What it is
The Calendar is where the technical staff lays out the team's schedule: training sessions, matches, recovery, and logistics (travel, meals, meetings, press) organized into microcycles and structured around the match-day-minus (MD-) framework.
When you use it
Use the Calendar as the starting point of every planning week. You build the microcycle here first — set the match date, drop in sessions, adjust the MD- labels — and then drill into each session from the Calendar into Daily Planning (field) or Gym Planner (gym) to design the actual content. It is also where you import the season's fixtures and publish the schedule to players.
How it works
Switch views. Four views cover different planning horizons:
- Microcycle (default) — the current 7-day training week, laid out as a grid of days with their MD- labels.
- Month — a full month grid; sessions are color-coded by type and each microcycle is tinted so blocks are easy to see.
- List — a chronological list of upcoming sessions (title, type badge, duration).
- Player view — a staff-only preview of exactly what players see, showing only events shared with them.
Navigate with the Today button, the previous/next arrows (step by week in Microcycle view, by month in Month view), and the zoom controls that compress or expand how many days the microcycle shows.
Filter what you see. Quick-filter pills narrow the calendar to a single type: All, Training, Gym, Match, Recovery, or Travel. The team switcher at the top-left scopes everything to one squad/category.
Read a day. Each session appears as a colored pill carrying its start time and duration. Training and gym sessions also show a small AU figure in staff view — the planned session load (see Key concepts). Match tiles show the opponent crest when one is uploaded. A day marked as a day off collapses its sessions and shows an OFF tag instead.
Work with sessions.
- Click a session to open its popover — time, location, duration, planned RPE, notes and audience. From there, Edit or Delete it, or jump straight into Daily Planning (training), Gym Planner (gym) or Lineup (match).
- Drag a session to another day to move it (this updates its date). Within a day, sessions without a fixed start time can be dragged over each other to reorder them; sessions that have a start time are ordered by that time.
- Click the + in a day column to create a new event on that date. The event form covers title, type, date, optional repeat, duration, start time, notes, audience, and — for matches — opponent, home/away, competition, stadium and crest.
Set the MD- rhythm. Each day carries an MD- tag derived from the microcycle's match date. Click a tag to override it manually — Auto, MD, MD-1 through MD-6, MD+1 through MD+3, or OFF. Manual overrides are marked as such so you can tell them apart from the auto-calculated ones.
Create a microcycle. Use New microcycle to open a block with a name, start date and end date. The new block populates the ribbon and re-renders the grid.
Import fixtures. Import fixtures opens a dialog with two tabs — paste text (one fixture per line) or upload a CSV — parsed into date, opponent, home/away and competition. A preview flags conflicts before you confirm, and an "overwrite conflicts" option lets you replace existing entries. Confirmed fixtures are created as match events.
Publish to players. Events carry an audience: Staff always see everything; you can additionally share an event with Players, Medical or Board. A public share link lets players open a read-only schedule of just the events shared with them — no login required. The right-hand panel shows the current publish state (Published / Draft) and lets you generate or revoke that link.
Key concepts
Microcycle. A training block — usually a week — bounded by a start and end date and built around one target match. In Month view a microcycle shows as a tinted band; the header summarizes where you are (for example, "Microcycle 14 · MD-2").
Match day minus (MD-) / morphocycle. The days of the week are labeled relative to the match: MD is the game, MD-1 … MD-6 count backwards from it, and MD+1 … MD+3 are the recovery days after it. This is the morphocycle logic used to distribute training load across the week — high-intensity work is placed far from the match, tapering as MD approaches. Labels are computed automatically from the match date but can be overridden per day.
Session types. Beyond training, gym, recovery and match, the Calendar handles the full week: travel, hotel check-in/out, bus departure/arrival, meetings, press, medical checks, meals, video sessions and evaluations. Each has its own icon and color so the week reads at a glance.
Planned load (AU). For training and gym sessions, the Calendar shows a planned load in arbitrary units, computed as duration (min) × planned RPE. Sessions still missing an RPE are flagged so the week's planned load stays complete.
Audience & publishing. An event's audience decides who sees it — Staff, Players, Medical or Board. Publishing generates the read-only player schedule; the Player view lets you preview it before you share.
FAQ
How do MD- labels get set? Automatically, from the microcycle's match date. Click any day's tag to override it manually (Auto, MD, MD-1…MD-6, MD+1…MD+3, OFF); manual overrides are marked so you can distinguish them.
Can I move a session to another day? Yes — drag it to the target day's column. To reorder sessions within the same day, drag ones without a fixed start time over each other; timed sessions order themselves by their start time.
How do players get the schedule? Share events with the Players audience and publish the microcycle's public link. Players open a read-only view of just those events; use Player view to preview it first.
Where do I actually build the session content? The Calendar schedules sessions; open one and use Open in Daily Planning (field) or Open in Gym Planner (gym) to design the drills and blocks.
Related
- Load Monitor — the load you plan here feeds the acute:chronic ratios there.
- GPS Analysis — compare what you planned against what athletes actually did.