> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.uplifter-curling.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is a league?

> How a league differs from a program or a bonspiel, and what you find on a league's page.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * A league is a program of type **League (teams, draws, standings)**. Curlers register for the whole season, are placed on teams, and play a generated draw schedule that feeds standings.
  * Anyone with full admin rights, a **Curling League Admin** access level naming this league, or a manager added on the league's **Overview** tab can run it. Deleting a league needs the delete permission that only administrators hold.
  * Also available in the classic view: the **Leagues Listing** and each league's screens (League Edit, Games, Points, rounds, divisions, Teams, subs) and the club's Sheet Listing reproduce CCM's admin section on the same web addresses.
</Note>

Uplifter Curling has three kinds of program. When you add one, the **Type** field offers **League (teams, draws, standings)**, **Program (clinic, learn-to-curl, …)** and — when a superadmin has enabled **Bonspiels** for your club — **Bonspiel (teams enter as units, knockout draw)**. Leagues are what this hub is about; clinics and learn-to-curl sessions are plain programs; bonspiels have their own hub.

Leagues live under **Registrations → Leagues**, which lists only programs of the league type and has an **Add League** button. Opening a league shows its tabs in this order: **Overview**, **Members**, **Games**, **Transactions** (hidden when the league is free), **Attendance**, **Waitlist**, **Registrations**, **Teams**, **Draws**, **Standings**, **League Setup** and — when the league's spares list is on — a **Subs** tab (labelled **Spares** if your club uses that word). A jitney league (available when a superadmin enables **Jitney Leagues**) has no **Teams** tab; it has a **Jitney** tab after **League Setup** for building each night's teams instead. The header offers **Duplicate**, **Copy to next season** and **Settings**, and its back arrow returns to **Leagues** (a program returns to **Programs**, a bonspiel to the bonspiel list), even when you opened the league from a bookmark.

Two tabs deserve a warning because their names mislead. **Games** lists the weekly sessions created from the schedule patterns in the league wizard; it is not the draw schedule. The draw schedule — who plays whom, on which sheet, at what time — is on **Draws**. See [What is the difference between the Games tab and league sessions?](/club/leagues-and-draws/what-is-the-difference-between-the-games-tab-and-league-sessions).

In the classic view the left menu reads Home · Leagues · Games · Points · Rounds · Divisions · Teams · Sheets · Membership Types · Subs · Volunteer Roles · Volunteers · Reports · Maintenance, exactly as CCM did. As in CCM, Games, Points, Rounds, Divisions, Teams and Subs are league-scoped: clicked from Home or the Leagues Listing before you have opened a league, each shows its own **Select a League** screen; once you have been in a league they open that league again. Their **Select a League** dropdown switches the same screen to another league. **Sheets** is club-wide and opens the Sheet Listing directly.

**Related:** [How do I create a league?](/club/leagues-and-draws/how-do-i-create-a-league) · [How do I generate the draw schedule?](/club/leagues-and-draws/how-do-i-generate-the-draw-schedule) · [How do I make someone a League Manager?](/club/get-set-up/how-do-i-make-someone-a-league-manager) · [What is a bonspiel?](/club/events-and-bonspiels/what-is-a-bonspiel)


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