Online Volleyball Scoreboard

How volleyball scoring works

• Rally scoring. Every rally gives a point to one team, whoever served.
• Serving. The rally winner serves next. If your team was receiving and won (a side-out), it rotates one spot clockwise, and the next player in the serving order serves.
• Sets. A set goes to 25 points, and you must win by 2: 25-23 ends the set, 25-24 does not.
• Deciding set. In a best of 3 the third set usually goes to 15; in a best of 5 the fifth set does. Still win by 2. You can change both in “New match”.
• Match. Best of 5 (first to 3 sets) is common in high school; best of 3 (first to 2) is common in club tournaments. Leagues can change this, so the board lets you set the format, the points and the timeouts.

How to use this volleyball score board

1. Start a match: tap “New match / settings”. Enter team names, choose best of 3 or 5, points per set, timeouts and your rule set.
2. Score: tap a team’s side to add a point. The serve indicator moves to the rally winner.
3. Timeouts: tap Timeout under a team. Dots show how many are used.
4. Mistake? Tap Undo (or press U). Undo works all the way back to the first point, even after a refresh.
5. Change ends: Swap sides flips the board.
6. TV mode: huge numbers only, for a laptop on a TV or a tablet on the scorer’s table.
7. Score log: every point, timeout and sub is listed with the score; export it as a PDF.

Keyboard shortcuts: A = point to the left team, L = point to the right team, U = undo, T then A or L = timeout.

Volleyball score keeper with rotation tracking (match mode)

Load your lineup and the board becomes a bench assistant:

• Rotation and server. It shows your current rotation and who serves, and after a side-out it already knows the next server. That prevents wrong-server faults.
• Libero. It shows who the libero is in for and reminds you when she is in zone 5 and about to rotate to the front row.
• Subs. It counts substitutions against your rule set’s limit, warns two subs before it, and blocks at the limit with a “My league allows more” button. A player can only re-enter her own lineup spot. See substitution rules.

To start match mode, build your team in the volleyball rotation generator and press Match mode, or pick a saved team in “New match / settings”.

Youth and rec options

Many youth leagues limit serves in a row. Set a serve limit of 3, 4, 5 or 6 and choose what happens next: the team rotates to its next server, or the serve goes to the other team. Leagues that bring a bench player in on every rotation can turn on “sub through rotation”. These are league rules, so check yours.

Volleyball scoreboard app or score sheet?

This board runs in any browser: no app store, no account, and no ads on the board itself or in TV mode. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app. For an official record, keep a paper volleyball score sheet as well, or export the score log PDF after the match.