Create a tournament
What you’ll achieve: a tournament event that appears in Competition Manager, ready to build a rulebook and open sign-ups.
Prerequisites: a club with online payments set up, and access to Club Manager (the event form lives there).
- Open the Schedule screen. Your tournaments are split across the Upcoming and Past tabs.
- Click Add Event.
- In the Open Club Manager dialog, click Continue. A new tab opens Club Manager, already signed in, on the event-creation form.
- Create the event there as a tournament. Under Competition Rulebook, select the regulation standard the tournament will follow — this is the moment a rulebook gets attached to the event.
- Return to Competition Manager — the tournament now appears under Upcoming.
Choosing the rulebook
Section titled “Choosing the rulebook”The event form lists every rulebook available to your club:
- PRO rulebooks (RFEVB PRO, CEV PRO, FIVB PRO, DVV PRO) follow the official federation regulations, including scheduling enforcement — minimum rest, max matches per day.
- VW Amateur rulebooks are Volley World App’s adaptations for amateur play: same scoring shape, no scheduling enforcement. They are not officially endorsed by the federations.
- Custom rulebooks you’ve built yourself appear under Your Custom Rulebooks.
You cannot create or edit a rulebook from this form — it only selects one. Rulebooks are authored in the Rulebook Manager (the Rulebooks tab of Competition Manager). Build it there first, then it shows up here.
To change the rulebook after the event exists, edit the event in Club Manager and pick a different one.
Copy a tournament for the same day
Section titled “Copy a tournament for the same day”Running several tournaments at the same venue on the same day? Set one up completely, then clone it instead of rebuilding each one.
- Open the finished tournament’s event in Club Manager (edit it).
- Click Copy as new (the copy icon, top-right of the edit screen — it only appears on an existing tournament).
- A fresh editor opens with everything cloned and a banner: “You are creating a NEW tournament from a copy.” The original is not modified.
- Change the name, date or any settings, then publish it as its own tournament.
Troubleshooting
Section titled “Troubleshooting””Failed to open Club Manager”
The auto-login to Club Manager didn’t complete. Click Add Event again, or open Club Manager directly and create the tournament event there.