About this plugin
Sports Leagues transforms WordPress into a powerful sports management platform for basketball, ice hockey, rugby, handball, volleyball, cricket, baseball, and all team sports.
Perfect for sports clubs, league administrators, team managers, coaches, and sports bloggers who need professional-grade league management without complex setup.
⚠️ Important Notes
- One Sport Per Installation – Plugin configured for one sport at a time
- Requires CMB2 – Free CMB2 plugin must be installed
- For Soccer/Football – Use our dedicated Football Leagues plugin instead
🏀 Live Demo Sites
Free Version:
🏒 Ice Hockey: Tournament | Game | Team | Player
Premium Version:
🏀 Basketball (NBA): Home | Game | Team | Player
🏈 American Football: Home | Game | Team
🏒 Ice Hockey: Tournament | Game
✨ Core Features
Complete Sports Management
- ✅ Players – Full profiles with photos, statistics, career history, birthdays
- ✅ Teams – Team management with rosters, logos, social links, galleries
- ✅ Games/Matches – Comprehensive game data: scores, events, lineups, statistics
- ✅ Tournaments – Round-robin, knockout, and multi-stage competitions
- ✅ Standings – Automatic league table calculation with custom ranking rules
- ✅ Venues – Stadium/arena management with maps, photos, upcoming games
- ✅ Staff – Coaches, managers, support staff with profiles
- ✅ Officials – Referee and official tracking
Advanced Statistics Engine
- 📊 Custom player statistics configurator (sport-specific stats)
- 📊 Game-by-game player performance tracking
- 📊 Season aggregate statistics (automatic calculation)
- 📊 Team statistics and comparisons
- 📊 Dynamic standing table with custom columns
- 📊 Player position groups and stat categories
Tournament Management
- 🏆 Knockout stages with bracket visualization
- 🏆 Round-robin group stages
- 🏆 Multi-stage tournaments (groups → playoffs)
- 🏆 Custom rounds and groups
- 🏆 Game day organization
- 🏆 Tournament cloning feature
- 🏆 Season-based organization
Game Features
- 🏀 Game events timeline (goals, penalties, cards, substitutions)
- 🏀 Period/quarter scores
- 🏀 Overtime and penalty shootout support
- 🏀 Player lineups with positions and numbers
- 🏀 Missing players/injuries tracking
- 🏀 Photo galleries and videos
- 🏀 Countdown timer for upcoming games
- 🏀 Special status (postponed, TBD)
Flexible Display Options
- 📱 8 Gutenberg Blocks – Game Countdown, Games, Last Game, Next Game, Players Stats, Roster, Teams, Tournament Header
- 📱 7 Shortcodes – Standing, Games, Teams, Players Stats, Roster, Tournament Header, Tournament List
- 📱 9 Classic Widgets – Standing Table, Next Game, Last Game, Players Stats, Teams, Player, Birthdays, Games, Game Video
- 📱 100 Template Files – Fully customizable in your theme
- 📱 Responsive Design – Mobile-friendly layouts
Customization & Configuration
- 🎨 Sport Configurator with presets (Basketball, Hockey, Rugby, etc.)
- 🎨 Custom player positions per sport
- 🎨 Custom game event types (configurable icons)
- 🎨 WordPress Customizer integration (colors, layout options)
- 🎨 Custom text override (change any frontend text)
- 🎨 Standing table color schemes
- 🎨 Template override system
- 🎨 RTL (Right-to-Left) support
Data Management
- 💾 Excel-like import tool (teams, players, venues, staff)
- 💾 Season-specific team rosters
- 💾 Player ID & External ID support
- 💾 Bulk operations
- 💾 Custom database tables (optimized performance)
- 💾 Smart caching system
Admin Interface
- 🖥️ Modern Vue.js admin pages (fast, reactive)
- 🖥️ Intuitive game editor
- 🖥️ Visual tournament builder
- 🖥️ Statistics configurator
- 🖥️ Quick setup helper
- 🖥️ Admin dashboard with insights
Developer Friendly
- 🔧 100+ action/filter hooks for extensions
- 🔧 REST API endpoints
- 🔧 Template hierarchy system
- 🔧 WordPress Coding Standards compliant
🎯 Perfect For
- Sports clubs and organizations
- League administrators
- Team managers and coaches
- Tournament organizers
- Sports news websites
- Youth sports programs
- Amateur and professional leagues
🚀 Supported Sports
Basketball, Ice Hockey, Handball, Rugby, Volleyball, Cricket, Baseball, American Football, Water Polo, Field Hockey, Lacrosse, Futsal, and most team sports.
) or combat sports (MMA, boxing). For soccer/football use Football Leagues plugin.
📚 Documentation & Support
- Documentation – Comprehensive guides
- New Documentation Portal (in progress)
- Quick Start Guide – Get started in 10 minutes
- Community Forum – Ask questions, request features, report bugs
- Video Tutorials – Step-by-step visual guides
🌐 Translation Ready
- Full internationalization support
- Contribute translations via translate.wordpress.org
- RTL (Right-to-Left) support included
- Custom text override for any language
💎 Premium Version
Want advanced features? Sports Leagues Premium adds:
io (API-NBA, API-American-Football)
Premium Layouts – Advanced display templates
Page Layout Builder – Custom page designs with tabs
Bracket View – Visual knockout stage brackets
Results Matrix – Head-to-head results table
Premium Blocks – 10 additional Gutenberg blocks
Standing Advanced – Conference/Division support, advanced columns
User Roles – Assign game edit rights to users
Auto Timezone – Visitor’s local kickoff times
Game Formation – Team formation display
Commentary Block – Live game commentary
Team Trophies – Trophy/award management
Calendar Widget – Monthly calendar view
Priority Support – Faster response times
View All Premium Features | Premium Demos
Premium Tutorials:
* Building NBA Live Scores Website
* Creating NFL Live Scores Site
🚀 SL Kit — Launch Your Sports Site in 30 Minutes
Want a ready-to-use sports website without building from scratch? SL Kit is a complete WordPress starter kit that includes Sports Leagues Premium, pre-configured Kadence theme, 15+ professionally designed pages, and 100+ demo items. Import the demo, add your data, and go live.
Perfect for youth sports, amateur clubs, league administrators, and web designers who need a polished sports site fast.
Learn More About SL Kit
🔄 Sports API Hub – Automatic Data Import from Live APIs
Want to skip manual data entry? Sports API Hub is a separate plugin that connects to live sports APIs and imports real data automatically – scores, box scores, standings, player stats, and odds.
- Basketball, baseball, American football and ice hockey
- Live scores with real-time polling
- Box scores, rosters, standings – all imported automatically
- Background sync runs overnight
- Live Demo with Real Data
- How to Build an MLB Stats Website