Free 8 Team Bracket Maker

Eight players, three rounds, seven matches, and it all fits comfortably on one sheet with room to write. Type your names, print it, and pin it on the wall.

Build your 8-team bracket

Round one is seeded from your list of 8. Every later round prints as blank lines, so you can write the winners in as they are decided.

Fill the sheet with

Round one is filled in from your list. Later rounds always print blank.

8 of 64 · bracket of 8

Paste a list straight from a spreadsheet. One name per line.

Office Table Tennis CupQUARTERFINALSSEMIFINALSFINALCHAMPIONDanaMarcusPriyaTomYaelChenSofiaAndre

Everything you type stays in your browser and is drawn on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no watermark on the print or the PNG.

Now make it pay off

Want the bracket to run itself?

A printed sheet is finished the moment it leaves the printer. Move this draw into the Bracket widget instead and winners advance on their own, visitors vote and predict, and a live leaderboard ranks everyone’s picks. Your players come across, so you carry on where you left off.

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Widgets that pair with a tournament

A printed sheet settles the draw. These free CommonNinja widgets keep the tournament alive on your own site once the first results are in.

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Bracket generator for creating interactive tournaments that organize matchups, track progress, and deliver a clear and engaging competition experience.

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Add a customizable leaderboard to your site to display rankings, track scores, and encourage friendly competition.

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Poll

Create interactive polls with a poll widget that gathers real time feedback, boosts engagement, and helps you understand visitor opinions quickly and clearly.

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Add a countdown timer to your site to highlight upcoming events or launches and encourage timely user action.

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Other free tools to build and share something in a browser tab.

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Print a 16-team tournament bracket: 4 rounds, 15 matches, first round seeded from your list.

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Free 32 Team Bracket Maker

Print a 32-team tournament bracket: 5 rounds, 31 matches, first round seeded from your list.

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Free Blank Bracket Template

Print an empty tournament bracket with no names at all. 4 to 64 slots, every line left blank to fill in by hand.

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How It Works

Three steps, about a minute

1. Type or paste your players

One name per line, or paste a column straight out of a spreadsheet. Switch to a blank sheet if you would rather write them in by hand.

2. Check the draw

Choose whether round one follows your list, a random shuffle, or standard seeding that keeps the strongest apart. Byes are worked out for you.

3. Print it

The sheet is fitted to one A4 page exactly, so it never spills onto a second one. Your print dialog will save it as a PDF if you prefer.

The Shape

What an 8-team bracket looks like

Eight is the friendliest size there is. It is small enough that everybody can read the sheet from across a room, and short enough to finish in an afternoon.

  • 3 roundsQuarterfinals, semifinals, final. That is the whole tournament.
  • 7 matchesFour, then two, then one. A single elimination draw always needs one fewer match than it has players.
  • 1 sheet, big textEight rows across a page leaves plenty of height per line, so this is the one size that prints large enough to read from a distance.
  • 3 wins to take itNobody can be knocked out before the quarterfinals, so every entrant gets at least one match.

When To Use It

Eight is the office tournament size

Table tennis, darts, pool

Seven matches at ten minutes each is a lunchtime. This is why eight is the size most workplace competitions land on without anybody planning it.

Party and family games

Big enough to feel like a real competition, small enough that nobody is sitting out for long. Print two copies so one can live on the fridge.

If you have nine or ten people, do not force them into eight. Move up to the 16-team sheet and let the extra slots become byes, which the tool works out for you. Cutting two people to make the numbers fit is the one thing that reliably sours a casual tournament.

Other Sizes

Need a different bracket?

Same sheet, same print settings, a different number of slots.

Free 16 Team Bracket Maker

Print a 16-team tournament bracket: 4 rounds, 15 matches, first round seeded from your list.

Free 32 Team Bracket Maker

Print a 32-team tournament bracket: 5 rounds, 31 matches, first round seeded from your list.

Free Blank Bracket Template

Print an empty tournament bracket with no names at all. 4 to 64 slots, every line left blank to fill in by hand.

Or start from the general printable bracket maker, which opens with every size and format available and works out the right one from however many players you paste in.

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FAQ

Seven. Four quarterfinals, two semifinals and one final. In any single elimination draw the number of matches is always one fewer than the number of players, because every match knocks exactly one person out and you finish with one winner. Add a third place play-off and it becomes eight.
Three. The field halves each round: eight become four, four become two, and two play the final. That is why a bracket only works neatly on powers of two, and why seven or six players in an eight-slot bracket produces byes.
Use the 8-team sheet anyway and the leftover slots become byes, which are free passes through the first round. Choose the seeded draw and the byes go to the top seeds automatically, which is how a real tournament handles an uneven field and what your players will expect.
Yes. Click Print and choose "Save as PDF" as the destination in your browser's print dialog, which every major browser has built in on both Windows and Mac. That gives you a true vector PDF that stays sharp at any size. There is also a Download PNG button if you want an image to drop into a chat or a document.
Because that is what a printable bracket is for. Only the first round can be known before anyone plays, so the rest of the sheet prints as empty lines for you to write the winners into as the tournament goes on. If you would rather the bracket advanced winners by itself and updated live on a web page, that is what the Bracket widget does, and you can move your draw into it in one click.
No. Everything you type stays in your browser and the bracket is drawn on your own device. Nothing is sent to any server, so your players and your tournament name stay private to you.
Yes, completely free. No account, no sign-up, no credit card, and no watermark on the print or the PNG. Make as many brackets as you like.

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