Balanced teams. No arguments.
The football team generator for 5, 6 and 7-a-side. Add your players, tap who's in, and get two fair sides in seconds.
See your first teams before you make an account.
Monday
Night Fives
Bibs
- Sammo
- Big Dave
- Wrighty
- Nathan H
- Two-Touch Tony
Non-Bibs
- Carl
- Jonesy
- Deano
- Matt P
- The Keeper
9-2
by half time.
- 01
The playground pick
Ten minutes of "go on then, you have them" before anyone kicks a ball. Same two people picking. Same player picked last.
- 02
The thrashing
One team stops trying, the other stops passing. Forty minutes nobody enjoys, and the walk back to the car is quiet.
- 03
The group chat inquest
Someone always reckons the teams were stitched up. Usually whoever lost. And it rumbles on until Thursday.
Lopsided games are how a weekly kickabout dies.
Fair teams
in five taps.
- 1
Build your squad
Add your regulars once. First names, nicknames welcome.
- 2
Rate them privately
Pace, shooting, defending, keeping. Only you ever see it.
- 3
Tap who's in
Ten? Twelve? Fourteen? bibs works with whoever turns up.
- 4
Generate the teams
Balanced properly, not randomly, with a score out of 100.
- 5
Share the teamsheet
One tap into the group chat. Teams announced, job done.
Your players never download a thing. The teamsheet lands in the chat like any photo, and anyone who wants the tables taps your invite link.
See the full walkthroughA season that
builds itself.
One tap after the game logs who won. From there the table and the form guide grow on their own, week after week, until your kickabout has a proper season behind it.
The win % table
Played, won, drawn, lost and win percentage for every player, ranked, all season long.
The form guide
Everyone's last five games as W, D and L. You can see who is flying and who has gone quiet at a glance.
Every result counts
The same results quietly nudge each player's hidden form, so next week's teams already know who is hot.
Players can
follow it all.
Send one invite link. Anyone who taps it makes a free account and gets the season read-only: the next game, every result, the win percentage table and the form guide.
No app store, no match fee, nothing to configure. They just watch the table move.
- They see matchdays, results, the table and the form guide
- They never see ratings, and never see the hidden form
- Only you build the squad, rate players and pick the teams
Why gaffers
pick bibs.
- 01
Ratings stay private
Players can never see how you have rated them. No leaderboards of shame, no bruised egos, no awkward pints.
- 02
Balanced, not random
A random team generator just shuffles names. bibs weighs up your whole squad, factors in who is in form, and builds two sides that can actually match each other.
- 03
Nothing to download
bibs runs in the browser. Your players just get a teamsheet in the chat, and anyone who wants more can follow the tables with an invite link.
- 04
Teamsheets worth sharing
Every matchday gets a proper tournament-style graphic, not a screenshot of a spreadsheet. It does the announcing for you.
- 05
Results feed the balance
One tap after the game logs who won. The tables build week by week, and every result quietly nudges each player's hidden form so the next teams reflect who is flying and who is struggling.
- 06
Free. Actually free
No per-match player fees, no locked features, no card details. Free for the gaffer and free for every player.
The group chat,
the big apps,
or bibs.
| The group chat | Full-blown football apps | bibs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picking the teams | Two captains and a playground pick | Works once everyone has signed up | One tap, balanced from your ratings |
| Trying it out | Nothing to try | Sign up, then find out | See your first teams before you make an account |
| Fair from day one | Depends who's picking | Needs weeks of match data first | Balanced from your very first matchday |
| What your players do | Argue about it | Download an app, make an account | No app to download, the teamsheet lands in the chat |
| Player ratings | Said out loud, feelings hurt | Public stats and shame awards | Private to the gaffer, always |
| Cost | Free | Match fees or subscriptions | Free |
| Set-up time | None, which is the problem | An evening of onboarding the group | Five minutes, just the gaffer |
The group chat
- Picking the teams
- Two captains and a playground pick
- Trying it out
- Nothing to try
- Fair from day one
- Depends who's picking
- What your players do
- Argue about it
- Player ratings
- Said out loud, feelings hurt
- Cost
- Free
- Set-up time
- None, which is the problem
Full-blown football apps
- Picking the teams
- Works once everyone has signed up
- Trying it out
- Sign up, then find out
- Fair from day one
- Needs weeks of match data first
- What your players do
- Download an app, make an account
- Player ratings
- Public stats and shame awards
- Cost
- Match fees or subscriptions
- Set-up time
- An evening of onboarding the group
bibs
- Picking the teams
- One tap, balanced from your ratings
- Trying it out
- See your first teams before you make an account
- Fair from day one
- Balanced from your very first matchday
- What your players do
- No app to download, the teamsheet lands in the chat
- Player ratings
- Private to the gaffer, always
- Cost
- Free
- Set-up time
- Five minutes, just the gaffer
Built by a gaffer,
not a software
company.
bibs comes from a real Monday night game that has run for years. Same pitch, same group chat, same argument about the teams every single week.
Picking fair sides by hand was the one job that never got easier. So bibs was built to do it properly: rate the squad once, keep it private, and let the balance take care of itself. It has been picking the teams for Oldman Non-Athletic ever since.
Quick answers
Do my players need to download an app?
No, there's nothing to download. bibs runs in the browser. The teamsheet lands in the group chat like any photo, and any player who wants to follow the win percentage and form tables all season taps the invite link and makes a free account. No app store, no fees. Only the gaffer builds the squad, rates players and picks the teams.
Can players see their ratings?
Never. Ratings are private to the gaffer, that is a hard rule built into bibs. Players only ever see teams, results and rankings.
Is bibs free?
Yes. Free for the gaffer, free for players, no match fees and no locked features.
What team sizes does it work for?
bibs is built for small-sided football: 5-a-side, 6-a-side and 7-a-side, including uneven turnouts when eleven show up for a tens.
Balance
the game
Your next matchday could be the closest game you have had in years.
Start your squad, it's free