Getting started #

Your club's channel is its own branded home on Matchday Live, where fans watch your matches live and catch up on replays. The admin dashboard is where you run it: branding, teams and leagues, plans, streams and fans.

This page tours the dashboard and walks through the path most clubs follow when they first set up.

Signing in #

Sign in at https://app.matchdaylive.com/signin with your email and password. Admin accounts are created from an invite; you cannot sign up on your own. If you have forgotten your password, use the Forgot Password? link on the sign-in page. Signing in and your account covers accepting an invite, verification codes, resetting your password and signing out.

The channel name and logo sit at the top of the sidebar. If your account has more than one channel, click it to switch channel. Check you are in the right channel before you make changes.

A tour of the dashboard #

The sidebar is grouped under these headings. Each item only shows if your role gives you access to it, so two admins on the same channel can see different menus.

Your content

Live Streams, where you create streams, go live and see past streams. On Demand, with Media, Playlists and Collections.

Insights

Revenue (with Overview and Sales), Engagement and Audience.

Viewers

Fans, Notices, Groups and Live Support. Live Support shows a count of unread conversations (see Live Support and support templates).

Monetise

Plans and Subscriptions.

Fan centre

Banners and Manage your page, which opens the Homepage manager.

Settings

Pinned at the bottom. Its Channel section has General, Teams and leagues, Tags, Categories, Integrations, Theme and Support Templates. Its Stream section has Stream keys and Input devices (see Stream keys), and Configuration templates and Profiles (see Streams: profiles and templates). Its Account section depends on your role and includes User management, where you invite colleagues (see Team members and roles).

Two things you might look for in the sidebar live elsewhere:

• Teams and leagues are under Settings > Channel > Teams and leagues.
• Studio opens per stream, from the Live Studio button on a stream's row on the Live Streams page.

Where to go next #

Pick the area you want to work on. Most clubs start at the top of this list and work down.

Your first week #

If you are setting up a new channel, this is the path to your first broadcast. You only need to do the first four steps once.

1. Set up your channel

   Set your Channel display name, logo and colours under Settings > Channel > Theme, and your currency and time zone under General. See Channel setup.

2. Add your teams and competitions

   Under Settings > Channel > Teams and leagues, add your teams, the opposition teams you play and your leagues. A fixture asks for all three. See Teams and Leagues & competitions.

3. Decide how fans pay

   Create at least one plan under Monetise > Plans, or plan to sell streams as pay-per-view or offer them free. See Plans.

4. Create a stream key

   Under Settings > Stream > Stream keys, create the key your encoder will use. See Stream keys.

5. Schedule your first match

   On Live Streams, select Create on Create new video stream. Choose Fixture, pick your team, league, opposition and Home or Away, set the date and time, and work through the steps. On the last step, Publish and make visible shows the stream to fans; Publish keeps it hidden; Save as Draft leaves it unpublished. See Scheduling streams.

6. Go live

   On match day, open the stream with Live Studio, link your key, check the preview, then press GO LIVE (manual go-live), or let it start on its own (automatic). See Live setup.

7. Review and replay

   After you stop the stream, the recording is prepared. If you switched on Make available On-Demand when you created the stream, fans can watch it as a replay from the time you chose. See On-demand.