Preview guide
Glossary
The words Leagable uses, in one line each.
Words you will meet
- League provider
- The organisation that runs leagues — a regional association. Usually just called “the league” on screen.
- League
- One season of competition, such as “Coteaux League 2026”. Each season is its own league: draft, then active, then completed.
- Division
- A tier within a league. Teams are entered into a division.
- Club
- Independent, with its own members, teams and grounds. It can belong to more than one league provider.
- Affiliation
- A club’s membership of a league provider. The club applies and the league approves.
- Team
- Belongs to a club and plays in one division each season. It has one captain and one vice captain.
- Squad
- The players in a team.
- Captain / vice captain
- Pick the lineup and enter or confirm results. Only the captain can hand result entry to a stand-in.
- Temporary captain
- A stand-in given the right to enter a team’s results between two dates. It runs out by itself.
- Managed player
- A member added by their club who has no account of their own.
- League registration
- The record that a player plays for a particular team in a league this season.
- Transfer
- Moving a player’s registration to another team in the same league.
- Terrain
- A ground where matches are played, owned by a club or by the league, with a limit on how many games it holds at once.
- Fixture
- One match between two teams on a date.
- Lineup
- A captain’s team sheet for a fixture, kept sealed until both sides have submitted theirs.
- Result
- Entered by the home side and confirmed — or disputed — by the away side. The league can record one itself.
- Standings
- The league table, worked out from confirmed results.
- Postponement
- A request to move a fixture to another date, agreed between the captains. A late one may bring a penalty.
- Sanction
- A penalty the league applies, such as points taken off.
- Scorecard
- The paper record expected when a result was agreed with a team not on Leagable.
- Season plan
- The calendar of match dates, cup rounds and weeks off.
- Competition / cup
- A knockout. A cup can run alongside a league, with Plate-style tiers for early losers.
- Event
- A one-day competition run by a club or league, drawn on the day.
- Roll of honour
- Past winners of a recurring event.
- Anonymous player
- A player who has chosen to hide their name on public websites.
- Demo person
- One of the made-up people you sign in as in this preview.
- Reset
- Wiping the demo and rebuilding it from its starting point. Everything done in it is erased.