Printable Pétanque score sheet (free PDF)

Head the sheet before the jack is thrown. Team A and Team B take the two sides — a singles, a doubles or a triples, and it is worth writing which, because the format decides how many boules each player holds: three each in singles and doubles, two each in triples. Venue takes the ground, Referee and Scorekeeper the two people who will sign at the end. Use the Category box for the target: 13 points for a full game, 11 in qualifying rounds and pools, and nobody argues about it at 10-all.

The grid is ten numbered lines, one box per side. They are headed Round because that is the unit pétanque asks the sheet to print — the same grid prints Set for volleyball and Hole for golf — and on a pétanque sheet a Round is simply an end: one throw of the jack, every boule played, then the count. Only one team scores in an end, so exactly one of the two boxes takes a figure and the other stays blank; that blank is information, and filling it with a zero costs you the shape of the game at a glance. Keep the running total in the margin beside it.

Ten lines is a printing convenience, not a rule: pétanque has no fixed number of ends, and a tight game to 13 can easily run past ten. When it does, carry on down a second sheet and number the ends continuously. The Final score line takes the two totals at the moment one side reaches the target — the game stops there, mid-sheet, with rows left empty, and that is normal. Then the signature block: both captains, the referee and the scorer, which is what makes a sheet worth keeping when a result is contested.

The count itself happens once, at the end of the end. Compare the boules: the side holding the one closest to the jack scores a point for every boule of theirs placed better than the opponent's best. One team, never both. The values strip prints +1, +2 and +3, which covers almost every end you will ever mark; an end can be worth up to six depending on the format, and then you simply write the figure by hand — the strip shows the app's buttons, not a ceiling on what an end can bring.

No counters are printed beneath the grid because pétanque declares none, and there is no clock either — nothing to start, nothing to stop, the game simply runs until the target. What you watch instead is on the ground: both feet flat and inside the circle until the boule lands, a jack thrown between 6 and 10 metres from the circle (seniors) and still visible, and roughly a minute per boule under most regulations. Cards have no printed box, so note them in the margin against the end number.