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Every match on Matchely is one of these:

Friendly

A one-off match that already happened and you record. It counts toward your history and your level, but belongs to no competition.

Competition match

Created by the competition when the organizer opens a round. The result earns points in the standings.

Pyramid challenge

In a Challenge Pyramid the player creates the match: you challenge someone above you.

From an invite

A match that has yet to happen. You set the date, the place and the level, invite whoever is playing and the match is born when the spots fill up.

Imported

Old matches you bring in from screenshots, spreadsheets, or Google Sheets.

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Arranging a match with an invite

A friendly is always a past match. To arrange one that has yet to happen, the way in is a match invite, which comes in two shapes:

Open invite

You set the sport, day, and time, then share a link. Whoever opens it and joins first takes the spot.

Directed invite

You invite one specific person, and they accept or decline. You can only invite someone who is already a connection.
The time needs at least 2 hours’ notice and at most 60 days, in 15 minute steps. In a directed invite, the sports on offer are the ones you both have on your profile — and if the other person has published their availability, their usual times show up as a shortcut, with a warning when you pick a time outside them (they can still accept). The place is required: up to three courts or clubs, or the whole city for when you have no court yet. You can also set the level range of whoever joins and leave practical guidance (fee, access, what to bring). The step by step, the sharing and the joining are in Match invite. Once the last spot is filled, the invite closes and the match shows up in your matches, as pending — and any player can reschedule date, time or place from there. After it is played, the result is entered and validated like any other match.

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The time or the court changed

While the invite is still open, whoever created it sees Edit invite on the invite page. It is the same form used to create it — date, time, places, level, note and guidance — so there is no need to throw the invite away and start over: whoever already joined stays in, gets a notice with the new time, and the change is recorded on the invite page. The sport is the one thing you cannot change there. It decides how many spots the invite has, and people may already be in them. Next to it sits Delete invite, which asks for confirmation first. It cannot be undone and it takes the match off the schedule of everyone who had already joined — to change a detail, edit instead.
An invite comes with a conversation of its own: see Chat for who joins it and when.

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Where they live

Under My matches, in four blocks, in this order:
  • Needs you — whatever is waiting on your answer, most urgent first: a match of yours that expired (to reactivate or delete), a result to validate, an invite directed at you (with Decline and Join right there), and a guest spot on a match of yours when its deadline is less than 2 days away — before that it is on the guest to answer, and the match sits under Upcoming. The number next to the title is how many. It disappears when there is nothing.
  • Upcoming matches — by date: scheduled matches, competition matches with a deadline, matches awaiting a guest, and open invites you were listed in or already joined.
  • Your open invites — the ones you created that still have spots, with WhatsApp and Edit on the card.
  • History — what has been played. Matches still waiting on the opponent’s validation come first.
A match that already has a photo shows its cover on the card, with how many items the gallery holds — the shortcut to recognise the match without opening it. Uploading is covered in Enter the result.

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A match’s path

1

Someone enters the result

Either player.
2

The other side validates it

Until someone validates, the match stays pending.
3

It counts

Once validated, the match enters both histories and earns ranking points.
A pending friendly has a 7-day window. After that, with no validation, the match is deleted — it does not stay pending forever, and there is no administrator to settle it for you. Whoever entered it can also delete the pending match before then.
Validation is what makes the match count. Before it, a friendly does not move your level or your ranking, and it does not show up in head-to-head.