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title: "Competition Structures"
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During the initial stages of planning and configuration, you will need to decide on how you want to structure and manage your competitions.  Competitions are created and managed in the context of a Season and may be created either as a single overarching competition (i.e. Home & Away) or multiple individual competitions (i.e. NPL, NPL2, League One).

### **Which option is best for me?**

It really depends on your requirements. Dribl provides flexibility in how competitions can be managed and caters for the unique operational requirements of competition organisers.

With the single competition approach, all competitions will share [common global settings](https://dribl.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LA/pages/16777262) and all of the scheduling and fixturing is aggregated across all of your leagues, as opposed to a per competition basis with the multiple competitions approach.

Consider the following to help you make your decision.


### **Single Competition in a Season**

This is the best option when **All Leagues** and their teams will be administered under the same competition. There will be consistent points applied across all league tables and the scheduling and fixturing occurs on an aggregated basis across all teams.


![image](media://03797231-b610-4e5e-8e16-9a99b0b9d4c9)



### **Multiple Competitions in Season**

This is the best option if there is a need to manage leagues in logical groupings, logically separate leagues across different competitions and leagues or competitions have different administrative and scheduling requirements.


![image](media://e5a152ff-1f07-4d59-bcd7-29d2ed24e1d4)