Printable Beach Volleyball score sheet (free PDF)

The top of the sheet works a little differently here. Team A and Team B are pairs, so write both partners on each line — there is nobody to add underneath, because beach volleyball allows no substitutions. Fill in Date, Venue, Competition, Match no. and Category while the pair are still warming up, and put your own name on the Scorekeeper line: on sand, this sheet is often the only written record the tournament keeps. The grid gives you three rows and no more: Set 1 and Set 2 are printed with a 21-point target, Set 3 with 15 — the shortened deciding set.

After each set, write the real points on both sides — 21–18, 23–21 — never the target. Every set needs a two-point margin, so a 21 row can perfectly well end at 26–24, and the 15 row at 17–15. The Final score line counts sets, not points: 2–0 or 2–1, because two set wins close the match. If the pair take it in straight sets, draw a clean line through the empty Set 3 row so nobody wonders later. Then collect the four signatures at the foot — Captain A, Captain B, Referee, Scorekeeper — which is what turns a filled grid into a result.

One habit worth keeping on sand: write the losing side's score exactly as it happened. In a pool separated on point difference, a 21–19 rounded down to a lazy 21–15 in your column can move a pair up or down a standing they never played for. If the wind takes the sheet mid-set, rebuild from the last score both captains agree on rather than from memory, and note the interruption in the margin — an honest gap beats a confident invention, and the referee can always confirm the last point played.

Every rally is a point, served or not: the legend under the grid lists a single value, +1, and that is the whole arithmetic of beach volleyball. Timeouts get a mention in that same legend — "Sanctions & stoppages: Timeouts" — but the sheet prints no box for them, so keep a pencil tally in the margin beside each set row: one 30-second timeout per pair per set, and the allowance starts again at the next set. Your other running job is the change of ends, which follows the combined score: every 7 points in sets 1 and 2, every 5 in the deciding set.

Serving order matters twice over. Inside a pair, the two partners take the serve in turn each time their side wins it back; between sets the first serve passes to the other team, and a fresh toss is taken before the deciding set. Watch the touches too: here the block counts as one of the team's three contacts, unlike indoor volleyball, so the four-hits fault arrives sooner than beginners expect — and blocking the opponent's serve is not allowed. Double contact, a held ball, a hand on the net, a serve out of order: each ends the rally, and each is worth exactly one point to the other pair.