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Prediction league for friends

The Prediction League Your Group Chat Needs

Make Your Pickz. Beat Your Mates. Win Prizes. Set up a private football prediction league in minutes and turn every gameweek into a reason to message the group.

You already argue about the football — now there's a table to prove who's right. Predict the scores each week, watch the standings shift as results land, and let the leaderboard settle it. It's free to play, there's no gambling, and it takes seconds to get everyone in with a single invite code.

Better together

Football is better with your mates in it.

Following the football on your own is fine. Following it against the people you'd actually text about it is where it gets fun.

A shared experience

When your whole group is calling the same fixtures, a Tuesday-night match matters again. Everyone has a Pick riding on it, so everyone's watching — and talking.

Reasons to chat

Bold predictions, near misses and the odd wildcard call — a prediction league gives the group chat a fresh talking point every single week, all season long.

A proper contest

This isn't a one-off sweepstake. It's a running table that rewards reading the football well week after week — so the winner has genuinely earned it.

Set it up

Create a private league in a couple of taps.

Any player can start one, and you're the host from the off. Everything you need to get a group of friends playing is built in.

1. Create your private league

Whoever sets it up becomes the host and the first member automatically. No admin, no faff — you're ready to invite people straight away.

2. Get your unique invite code

Every league comes with its own invite code and a join link, so only the people you share it with can get in.

3. Rally the group

Drop the code or link into the chat, and your mates are competing on the very same fixtures you are.

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One message, everyone's in

Share the invite in seconds.

No sign-up forms to fill in for each person, no emails to collect. Just a code and a link — made for a WhatsApp group.

Your league has a unique invite code and a join link. Post either one in the group chat and your mates are in: they tap the link, or they type the code, and they're playing the same fixtures as you. It's the fastest way to get a group of friends — or a five-a-side team — up and running.

Because only people with the code can join, your league stays private to the group. And anyone can hop in later in the season by dropping the code in — perfect for the mate who says "go on then" three weeks too late.

Every gameweek

Make your weekly score predictions.

Call the scorelines, lock them in and see how you did. It's about reading the football, not managing a squad.

Each gameweek you predict the exact score of every fixture, and your scoreline also decides your result call — home win, draw or away win. There are no transfers, budgets or line-ups to fret over like a fantasy-team game: you're simply calling the scores. Each Pick locks one hour before that fixture's own kick-off, so you can tweak your calls right up to the last minute, and you can edit as many times as you like before then. The full rules and scoring spell out every point on offer.

Want to see it live before you round up the group? Take a look at Prem Pickz, the Premier League prediction competition your private league runs alongside.

The Monday-morning ritual

Check the table before you've had your coffee.

The best bit of the week: seeing where the weekend left everyone, and who's got some explaining to do.

Two tables, twice the drama

Every point you score counts on both the gameweek board and the season-long board at the same time. A blinder of a weekend can win you the week even from mid-table, while staying consistent wins the year.

Instant group-chat fuel

When Sunday's results are in, the standings tell the story — no need to keep score yourself. Screenshot the table, drop it in the chat and let the reactions roll in.

Friendly rivalry

Bragging rights are the real prize.

Cash isn't the point. Being able to say 'I told you so' with the table to back it up — that's the point.

A season-long prediction league keeps a little friendly rivalry bubbling away from August to May. There's the mate who fancies themselves as a pundit, the one who backs their own team every week regardless, and the dark horse who quietly tops the table. Every result nudges the standings, and every standing is a fresh bit of banter waiting to happen.

Because everyone is scored the same way, the leaderboard is an honest record of who's actually reading the football best. No excuses — just the table.

If you want stakes

Play for whatever your group fancies.

Some groups play purely for pride. Others want the loser buying the first round. Both work.

As host you can record prizes for first, second, third and the wooden spoon, plus any optional stakes or house rules you want the group to agree on. Whatever you arrange privately is organised by the league itself — Pickz displays it so everyone can see what they're playing for, but doesn't administer or run it.

There are also platform prizes provided by partners across the wider competition, so there's more than just pride on the line. Pickz stays free and gambling-free throughout.

Who it's for

Ideas for friendship groups and football teams.

If you've got a group chat, you've got a league. Here are a few of the crews who make it their own.

The old school mates

Kept the group chat alive for years? Give it a proper reason to keep pinging with a table that lasts the whole season.

The five-a-side team

Settle who really knows the game off the pitch as well as on it. One code in the team chat and everyone's competing.

The family WhatsApp

Rivalries that go back generations, finally on a leaderboard. It's a low-effort way to keep everyone in touch every week.

Stuck on a theme or a name? Browse league ideas for inspiration, or if your crew is more the workplace type, take a look at running an office prediction league. And when you're ready to set yours up properly, our Learn guide on how to run a prediction league with friends covers the whole season, from invite code to wooden spoon.

Low effort, high fun

Why Pickz takes only minutes.

No spreadsheets, no chasing people for their picks, no doing the maths yourself. Pickz handles the boring bits.

Setup in seconds

Create the league, share the code, done. No admin work to keep it running week to week.

Scoring done for you

Points land automatically as fixtures finish. Postponed or abandoned matches simply don't score, for anyone — nothing for you to sort out.

A few taps a week

Making your Pickz takes a couple of minutes. The rest is just watching the football and enjoying the results with your mates.

FAQ

Playing with friends, answered.

Get the group chat playing.

Make Your Pickz. Beat Your Mates. Win Prizes. Start a private league, share the code, and settle the arguments on the table where it counts.

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