One place for everyone who loves volleyball
VolleyWood takes care of the routine: registration, teams, the draw, the court schedule, scores, results, live streams, training sessions and payments. You get to focus on volleyball and people.
Volleyball in Cyprus lives in a dozen chats. We are bringing it into one place
VolleyWood started as a Telegram group and grew into one of the largest volleyball communities on the island. Tournaments, training and finding partners are still scattered across chats, spreadsheets and notes. We want everyone who plays, coaches or organises to share one space: one profile, one history, one schedule.
- Sign-up in a chat, a list by hand, someone gets lost
- Pairs and groups on paper or in Excel
- The court schedule is redone on the fly
- Only those at the net know the score
- Results are a photo of a table, impossible to find a week later
- Training is "who's coming?" chats and a notebook of payments
- Sign-up on the site; waitlist and confirmations handle themselves
- Teams, groups and seeding in one click
- The court schedule is built automatically
- Live score on the tournament page, the TV and the stream
- Results, score sheets and statistics are kept forever
- Training bookings, check-ins, passes and debts in one place
Today everything is free. Completely
Every feature on this page is available at no cost: tournaments of any size, refereeing, live streams and the coaching section including Pro. No trial period, no hidden limits, no commission on your entry fees.
The portal does not take payments and does not stand between you and your players: you collect entry fees and training payments the way you always have, and the site simply helps you keep track.
A tournament in 10 minutes: a step-by-step builder
Any registered player can run their own tournament. The builder walks you through step by step and always shows on the right how many matches and rounds there will be, when you will finish and whether you will make it before the venue closes. Before publishing, it checks the settings and tells you what to fix.
- 1Format and genderBeach or indoor; men, women, mixed or open. Suggests the net height.
- 2TeamsFixed teams, draft teams from solo players, or the King of the Beach rotation.
- 3Games and finalThe competition system, how many advance from a group, the 3rd place match.
- 4ScoreSets, points, tie-break, side switches, timeouts, separately for groups and finals.
- 5RefereeingWho referees, which scoreboard, whether a scorer is needed.
- 6Venue and timeCity, venue with a map, courts, match length, several days.
- 7EntryRegistration type, level, roster, entry fee, registration deadline, waitlist, seeding.
- 8Name and lookDescription, formatted rules, page theme.
- 9PublishingA final check and listing in the catalogue. The settings become the tournament's "passport".
Disciplines
- Beach: pairs 2×2, triples 3×3, fours 4×4
- King of the Beach: individual ranking, a new partner every game
- Indoor 6×6 under FIVB rules
- Men, women, mixed (the roster rule is checked automatically), open
Competition systems
- Groups + playoffs (up to 8 groups)
- Round robin: everyone plays everyone
- Single elimination, with matches for 3rd and 5th–8th places
- Double elimination with a super final
- Swiss: no rematches, Buchholz
- King of the Court, timed (beach)
How teams are formed
- Fixed: the captain enters and invites players, each one confirms
- Draft: players sign up solo, you build teams by level, at random or by hand
- King of the Beach rotation: 8–64 players, equal games, no repeat partners
Scoring, the way you agreed
- 1 set, always 2 sets, best of 3 or best of 5
- Sets to a 2-point lead, with a cap or timed
- From 11 to 30 points, tie-break, side switches
- Timeouts and a technical timeout
- Table points 2·1·0 or 3·2·1·0
Who can sign up
- Open registration, with approval, or by invitation link only
- Level: from beginners to advanced
- Team roster with substitutes
- Fee per player, per team, or free
- Registration deadline and waitlist
Venue and time
- Up to 8 courts, estimated finish time
- Map link: Google, Apple, Waze and others
- Multi-day tournaments, each stage on a new day
- Seeding by portal rating, snake, random or manual
Control panel: the whole tournament on one screen
Before the tournament: entrants
- Approve or decline an entry, with a reason the player will see
- Move someone off the waitlist, remove or restore an entrant
- Add a player or team by hand
- An invitation link for a private tournament
- Shirt numbers, captains and liberos
- See who has not confirmed yet
- Name, description and rules in English for international players
On tournament day, step by step
- Close registration and mark who showed up
- Build draft teams by level, then adjust by hand
- The draw: court schedule and referees in seconds
- Start the tournament: each court runs at its own pace
- Scores come from the referees; you can correct them if needed
- Finish: places, podium and tournament numbers are ready
A referee scoreboard on your phone, and the score sheet writes itself
Lite scoreboard
Score only: +1, −1, side-switch hints, end of set and match. Good when players referee themselves. Can be run from several phones at once.
