26 July 2026 · The Entrypoint team
A Last One Standing competition (you'll also hear "Last Man Standing") is the simplest season-long fundraiser a club can run: members pay an entry fee once, pick one football team to win each gameweek, and can't pick the same team twice. If their team loses or draws, they're eliminated. The last member standing wins a prize, and the rest of the entry money goes to the club.
This guide covers everything a PRO, treasurer or committee member needs to run one — whether you do it by hand or let a platform run it for you.
Keep the rulebook short. Five rules cover almost everything:
Write the rules down before anyone enters and share them with every entrant. Most disputes come from the draw rule and missed deadlines — both disappear if the rules were visible up front. We've made a free rules sheet template you can put your club's name on.
Entry fee. €10/£10 is the sweet spot for most clubs — low enough that the whole community enters, high enough to raise real money. Clubs raising for a big project sometimes go to €20.
Prize. Two approaches work: a fixed prize (say €250) announced up front, which makes your fundraising total predictable; or a percentage split (say 30% to the winner), which scales with entries. Fixed prizes are easier to promote — "€250 for the last one standing" is a clean message.
Start gameweek. Give yourself two to three weeks of promotion before the first deadline. For 2026/27, launching in early August for a GW1 start catches peak new-season excitement — but starting at GW3 or GW5 works fine if you need more runway.
Entry deadline. Close entries at your start gameweek's first kick-off. Late entry is the most common source of arguments.
Be honest with your committee about the workload. Each week, someone must: collect picks from every entrant (WhatsApp messages arrive at 11pm on Friday), check nobody has reused a team, chase the people who haven't picked, check results, update the master sheet, announce eliminations, and handle the disputes. With 30 entrants it's an hour or two a week. With 150 it's a part-time job — and one mistake in the sheet becomes a committee agenda item.
The alternative is running it online: entry, payment, pick deadlines, reminders, results and the leaderboard all happen automatically, and funds go straight to the club account. Here's how that works on Entrypoint.
400 entries at €10 = €4,000 collected. Set a €500 prize and the club keeps €3,500 before costs. On Entrypoint, roughly 84% of total entries typically reaches the club after the prize and all fees at that scale — and there are no setup or monthly costs. See how much clubs actually raise for real figures.
Two weeks out: announce the competition with the entry fee, prize, start date and a link (or contact) for entering. One week out: post the "how it works" explainer — three sentences is enough — and share it in every team's WhatsApp group. Three days out: countdown post. Deadline day: final call, then a "we're off — X members standing" post. Every week after: announce the eliminations. The elimination posts are the engine of the whole thing — nothing recruits next season's entrants like watching this season's drama.
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