Badminton app: score games, find players and run tournaments

Yes. Badminton is one of ten sports on Flobit: padel, tennis, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, football, ultimate frisbee, eFootball, badminton and pickleball. Choose badminton when you post an open match, start a Quick Match or create a tournament. You can see every sport on the sports page.

Badminton is in the iPhone app (iOS 17 or later, version 1.0.4 or later), in the Android app and on Apple Watch. It is free to use, with no ads. Flobit Plus is an optional subscription for advanced stats and a Plus badge. The web app doesn't support scoring badminton.

You can score a game, find people to play it with and run an event, all from your phone.

• Score rally by rally, with undo. Singles or doubles. The scorer taps the side that won each rally, and the app closes each game and the match at the right score. If you start tracking late, "Update score" lets you enter the earlier games and the game in play, and it refuses a game that could not have ended that way, such as 25-10 in a game to 21.
• Follow the serve. A serve tracker shows which side is serving and from which court: the right court when the server's score is even, the left when it is odd. In doubles it moves the partners only when their side wins a rally while serving, and it shows "Service over" when the serve passes. If a pair started the game the other way round, the scorer can swap their positions. The next game's first server is the winner of the last game.
• See the interval. The app shows a note at the interval and when to change ends, such as "Interval · 60 s" at 11 in a game to 21. It is a note for the scorer. The app doesn't time the break.
• Score from the court. Apple Watch scoring, a Live Activity showing the game in play, and a courtside mode on iPhone.
• Find players. Open matches work as they do for padel: the host sets singles or doubles, the format, the time, the place and an optional level range, and players ask to join.
• Run events. Tournaments in all five formats, with referees and trophies.
• Track your level. Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced, plus a rating for badminton that builds from confirmed results.

The formats you can pick:

Each format comes in singles and doubles. Mixed doubles is a setting of the match, not a separate format. Some things aren't in the app, so you don't wait for them. Flobit doesn't speak the score aloud for badminton (spoken score calls are for tennis and padel only), doesn't time intervals, doesn't judge faults or lets, and doesn't book courts. The web app doesn't score badminton, and while you follow the serve on your own phone or watch, other people can't see who is serving.

Post an open match, then run the night the way a good club night works.

• Post an open match. Choose badminton, singles or doubles and a format, then set the time and the place. Players within your search radius (50 km to start, 5 to 100 km if you change it) ask to join, and you approve who plays. A level range is guidance on the listing, not a rule, and nothing in Flobit matches you with players automatically.
• Fix a slot and a court. Book the hall through the venue or your club. Flobit doesn't book courts.
• Count your courts. A doubles game needs four players per court, so a court seats four at a time.

• Rotate fairly. When someone has to sit out, rotate it so everyone gets the same amount of play. With four players, three games let everyone partner everyone once. With five on one court, play five games and let a different person sit out each time. For a bigger night where everyone plays everyone, the round robin schedule guide explains how many matches you need and how to build the rounds, and the free round robin generator lays them out.
• Run it as a Mexicano. For a rotating-partner club night, create a Mexicano tournament in a community. Partners change every round, each court is a points race, and the leaderboard updates as scores come in.
• Keep one list. Use one place to say who is in, and set a confirmation deadline, so the group isn't scrolling a chat to count heads. The guide to organizing pickup games has a message you can copy.

The same approach works for a small tournament: pick a format, count the matches, and publish the schedule before the day. Tournament formats compares the options.

Play seven rounds. In each round the eight players form four pairs, two pairs meet on each court, and over the seven rounds every player partners every other player exactly once. Number the players 1 to 8 (draw the numbers from a hat) and follow the table.

Give each round a fixed length, such as one game to 21 or a 15-minute timer, so the courts change over together. At 15 minutes a round, the night takes under two hours. Opponents are not perfectly evened out, so if you want a leaderboard, add up the points each player won across the night instead of counting match wins. With a different number of players, the round robin schedule guide shows how to build the rounds.

Badminton uses rally scoring, where every rally scores a point. Under the BWF Laws in force today, a game is played to 21 points, a match is best of three games, and at 29-all the side that scores the 30th point wins. From 4 January 2027 the BWF Laws change to three games of 15 points each. Clubs, leagues and domestic organisers may keep 3x21 as an approved alternative. Flobit offers both 3x21 and 3x15 as formats you choose for each match, so it doesn't switch on a date. The badminton scoring guide explains both systems, the serving courts and the doubles service rules.

Five racket sports are live. Padel and tennis are scored point by point, with levels from 1.0 to 7.0. Table tennis and badminton are scored game by game, and pickleball point by point with side-out or rally scoring. Each has open matches to find a partner or a doubles four, Quick Match lobbies, ratings and tournaments, so a racket group can use Flobit for whichever sport it plays.

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