Printable Basketball Score Sheet

A one-game scorebook page for grassroots and rec-league basketball: running score for each quarter plus overtime, team fouls and timeouts, and a 12-player roster per team with points and personal fouls. Free, no ads, no signup.

How to keep a basketball book

At grassroots level one scorer with one sheet can cover everything a game needs: the score, the fouls and the timeouts. The trick is the running score — you never write "2" for a basket, you write the team's new total.

Running score. Every time a team scores, write their cumulative total in the next empty box of that quarter's row: a game that starts with a three, a free throw against and a two reads 3 in the home row, 1 in the away row, then 5 in the home row. At any moment the last number in each row is the score — no adding up mid-game, and any dispute is settled by reading the boxes back. Start a fresh row pair each quarter so quarter scores are easy to reconstruct.

Player points and fouls. In the roster grid, tally each player's points as they happen (many scorers write 2, 3 or 1 and total at the end) and circle a foul number each time they're whistled. Five circles and the player has fouled out — tell the bench before they check back in.

Team fouls. Personal fouls also count against the team, quarter by quarter. Circle one number in the team-foul strip per foul; when you circle the 5th (4th in FIBA junior formats), the other team shoots bonus free throws for every subsequent common foul that quarter. Team fouls reset each quarter — overtime continues the 4th-quarter count in FIBA, so keep the OT strip beside it.

Timeouts and overtime. Cross a timeout box each time a coach calls one (rec leagues commonly allow two in the first half, three in the second — write your league's rule in the margin). If the game is tied after four quarters, use the OT row: overtime is usually 5 minutes, and you keep scoring in exactly the same way. If you're also running the clock, a phone or tablet with the free online game clock next to the sheet does the job.

Using the sheet: fill in the team names and rosters before tip-off, agree the timeout rule with both coaches, and give the book one final check at each quarter break — the running score, the player points and the team fouls should all tell the same story.

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Game

Date	Venue	Home team	Away team	Final score

Running score

Write the team's new total in the next box each time they score. The last filled box in a row is the live score.

Quarter	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Q score
Q1	Home
	Away
Q2	Home
	Away
Q3	Home
	Away
Q4	Home
	Away
OT	Home
	Away

Team fouls & timeouts

Circle one number per team foul — circling the 5 puts the other team in the bonus for the rest of the quarter. Cross a timeout number each time one is used.

Team	Q1 fouls	Q2 fouls	Q3 fouls	Q4 fouls	OT fouls	Timeouts
Home	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5
Away	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5	1 2 3 4 5

Home roster

#	Player	Fouls (circle)	Points (tally)	Total
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5

Away roster

#	Player	Fouls (circle)	Points (tally)	Total
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5
		1 2 3 4 5