Rules · Balance · Must-follow · the model’s own rule

Eleven home, eleven away

internal:venue.HA-BALANCECatalogue name: Home and away balance

What it means

Each club has eleven ordinary home games, eleven ordinary away games and one Gather RoundThe round in which every game is played in one host city. Every club appears once.Read more in the glossary appearance.

Why it exists

Fairness: no club gets twelve home games while another gets ten.

For example

Every club page shows 11 home, 11 away and one Gather Round game.

How strictly it applies

Must-follow The fixture must obey this rule. A separate checker tests the finished fixture afterwards.

Must-follow. A project convention rather than a single catalogue rule. Checked from the 14 September corrected release.

Where to see it

Teams played twice shows how this plays out across the season.

How it played out across versions

One cell per release, oldest first. Each shows the verdict that release recorded for this rule; a release with no row for the rule says so.

13 Sep13 Sep 2026Preview 13 September2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
13 Sep13 Sep 2026Preview 14 September (seed 42)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
14 Sep14 Sep 2026Repeat-qualified (seed 42)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
14 Sep14 Sep 2026Corrected (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Met, met
14 Sep14 Sep 2026Rules release (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Met, met
15 Sep15 Sep 2026B009 nominal (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Met, met
18 Sep18 Sep 2026B010 nominal (weight 0.10)2027 · Generated
Met, met
19 Sep19 Sep 2026B011 nominal2027 · Generated
Met, met
30 Sep30 Sep 2026B012 Wednesday opening2027 · Generated
Met, met
20252025 season as played2025 · As played
Off, switched off by these settings
rule source not recorded

First checked independently in Home and away balanced, 14 Sep 2026.

For analysts: catalogue text and codes

Rule id: internal:venue.HA-BALANCE
Catalogue text: Each club's listed home and away games are balanced. In the 2027 releases every club has eleven ordinary home games, eleven ordinary away games and one Gather Round appearance.
Catalogue type: modelled rule (not a catalogue row)
Catalogue family: internal
Class: hard · The fixture must never break it.
Step: S3 · Step 4: home ground and venue
Recorded status: met · source row evaluated
Catalogue reason: A fairness convention of the project rather than a single catalogue rule.