Run the scoreboard from your phone

1Before you start

MiMarcador is the scoreboard at the ground, and you run it from your phone. You log what happens and the big screen shows it instantly. Families can also follow it live from home.

What you need

• Your phone with internet.
• Your club's link, your email and your password. The person who manages MiMarcador at your club gives you them.
• The screen at the ground switched on and showing the scoreboard.

2Logging in

Open your club's link. You will see the login screen:

1. Type your email.
2. Type your password. The eye shows it while you type, in case you made a mistake.
3. Tap Log In. You go straight to the match screen.

3The screen and the menu

At the top of the match screen is the match block: the period, the clock and its buttons, and below them the score with each team's buttons. Further down are the match setup, the videos and the button to end the match.

Before the match, the first thing you see is the setup, so you can get the match ready. As soon as you apply it, the match block moves to the top and the setup folds away underneath, so everything is at hand during the match.

The menu

Open it with the three lines button, top right. On the match screen it starts with the match-day actions and then the sections:

1. Turn On Display or Turn Off Display: switches the power of the screen at the ground on or off, if your club has it connected. The dot on the right is green when it's on and red when it's off. Careful: it acts as soon as you tap it, without asking.
2. Open Display: opens the scoreboard on the computer at the ground, if your club has it set up. You will see the message "Opening the … scoreboard".
3. Enable Notifications: your phone alerts (see section 4). Once they're on, this button disappears.
4. The sections: Match, which is this screen, plus Squads and Videos if your club uses them. Administrators also see Settings, Messages, Ads and Consents.
5. Language: the app in Spanish, English or German.
6. Help: this guide, in a new tab.
7. Administrator guide: only administrators see it.
8. Log Out.

On a computer or tablet

On a big screen you see everything at once: the match block on the left and the setup, the videos and ending the match on the right.

1. The tabs for the main sections, in the top bar.
2. The Menu button, with everything else: the actions, the other sections, the language and logging out.

4Your phone alerts

Turn them on on your first day. These alerts are just for you, not for the families, and they reach you even with your phone in your pocket.

1. Open the menu and tap Enable Notifications.
2. Your phone will ask whether to allow notifications: choose Allow.
3. Done: the button disappears from the menu. If one day it comes back as Re-enable Notifications, tap it again.

You will get two alerts:

• When a period is about to end, a few seconds before, so you are ready for the whistle and can check the score.
• If you leave the scoreboard open: ten minutes after reaching FULL TIME, if you haven't ended the match, a reminder to close it.

5Setting up the match

You do it in Match Setup, the first thing you see when no match is running. Your team goes at the top, as Home, and the opponent below, as Away.

1. Squad: choose your team. The category is filled in for you, and with it the length of each period. Your team's name on the scoreboard is the one below, usually the club's name.
2. The opponent's Name: type it exactly as you want it on the screen.
3. The opponent's Crest: if the name looks like one on the list, it is chosen for you. If it isn't there, leave No crest.
4. The Pitch you're playing on.
5. Category: check it. If you didn't choose a squad, choose it yourself, because it decides how long each period lasts.
6. Tap Apply Setup. The names and the crest appear on the screen at the ground.

Once applied, it's locked

When you apply it, the setup is locked until you end the match. On a phone it stays folded, labelled Locked; on a computer you can see it, but not change it.

6Today's matches (the schedule)

If your club prepares its matches in the Schedule, when you open the match screen with no match set up you'll see Today's matches at the top. That way there's no need to fill in the setup: find yours and tap Load.

1. Load: fills in the setup with the pitch, the category, your squad, the opponent and their crest, and applies it. Everything is ready for Start. The next match due is highlighted.
2. Pitch taken: there's another match on that pitch (underneath it says which one and how it's going). The button becomes available by itself as soon as the pitch is free.
3. Free up and load: the match taking up the pitch has already finished or has been stopped for a good while. It asks you first, closes it (if it was played, it stays in the results with its score) and loads yours.
4. … has it: someone else has already loaded that match. Those already played show their score.

