Normally the app creates a separate broadcast for every match: each match gets its own video and its own stream key, which the operator pastes into the camera or streaming software before every game. The «one broadcast per field» mode changes that to one broadcast per field per matchday: the key is pasted once in the morning, and every match on that field goes into a single continuous recording. Less work for the operator — but a match no longer has a recording of its own. This is your choice, not our setting: the mode is off by default, and we do not move anyone onto it.
Two ways to run a broadcast
The app does not carry your video. It creates the broadcast on a platform (today that is VK) and stores the stream key — a short string the operator pastes into their camera or streaming software. That key alone decides where the picture goes.
The difference between the two modes is only how many broadcasts get created, and therefore how many times a day somebody has to walk up to the equipment.
| Normal mode (default) | One broadcast per field | |
|---|---|---|
| A broadcast is created | for every match | for a field, for a matchday |
| The key changes | before every match | once a day, when the next day starts |
| For the viewer | each match has its own video | one long video for the whole field-day |
| The link on the match card | points to that match's recording | the same for every match on the field — the shared broadcast |
What changes for the operator
Exactly one thing — and it is the whole point of the mode: the stream key is entered once per field per day, not before every match. Within a matchday nobody has to touch the camera or the streaming software at all: it keeps pushing to the same address while the matches replace one another on their own.
How much that is worth shows in our own numbers for the summer of 2026. Over three months 983 matches went out through the app. Those same matches fall into 157 combinations of «day + stadium + field». That is over six times fewer key entries — 84 % fewer — for the same number of matches.
Per field it looks like this: today the operator walks up to the equipment before every game; in this mode, roughly once a week, at the start of the next matchday.
The key still changes — just between days rather than between matches. If you play on Saturday and Sunday, that is two keys. The mode cannot remove key entry entirely, and we do not want to suggest otherwise.
What changes for the viewer
Here the mode takes something away. Instead of a video per match, the viewer gets one long video per field per day. If eight games were played on that field, that is a single recording with all eight running one after another.
What follows from that:
- Every match on that field carries the same link — to the shared broadcast. There is no separate «recording of this game» link any more.
- A viewer who came for one particular match lands at the beginning of the shared recording and has to scrub to the right place. To spare them that, the start of the match has to be marked with a timecode.
- Sharing a single game on its own — sending parents just their team's match, say — is no longer as simple as it used to be.
Timecodes do exist in the app: on a video attached to a match you can mark the second at which the first and second half begin — the Add Timecodes button on the video card. In the normal mode that is a nice extra. In the one-broadcast-per-field mode it becomes required work: without timecodes the shared recording stays a wall of video several hours long.
The app does not mark where each match starts in the shared recording by itself. Somebody has to go through the field's matches and mark each one. Plan for that work: eight matches means eight marks, and it is easiest right after the matchday, while the schedule is still fresh.
One more detail worth knowing in advance: in roughly three cases out of a hundred, two matches on the same field start in the very same minute — schedules do that. In the shared recording those matches overlap and their timecodes coincide. Rare, but it happens.
Who it suits — and who it doesn't
The mode is built around one picture: a field where matches run back to back all day. A venue where it pays off looks roughly like this:
- the field hosts five to ten matches a day at 45–60 minute intervals;
- the camera is fixed at the field and films everything continuously, without being moved between games;
- for you the broadcast is primarily a live stream, and the recording is a welcome extra;
- one operator covers several fields, and running between them before every game is simply impractical.
It does not suit you if:
- you need a separate recording of every match — to hand to the team, post in the tournament group, attach to a highlights piece, or sell;
- matches on the field are infrequent and far apart: the shared recording would then be mostly an empty pitch;
- the camera is moved or switched off between games anyway — there is nothing to save, and the recording falls apart into pieces;
- there is nobody to place the timecodes after the matchday.
A quick sanity check: which costs you more — walking up to the camera between matches, or not having a separate video for each game? The app cannot give you both at once today.
How to turn it on
This is an organizer setting: you switch it on yourself, and we do not touch it. It is off by default for everyone.
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Open the organizer menu: ⋮ → Broadcast management.
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Tap the settings icon (the gear) in the top right corner. The Broadcast Settings page opens.
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At the bottom of the list, tick 1 Broadcast. The label is short and not especially descriptive — that checkbox is the «one broadcast per field» mode.
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Tap Save broadcast settings.
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From then on work as usual, with one adjustment: pick one matchday at a time. On the Broadcast management page set the period to the day you need and tap Create all broadcasts. The app will ask which fields to create broadcasts for — it shows a Stadium field dialog listing your stadiums and fields. Tick the ones you need and save.
A broadcast is created per field per day, but you choose the period yourself and the app hands it to the server as a whole, without splitting it. What happens if you select a whole week is something we have not tested live — nobody has switched the mode on yet. Until that changes, one day at a time is the only way to be sure you get what is described above.
Turning it off works the same way: untick the box and save. Broadcasts that already exist stay as they are — only the way the next ones get created changes.
The checkbox applies not to one tournament but to all of your tournaments at once. Turning the mode on for a single tournament while leaving the rest as they were is not possible today. If you run different venues with different routines, take that into account before switching it on.
What to know beforehand
Four things that can make the first matchday go differently than you expected.
Broadcasts are created no earlier than a week before the match
The Create all broadcasts button does not take every match in the period you picked — only those that have not started yet and fall within the next seven days. A match scheduled a month ahead is skipped silently, and so is one that has already been played. If you tapped the button and the app told you there are no matches, this is almost always why. Matches whose two teams are not known yet are skipped as well — except in a play-off, where the broadcast is created even before the pairings are settled.
The stadium and the field must be set on the match itself
Broadcasts are grouped by the pair «stadium + field», and the app reads both values from the match card itself. If the stadium is empty on the match, the app falls back to the tournament's stadium — but then it does not read the match's field at all, even when that field is filled in. Such a match lands in the «whole stadium» group and shares a broadcast with everything else happening there. The tournament's stadium is not enough: both the stadium and the field have to be set on every match.
And second: if two matches spell the field differently — Field 1 and field #1 — the app treats them as two different fields and creates two broadcasts. Before the first run, go through the schedule and make sure the stadium and the field are filled in on every match and named consistently.
The mode works with VK broadcasts
In this mode the Create all broadcasts button creates a VK broadcast. If you stream somewhere else, the key can be handed out per field manually: the Broadcast management page has a separate screen behind the chain-link icon, where you set one address and key for a field for the day, and any single match can still be overridden separately.
You will be the first
Honestly: the mode is written and it works, but no organizer has switched it on yet — not a single shared broadcast went through the app over the summer of 2026. Everything above follows from how the mode is built, not from somebody else's experience. So if you decide to try it, tell us in advance and we will watch your first matchday together. That will be easier on both of us.
Next step
How a broadcast is started in the first place, what a screen is and what layers over the picture do — see «Broadcast management». It describes the normal mode, but everything it says about screens, layers and the console applies here too.
Not sure whether the mode fits your venue? Write to support@nsgsoft.me — we will work it out together, before you switch anything on.