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Create Your First League

Create a LeagueFlow league record so teams, schedules, standings, and public pages have a home.

Beginner / 10 minutes / 3 min read

This tutorial creates the first league inside an organization. By the end, you will have a league dashboard where the rest of the setup work can happen.

Prerequisites

  • You can sign in to LeagueFlow.
  • You have access to an organization.
  • You are an organization Owner or Admin.
  • Organization management is available for your workspace. If the organization is in view-only mode, restore access before creating a league.
  • You know the league name, season, division, location, dates, status, visibility, and any notes you want to add.

Open the organization workspace

Go to the organization that will own the league.

In the Leagues section, select Create league. If this is the first league, the section also explains that creating a league opens team, schedule, standings, and announcement workflows.

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Cebu Hoop Alliance

Owner

Organization workspace where leagues, venues, members, and plan status are managed.

Leagues

Ongoing leagues stay first, upcoming leagues stay close behind, and completed leagues remain available without crowding active work.

No leagues yet

Create the first league for this organization to open team, schedule, standings, and announcement workflows.

After a league exists

2026

upcoming

Metro City Spring League

Season 2026 · Division: Open · private

Choose a league cover

The new league screen is labeled New league. The first area is League cover.

A cover photo is optional. Add one when you already have a banner or event image ready. Select Choose cover, then use Position league cover photo to crop the image to the 820 x 312 ratio.

If the cover upload fails after the league is created, the league still exists. Add the cover later from Edit league.

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New league

League cover

The first area sets the league cover used on private and public league pages.

Cover photo

Cover photo

Add a wide league banner for private and public pages.

League cover

Your league

Cover photo

Recommended: wide JPEG, PNG, or WebP. Uses an 820 x 312 ratio.

Complete quick setup

Complete the Quick setup fields:

  • League name: the public or internal name of the competition.
  • Season: the season label, such as 2026 or Summer 2026.
  • Division: the group name, such as Open, Junior, Senior, or 18U.
  • Location: the main city, venue, or area for the league.
  • Start date and End date: the expected season window.
  • Status: use Upcoming before games start, Ongoing during the season, and Completed after the season ends.
  • Visibility: use Private while setup is still in progress. Use Public only when the league is ready to appear on public league pages.
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New league

Quick setup

Quick setup captures identity, dates, access, and location before teams and scheduling.

Start with the league basics.

Schedule inputs use the official league timezone. Teams, phases, schedules, standings, and stats are configured after creation.

Preview

Metro City Spring League

private
2026
Division: Open

Mar 1, 2026 - May 31, 2026Duration: 3 months

Cebu City Sports Complex

Add notes if needed

Open More league details if you want to add more context.

Use Description for a short summary of the competition. Use Rules summary for format, overtime, roster, or operating notes. Use Points system for a short scoring rule, such as Win = 2, Loss = 0.

These notes do not replace team, phase, schedule, or standings setup. Those workflows happen after the league is created.

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More league details

Optional

Optional profile copy, rule notes, and scoring notes can be added before saving.

League profile

Rules and scoring

Save the league

Select Create league. The button in the page header and the button at the bottom of the form both submit the same league form.

LeagueFlow opens the new league dashboard after the league is created. The first dashboard view shows the cover area, Back to organization, Edit league, shortcut cards for teams, games, players, standings, leaderboards, and sponsors, plus the Public sharing card.

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League dashboard

Metro City Spring League

A citywide basketball league for community teams, school alumni, and independent clubs.

upcoming
Visibility: private
Season: 2026
Division: Open
League dates: Mar 1, 2026 - May 31, 2026 (3 months)

Teams

0

Ready for schedules and rosters.

View teams

Games

0

Published on the league page.

View games

Players

0

Rostered across league teams.

View players

Standings

0

Teams ranked by results.

View standings

Leaderboards

0

Box scores feeding stat leaders.

View leaderboards

Sponsors

0

Active placements and cash tracking.

View sponsors

Public sharing

Public sharing
Private to organizers

Share the public league destination when the league is ready.

Visitors can browse public league information without an account. Following and public Highlights engagement require sign-in.

/l/metro-city-spring-league

Expected result: the organization has a new league dashboard, and the league appears in the organization workspace as a league card with Open dashboard, Teams, Schedule, Sponsors, and Edit actions.

If something blocks the workflow

  • If Create league is locked, check the organization plan state and active-league limit.
  • If a paid plan checkout is still pending, wait for backend confirmation before expecting access to change.
  • If the cover upload fails, continue with the saved league and add the image later from Edit league.

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