Online Scoreboard

Pick a sport and the scoreboard tracks set wins, serve order and court changes by the book

The online scoreboard keeps a game's score large and easy to read. Each time a team scores, tap its big number. Using the rules of the sport you chose, the alert line under the board tells you whether a set or game has ended, who serves next and when the teams switch sides. It also handles long deuce runs such as 24-24 in volleyball and cap situations such as 29-29 in badminton.

For timed sports such as basketball, futsal and soccer, it also runs the game clock and keeps track of team fouls and timeouts. Full screen puts only the scoreboard on the display, so a TV, a projector or a tablet can serve as the scoreboard. The score-flow chart and the score-by-set table below it keep a record of how the game went, and your game is saved in this browser only, so it survives a refresh.

Why keep a separate scoreboard

Official venues have a scoreboard and a scorer. School gyms and club games often have neither. When the score is only shouted back and forth, play keeps stopping over what the score is or whose serve it is. Here is where this tool helps.

• PE classes and school leagues: when players and classmates all watch the same number, there is less to argue about. A teacher can referee and tap the score on a laptop or tablet.
• Rented-court games: if you have the gym for a fixed time, seeing the clock next to the set score tells you how many games still fit. That is why the clock runs even in set-based sports.
• Rules that are easy to forget: the deciding set in volleyball goes to 15 with a side change at 8. Table tennis serve changes every 2 points, then every point from 10-10. The scoreboard works these out for you.
• Looking back after the game: the score-flow chart shows where momentum changed hands and how long the longest scoring run was. Copy result lets you post the score to a group chat.

How to use it

1. Choose a sport at the top. Details that differ between tournaments, such as quarter length in basketball or a best-of-3 volleyball match, are changed in the settings below.
2. Tap a team name to edit it. The circle next to the name changes the team color, which is also used in the chart and the score table.
3. When a team scores, tap its big number or +1. Basketball also has +2 and +3 buttons. If you tapped by mistake, use −1 (it corrects that team's last score) or Undo.
4. In timed sports, start the clock with the Start button or the Space key. A buzzer sounds when time runs out, and the next-period button moves on. In set-based sports, the next set begins by itself when a set ends.
5. Full screen, at the top right of the board (or the F key), shows only the scoreboard. There, the ← → keys add a point for the left or right team, and Shift with them removes a point. To leave, press Exit full screen in the same spot or Esc.

How sets are decided

In sports played in sets (or games), a side must reach the target score and also lead by at least 2 points to take the set. Badminton adds a cap so that deuce cannot go on forever: the first side to reach the cap score wins even with a 1-point lead. The scoreboard uses the values in the table below to work out set winners and set and match points.

A best-of-3 volleyball match (first to 2 sets) is not an FIVB format; it is set by the competition's own rules. In that case the scoreboard treats the third set as the deciding set and plays it to 15. If your competition differs, use Custom to set the set points, the final-set points and the cap.

Serve order depends on the sport

The Serve marker on the board is recalculated from the scoring record alone, so when you fix a score with Undo or −1, the serve order is corrected with it.

• Volleyball: the team that wins the rally scores the point and serves next (FIVB 6.1.3). In sets 2 to 4, the team that did not serve first in the previous set serves first (12.1.2); the first set and the deciding set are decided by a toss (12.1.1).
• Badminton: the side that wins the rally scores and serves. The server serves from the right service court when its score is 0 or even, and from the left when it is odd (BWF 10.1, 11.1). The scoreboard shows this as "Serve · right court". The winner of the previous game serves first in the next one (7.6).
• Table tennis: serve changes every 2 points, and every point from 10-10 (ITTF 2.13.3). The player who served first in a game receives first in the next (2.13.6).

To match the result of the toss, press Switch first serve in the middle while the set is still 0:0. The button disappears once any point has been scored.

Badminton moves to 15-point games on January 4, 2027

On April 25, 2026, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) approved a change of its laws so that a game goes to 15 points from January 4, 2027. Until then, the current 21-point format applies. The numbers that change are these.

• Game points: 21 → 15 (7.2). The best-of-3 format stays the same.
• Deuce: 2-point lead needed from 20-20 → from 14-14 (7.4).
• Cap: at 29-29 the 30th point wins → at 20-20 the 21st point wins (7.5).
• Interval and the end change in the third game: at 11 → at 8 (8.1.3, 16.2.1). The 120-second break between games stays the same.

The scoreboard checks today's date to pick the default scoring format: 21 points in 2026 and 15 points from January 4, 2027. You can change it in the settings at any time to match your club's rules.

Timed sports: the clock, team fouls and timeouts

The basketball clock counts down by default and shows tenths of a second in the final minute. At zero it stops and the buzzer sounds, and buttons appear for timing the 2-minute break between quarters and the 15-minute halftime (FIBA 8.3, 8.4). FIBA allows at most 2 timeouts in the second half once the 4th-quarter clock is at 2:00 or less (18.2.5), so the scoreboard reduces the number of timeouts left during that stretch.

