FIFA Tournament Hub

Community FIFA tournament platform: 5 regions × 5 divisions × 20 clubs = 500 pre-seeded clubs, one cup per region, and a cross-region Champions League featuring the top 5 from each region's top flight.

All competitions are organised outside the actual FIFA game — managers and players use this site to claim clubs, build squads, schedule fixtures, and crown champions.

Regions

Five continent-scale regions: Europe, America, Africa, Asia, Australia.

Each region has 5 divisions (tier 1 = top) and one domestic cup. The Champions League is a cross-region knockout featuring the top 5 from each region's top flight (25 clubs).

Roles

• Club manager — claims an unclaimed club, builds the squad, submits match results.
• Player — joins a club's roster, racks up goals/assists, climbs the player leaderboard.

Features

• Pre-seeded league pyramid for 5 regions, ready to play
• Email + password auth (JWT cookie sessions)
• Double round-robin league fixtures (38 matches per team, like real life)
• Knockout brackets for cups & Champions League (auto-seeded, byes handled)
• Match result entry with automatic bracket advancement
• League tables (W/D/L, GF/GA/GD, points) with top-5 highlight for CL qualification
• Global club leaderboard and player goals/assists leaderboard

Stack

• Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Supabase Postgres (data + simple RPC functions for standings)
• bcryptjs for password hashing, jsonwebtoken for sessions

Deploy to Vercel

1. Push this repo to GitHub.
2. Import it on https://vercel.com → New Project → Import from Git.
3. Add the following Environment Variables in the Vercel dashboard:
   • JWT_SECRET — a long random string (e.g. openssl rand -hex 32)
   • NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL — your Supabase project URL
   • NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY — your Supabase anon/publishable key
4. Click Deploy. The app has no native binaries, so it runs on Vercel's standard serverless functions.

Note: Starting the Champions League generates ~127 matches with sequential bracket-linking queries and can take ~25–30s — if you're on Vercel's Hobby plan (10s function timeout), bump to Pro or start that competition from a local run.

Run locally

npm install
cp .env.example .env   # then fill in the three values above
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

Database schema

The full schema, seed data, and helper RPC functions live in the Supabase project as migrations. The seed includes 5 regions, 25 divisions, 500 clubs, 25 leagues, 5 cups, and 1 Champions League for the current season (2026/27).