Football Associations can always decide to enter information for previous competitions and store it in the COMET system.
When creating competitions that were played in the past, known as Retro Competitions, you don't need to send notifications of assignments or finalized reports to the end-users.
For example, when referees are assigned to a match, they receive emails that require them to either confirm or decline the assignment.
Authorized users can manually set a competition's status to Inactive, regardless of the season.
To enter the Retro competition:
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Select the menu item New Competition under the Competitions menu on the left nav-bar
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Select the Season of the Retro Competition, and enter all other mandatory and non-mandatory information
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After the competition has been created, if needed, manually set the competition status to Inactive
Behavior in Inactive Competitions
The following behavior applies to competitions that are Inactive or have no Authorization Tenant set.
When a competition is inactive, the following actions are suppressed:
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Match Appointment email notifications are not sent
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Match status change email notifications are not sent
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When a match is set to Played, Disciplinary Cases are not auto-created, Match Suspensions are not served or unserved, and Validate Reasons checks are not triggered
Additionally, Terminated registrations that were valid on the match date are listed as Available Players. This means a player whose registration has since ended can still be added to the lineup, as long as their registration was active on the date the match was played.
Deactivating a Competition with Unplayed Matches
Authorized users - Superusers, Competition Admins at the same level or above, and appointed Competition Managers - can deactivate a competition even if it still has matches that are not in Canceled or Played status.
When attempting this, the system displays a warning listing how many matches remain in each non-terminal status (e.g., Entered: 2, Scheduled: 5) and asks for confirmation before proceeding.
Users without the required permissions attempting the same action will receive the message: Cannot change status of competition if all matches have not been played.