Pro scoreboard
Serve, timeouts with a countdown, cards and "who won the point": attack, block, ace, opponent error. This builds each player's personal statistics.
Indoor 6×6
Line-up by zones, rotations, substitutions under FIVB rules, libero, timeouts, cards and the deciding set. The second referee sees the same scoreboard.
Who referees
A player in the match, resting teams, one or two referees from the organiser, line judges for indoor. Referees can be assigned to a whole court or to a single match.
Court tablet
One tablet per court, no account login needed. The referee enters their PIN or signs in with a QR code from their phone; after the match the tablet moves on to the next one by itself.
Scorer and score sheet
A separate scorer screen for every rally. Every match gets a score sheet: score progression, substitutions, timeouts, cards, corrections and who refereed.
A tournament page people want to open
Before the start
Terms, entry fee, spots left, registration or waitlist, "Looking for a partner" and "Looking for players", a note that the event is filmed.
During play
"Now on court" with live scores, group tables, the playoff bracket, "My games and duties". A TV scoreboard for a big screen by the courts.
After
Final places and podium, match score sheets, "Tournament in numbers": the longest match, the closest fight, the biggest win.
A YouTube stream with a scoreboard run by the referee
Live stream
- A YouTube stream link per court or one for all
- A scoreboard with score, sets and serve right in the picture (OBS)
- The stream appears on the tournament page and ends by itself
- Phone camera: ready-made addresses for every court
- Control OBS from your account: start the stream, switch scenes
- After the tournament: a recording of every match from the right second
- Players know in advance that the tournament is filmed
Tournament sponsors
- A title partner and partners with logos and links
- Logos on the tournament page and on the TV scoreboard
- Shown on stream during breaks, for as many seconds as you choose
- A "Show sponsors" button at any moment
Sponsors belong to your tournament: the portal does not impose its own partners on you.
Training without "who's coming tomorrow?" chats
Anyone can become a coach, no approval needed. You set up a school (or work solo), groups and a schedule. Players find you in the catalogue and book themselves, and at the court you mark who came in a minute.
Groups and schedule
A rule like "Mon and Wed 19:00", and sessions are created automatically 8 weeks ahead. Spot limit, level, venue, one-off sessions.
Registration
Open, by a fixed roster or private by link. When a spot frees up, the first person on the waitlist is booked automatically and notified.
Check-in at the court
Came, late, no-show, in one tap. "Mark everyone", a player over the limit, cancelling a session, a change log.
- Up to 3 active groups and 1 venue
- Booking, waitlist, three booking modes
- Attendance check-ins and a log
- Training history for each player
- Unlimited groups and venues
- A school team: coaches and assistants (assistants don't see money)
- Moving sessions, substitute coaches, session plans and templates
- A free cancellation window and "late cancellations"
- Payments: drop-in prices, passes, cash and transfers, debts
- Monthly report, attendance rate, "haven't come in a while", CSV export
- Player card: attendance, payments, progress notes
The more people in one place, the easier it is for everyone
Player profile
Tournaments, places, records, frequent partners and opponents, a breakdown of points. You can claim your old profile with past results.
Finding partners and players
"Looking for a partner", "Team needs a player", a "take me in" request, on the tournament page and in the shared list.
Directories
Players, coaches, schools and groups with filters by city, level and discipline.
Notifications
In the browser and in Telegram: entries, invitations, "you are refereeing", a moved session, a spot from the waitlist. Quiet hours at night.
Two languages
The whole site is in Russian and English. You can translate your own tournament texts too.
Like an app
Add the site to your home screen and it works like an app, with nothing to download from a store.
Try everything without signing up
Three steps
Sign up
Regular player sign-up by e-mail. Telegram is connected later, for notifications.
Create a tournament or a school
"My tournaments" → "Create a tournament", or "Become a coach" in your account.
Invite players
Share the link in your chat. If anything is unclear, write to us and we will set up your first tournament together.
We are building this together, and we welcome help
VolleyWood is made by people who play themselves. If you like the idea of a shared volleyball space and want to help, you are welcome. Any contribution counts, even an hour a week.
- Organisers and coaches: run a tournament or a season and tell us what is inconvenient
- Referees and captains: test the scoreboards and rules in real matches
- Developers and designers: new formats, screens and improvements
- Translators: English and the community's other languages
- Photo, video and streaming: help film tournaments
- Partners and venues: support tournaments and the community
What we are still working on
The portal improves every week. Currently planned: the Side-out format, final stages for King of the Beach, reminders before a match and before registration closes, automatic translation of tournament texts. What comes next depends largely on your requests.