Free printable bracket
Printable Tournament Bracket
A blank bracket for the wall or the clipboard. Choose the size, add a title, print it or save it as a PDF. One landscape sheet, seeds numbered, byes marked where they belong.
- 4 to 32 teams, byes printed in for the odd sizes
- Sized to one landscape Letter or A4 page
- Free, no download, no account, no sign-up
Pick Save as PDF as the printer to keep a file. Prints landscape on Letter or A4. Preview below.
What prints
One landscape sheet. Change the size above and this updates.
8-Team Tournament Bracket
8 entrants · no byes · 7 matches · 3 rounds
Free printable bracket from maketheboard.com/printable-bracket
Every size on the picker
Which sheet do you need?
Print the size that matches your entrants, not the next round number up. A 6 team event on an 8 team sheet leaves you inventing byes with a pen; the 6 team sheet has them printed. If your number is not on the list, print the next size up and the top seeds take the spare lines as byes, which is the correct rule anyway.
Sizes from 8 up print in the traditional mirrored layout, two halves of the draw meeting at a final in the middle, so 32 teams still fits one landscape page with lines you can write on.
| Teams | Slots | Byes | Matches | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | — | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 6 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| 7 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| 8 | 8 | — | 7 | 3 |
| 10 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 4 |
| 12 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 4 |
| 16 | 16 | — | 15 | 4 |
| 24 | 32 | 8 | 23 | 5 |
| 32 | 32 | — | 31 | 5 |
Print tips
Four settings between you and a sheet that looks right.
Turn off headers and footers
Browsers print the page title and URL in the margins by default. In the print dialog, open More settings and untick Headers and footers so the sheet is just the bracket.
Leave scale at 100%
The sheet is already sized to one landscape page. 'Fit to page' will shrink it further and waste the margins; 100% fills the paper.
Black and white is fine
The lines and labels are plain ink, no coloured fills, so a mono laser prints it as cleanly as anything else, and a photocopy of it still works.
Print one per court
For a big day, print a copy for the desk and one for each court or table. Officials write results on theirs, the desk copies them across, and the desk sheet is the record.
Paper, from this page
Right for a wall, a clipboard, a fundraiser table, or anywhere phones are not welcome. Print it, write the names in seeding order, fill in winners as you go. It is free, it needs no account, and the only thing on the sheet besides your bracket is one line of small print at the bottom.
Online, then print with names
Build the bracket with the names typed in and it becomes a live link everyone can follow, plus a print view you can run off after every round with the results in. The free print carries a small “Made with MakeTheBoard” mark. If you would rather it did not, a $15 one-time unlock for that board removes the mark and adds your logo, your colors and a 128-entrant draw. Most events never need it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Pick the number of teams above, type a title if you want one at the top, and press Print / Save as PDF. The print dialog opens with only the bracket on the page, in landscape, sized to a single sheet of Letter or A4. Nothing is downloaded and no account is needed.
Yes. In the print dialog choose 'Save as PDF' (Chrome, Edge) or the PDF option in the printer list (Safari, Firefox) as the destination. You get the same one-page landscape file, which you can email or drop in a group chat.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 teams. Powers of two (4, 8, 16, 32) print with every line in use. The other sizes print the byes in: a 6 team bracket marks two lines BYE, a 12 team bracket marks four, so you are not left working out who sits out with a pen.
Yes, and in the right places. Byes go to the top seeds, spread across both halves of the draw, exactly as a seeded tournament places them. The seed number is printed at the left of each line so you can write the names in seeding order, and the next-round line for each bye is pre-marked with the seed that advances.
It is free, needs no account, and the only mark on the sheet is a small line of small print at the bottom saying where it came from. There is nothing to buy on this page.
Yes: build the bracket online instead, with the names typed in, and print from the editor's Export dialog. That print shows the names, and it updates as results come in so you can reprint the bracket after each round. A free board's print carries a small “Made with MakeTheBoard” mark; the $15 one-time unlock removes it from that board and also adds your logo, custom colors and a 128-entrant draw. It is optional, and the blank sheet on this page never needs it. The 8-team and 16-team builders are the quickest way in.
Landscape. A bracket is wider than it is tall, because rounds run left to right, and this page sets the print to landscape for you. On portrait paper a 16 team bracket either shrinks to unreadable or spills onto a second sheet.
The blank sheet here is single elimination, because a losers bracket doubles the size of the drawing and rarely fits one page legibly. For double elimination, build it online with the format switched to double, then print from the editor: the winners bracket, losers bracket and grand final are all drawn for you.
Rather run it live?
The online bracket maker scores every match, advances winners, and gives everyone a link that updates on their phone.
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