How to Sync Your Team Schedule to Google Calendar (and Apple)

A team schedule that lives in one app is a schedule half the team forgets to check. The fix is to get your games and practices onto the calendar families already look at every day, Google Calendar on most phones, Apple Calendar on iPhones, and Outlook for the work crowd. Once your schedule is synced, a new game or a moved practice shows up right next to a parent's dentist appointment and their other kid's recital. If you are setting up a new team for a fall season, do this in the first week, before the first practice, so every family starts the year synced. It works the same for any sport. Here's how to do it.

Syncing works through a calendar subscription. Your team app publishes a private calendar link, and each family adds that link once to their own calendar. From then on, anything you add or change on the team schedule flows into their personal calendar automatically. In Rizzler, this is Schedule Sync, and it's included on every plan, because a schedule nobody can see does no good. Publish your schedule once and it syncs out to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, TeamSnap, SportsEngine, and more. For the full picture of how calendar sync, availability, and notifications work together, see the schedule and attendance overview.

On a computer. Open Google Calendar, find "Other calendars" in the left sidebar, click the plus, and choose "From URL." Paste the calendar link your team app gives you and add it. The team's games and practices appear as their own calendar, which you can color-code and toggle on or off.

On an Android phone. Add the calendar link on the computer first using the steps above, then open the Google Calendar app on the phone and make sure the new team calendar is checked under your account's calendar list. Google syncs subscriptions through your account, so once it's added on the web it shows up on the phone.

On the iPhone, open Settings, go to Calendar, then Accounts, then Add Account, and choose "Other," then "Add Subscribed Calendar." Paste the team calendar link and save. The team schedule now appears in the iPhone's Calendar app alongside everything else. This is the cleanest route for iPhone families and doesn't require installing anything extra.