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County invitational: 24 teams over three days

Teams travelling in, officials to appoint and pay, and a budget where the small lines start to matter.

24
Teams
6
Pitches
3
Days
84
Fixtures

What makes this one hard

At this size referee appointments multiply and travel and meals for visiting officials become a real share of the budget. The line that gets missed is never pitch hire — it is these, and together they can reach a fifth of what you spend.

Who runs this: County FAs, larger clubs, event organisers

The structure the engine chose

小组赛(6组×4队)排名后,按名次分 2 层各打淘汰赛+排位赛:荣誉组(12队)、荣耀组(12队);每层决出冠亚军并完整排名,每队约 7 场。

84 fixtures in all. A side gets at least 60 minutes between its own matches, plays at most three a day, and no pitch hosts two games at once. These are constraints, not preferences — the scheduler will not quietly squeeze a fixture out to make the numbers work.

Does it fit?

All 84 fixtures fit on 6 pitches over 3 days, at 63% pitch utilisation. There is not much slack: drop to 5 pitches and 25 fixtures have nowhere to go.

Most tools skip this step: they hand you a fixture list and leave you to count whether it fits in the days you have booked. Finding out it does not belongs before the invitations go out, not on the morning.

Budget and break-even entry fee

LineHow it is worked outAmount
场地租赁6块7人制@¥380/天 × 3天(按天包场)£6,840
裁判费84 裁判场次 × ¥35/场£2,940
工作人员6 人 × 3 天 × ¥105/天£1,890
医务/急救1 人 × 3 天 × ¥150/天£450
比赛物资6 块场地 × 2 套/场地 × ¥80/套£960
奖品1 个年龄组 × ¥180/组£180
保险24 支队伍 × ¥0/队£0
杂项直接成本 ¥13,260 × 10%£1,326
ContingencyA percentage of the direct costs — postponements, extra fixtures, damaged kit£1,750
Total£681 per team · £194 per fixture£16,336

Break-even = total spend ÷ teams = £681 per team. Most organisers add 20 to 40% on top to cover withdrawals, overspend and their own time — roughly £817 to £953 here.

Unit costs are the engine’s English reference rates, not a quote. Pitch hire in particular varies by a factor of three within one county. Put your own figures in and everything recalculates.

Run it on your own numbers

Teams, pitches, days and local rates in; fixture list, referee duties, budget, break-even fee and a printable handbook out. Free, no account, no sales call.

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