Americano vs bracket
For an americano (everyone plays everyone), generate fresh pairs each round. For a knockout afternoon, generate once and feed the pairs into the bracket.
Padel is built around doubles — paste your group and get fresh pairs every round without spreadsheets.
The free version does the job. The optional template pack just makes brackets look beautiful for events, classrooms and clubs.
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Padel clubs, americano-style social mornings, corporate padel events. The pair generator handles the rotation; the bracket maker handles the knockout stage.
For an americano (everyone plays everyone), generate fresh pairs each round. For a knockout afternoon, generate once and feed the pairs into the bracket.
Add a 1–7 rating after each name; balanced mode pairs strong-with-weak so games stay tight.
There's a temptation to think a sport-specific or classroom-specific tool would be 'better' than a generic generator. In practice the opposite is true: the rules of fair team-splitting are the same whether you're dividing a Year 7 PE class or a Sunday-league football squad. What changes between audiences is the framing — the language used in the guide, the typical group size, the kinds of ratings people record. The underlying maths (Fisher–Yates shuffle, snake-draft balancing) is identical. That's why this site uses one generator across many audience-specific pages: the same engine, with copy and presets tuned to the context.
If you'll regenerate teams from the same roster repeatedly — every Tuesday training, every Friday game night — paste the names once, click 'Copy as text', and save the result in a note app or a pinned message. Next session, paste it back. There's no account system to maintain and nothing to forget; the names live wherever you keep your other notes. For coaches managing multiple squads, prefix each name with a one-letter squad tag (e.g. 'A Alex', 'B Sam') and use the filter step to keep only the relevant tag before generating.
Yes — skip this step and go straight to the bracket maker; paste your existing pairs as team names.
Yes. The generator doesn't ask for personal information, doesn't display ads inside the tool itself, and runs entirely client-side. Many teachers use it weekly. See the trust and safety page for the full position on under-16 use.
Yes — the 'Export CSV' button gives you a two-column file (team, name) that opens cleanly in Excel, Google Sheets, and Numbers. From there you can pivot, filter, or merge with attendance records.
Add their name to the textarea and regenerate. If you want to preserve the existing teams and just slot the latecomer in, use the 'Add to smallest team' shortcut instead of regenerating — it places them on whichever team currently has the fewest members.
Run your padel club's monthly tournament without a club-management subscription. Free bracket, printable PDF.
OpenClub mornings, tennis schools, social ladders — paste players and get fair doubles pairs in one click.
OpenTennis, pickleball, padel — same bracket logic. Enter pairs, generate the sheet, share or print.
OpenNeed to pair people up for an exercise, a doubles match, or a 1v1 tournament? Paste your list, click once.
OpenFree forever for basic use. No signup required. The free version really does do the job.
Want prettier prints? See the optional template pack