How to Set Up a Recurring Pickleball Series

If your crew plays every Tuesday night, you shouldn't have to rebuild that game from scratch every week. A recurring series puts your regular game on repeat: you set it up once, pick how often it happens, and Pikel keeps creating each game on schedule — real games your players can RSVP to, not just a reminder. A standing game is one of the best ways to keep people coming back. Here's how to set one up.

Step 1 — Choose Weekly games

Open the Create tab and choose Weekly games — "Every week, ongoing. Change format any week." (One game makes a single date; League is a weekly series that also keeps a season table.) The series you set up here is the blueprint: every game in it is copied from these settings, so set it up the way you want every week to look.

Step 2 — Pick the day and the time

The next screen is your weekly numbers. Set when the first game Starts, then tap the Day it lands on. A weekly series lets you pick more than one day of the week — for example Tuesday and Thursday — and Pikel schedules each one.

Step 3 — Pick how often it repeats, and until when

Under Repeats, choose how often the game runs — Every week, Every 2 weeks or Every month — and when it ends. Pick an end date and Pikel generates games up to it and then stops, or let it keep going with no end date. Pikel tells you how many game days that puts on the calendar, and you can always come back and extend it later.

Step 4 — Finish the setup

Set the courts and the number of players, then choose the format (it becomes the default for every week, and you can change any single week later), the club and venue, and how scores are handled. Review it and create it. From here Pikel generates each game automatically, keeping upcoming dates on the calendar and rolling the schedule forward as they pass.

Step 5 — Club, group, or just you

You don't need a club to run a recurring game. A series can be personal — hosted by you alone, with no club or group attached — which is perfect for a standing pickup game among friends. Inside a club, any member can set one up as long as the club allows members to create events (it does by default, and admins can turn it off). Inside a group, any member of that group can.

Step 6 — Change or cancel it later

Plans change, and a series can keep up. Open any game in the series to edit it, and choose the scope — This game only, This and future games, or the Entire series — so a one-off tweak, a change from this date onward, or a change across the whole run each stays in its lane. Skipping a single week for a holiday or court closure? Edit or cancel just that date. Done with the series entirely? Choose Entire series and the upcoming games clear out together.

Pro tip

Set the series to repeat on the same night your group already treats as "pickleball night," then share it once. Because every occurrence is a real game with its own RSVP list, players see the next date on their calendar without you lifting a finger — and a game that's always on the schedule is a game people build their week around. Pair a standing series with a lively club chat and casual signups quietly turn into regulars.