do we record a match settled on penalty shots?+
As an ordinary result with one goal added. The IFF rules and the NeFUB regulations both credit the winner of the round with one extra goal, so 5-5 becomes 6-5. That is the score you enter and the table reads it as a win. What the system cannot show is which goal was awarded and which was scored with a stick: both count towards goal difference, and that is what the rule says to do.
Can a match end level in our tournament?+
In a league it can, where it pays a point to each side. In a knockout the NeFUB plays ten minutes of overtime and then penalty shots, and the 3v3 rules allow no draw at all. PlayTour accepts a level score and cannot insist round by round that a winner comes out. So that agreement lives in your own tournament regulations, and what you enter is the result that counts.
How much hall time does a match of three times twenty take?+
Considerably more than the sixty minutes PlayTour reserves, because that figure is playing time. On an effective clock the time stops at every whistle and you are well past ninety minutes, the two ten-minute intermissions on top. Run the clock straight, as the NeFUB does in its youth competition, and you save about half an hour. You put the difference into the changeover time per event.
Can small field and 3v3 run alongside the full rink?+
Yes, as events of their own with their own playing time of three times ten minutes. The small-field youth game is played with or without a keeper and 3v3 on a field of 22 by 11 metres, and both sit beside your regular pools in the same schedule. One thing the score sheet cannot do: the 3v3 rules forbid a draw, and that rule is for the officials to keep.
Does every player need an account?+
The team manager does, because they enter the team. Players get an invitation and confirm for themselves that they are taking part.
Put your floorball tournament up and let the teams come in
A free account, your events each with their own playing time, and the link shared with the clubs around you. Entries arrive without you keeping a list. Publishing and taking entries are part of the free plan; the draw, the playing schedule and live results come with a paid plan.