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How Squash scoring works

Under the PAR system, the winner of each rally scores 1 point, whether they served or not. A game is won by the first player to 11 points; at 10-10, play continues until one player leads by 2. The match score is counted in games won.

Match format

A match is most often best of 5 games (first to 3 games won). Some competitions or recreational formats use best of 3 games. There is no fixed duration: length depends on the rallies.

How to win

The player who wins the required number of games (3 in best-of-5, 2 in best-of-3) wins the match. Each game is won at 11 points with a 2-point margin.

Recommended ScoreZen setup

Set up squash with ascending point scoring, 'Official' preset at 11 points per game with a 2-point margin, or a 'Recreational' preset for your own rules. Set the number of games (best-of-5 or best-of-3) and service alternation.

How the score is really called on a squash court

Squash is point-a-rally: the winner of a rally scores a point and serves the next. A game goes to 11, but at 10-all it continues until someone leads by two — 12-10, 13-11, with no ceiling. A match is normally the best of five games, and may be the best of three.

The calling order is fixed: anything that changed the score, then the score with the server's score always first, then the comment — "Stroke to Jones, 10-8, game ball." A change of server is called "hand out" in front of the score, and the first time a game reaches 10-all, only then, you call "10-all: a player must win by 2 points." Nobody serves before the score is called.

The box follows the score. The winner of the spin serves first; at the start of each game and after every hand out the incoming server picks a box, then alternates while keeping the serve, and after a let serves again from the same box.

Four mistakes do the damage: calling the receiver's score first, which reverses the game; dropping the "hand out", after which nobody knows who serves; closing a game at 11-10; and repeating the two-points call at 11-11 and 12-12, when it belongs to the first 10-all alone.

(World Squash Singles Rules 2025, published by the World Squash Federation and in force since 1 September 2025: rules 2.1-2.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.7, 3.5.8, 5.1-5.3, 5.12 and Appendix 2.)

What the rulebook says about the record

Officials record three things: the score, who is serving and the correct box. A score announced wrongly must be corrected by the referee at once. But the window is narrow: once the ball has been served, nothing from before that serve can be appealed, except a broken ball.

The wrong-box case surprises everybody. If a player serves from the wrong box and nobody notices, players or officials, the result of that rally stands; if the server won it, they then serve from the alternate box. Nothing is replayed, no point is handed back.

Concessions and penalties leave real numbers behind. A player who concedes a game keeps the points already won, so a conceded game is written 8-11, never 0-11, and a conduct game works the same way — the penalised player keeps every point and game already won. A conduct stroke given after a rally has finished is added to the score with no change of service box.

Older systems, honestly: the January 2024 edition carried an Appendix 3 on alternative scoring, with point-a-rally to 15, two clear at 14-all, and hand-in/hand-out to 9, where only the server scores and at 8-all the receiver chooses to play to 9 ("Set 1") or to 10 ("Set 2"). The 2025 edition deleted that appendix, so a box league still playing to 9 is running a house rule: write it into the competition regulations, which players must comply with.

(World Squash Singles Rules 2025: rules 3.1, 3.6.6, 5.11, 10.4, 13.2, 14.1 and 14.10; the deleted Appendix 3 is listed in World Squash's track of all changes from the 2024 edition to the 2025 one.)

Club night, league night, tournament day

At club level there is no referee and no marker. The rules assume one or two officials; a box league has none, so the two players are the record. The server says the score out loud before every serve, own score first, and adds "hand out" when the serve has just changed hands.

A box league — five or six players, everyone plays everyone, promotion and relegation at the end of the round — is usually separated on games won and then points, so the sheet must carry both, not just "won 3-1". That tie-break is your club's own convention, not a World Squash rule: write it down before the round starts.

A league tie is a series of individual rubbers, and the line-up follows the national ranking — number 1 is the team's best player. In the French federation's interclub championship a men's team is four players and a women's team three, and the order of play is fixed by the regulations rather than by ranking: among the men the number 4s play first, then the number 1s, the number 2s and finally the number 3s (women: the number 3s, then the number 1s, then the number 2s), with the order drawn by lot in the play-offs. At the end both captains check and sign the match sheet, which carries the exact score of every individual rubber. How many rubbers, and whether the tie is decided on rubbers or games, comes from your competition regulations. (FFSquash, Règlement Sportif 2024-2025, articles 71, 75 and 76.)

The rallies are unpredictable; the overhead is not. Four minutes of warm-up with a change of sides after two, one minute before the first serve and two minutes between games put thirteen minutes of clock into a five-game match, before any stoppage: two minutes to change damaged eyewear, three to recover from a self-inflicted injury, up to fifteen when both players contributed to it or the opponent caused it accidentally — and if the opponent's play was deliberate or dangerous and the injured player needs any recovery time at all, the match is awarded to the injured player. The best of three is in the rules too, and organisers use it for junior and school draws to fit court slots. A referee and a marker are seated at the centre of the back wall, and where video review is installed each player gets two reviews per match in a best of five, plus one more if the match reaches a fifth game.

What ScoreZen changes for squash

You score from the gallery, outside the glass, with one thumb. ScoreZen numbers the periods the way squash does — Game 1, Game 2 — shows the games won and the points of the current game on one screen, and marks who is serving. It will not close a game at 11-10: from 10-all it keeps counting until someone is two clear.

Then you share the match by link, or by a QR code taped beside the court door. Spectators are free, unlimited and never need an account. TV mode fills the screen in the bar so the gallery reads the score from upstairs; if the club films through the back glass, the transparent overlay drops the live score into OBS.

For a tournament, ScoreZen runs knockout, championship, pools plus a bracket, Swiss system, best-of-3 and best-of-5 series, and rotating teams for social nights. Four courts, one single QR code for the whole tournament: players scan it, open their match and score it themselves while you watch every court from the desk. Squash courts sit in basements, so ScoreZen keeps counting without a network and resynchronises when the signal returns.

Afterwards the Replay summary and the Story image are shareable, the club site embeds the widget, the calendar takes the ICS feed, the season exports to CSV, the read-only public API needs no key, and the A4 sheet prints. 34 sports, 25 languages. Three trial matches are free for life; then one payment of €1.99unlocks it for life. Club plans are €4.99, €9.99and €29.99a month.

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