Soccer counts up by default, and the second half starts at 45:00. After the regulation 45 minutes, the clock does not stop; it shows added time separately, as in +1:23. The referee decides how much time is added (IFAB Law 7, point 3), so the tool only displays it. In sports where the clock stops when the ball is dead, such as futsal and basketball, you press Stop and Start yourself. The Clock setting can switch the direction.

Reading the example game

The example you see when you first open the page is a basketball game. Falcons lead Bears 58-54 midway through the third quarter, with 4:12 left on the clock. Team fouls in the 3rd quarter stand at 3 for the Falcons and 4 for the Bears. Because the Bears have reached 4, the "Free throws" lamp is lit: if the Bears commit the next foul, the Falcons shoot 2 free throws.

Timeouts in the second half are used up as follows: Falcons 0 of 3, Bears 1 of 3. In the score-flow chart, the part above the zero line is where the Falcons lead, and the part below is where the Bears lead. In the summary above the chart, the example shows 7 lead changes, a biggest lead of 7 points for the Falcons (Q2) and a longest scoring run of 10 points for the Bears (Q2). Tap any score and the example disappears and a new 0:0 game begins.

Putting it on a big screen

• TV or projector: connect a laptop by HDMI and press Full screen. The score and clock buttons stay inside the board, so you can keep tapping them on the laptop.
• Tablet: stand it beside the court and tap the big numbers directly. While the clock is running or in full screen, the screen is kept awake if your browser supports it.
• Matching sides: when the side-change alert appears, Swap sides moves the teams on screen to match the real court. The ← → keys follow the swapped positions.
• Sound: the end-of-time buzzer and the timeout-end tone can be turned off with the Sound switch.

Common mistakes

• "A volleyball set always ends at 25": at 24-24 play continues until one team leads by 2, so sets end 26-24, 27-25 and so on.
• "The deciding set is also to 25": the fifth set of a five-set match goes to 15, and the teams switch sides when the leading team reaches 8 (FIVB 6.3.2, 18.2.2).
• "Badminton deuce never ends": in the 21-point format the 30th point wins at 29-29, and in the 15-point format the 21st point wins at 20-20.
• "In table tennis, serve still changes every 2 points after 10-10": from 10-10 it changes every point (ITTF 2.13.3). The scoreboard moves the Serve marker in that order.
• "Team fouls reset to zero in basketball overtime": under FIBA, overtime team fouls continue the 4th-quarter count (42.1.3). If a team already had 4 team fouls in the 4th quarter, its first foul in overtime gives the opponent free throws (42.1.1). Individual player fouls and NBA or NCAA rules can be counted separately in the basketball foul counter.
• "In futsal, free kicks start at the 5th accumulated foul": the direct free kick with no wall begins with the sixth accumulated foul in each period. In extra time, fouls continue the second-period count.

What this tool can't do

• It does not replace an official score sheet. It does not record points or fouls by player, substitutions or rotations.
• There is no shot clock (24 seconds in basketball) and no other possession timer. You also have to stop and start the game clock by hand.
• There is no way to link several devices to edit one scoreboard together. The game is saved in this browser only, and closing a private window or clearing site data erases it.
• Sports that nest points, games and sets, such as tennis, and baseball innings are not supported. For sports not in the table, such as pickleball, Custom lets you match the set points, deuce and cap, but the serve order is not shown.
• Match length, number of sets and timeouts vary between tournaments. If they differ from the competition rules, follow the competition rules.

As of 2026-10-24. The rule numbers were checked against the original texts listed below, and they will be checked again when a new edition comes out.

Sources

• 01FIVB Official Volleyball Rules 2025-20286.2, 6.3 sets and match, 12.1 first serve by set, 15.1, 15.4.1 timeouts, 18.1, 18.2 breaks and side changes
• 02BWF Laws of Badminton, 2025 edition (copy)7 scoring (21 points, 30-point cap), 8.1 change of ends, 10.1, 11.1 service courts, 16.2 intervals
• 03BWF Laws of Badminton, 2027 edition (copy)Adopted 2026-04-25, in force 2027-01-04: 15 points, deuce from 14-14, 21-point cap, interval at 8
• 04BWF: Members approve 3x15 scoring systemBWF announcement approving 15-point (3x15) scoring
• 05ITTF Statutes 20262.11 game, 2.12 match, 2.13 serving, receiving and order of ends, 3.4.4.2 timeouts
• 06FIBA Official Basketball Rules 2026 v1.18 playing time, breaks and overtime, 18.2 timeouts, 42.1 team fouls
• 07FIFA Futsal Laws of the Game 2025-26Law 7 duration and timeouts, accumulated fouls and direct free kicks, extra time
• 08IFAB Laws of the Game 2025/26Law 7 duration, half-time and added time, extra time

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