Season & periodization cycles

The Season is your team’s reference period: “season” statistics (attendance, load, tests) are anchored to it, and it carries your periodization cycles. You define it in the team Settings, and split it into cycles from Load planning.

The team’s season

In Settings → Season, fill in the Season name, Start and End. These dates become the window the app’s “season” views anchor to.

Below those fields, the Season lifecycle block shows the active season and your Archived seasons. Until dates are filled in, the team keeps its historical behaviour — the season is only created once the dates are set.

Close & start a new season

At the end of a season, the Close the season button opens the Close & start a new season assistant. The current season is archived (read-only) and the new one becomes the reference.

1. Fill in the Season name, Start and End of the new season.
2. Roster review (optional) — tick the players leaving the squad: they become “inactive”. Nothing is deleted.
3. Optionally tick Regenerate recurring trainings over the new season.
4. Confirm with Close & create the season.

Caution

Closing a season deletes nothing: injuries, tests, loads, wellness and attendance stay in the players’ history. “Season” statistics simply re-anchor to the new dates, and the old season stays available under Archived seasons.

Periodization cycles

In Load planning, the Cycles tab splits the season into blocks — pre-season, competition, break… — each with its own weekly target and template week. You need an active season to create cycles; otherwise the tab points you to Set the season in the settings.

Add a cycle opens a dialog with:

Field	Purpose
Cycle name	e.g. Pre-season, Competition 1, Break.
Type	Preparation, Competition, Recovery, Taper or Other.
Start / End	The block’s dates, which must stay within the season dates.
Weekly target (AU)	Prefilled as the target of every week in the cycle (editable week by week). The label follows your team’s load unit — enter the value in that unit.
Template week	An existing week template, proposed when opening the cycle’s weeks.

Note

Two cycles cannot overlap, and a cycle must stay within the season dates. The app rejects a save that falls outside the season or overlaps a neighbouring cycle.

Every week inherits its cycle

When you open a new planner week inside a cycle, it automatically inherits that cycle’s phase, weekly target and category budgets. It is a copy, not a link: editing the cycle later never touches a week that is already planned.

To go faster, Apply the template week applies the cycle’s template in one go to all its empty weeks. Weeks that are already planned are never overwritten — so the action is safe to re-run and reports how many weeks were filled and how many were already planned.

The Season view

The Season tab of Load planning gives the planned vs actual load, week by week, grouped by cycle. The current week carries the current badge, and weeks outside any cycle are gathered under Outside cycles. It is the season-wide read, where Planned vs actual shows only one week.

What’s next?

• Build out each week in Load planning.
• Schedule sessions and convocations from the calendar.
• Follow the real cumulative load on the Team load page.