I Built a Football Tournament Simulator with Vue 3 ⚽

I recently built a browser-based football tournament simulator using Vue 3 and TypeScript.

What started as a very small bracket app slowly turned into a much bigger project with features like:

• Tournament brackets
• Match simulation
• Penalty shootouts
• Team power system
• Seasons
• Seeded draws
• Match history
• Responsive design
• Import/export system

You can create your own tournaments, simulate matches, and watch the bracket progress until a champion is crowned.

Why I Built It

I enjoy football management and simulation games, so I wanted to build something similar in the browser while also improving my Vue and TypeScript skills.

At first, the app was extremely simple:

• create teams
• simulate matches
• show a bracket

But after adding more systems and improving the simulation logic, the project became much more fun to work on.

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One of the Most Fun Parts

The most interesting part was definitely the match engine.

I tried to make matches feel:

• random enough to stay exciting
• but realistic enough so stronger teams usually perform better

Later, I also added penalty shootouts for knockout matches.

Small changes in the algorithm completely changed how the tournaments felt.

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Tech Stack

• Vue 3
• TypeScript
• Vite
• Pinia
• Vue Router

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Features Added Over Time

Some of my favorite additions were:

• Fullscreen bracket mode
• Team form/history pages
• Responsive layout support
• Dark mode improvements
• Team-colored confetti 🎉
• Dataset import/export
• Sample tournament datasets

I also refactored many parts into composables to keep the project cleaner as it grew.

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Links

GitHub Repository:
GitHub Repo

Live Demo:
Vercel Demo

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Final Thoughts

This project started as a tiny MVP and became one of my favorite frontend projects so far.

Building simulation systems is surprisingly addictive because every small tweak changes the entire experience.

I still plan to add more features in the future like:

• group stages
• league systems
• player stats
• better AI simulation

Thanks for reading ⚽