Before loading it, the app asks you to confirm: «You are loading Alevín A against Rival CF», with the time, the pitch and the category. That way nobody loads another team's match by mistake. Tap Confirm, or Cancel if it isn't yours.

Once it's loaded, the screen scrolls up to the top by itself, with the clock and the goals in view, and above the setup there's a strip reminding you where it came from:

From then on everything is the same as always: Start, goals, cards and End Match. When it ends, the match is marked as played in the schedule.

7The clock

The top of the match block is the clock:

1. The period: 1st HALF, 2nd HALF or the quarter you're in, and at the end FULL TIME.
2. The timer for the period.
3. Start sets the clock running. Tap it at the kick-off of each period. While it runs, it is greyed out.
4. +1 min moves the clock forward one minute, running or stopped. Useful if you started late. It only adds: there is no button to subtract.
5. Next Period stops the clock, resets it to 00:00 and gets the next period ready, which you start again with Start. Tap it when the referee blows for the end of each period. After the last one, it goes to FULL TIME.

When time is up

The clock doesn't stop by itself: it keeps counting added time and turns orange, blinking, so you notice at a glance.

8Goals, cards and substitutions

Below the clock is the score: your team on the left, in the club's colour, and the opponent on the right, in grey. Each has its own buttons.

1. Your team's name and goals. The opponent's are on the other side.
2. + Goal: logs a goal for that team.
3. −: removes that team's last goal, in case you made a mistake.
4. Yellow card.
5. Red card.
6. Substitution.

The − sits on the outer edge and + Goal towards the centre, well apart, so you don't hit one when you mean the other.

Logging a goal

1. Tap + Goal for the team that scored.
2. If it's your team and you chose a squad, Who scored? opens with the players and their numbers.
3. Tap the scorer. The score goes up and the screen at the ground celebrates.

1. Each player, with their number in large type. Tap the one who scored.
2. Continue without choosing a player: logs the goal without a name.
3. The X cancels: nothing is logged.

The opponent's goals are logged straight away, without asking. The minute is saved only if the clock is running.

Cards

Tap the yellow or red card for the right team. If it's your team and there is a squad, it asks To whom? and you choose the player, just like with goals. The opponent's cards are logged straight away. The card appears on the big screen and goes into the match report.

Substitutions

For your team, with a squad, you do it by tapping the players:

1. Tap your team's substitution button.
2. Who is coming off? appears: tap the player leaving.
3. Then Who is coming on?: tap the player coming on. The substitution appears on the big screen by itself.

For the opponent, or if there is no squad, a window opens with two boxes: type the number of the player coming on and the player going off and tap Confirm.

9Videos and presenting the team

If your club has videos turned on, the match screen has a Videos section, with the button to present your team next to it:

1. Choose the video in the drop-down.
2. Play Video: it plays on the screen at the ground. When it ends, the screen goes back to the scoreboard by itself.
3. Show Line-up: presents your team before the match (right below).
4. Manage videos: the screen where you upload and delete them.

Presenting the team

It shows your players one by one on the big screen, with their photo, number and name. It looks great just before kick-off. When you tap it, it asks you to confirm.

The Show Line-up button appears if you chose a squad and that squad has Show photos turned on (you do that in Squads). And you can only tap it in the 1st half, with the clock stopped at 00:00.

Uploading a video

With Manage videos, or from Videos in the menu, you reach your videos screen:

1. Type the video name, the one you'll see later in the drop-down.
2. Choose the file: MP4, WebM, MOV or AVI, up to 100 MB and 5 minutes.
3. Tap Upload Video.

Each user only sees their own videos, and can have three at most. To upload another, delete one first with Delete.

10Messages on the screen

You can write a notice and show it full screen at the ground at any time, during the match or before it starts. Open Messages in the menu.

It's one of the most useful features and hardly anyone uses it. It's handy for everyday things:

• Asking someone to move a car blocking the entrance.
• Letting people know something has been lost or found.
• Calling someone, like a written loudspeaker.
• Congratulating a team, welcoming the opponent or announcing the next match.
• Announcing a delay or a change of pitch.

