Q&A for How to Organize a Soccer Tournament

Talk to businesses in your local area that may be interested and tell them why it is important to have their support and how they will benefit from offering it.

Identify the marquee players and distribute them among different teams.Then go on with the bidding process by assigning a fixed amount per team.

The host will coordinate the entire tournament.

You can use simple applications like excel or you can try websites/apps like FootballTracker. They provide a free soccer tournament organizer.

Write the things that you need to do and supplies you need to have for a successful tournament, then follow through, and check off each thing on the list to make sure you're ready.

Use social networking! The internet makes it easy to connect with people from all around the world. See if you can get in contact with some famous soccer stars or clubs and have them spread the word to their fans.

Make it a two stage process. People pay for tickets at a particular stall and get a wristband with a particular color designating seating arrangements. Then they proceed to the appropriate gate. Only individuals with authorized bands are allowed in. If you use paper tickets you might experienced variances in revenue when doing accounts.

You don't have to, but that's really the only way you'll make a profit from the tournament.

In order to schedule a 16-team tournament, you need to take into consideration if it needs to be home & away games (30 games) or one-game (15 games). You should do it as one-game tournament, which will require you to play 5 games a day, (because 15/3 = 5). So the time is enough.

Pay the radio station or local news services to advertise that you are looking for sponsors. You could ask friends and family to share this call for sponsorship across their social media accounts as well. And if there are any bulletin boards at workplaces or community clubs, pin up a poster with your request. It can also help to ask neighbors.

Pitchfinder is a great resource for finding pitches near you. Simply put in your postcode or address and it will find pitches near you. The websites are linked next to each pitch with prices. In terms of insurance, the pitch owners can help you out there.

When it comes to charges, the registration amount depends on the availability of the teams in such local area and their possibility to part-take in your tournament. It should be a fair amount that those teams would afford. As for the winning teams, you could set a fixed amount after all teams have confirmed as to how much would the winner of the tournaments get, the second and the runner-up (third); but not giving way too much because they'll also get medals and a trophy or cup (1st position).

If you are offering the best/quality tournament, it could be possible. But, it is also very unlikely since FIFA 06 players are "old-timers" now, but if you are really fighting for exclusives it is possible to consider the opposite; get recent footballers perhaps.

First, divide the teams in 5 groups with every group having 4 teams. Round 1, 2 and 3 could all happen by group stage, every team gets to play with the other 3 teams and the winner and runner-up by points proceeds. Round 4 will have 5 matches, all winners will progress to round 5 (Quarter finals). Round 5 will only have 5 teams remaining, winner from the group stage with the highest points across will get a free ticket to the Finals. There will be 2 matches left for the other 4 teams, winners will progress to the semi-finals. Round 6 (semi-finals) will play home and away, winner could win by aggregate and the team that loses gets the third position whilst the winner goes on the finals.

So 4 teams currently generates 6 rounds. 6 teams generates 10 rounds. So if I enter 4 teams, a # of rounds box would give me options of 6, 12, 18, etc. If I enter 6 teams, the fields options would give me options of 10, 20, 30 rounds etc.. This is still the best and easiest schedule maker.