Pure Predictions

Private leagues

Run a football prediction league without the spreadsheet

Setting one up takes about ten seconds: name it, copy the link, send it round. Sign in and you can create your league, invite your players, and see the leagues you’re already in.

Sign in to create your league

Tired of running a predictions league through spreadsheets? No more chasing everyone's scores down a WhatsApp thread, typing results in by hand, or rebuilding the table every Monday morning. Create a private league, share one invite link, and every prediction is scored automatically as the results come in — free, no entry fee, and nothing for you to maintain.

A private league doesn't box you into a separate competition. Your members play the same tournaments as everyone else — the Premier League, the Championship, whatever else is on — and your league is a lens you can put over the results whenever you want to see how the group is doing.

Where your league shows up

Anywhere the site shows you other players, you can narrow it to your league instead.

Any tournament leaderboard

Pick your league from the leaderboard's league menu and the table becomes your members only, re-ranked 1st to last among themselves. It stacks with the week picker, so "who won this week?" is one more click — and the same filter works on the board for final-standings predictions.

Filter or highlight

Two modes sit next to that menu. Filter shows your league on its own. Highlight keeps the full public board and tints your members' rows, so you can see your mini-league and where you all sit against everyone else at the same time. Whichever you pick is remembered for next visit.

Predictions while the match is on

Predictions lock at kick-off, so from the first whistle every match page shows what everyone called. Filter that board to your league and you get your group's scorelines only, with the points moving as the goals go in — the bit a spreadsheet can never do.

Head to head

Settle an argument properly: put your all-time record side by side with anyone else's. The player list can be trimmed to your league, so you're picking out your own players rather than scrolling past strangers.

How it works

  1. Create the league

    Give it a name — the office, the group chat, the five-a-side team. That's the whole setup; there's nothing to configure and no season to build.

  2. Send the invite link

    Every league gets one link. Anyone who opens it joins in a couple of taps — no sign-up forms to fill in for you, no adding people by hand. If you'd rather vet who gets in, switch on manual approval and requests queue for you instead.

  3. Let the scoring run itself

    Players predict exact scores before kick-off. Results arrive automatically, points land for getting the result right and more for nailing the scoreline, and the table reorders itself. You're a player in your own league, not its admin.

Common questions

Is it actually free?

Yes — creating a league, joining one and playing all cost nothing. There's no entry fee, no per-player charge and no paid tier holding the useful parts back.

How many players can join?

As many as you like — there's no cap on a league's size, so a work league of forty is as fine as a group chat of six. You can run and play in as many leagues as you want at once, which is how most people end up with one for their mates and one for the office.

Do I have to work out the points myself?

No. That's the difference from a spreadsheet: nobody enters results, nobody maintains formulas, and there's no weekly job to forget. Scoring is the same for every league on the site, so there's nothing for anyone to dispute either.

Can people see the league without joining?

No — a league's filtered table is members-only, and it's only reachable through your invite link. It won't show up for anyone you haven't sent it to.

Is it any good for an office or work league?

It's what most private leagues here are. One link round the team, no money collected, no spreadsheet owner, and the "highlight" mode gives you the running office argument plus the wider table in one view. Predictions close at kick-off, so nobody can be accused of a late entry.