GAA Scoreboard Guide

Run the score for your club championship match, county final, or training game the way GAA scores are actually written: goals and points, like 2-10 (16). The KeepTheScore Gaelic football scoreboard is a free, online scoreboard you update by tapping — goal, two-pointer, or point — with a match clock that counts up through each half and runs into injury time, just like the referee's watch. Show it on a clubhouse TV or pitch-side LED panel, share a link, or drop it into your live stream. This guide walks through how it works.

The control panel vs the display scoreboard

Your GAA board has two sides, and it helps to know which is which.

The control panel is where you keep score. You reach it by opening your board's admin link — the private link you got when you created the board. It shows the scoring buttons for both teams, the match phase and injury-time controls, and the clock. Keep this link to yourself, or share it only with people you trust to run the match.

The display scoreboard is what everyone else sees: the clean, big-screen view with no buttons. You share it with the presentation link — a view-only link anyone can open to watch the score. Put it on a TV in the clubhouse, send it to supporters, or use it as a browser source in your streaming software. Whatever you tap on the control panel updates the display scoreboard live, on every screen at once.

There's also a scorekeeper link if you want a helper to enter the score without being able to change your settings or reset the match.

The control panel — one tap per score, with corrections and undo

Tip: always think in terms of links, not files or apps. Copy the link you need and share it — that's all there is to it.

The two layouts

Gaelic football comes with two display layouts. Switch between them any time in the Setup panel — the change shows up instantly on every screen.

Streaming scorebug

A compact broadcast-style bar with both team panels, the goals-points scores, and a centre clock block with the half indicator. It has a transparent background, so in OBS, Streamlabs or vMix it sits cleanly over your camera feed — the kind of score strip you see on a televised championship match. Use it for:

• Streaming to YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch or anywhere else
• Adding the score as an OBS/Streamlabs browser source over your match footage

The streaming scorebug, built to sit over a live stream

LED panel

A high-contrast layout that fills a 2:1 screen edge-to-edge: huge scores in each club's colours and a black clock strip along the bottom, readable from the far stand. On a screen with a different shape it centres itself without distorting. Use it for:

• Pitch-side LED panels and venue screens
• A clubhouse TV or projector where you want the score readable from a distance

The LED panel layout — big scores, team colours, clock strip

The most important features

Scoring a match

GAA scoring has three buttons per team, matching the umpire's flags:

• Goal (green flag) — ball in the net, worth 3 in the total
• 2-Pointer (orange flag) — a kick from on or outside the 40m arc, adds 2 to the points column
• Point (white flag) — over the crossbar, adds 1

The score always reads in the official notation — goals-points, like 2-10 — and you can show the combined total in brackets, 2-10 (16), with a toggle in Setup. Only you tap; the board does the arithmetic.

Fixing mistakes

Mis-taps happen. Two ways to put things right:

• Undo reverses your last scoring action, exactly.
• The −Goal and −Pt buttons nudge one column down when you just need to correct a single number.

The match clock and injury time

The clock counts up, like the referee's watch: 0:00 to 30:00 in the first half, 30:00 to 60:00 in the second — or 35-minute halves if you choose senior inter-county length in Setup. At the end of a half the clock keeps running into injury time, and you can show an injury-time indicator (like +2') next to the clock: set the number of added minutes on the control panel and toggle it visible when the fourth official raises the board.

Half-time and full-time

The match phase — H1 → HT → H2 → FT — is one tap on the control panel. Moving to a new half re-seats the clock at the right starting time automatically. At full-time the board shows FT with the final score.

Starting a new match

Tap New match to clear the score, clock and match phase. Your club names, colours and settings are kept, so you're ready for the next game in a second.

Setting up your board

Open the Setup panel to shape the board before throw-in:

• Club names and colours for both teams
• Half length — 30 minutes (club standard) or 35 minutes (senior inter-county)
• Which details to show — the derived total, the match clock, the half indicator
• The board title, fonts and colours, and your layout choice
• Enable Audio on Public View if you want the buzzer heard on shared screens

Hurling and camogie

Hurling and camogie use the same goals-points notation, so the board works for them out of the box — just ignore the two-pointer button, which is a football-only rule.

Putting it on a stream

Both layouts work as a browser source in OBS, Streamlabs, vMix and similar tools — paste the presentation link and the score updates itself, with no plugins to install. The streaming scorebug is purpose-built for this. For step-by-step setup, see the streaming software guide.

Sharing your scoreboard

Share the right link for the job: the presentation link for supporters and screens, the scorekeeper link for a helper entering the score, and the admin link for a co-organiser who needs full control.

Related guides

• How Gaelic football scoring works — goals, points, the two-pointer and the rules behind the numbers
• Customizing your scoreboard — colours, layouts and fonts
• Scoreboards on a TV — display on venue screens
• Streaming software — OBS, Streamlabs, vMix and more
• All scoreboard types — every sport we support

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