Badminton Scoreboard
Rally-scoring badminton scoreboard to 21 with win-by-2, the hard cap at 30, serve and court-side tracking, and best-of-3 games. Works offline.
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- Enter names for Side A and Side B, then tap Start Match.
- Tap the side that won each rally — the point and the serve both go to them immediately.
- Watch the court hint under the serving side's score to know whether they serve from the right or left court.
- A game ends at 21 (win by 2) or at the 30-point hard cap; the match ends once either side wins 2 games.
Name your two sides, start the match, and tap whichever side wins each rally — every rally scores a point for its winner and the serve follows straight to them, since modern badminton has no side-out scoring. The board shows which side is serving and which court they should serve from, right for an even score and left for an odd one, so nobody has to do the parity math mid-rally. Games are won at 21 points with a 2-point cushion, but the tool enforces the real hard cap too: if the score reaches 29-29, the very next point wins the game outright at 30-29. The match itself is best of 3 games, with a reminder to change ends once the score hits 11 in the deciding third game, and Undo Last Point rewinds a mistaken tap exactly.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the 30-point cap and when does it kick in?
- Normally a game needs a 2-point lead to finish once the score reaches 20-20. But if the score climbs all the way to 29-29, the next point simply ends the game — even though it's only a 1-point lead, 30-29 is a valid final score. This scoreboard applies that hard cap automatically.
- How does the tool decide which court to serve from?
- The serving side's own score decides the court: an even score (0, 2, 4...) serves from the right-hand court, and an odd score (1, 3, 5...) serves from the left. The tool reads this straight off the serving side's current point total, so it's always accurate even after a run of consecutive points.
- Why does the serve change on every single rally?
- Modern badminton uses rally-point scoring, which means every rally awards a point no matter who served it, and the serve simply passes to whoever just won the rally. There's no separate 'side-out' step where a side has to win back the serve before they can score, unlike older hand-in/hand-out scoring systems.