Opposition

Lists your opponent teams in one table, with the association each team plays for.

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Opposition
Opposition
On This Page Opponents Adding an Opponent Review An Opponent Their People Associations An Association's Page Scheduling Teams Importing Teams Related

Opponents

Lists every opponent in one sortable table. Each row shows the team's age level, association, primary contact and number of games.

This Season, All Teams, Retired
Select which teams the list shows.
Column headings
Click a heading to sort by that column.
Filter box
Type to find a team by name, age level, association or contact.
Remove from Season
Takes a team off this season. Confirm in the band. The team stays on the Opposition page.

Adding an Opponent

Adds an opponent team.

  1. Click New Opponent at the top. The form opens above Opponents.
  2. Enter the team, its age level and its association.
  3. Click Add Opponent. The opponent's page opens.
Team
The opponent's name as your games show it.
Age Level
The age level, such as 12U.
Association
Select an association from the list, or type a new name to create a new association.
Cancel
Closes the form.
When This Season is selected, the new team also joins this season.

Review

Lists opponent names typed on a game that match no opponent, on the Review tab. Coach Binder never matches a typed name for you, even when only the capital letters differ.

Example Two typed names to review. Add each one as an opponent or link it to an existing team.
Name on Games Played By Games Actions
Jr Sun Devils 10U Blue, 12U Gold 3
comets 10U Blue 1
This Season
Lists names from this season's games.
All Teams
Lists names from every game.
Add Opponent
Creates a team from the typed name. Links every game with that name to the new team.
Link
Links the typed name to an existing opponent. Confirm in the red band. Every game with that name then shows the team's name.
An opponent you select from the suggestions on the event form never appears here.

An Opponent

Shows everything you have recorded about one opponent team.

PanelWhat the Panel Shows
Details Name, association, age level and logos.
Notes Scouting notes in two boxes, one on their bench and one on the team. Staff only.
Their People Contacts for the season selected at the top. Earlier seasons appear below as read only.
Games Against Them Every game against the team on teams you can see. The next game leads, marked Next. Played games follow by season, with the date, score and your team.
Notes From Games Notes written on games against the team, newest first, with the game and the author. Another coach's private notes never appear.

A game page links its opponent to this page and shows the record against them under the name.

The following buttons act on the whole team. Every button except Save and Restore asks you to confirm in a red band first.

Save
Saves Details and Notes.
Remove from
Carries the name of the season selected at the top. Takes the team off that season. The team's people and games stay on the Opposition page.
Retire
Removes the team from the list and the game suggestions. Seasons that already include the team keep the team.
Restore
Returns a retired team to the list and the game suggestions.
Delete
Appears only for a team with no games, seasons, people, notes or logo.

The Details panel holds these fields.

Team
The team's name. Changing the name renames the team on every game against the team.
Association
The association the team plays for. Clear the field to take the team out of the association.
New logo
A new logo saves when you click Save.
Remove
Beside a logo. Beside the Profile Logo, Remove acts at once. Beside the Full Logo, Remove asks first. Click Remove Logo in the band to delete the image.
Crop the Full Logo
Opens the full logo in the cropper to make a square profile logo. Click Save to keep the crop.
Full Logo
Shows in place of the profile logo until you add a profile logo.

Their People

Lists the team's contacts for the season selected at the top.

Example Their People uses the same table as a player's contacts.
Name Role Email Phone
Dana Porter Primary Parent dana@example.com 480 555 0100
Chris Porter Parent chris@example.com
Role
Select Manager, Coach or Contact.
Make Primary
Makes that contact the team's primary contact. The first contact you add starts as primary.
Remove
Takes a contact off the season. The contact stays in that season's history.
Add to
Adds the team to the selected season with its latest contacts. Appears only when the team is not on that season, such as Add to Fall 2026.

Associations

An association is the club an opponent team plays for. Click the Associations tab at the top of the Opposition page to open the list.

Add Association
Creates an association. Typing a new association name on a team also creates an association.
Rename
Changes the association's name everywhere.
Retire
Hides the association. The teams stay filed under the association. Click Restore to show the association again.
Delete
Appears only for an association with no teams and no people. Click Delete It in the band to confirm.

An Association's Page

Shows the association's leadership, its teams and its teams in a season. Leadership belongs to the association, not to a season.

Leadership
Lists the people who run the association.
Role
Select President, Hockey Director, Registrar, Scheduler or Contact.
Step Down
Marks a leader as former. The leader stays on the list. Click Reinstate to make the leader current again.
Their Teams
Lists the teams filed under the association. Click Add Team to file another team.
Remove from Association
Takes a team out of the association. Click Remove Them in the band to confirm. The team stays on the Opposition page.
In a Season
Adds the teams to a season. See Scheduling Teams.

The buttons at the top act on the whole association.

Import Teams
Adds teams from a CSV file. See Importing Teams.
Retire
Hides the association. The teams stay in the association. Click Retire It in the band to confirm.
Restore
Returns a retired association to the list.
Delete
Appears only for an association with no teams or people. Click Delete It in the band to confirm. You cannot undo a delete.

Scheduling Teams

Lists the association's teams for the season selected at the top. Teams not yet on that season start selected.

Add button
Adds the selected teams to the season. The button label counts the teams, such as Add 3 Teams to Fall 2026.
Retired teams
You cannot select a retired team.
Remove from Season
Takes one team off the season. Click Remove Them in the band to confirm.
Remove All from
Takes every team off the season, such as Remove All from Fall 2026. Click Remove Them in the band to confirm.
Teams you take off a season stay on the Opposition page.

Importing Teams

Click Import Teams on an association's page to add teams from a CSV spreadsheet file. Nothing saves until you click the import button.

  1. Drop the CSV file on the page, or click to select the file.
  2. Match each column to a team field, or leave the column on Ignore. Each column starts with a suggested match.
  3. Check the preview. Each row shows what the import does with that row, as listed below.
  4. Leave the box checked to add the teams to the season selected at the top. Clear the box to import without scheduling.
  5. Click the import button, such as Import 12 Teams.
  6. Review the result. The page lists the teams added and any failed rows with the reason.

Click Start Over to select a different file.

The preview marks each row with one of these results.

New Team
Creates the team under this association.
Already an Opponent
Files an existing opponent with no association under this association.
already in this association
Skips the row.
Already filed under
Reports a team filed under another association. The import leaves the team there.

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