---
title: "Getting Started with Lineups"
description: "Create your first game-day lineup sheet from a template, link your team or a saved roster, and print it."
category: "Lineups"
published: "2026-10-12 15:01:59"
updated: "2026-10-12 19:07:49"
url: "https://www.hockeyshare.com/support/kb/lineups/getting-started-with-lineups"
---

# Getting Started with Lineups

Lineups is where you build game-day lineup sheets: lines, defense pairs, goalies, staff, scratches and officials on one printable page. Link your team or a saved roster and every player's number, name and details fill in for you.

## Step 1 — Open Lineups

Go to **More → Lineups**, or open **Coaching Tools** and choose the **Lineups** tile. Your lineups are listed here, newest first, with a preview of each sheet.

![The Lineups page with search, filters and three lineup sheets](https://img.hockeyshare.com/01a13178-fa7c-773b-9309-0410f9ca0ec6/-/format/webp/)

## Step 2 — Start a new lineup

Click **New lineup**. First choose where your players come from under **Roster source → Pull players from**:

- **A team** – uses the players and staff on one of your HockeyShare teams. Changes you make to the team show up on the sheet.
- **A saved roster** – a player list you keep in Lineups, no team needed. See [Saved Rosters](/support/kb/lineups/saved-rosters).
- **Nothing — write-in only** – type every name yourself.

You can change this later in **Page setup**.

## Step 3 — Pick a template

Click a template to create your lineup from it:

- **Classic Game Sheet** – three forward columns, left and right defense, goalies, plus staff, not dressed and officials along the bottom.
- **Pro Game Sheet** – a college or junior style roster sheet with class year, hometown, previous team, stat lines, commitment logos and pronunciations.
- **Forwards / Defense (Landscape)** – a landscape sheet with big numbers, forwards in a 3-wide grid and defense in pairs.
- **Blank** – an empty Letter page.

To set your own paper size, use **Or start blank**: enter a **Lineup name** and choose **Paper** (Letter or A4), **Orientation** and **Column guides**, then click **Create blank lineup**.

![New Lineup page with the roster source and starter templates](https://img.hockeyshare.com/01a13179-04b7-74fd-96df-cb9d8b9c200e/-/format/webp/)

## Step 4 — Fill it in

The editor opens with your template on the page. Click a forwards, defense or goalie block, open the **Roster** tab on the left and click players to place them. **Auto-fill** fills the whole block in one click. Everything saves automatically.

![The lineup editor with the Add tab, a filled game sheet and the sheet theme](https://img.hockeyshare.com/01a13179-0e52-78a1-ac60-9018eb1e536f/-/format/webp/)

When you're done, click **Print**, **PDF** or **Share** at the top. See [Printing, PDF & Sharing a Lineup](/support/kb/lineups/print-pdf-and-share-lineups).

## Free and Premium

- **Free** – keep up to 2 lineups and print them as often as you like.
- **Premium** – unlimited lineups and PDF export.

Free accounts see how many lineups they've used at the top of the page. Deleting a lineup frees up a spot right away.

![Free plan notice showing 2 of 2 lineups used](https://img.hockeyshare.com/01a13179-16d2-7ab6-8244-3c3354037c58/-/format/webp/)

## Tips

- Make one sheet the way you like it, then use **Duplicate** for each game instead of starting over.
- Link your team rather than typing names. When a player's number or position changes on the team, every sheet updates.
- Had lineups under Teams? You can bring them across. See [Moving Team Lineups into the New Lineups Section](/support/kb/lineups/importing-team-lineups).