A football league table that keeps itself.
Rankelo is a free football league app for five-a-side, work and Sunday leagues. Name the teams, and every fixture is generated when the league opens. Someone enters the score after the match and the table applies three points for a win, one for a draw and the goal difference.
No credit card. No cap on leagues or players. Signing up takes a minute.
Football on Rankelo
What a football league looks like here.
Rankelo is built around a sport abstraction: every sport brings its own scoring rules, and the leagues, fixtures and standings work the same whatever you play. This is what football brings.
One score, not a run of sets
Football is the first family in Rankelo whose winner is a sum rather than a tally of sets or games won. A result is one goal count per side, and the higher total takes it.
Draws count, from the first fixture
A level score is a legal result worth a point. The drawn column is shown because football allows draws, not because one has happened — so the table never changes width mid-season.
Home and away in one setting
Set each pairing to meet twice and Rankelo generates a double round robin. Sides carry no venue meaning, so the two meetings are simply two fixtures.
League types
- Football— a named team per side
A team is a name that competes — it carries its own record, and squad size is not modelled.
How it works
From idea to football standings in four steps.
- 1
Create a league
Pick football, name the teams, and choose the points system — 3-1-0 as standard — and how many times each pairing meets.
- 2
Add the players
A name is enough — they do not need an account. Add an email too and they link to their own match history automatically the day they register.
- 3
Open the league
Rankelo generates the fixtures for every pairing, once or as many times as you set. If the roster changes later the schedule reconciles — matches already played are kept.
- 4
Play
Someone enters 3-1 after the match. The table applies the points, the goals for and against and the goal difference on the spot.
Scoring & standings
How football is scored in Rankelo.
Football belongs to the aggregate-score family: a match is one final score, the higher total wins, and a level score is a draw. It is the shape every league table you have ever read is built on, and the only one of the three families in Rankelo where a side can be outscored across the season and still finish top.
One aggregate scoreA single total per side, and the higher one wins — the only family where a level score can count.
The rules football plays by
- Score recorded as
- A goal count per side
- Winner
- The higher total
- Draws
- Allowed, and worth a point
- Default points system
- 3 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss
- Match format
- Full match
- Roster
- Named teams
Match formats you can choose
- Full match — One score for the match. Scores by half are a later addition.
Separating competitors level on points
- 1Head-to-head between the level teams
- 2Goal difference
- 3Goals scored
Points systems a football league can pick from
Chosen per league, and changeable at any time — switch it and every match already played is re-scored.
- 3 for a win, 1 for a draw, nothing for a loss (default)
- 2 for a win, 1 for a draw, nothing for a loss — the pre-1981 rule
- 1 for a win, nothing for a loss
The consolation presets other sports offer are deliberately absent, and not as a matter of taste: they pay nothing for a draw, so a football league on one would score a 2-2 nothing at all while paying the 3-0 loser a point for scoring. Extra time and penalties are not modelled — a league that settles a fixture on penalties records the score it finished at, or switches draws off and enters the winning side ahead.
Features
Everything a football league actually needs.
Standings that follow your rules
Three points for a win and one for a draw, then head-to-head, goal difference and goals scored — the league table every football supporter can already read, recalculated on every result.
Automatic fixtures
Every pairing × your chosen number of meetings, generated in one click when the league opens.
Players without accounts
Add someone by name and the league can start right away. They register with the same email later and pick up their matches.
Public standings
Share a link and anyone can open the table — no login, no account, nothing to install.
On your phone, in your language
Enter the score where you played it. The app runs in English and Slovenian, light or dark.
Traceable results
Every entry records who submitted it and when. Corrections go through a league admin, so the table never quietly changes.
Pricing
Free. No asterisk.
Rankelo is free to use. There is no paid tier holding the real features back — everything on this page is what everyone gets.
- Unlimited leagues
- Unlimited players and teams
- Every feature included
- No credit card
- The only personal data we store is a name and an email
FAQ
Football leagues, answered.
More sports
Rankelo is not only for football.
The same fixtures, the same table and the same price, whatever your group plays.
Next Sunday could have a league table.
Create a league in a minute, add your group, and let Rankelo do the counting.
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