Inactive Competitions

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 assignment notifications or finalized reports to 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:

• Select the menu item New Competition under the Competitions menu on the left nav-bar

• Select the Season of the Retro Competition, and enter all other mandatory and non-mandatory information

• 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:

• Match Appointment email notifications are not sent

• Match status change email notifications are not sent

• 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 of the match.

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 who attempt the same action will receive the message: "Cannot change the status of the competition if all matches have not been played."

Batch Update of Competition Status

In addition to deactivating individual competitions, you can batch update the status of multiple competitions. This can be useful for end-of-season clean-up when several active competitions need to be deactivated together.

To use this feature, go to Admin App → General → Batch Update and select Competition as the entity type. Set the desired New Status and enter a Description, then use the report filters in the next step to define which competitions to update.