Viewing Standings
The Standings screen is where 4league shows the live ranking of a competition. What that screen actually looks like depends entirely on the competition's format — a single league table, several group tables, or a knockout bracket. This guide walks through each layout and the tab switchers that move between them. For the underlying maths — the points system, the full tiebreaker order, and every leaderboard derived from match events — see the Statistics & Standings overview; this page is the deeper how-to on what you see and tap.
Opening the Standings Screen
Standings live in their own Standings tab in the bottom navigation while a competition profile is selected. There is one hard requirement:
The screen only renders a table when the selected profile is a competition (its itemType is competition). Friends groups, teams, players and organizations do not have a standings table of their own — switch to a competition profile first. Every user role (fan, player, team manager, referee, organizer) can open and read the standings. The Create poster button is open to everyone too — organizers and co-organizers get the full editor, while other users get a locked, 4league-branded poster (see Generate a Poster). Play-off settings shortcuts remain organizer-only.
When you open the tab the app fetches the current standings, shows a winner card or first-place highlight once a season is active, and then renders the layout that matches the competition's format. Pull down to refresh at any time.
League Format — a Single Table
A League competition (format type 1) shows one standings table for the whole competition. Teams are ordered top to bottom by the ranking rules, and each row carries the following columns:
| # | Team | P | W | D | L | Pts | G |
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| 1 | FC Thunder | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 27 : 10 |
| 2 | FC Lions | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 22 : 9 |
| 3 | Red Eagles | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 18 : 14 |
# = position, P = played, W = won, D = drawn, L = lost, Pts = points, G = goals (scored : conceded). Tapping a team row opens that team's profile within the competition. The top of the screen also shows a first-place highlight for the current leader.
Points marks
Two small markers can appear next to a team's points total:
- A green * means the team has been awarded extra points by the organizer.
- A red * means points have been removed (a deduction).
The legend for these marks is printed directly below the table.
Regular Season vs. Playoff / Playout
Many leagues split into a play-off (top half) and a play-out (bottom half) after the regular rounds. Before the play-offs begin the table is a single list. The moment the organizer starts the play-offs (playoffStarted), a tab switcher appears at the top of the table:
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Regular Season — the full league table exactly as it stood at the end of the regular rounds.
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Playoff / Playout — two separate mini-tables: the play-off group competing for the title and promotion, and the play-out group competing to avoid relegation.
While the play-off split is active, the regular-season view also colour-codes the left edge of each row — a green bar marks the teams that qualified for the play-off and an orange bar marks those dropping into the play-out. A legend below the table names both bands.
Group Format — Several Tables plus a Bracket
A Groups competition (format type 3) splits teams into groups — Group A, Group B, Group C and so on, up to eight groups. The Standings screen renders one table per group, stacked vertically, each with its own points and tiebreakers. The column layout is identical to the league table above.
Group competitions feed a knockout stage, so the screen has a two-tab switcher at the very top:
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Groups — the per-group tables. Each row's left edge is colour-coded: a green fill marks the positions that qualify directly for the knockout stage, and an amber fill marks a position that may qualify depending on results in the other groups (the "best third-placed" style of edge case). The legend below the tables explains both colours.
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Draws — switches the same screen over to the knockout bracket that the groups feed into, rendered exactly like the cup bracket described below.
The group tables and the knockout bracket are both part of the Standings screen for a group competition — you do not go to the Matches screen to see the bracket. Use the Groups / Draws toggle to move between them.
Knockout / Cup Format — the Bracket
A Cup competition (format type 2) has no points table at all. Instead the Standings screen renders the knockout bracket directly — there is nothing to switch to.
The bracket is organised by round. A horizontal row of round tabs sits at the top (Round of 16, Quarter-finals, Semi-finals, Final, and so on); tapping a round scrolls the bracket to it, and small left/right arrows between ties let you step forward and back through the phases. Each tie shows both teams, their score, and — where applicable — a second-leg score and a penalty shoot-out result in parentheses. The winning side of every tie is highlighted, and tapping a played tie opens that match. Ties that have not been drawn yet show a placeholder such as "Quarter-final match 3".
Because a full bracket is wider than a phone screen, the rounds scroll sideways. Swipe horizontally — or use the round tabs and the inter-tie arrows — to reach later phases. The same bracket renderer is reused for the Draws tab of a group competition.
A fan opens the Standings tab of the city cup. There is no table — just the bracket, opened on the semi-finals. They swipe left to check the quarter-final their team won, see the 2–1 (4–2 pens) result highlighted in their favour, then swipe back to the Final to watch the two semi-final winners feed in.
How Standings Stay Current
A few behaviours apply to every format:
- Live recompute, no cache. The standings are recomputed on every request to the Standings screen — there is no stored snapshot to go stale. Confirm a score and the next refresh already reflects it.
- Configurable points. The default 3 / 1 / 0 (win / draw / loss) values are organizer-configurable in the competition's league settings, so the Pts column reflects whatever scheme that competition uses.
- Archived seasons. Selecting a past season shows that season's final standings, read from the season archive rather than recomputed from live matches.
- Every role can view. Standings are read-only for everyone and visible to all roles; only organizers see the editing shortcuts layered on top.
Standings render the same way on iOS, Android, and the web app.
This guide covers what the Standings screen shows. For the points system, the complete tiebreaker order, group-stage ranking, top scorers, cards and the other leaderboards, read the Statistics & Standings overview.