1. Type the text. The shorter it is, the better it reads from a distance.
2. The preview shows how it will look on the screen at the ground. If the text is cut off here, shorten it. Further down you can add a background image (JPG, PNG or WEBP, up to 5 MB); without one, the club's crest is used.
3. Choose how many minutes it will show: from 1 to 10.
4. Tap Send. It appears on the screen within a few seconds.
5. While it's on screen, at the top you see the seconds left and Cancel, to take it down early.

Only one message shows at a time: if you send another, it replaces the current one. When the time is up, it disappears by itself.

11Ending the match

When the referee blows the final whistle, scroll down to the last section and tap End Match.

It asks you to confirm: the match is saved in the history with its result. When you end it:

• It is saved to the history, with the score, the goals and who scored them, the cards and the substitutions.
• The pitch is freed, so another team can use it.
• Everything is reset and the setup is unlocked for the next match.

12Squads and photos

Open Squads in the menu. You set this up once, at the start of the season, not every match. Any user at the club can create teams, add players and upload their photos.

1. New Team: its name and category. Next to it, Import CSV to add lots of players in one go.
2. Tap the team to open or close it.
3. Show photos: if it's off, no photos appear on the screen. It saves instantly.
4. The gold circle: the line-up photo, used when you present the team.
5. The green circle: the goal photo, shown when celebrating their goals.
6. The three dots: edit the player, remove their photos or delete them. The team's three dots let you edit, clear or delete the team.

Adding players

1. Open the team and tap Add player, at the end of the list.
2. Type their name and number and save.

Enable and disable players

If your club has it switched on (the administrator enables it in Settings), each player's shirt number works as a switch. Before the match, tap the number of anyone who isn't playing: their row turns grey and the name is crossed out.

1. Coloured number: the player is enabled. Tap it to disable them.
2. Grey number and faded row: disabled. Tap it again to enable them.
3. Next to the number of players, how many are disabled.

A disabled player doesn't appear in the team presentation or in the goal, card and substitution lists on the match screen. It's saved instantly and stays that way for the next matches, until you enable them again.

The photos

Tap a circle and your phone lets you take the photo or choose it from the gallery. Empty circles have a +.

If you only add the line-up photo, it's also used for goals. If you add none, a silhouette appears in the celebration.

The line-up photo is cropped automatically: the phone removes the background and frames it like a passport photo, from head to shoulders. Then it shows you how it will look and you decide:

1. How it will look at the ground, already cropped. On the left, as you took it.
2. Use this one: uploads the cropped photo.
3. Try another: take or choose another photo.
4. Don't crop: uploads the photo as it is, with its background.

13What the ground sees

While you tap your phone, the screen at the ground runs by itself. This is what it shows.

The scoreboard

Both teams with their crests, the score, the clock and the period.

A sketch: the colours and crests are your club's.

The goal celebration

When you log a goal for your team, two things happen one after the other:

1. About 5 seconds of goal animation, with the scorer's name.
2. Then about 15 seconds with their photo full screen, their number and name. If there's no photo, it goes straight back to the scoreboard.

The animation is the one your club has chosen. It changes nothing for you: you tap + Goal, choose the player and the screen does the rest.

Cards and substitutions

They also appear on the screen, with the player's name, and disappear by themselves. For your team's substitutions, if both players have a photo, their photos appear large, with a green arrow for the player coming on and a red one for the player going off. Otherwise, the numbers appear large.

Today's schedule

If your club uses the schedule, a slide appears between the ads with the club's name, the time and the next matches: the time, your team with its category and the opponent with its crest. They are shown two at a time, up to four; with three or four there are two slides (1/2 and 2/2 at the top). A match stops showing as soon as it starts, or when its time passes without it being loaded.

The live page for families

Anyone who can't come to the ground can follow the match on their phone: the score, the minute and who scores, live. From that same page they can turn on alerts for their team's goals. It's all explained in the guide for families, which you can share with the team's group.

14If something doesn't work