How to create a match and choose the call-ups on Panka

Who can do it

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Creating a match

1. Open “Add Match” Go to “Calendar” and, in the list of matches, tap “+”. The same button is in Settings → “Matches”.
2. Type the teams “Home” and “Away” are the only required fields. Under each one there is a button that reads “Use” followed by your team’s name, which fills it in for you. If neither of the two is your team, the app asks you to confirm before creating the match: “Neither side is your team”.
3. Fill in the details In “Date and Time” put the kick-off time. “Location” is for the name of the pitch and “Address” for the street: pick one of the suggestions, so that the map opens at the exact spot. “Duration (minutes)” goes from 1 to 240, and if you leave it empty it is 90. Location and duration start from the “Default values”, which you set in Settings → “Matches” with the cog icon.
4. Choose tournament and format In “Tournament” you set the competition; a match that isn’t part of one goes under “Friendlies”, which is the starting choice. The “Format” field (11, 8, 7 or 5-a-side football) only appears if the team chooses the format match by match, and it can’t be changed once the match has been created.
5. Decide whether it counts “Exclude from scoring”: the match gives no fantasy points, has no matchday winners and generates no cards, but the players’ average rating, goals and appearances still count. “Exclude from the standings”: the match gives its points and has its matchday winners, but stays out of the standings.
6. Call up and create “Manage Call-ups” becomes active once you have typed both teams: choose the call-ups and tap “Save call-ups”. Then tap “Create match”. If you chose at least one player, the team gets “New match”; if you create the match without call-ups, no notification is sent, and the team will get “Call-ups updated” when you add them.

If “Always friendlies” is on (Settings → “General settings”), every new match starts with “Exclude from the standings” already ticked: you can untick it when you create the match.

Adding or changing the call-ups

1. Open the match from the “Calendar” and tap the “Call-ups” row. If the next match has no call-ups yet, the coach also finds the “Enter call-ups” button on its card, on the Home and in the “Calendar”.
2. The roster players are grouped by position: tap a name to call them up or to remove them. “Select all” and “Deselect all” are quicker.
3. Tap “Save call-ups”. The team gets the “Call-ups updated” notification.

• The call-ups can be changed even after the fantasy lineup deadline and during the match. Once the match is finished they are locked: “The match is finished. The call-ups can no longer be changed.”
• Be careful with last-minute changes: nobody can field a player you add after the deadline, and a player you remove drops out of the fantasy lineups that had fielded them when the scores are calculated.
• Players see the list in read-only mode. On the Home, on the next match card, they read “CALLED UP” or “NOT CALLED UP”.

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The coach’s lineup

1. In the match details tap “Coach’s lineup”; while it is empty, the row says “Not set yet”. It is built from the call-ups, so enter those first.
2. In “Simple” you tick who starts. In “Advanced” you choose the “Formation” and tap a marker to put a player in that position.
3. In “Substitutions” choose who goes “Off” and who comes “On”, with the minute if you like, and tap “Add”. Then tap “Save”.

• If you prefer to enter it at the end of the match, you’ll find it in “Finish Match”, under “Starters and substitutions”.
• When players get to see it is decided by an administrator in Settings → “General settings” → “Coach’s lineup”: “Always”, “From kick-off” (the starting choice) or “From a set time before the match”. Until then, if the coach has already entered it, players see the row with a padlock. The coach and administrators can always see it.

In “Games with friends” teams

• the coach’s lineup has “Field both teams”: the group splits in two, the call-ups stay a single list and everyone plays on one side;
• there is no “Tournaments” page in Settings, so in “Tournament” you’ll usually only find “Friendlies”;
• anyone who creates the team as “Games with friends” starts with “Always friendlies” on: new matches are created with “Exclude from the standings” already ticked.

Editing or deleting a match

• “Delete match”, at the bottom of the form, deletes the match along with its call-ups, fantasy lineups and ratings, and the team gets “Match deleted”. There is no going back. In Settings → “Matches” you can also get there by long-pressing the match and choosing “Delete”.
• On a finished match, “Status” → “Upcoming” puts it back as still to be played, but deletes the ratings, rating sheets and scores already calculated: the app asks you to confirm.
• To correct the result and ratings of a finished match there is “Edit result and votes”.

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