Run a better tournament day.
Plain-English planning guides for grassroots and junior football organisers. Built around the questions that come up before, during and after the fixtures are made.
How many pitches do I need for a junior football tournament?
Work it out from team numbers, group size, match slots and the time available — with examples for 16, 24 and 32-team events.
Read the guideStart with the decisions that shape the day.
Formats, pitches, fixtures, timings and the practical admin around them.
How to organise a grassroots football tournament
The full UK checklist covering venue, sanctioning, entries, referees, first aid, fixtures and tournament day.
Formats, game counts and timetables
Round robins, groups and knockouts, plus the maths behind how many games your format creates.
Football tournament timetable template & schedule calculator
Check whether the day fits, protect team rest, preview the pitch schedule and download a reusable CSV template.
A team drops out. What happens next?
Use the withdrawal recovery planner to separate the competition-rule decision from the practical job of rebuilding fixtures, pitches, referees and communications.
Open recovery guideMore useful, not more content.
New guides will be added when there is a real organiser question worth answering. Zokko is not building a hundred-page SEO blog — the aim is a smaller library of useful resources that can actually help on tournament day.