Create Your First Team

Welcome to GameDay Music. In the next couple of minutes you'll have a team set up and be ready to run a game, so let's start at the beginning.

Everything hangs off a team, so that's the first thing you make. A name and a sport — that's the whole form. The sport matters more than it looks: it decides which board you get on game day, which sounds come loaded, and what the announcer says when a player is called.

Colors and a crest come next, under Team Branding. Worth doing early, because the logo doesn't just sit in the app — it shows up on the request page your fans open at the game.

You'll also pick a music source. Apple Music gives you the whole catalog; My Files lets you bring in your own mp3s from Files, iTunes or AirDrop. You don't have to decide forever — it's changeable any time.

Then the app offers you a shortcut. Load My Game Day Music fills every button with a ready-made set for your sport, so you have something that works before you've chosen a single song — and you can swap any of it later. Or take I'll set it up myself and build it from scratch.

Now your roster. Each player gets a first and last name, a jersey number, and a nickname if they go by one. And if you already have the list somewhere — a team email, a spreadsheet, another team in the app — import it rather than typing fifteen names on a phone.

Then the part that makes game day. Every player gets their own song — in football that's a touchdown song and a turnover song, in baseball it's their walk-up. Pick a track, then drag the start point to where the song actually kicks in. Nobody wants eight seconds of intro while a nine-year-old runs onto the field.

Back on the team screen there's a checklist tracking what's still missing — your roster, walk-up songs, voice introductions and break music. It's a decent order to work through, and you can jump straight to any of them.

And that's the whole setup. Tap Game Day and you're running the game.