Create your account
An email address and a nickname are all it takes.
Click “Join Poolscore”, then the “Sign up” tab. Once you've followed the link sent to your inbox, choose your nickname — it's the only required field. You can fill in the rest of your profile (photo, town, playing style, cue brand) whenever you like.
Keep hold of your password
Password reset isn't available yet. Save it on your phone or in your password manager.
Join your club
This is what fills up your news feed.
“Clubs” tab: search for your club by name or town, open its page and join. You then get access to its table schedule, its competitions, its news and its members.
Your club has no manager on Poolscore yet? Tell your chairman: he can claim the club page in two clicks, and that's what unlocks tournaments and the schedule for everyone.
Score your first match
You don't need a tournament to get started.
“Match” tab: pick the discipline, the race to, and your opponent. They can be registered on Poolscore or simply a guest — for a friendly match, a name is enough.
During play, you enter the frames as you go. At the end, the result is saved to your history; if your opponent was a registered player, your Elo rating is updated.
It works without a connection
Install Poolscore as an app from your browser. A friendly match can be scored entirely offline — handy in a basement room. The scores sync by themselves once the network is back.
Play in a tournament
Enter, check in, follow the bracket.
Your club's tournaments appear in the “Tournaments” tab and on the club page. If entries are open, you sign yourself up from the tournament page.
On the day, an “I'm here” button lets the organiser see who has turned up. After that, follow the bracket live: it shows your next opponent and the table you've been assigned.
Age-category tournaments
Some tournaments are restricted to an age band (juniors, seniors). To be able to enter them, add your year of birth to your profile: it is used only to check your eligibility and is never shown publicly.
Track your progress
Your history builds itself.
- Elo rating — calculated after every official match, viewable by club, by region or nationally.
- Statistics — matches played, wins, break and run streaks, best performances.
- Head-to-head — your record against each regular opponent.
- Badges and streaks — rewards for progress and consistency.
- Season review — a recap of your year, shareable as an image.
Practise on your own
Practice mode doesn't touch your rating.
The practice tab offers drills with success-rate tracking, plus a free mode for scoring a session with no opponent. None of it affects your Elo or your competition statistics: it's your personal notebook.
The community side
What Poolscore has that the others don't.
- News feed — results and posts from your club and the players you follow.
- Messages — private conversations and groups, with photos and voice messages.
- Challenges — offer a match to another player, with date, time and club.
- Table schedule — book your slot at your club.
- Classifieds — second-hand gear between members.