National Tournaments and National Teams

HubMatch runs three tiers of competition. Open events are the default: any team in the allowed region can register. National events are reserved for national teams that represent a country. Domestic events are single-country club competitions - think Ekstraklasa or Puchar Polski - open to regular clubs from one country. This guide explains how national scope works, what a national team is, how a country fields a single representative when more teams want in than there are slots, and how domestic (single-country club) events differ.

What "National Scope" Means

Every tournament and league has a scope. Open competitions accept any team. National competitions are gated on team type, not on individual player profiles: only national teams may register, and regular clubs are blocked from entering. National teams are welcome in open events too, so a national squad can warm up in open tournaments and then represent their country in national ones.

A national event can be either international or single-country. The organizer sets this with the event's nationality field. When nationality is left empty, the event is international and any national team may join. When nationality is set to a country, the event is single-country and only national teams from that country can register.

What a National Team Is

A national team is a full team, exactly like a regular club. It has a roster, a captain, a profile, scrims, and recruitment. The only difference is its type. You create one by choosing the National team type in team create and setting the team's country; the captain's profile country must match the team's country.

Because a national team is a team, it shows up on the same leaderboard as everyone else. The leaderboard has a Regular / National filter so you can rank national squads against each other or see the whole field. National teams also use the same scrims, LFP (Looking For Player), LFT (Looking For Team), and tryout flows as regular teams - see the Recruiting Players and Tryouts and Team Evaluation help articles.

Joining or Building a National Team

National teams recruit the same way regular teams do: through the LFP board, LFT listings, tryouts, and direct invitations. The extra rule is country. When a captain invites you to a national team, the system checks that your profile country matches the team's country, and blocks the invite if it does not. Set your country on your profile before you start looking so invitations go through cleanly.

You can run a national squad alongside a regular club. The two are separate teams with separate rosters, so practising with your club and representing your country are not in conflict.

One Country, Many Teams: Quotas and Qualifiers

A single country can have several national teams, but a national event usually wants only one representative per country. The organizer controls this with a per-country limit, max teams per country. When more teams from the same country want to enter than the limit allows, that country goes to a qualifier.

A qualifier is a short knockout between the over-quota teams from one country to decide who takes the country's slot. The organizer sets a qualifier format and a qualifier window. If the qualifier window expires before a winner is decided, the organizer steps in and picks the country's representative directly so the main event can start on time.

Domestic Competitions: Single-Country Club Events

Domestic scope is a different idea from national scope. A domestic event is a single-country league or cup for regular clubs - the HubMatch equivalent of a national club league like Ekstraklasa or a national cup like Puchar Polski. National teams do not play here; regular clubs do.

Eligibility is decided by the club's declared country, not by the nationalities of the players on its roster. A club sets its country in team settings, and only clubs whose country matches the event's country can register. Because the gate is the club's country and not the roster, a domestic club may field players of any nationality - a Polish-registered club can run foreign players and still compete in a Polish domestic league. That is the key difference from national events, where the team itself represents a country.

Every domestic event pins a country (there is no "international domestic" event - that would just be an open event). The organizer picks the country when creating the tournament or league. Regular clubs from that country register directly; there are no per-country quotas or qualifiers, since a domestic event already lives inside a single country. If you run a club and want in, set your club's country in team settings before registration opens.

Tips

If you want to represent your country, set your profile country early, create or join a national team, and watch for national events opening registration. Single-country events fill fast when a country is strong, so expect a qualifier - a clean record in open events makes your team a more obvious pick if it ever comes down to an organizer decision.