IBPSports Football Studio

Football Studio by IBPSports turns WordPress into a complete football (soccer) competition platform. Build and run leagues, cups and tournaments, manage clubs, players and staff, record matches with full event detail, and publish automatically-calculated standings and knockout brackets — all from one plugin, with no monthly fees and no external services. Everything is stored in dedicated, indexed custom database tables rather than as post meta, so it stays fast and portable even with thousands of matches. Why Football Studio by IBPSports?

• Truly complete and free. Unlimited leagues, seasons, tournaments, teams, players and matches — no caps, no "demo" limits.
• Automatic standings. Tables recalculate themselves from results, with configurable ranking rules (points, goal difference, goals scored, head-to-head, wins, win %, points per game and more).
• Both formats, properly modelled. Round-robin groups and knockout rounds/brackets, including two-legged ties, byes, seeding and automatic winner progression.
• Rich match data. Goals, own goals, penalties, yellow/red cards, substitutions, lineups (starting XI + bench + coach), per-team match statistics and a written match report.
• Self-contained frontend. Output is rendered through shortcodes and theme-overridable templates, so it works with any theme and never depends on a page builder.
• Performance-first architecture. Custom tables, bulk queries and CSS container queries for responsive widgets without bloat.
• Developer-friendly. Clean ibps_football/* filters for league types, ranking criteria, standing/stat columns, positions and more; templates you can override from your theme.

Free Features Leagues & Seasons

• Unlimited leagues with type (domestic league, domestic cup, international, national, friendly) and country
• Unlimited seasons with date ranges and an active-season concept
• Dedicated League and Season pages listing all their tournaments Tournaments
• Create tournaments per league + season
• Multiple stages, each round-robin (groups) or knockout (rounds)
• Per-tournament ranking rules and points rules
• Tournament hub page: standings, matches, participating teams and top player stats Teams & Players
• Team profiles: logo, colours, country, city, stadium, coach, founding year and description
• Player profiles: position, nationality, date of birth, shirt number, photo and bio
• Season-specific squad/roster management
• Staff (coaches/officials) and referees with their own profiles and match records
• Stadiums/venues with capacity, location map and matches hosted Matches & Scheduling
• Schedule matches in round-robin and knockout formats
• Full result detail: half-time, full-time, extra time and penalty shoot-outs
• Match events: goals, own goals, penalties, cards and substitutions
• Lineups: starting XI, bench and coach, with per-player event badges
• Side-by-side team match statistics and a written match report
• Match status handling (scheduled, live, finished, awarded, postponed, cancelled) Standings & Brackets
• Automatic standings updated from results, with form (W/D/L) run
• Configurable, multi-criteria ranking with position legends
• Knockout rounds and ties with automatic score recalculation and winner progression Statistics
• Ranked player statistics (goals, assists, cards, penalties and more)
• Ranked team statistics
• Per-team and per-player performance history Tools & UX
• Data import for bulk setup
• Built-in shortcode reference page (Football Settings → Shortcodes) documenting every shortcode and parameter
• TinyMCE shortcode inserter
• Country flags and ISO handling throughout

Free Shortcodes Insert any of these with the editor button or by typing them:

• [ibpf-league], [ibpf-season] — league / season hubs
• [ibpf-tournament], [ibpf-tournaments] — tournament hub and directory
• [ibpf-standings] — standings table
• [ibpf-team], [ibpf-teams] — team profile and team list
• [ibpf-player], [ibpf-players-stats] — player profile and ranked player stats
• [ibpf-teams-stats] — ranked team stats
• [ibpf-match] (+ [ibpf-match-info], [ibpf-match-events], [ibpf-match-report], [ibpf-match-lineup], [ibpf-match-stats]) — match page and standalone sections
• [ibpf-matches] — fixtures / results / schedule / calendar
• [ibpf-referee], [ibpf-staff] — referee and staff pages
• [ibpf-venue], [ibpf-venues] — stadium page and list

Requirements

• WordPress 6.2 or greater
• PHP 7.0 or greater
• MySQL 5.6 or greater

Steps

1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ or install via the WordPress plugin installer.
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
3. Navigate to Football Studio in the admin sidebar to begin setup.

1.0.0

• Initial release.