Managing Your Track and Field League with OpenTrack
Save hours of admin with OpenTrack's league functionality
It’s road and cross country season for some, but AGM season is also fast approaching, and whilst track and field competition may be done for this year, there has never been a better time to consider what OpenTrack could do for your athletics league in 2025 and beyond.
In this update:
Setup made simple
Making life easy on match day
Match and season scores
Whilst administration for leagues can be complicated, OpenTrack cuts away the complexity, automating tasks that previously took hours, and ensuring consistency with an adaptable end-to-end management system.
Already used by the National Athletics League and Forth Valley League, find out what OpenTrack could do for your track and field league below.
Setup made simple
Anyone familiar with league athletics knows that preparing for competition day is the majority of the work — thankfully there are plenty of OpenTrack features to make life easier.
Composite clubs
With greater numbers of clubs taking part in leagues as composite teams, OpenTrack is ready to handle composites made up of any number of clubs.
Configurable in just a minute or two, OpenTrack’s composite team functionality allows you to set and forget, with declarations, results, and more just as easy for composites as for single club teams.
Team declarations and athlete eligibility
As a league organiser using OpenTrack, poring over your results to ensure athletes are correctly registered is a thing of the past, with eligibility configuration settings allowing you full control over who can compete in your league.
With control over the age groups, genders, and the number of scorers/non-scorers in each event, keeping your match on the straight and narrow has never been easier.
Using OpenTrack’s simple team declaration screens, team managers can only enter athletes eligible to compete, and for clubs in England and Wales, the available athletes can be updated at the press of a button.
Easily accessible declarations for team manager, host club, and league administrators means no more slips of paper, and no long waits for updated teams — two minutes on the team coach, or whilst sat in the stands, will do the trick!
Bib number flexibility
Leagues on OpenTrack can use individual or team bibs, and both are trivial — OpenTrack’s flexible numbering and team bibs setup each take under a minute for even the largest league matches.
Making life easy on match day
With a whole host of tried and tested competition management features that are constantly being improved, OpenTrack is sturdier than Excel and shinier than Google Sheets, with all the athletics-oriented functionality to save time for your volunteers, and bring your athletes, spectators, and sponsors closer to the action.
Extensive documentation and widespread familiarity with OpenTrack means that host clubs don’t need to learn anything new each time they host — every match is simpler than the last!
Printouts
Thanks to declarations that can be changed on the fly, OpenTrack’s field cards and start lists are always up to date, and come pre-filled with athlete names — no more write-ins means your officials can get on with officiating!
Results
With seamless photofinish and FieldLynx integration as well as live field results input, you can make real-time results a reality for your league — clubs can keep an eye on their rivals whether at the same match or halfway across the country, and athletes can get the recognition they deserve for their performances with our customisable results graphics.
TV Graphics
OpenTrack’s TV console is available for all meetings, and league matches are no exception. Making use of all competition data, and able to display live start lists, results, scores, and more, OpenTrack’s integrated graphics are a must-have for any league looking to broadcast to the world.
Match and season scores
Match scores
In any team competition, scoring is the most important element, and OpenTrack ensures scores are always accurate, with updates coming jump-by-jump, throw-by-throw, and as each finisher crosses the line.
For an era where creating a narrative for your league meetings is key to engaging spectators and athletes, truly live scores allow every point and half-point to count, keeping them hooked throughout.
Season scores
Equally important for teams is how they are performing across the season, and OpenTrack’s season scoring ensures that when the dust has settled after each fixture, the big picture can emerge.
With the ability to view how the league table looked after each match — great for spotting those teams making a late charge to stave off relegation, or to challenge for the title — there’s no better way to keep track of your league.
We hope this overview of OpenTrack’s track and field league features has been helpful, but that’s not all. With the Oxfordshire and Surrey cross country leagues both having used OpenTrack successfully for multiple years, don’t forget that league management functionality exists for all disciplines — just ask if you’d like to know more!
As always, if you have any feedback, requests, or want help bringing your athletics into the 21st century, feel free to get in touch at info@opentrack.run.