Can we play games to 15 or 21 instead of 11?

Yes. The target is part of the league setup, so a league playing single games to 15 or 21 sets it once and everything else — the score form, the validation, the standings — follows.

Does it matter whether we play rally or side-out scoring?

No. The two change how points are reached, not what a finished game reads, so both produce the same result and the same table.

How do the standings break a tie?

Head-to-head first, then game difference, then point difference. The chain runs on every result, so the order is always current.

Do all the players need to sign up?

No. An admin adds players by name and the league starts immediately. Anyone who registers later with the same email picks up their whole match history.

Can a pickleball league have playoffs?

Yes. A league can end with a playoff phase: when the season's rounds are all played, the final table seeds a single-elimination bracket, which you can reorder before it starts. The regular-season table is frozen while the bracket runs, so the record the draw came from cannot change. A pickleball tournament can also run as a pure knockout with no season at all.

Is the pickleball league app free?

Completely. Unlimited leagues, unlimited players, every feature, no credit card.

Free · Singles and doubles

A pickleball league with a real table behind it.

Rankelo is a free pickleball league app for clubs, community courts and organised programmes. Create a singles or doubles league, and every pairing is scheduled for you. Players enter their own games and the standings follow.

Create your pickleball league — free How pickleball is scored

No credit card. No cap on leagues or players. Signing up takes a minute.

Community Pickleball — Spring

Round robin · 5 pairs · 20 matches

Open

#	Competitor	P	W	Games	Pts
1	Bennett / Shah	8	7	15–7	22
2	Hale / Lowe	8	6	13–9	19
3	Ashby / Reid	8	4	12–11	16
4	Cole / Nash	8	2	8–13	10
5	Dunne / Park	8	1	7–15	8

Result entered

Bennett / Shah11-9, 7-11, 11-4Hale / Lowe

Standings updated · 2 minutes ago

Pickleball on Rankelo

What a pickleball 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 pickleball brings.

Games to 11, won by two

The standard rule, checked on entry: 11-9 counts, 11-10 does not. Play to 15 or 21 instead and the league can say so.

Singles and doubles

Doubles is how most of the sport is played, so pickleball doubles is its own league type — named pairs ranked as teams.

Rally or side-out, either way

How a point is won does not change what the score records, so both serving conventions produce the same 11-9 and the same table.

League types

Pickleball— one player per side
Pickleball Doubles— a named pair per side

Individual and team leagues are separate leagues, so a club can run both from one account.

How it works

From idea to pickleball standings in four steps.

1
Create a league
Pick pickleball — or pickleball doubles for a league of pairs — then choose best of three, best of five or a single game.
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
A player taps in 11-9, 7-11, 11-4 from the court. The table reorders before the next pair is on.

Get started — free

Scoring & standings

How pickleball is scored in Rankelo.

Pickleball is a race to a point target: a match is a run of games, each game to 11, won by two, with no cap. Rankelo checks each game has a legal ending and that the match itself is decisive for the format you chose.

A race to a targetEach row is a race to a point target won by a margin, and the row tally decides the match.

The rules pickleball plays by

Score recorded as: A point count per side, per game
Points a game runs to: 11 by default
Won by: 2 clear points, uncapped
Default match format: Best of three games
Roster: Players (singles) or pairs (doubles)

Match formats you can choose

Single game — One game — set the target to 15 or 21 for the longer club format.
Best of three games — The default, and the standard tournament format.
Best of five games — For a league that wants longer matches.

Separating competitors level on points

1Head-to-head between the level competitors
2Game difference
3Point difference

Points systems a pickleball 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 game taken in defeat (default)
2 for a win, 1 for a game taken in defeat
3 for a win, 1 for a loss
2 for a win, 1 for a loss
1 for a win, nothing for a loss
3 for a win in straight games, 2 and 1 when it goes the distance

A league that plays single games to 15 or 21 sets the format to a single game and the target to match — no code, no different sport, the same table.

End the pickleball season with playoffs.

Any pickleball league can finish with a knockout phase: once every round is played, the final table seeds a single-elimination bracket — reorder the seeds if you like, byes go to the top seeds, and a third-place match is optional. Or skip the season and run a straight knockout from day one.

How tournaments work

Features

Everything a pickleball league needs.

Standings that follow your rules

Three points for a win and one for a game taken in defeat, then head-to-head, game difference and point difference — or pick a different points system and watch the table re-score.

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.

Playoffs and brackets

End the season with a knockout seeded from the final table, or run a straight bracket from day one — seeding, byes and an optional third-place match included.

Learn more

Singles, doubles and teams

Rank players, named pairs or whole teams. A pair or team is a competitor with its own record, and every sport commonly played in pairs ships a doubles variant.

Pricing

Free. No asterisk.

Rankelo is free to use. There is no paid tier, no per-player charge and no feature held back — everything on this page is what every organiser gets.

Unlimited leagues and seasons
Unlimited players and teams
Every feature included
No credit card, no seat count
The only personal data we store is a name and an email

Create a free account

FAQ

Pickleball leagues, answered.

Yes. Pickleball doubles is its own league type: named pairs are the competitors, they hold their own record, and fixtures pair teams rather than players.

More sports

Rankelo is not only for pickleball.

The same fixtures, the same table and the same price, whatever your organisation plays.

See every sport

Run the league. Read the table.

Create a league in a minute, add the competitors, and let Rankelo keep the record.

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