Random Team Generator

Pick a league — NFL, NBA, College Football, NHL, MLB or soccer — choose how many teams you want, and hit Generate. It draws teams at random with no repeats. There is also a mode to split a list of players into random teams.

Yes. Choose NFL and set the count to 1 for a single random NFL team, or 2 to draw a random matchup — handy for Madden, fantasy or a play-as challenge.

Yes. Switch to Split into teams, paste your list of names, choose the number of teams, and it shuffles everyone into even groups — a quick team randomizer for pickup games or the classroom.

Yes — free, no login, and it runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to a server.

Shuffle the full list, then deal names out one at a time. That's what split mode does: paste one name per line, choose between 2 and 12 teams, and hit Shuffle into teams. Because the whole list is shuffled before anyone's dealt, each person has the same chance of landing on any team. It's pulling names from a hat without the slips of paper or anyone peeking. Want a second opinion? Run it again — every shuffle is independent of the last.

Let a random draw do it, so nobody's choosing — that removes favoritism and the awkward last-pick moment. This tool splits purely at random. It doesn't know anyone's skill level, so it can't balance strong and weak players, and it doesn't assign captains. If skill really matters, name two captains yourself and let them draft, or shuffle a few times and keep a split that looks even. For pickup games and classrooms, a random split is usually fair enough and much faster.

The first teams get one extra person each. Names are dealt round-robin, so 10 people into 3 teams comes out 4, 3, 3, and 11 people comes out 4, 4, 3. No team is ever more than one person bigger than another. Who ends up on the bigger teams is still random, since the list is shuffled before dealing. Ask for more teams than you have names and it simply makes one team per name.

Not yet — teams are labeled Team 1, Team 2 and so on. It won't invent names either, so if you want a random team name generator, that's a different kind of tool. The quick workaround: hit Copy result, paste it into your group chat or doc, and rename the teams there. Hand out bib colors the same way, in the order the teams appear.

There's no fixed cap on names — paste a class of 30 or an office list of 80 and it deals everyone. The team count runs from 2 to 12, so 80 people across 12 teams gives you teams of 6 or 7. Everything runs in your browser, so the list never leaves your device. The page doesn't save lists between visits, though, so copy the result before you close the tab.

Yes — set the number of teams to half your head count. Twelve names into 6 teams gives six pairs, and 24 names into 12 teams is the most pairs you can make in one shuffle, since 12 is the team limit. With an odd number of people, one pair becomes a trio, which is usually what you want for a partner activity anyway. Handy for a 2v2 bracket or reading buddies.