Register, then join a pool with its reference code. Most pools are free — if your organiser has set an entry fee, every entry goes into the prize pool.
Each round is opened by the organiser only. You pick one club from the pool's competition to win that round.
Your team has to win. A draw is no good — draw or lose and you're out. Win and you survive, banking 3 points.
Once you've picked a club, it's retired for you — for the rest of the game. Every team can only be picked once.
Changed your mind? Switch teams freely right up until 30 minutes before the gameweek's first kickoff — whenever your own club plays. After that, your pick is locked.
Last player standing wins it, taking the whole pot where there is one. If the pool ends with several still standing, they share it.
Last Man Standing — also called a survival pool or a knockout sweepstake — is the simplest football competition there is. Each gameweek you pick one club you think will win. If they win, you go through to the next round. If they lose, or draw, you're out.
The catch is that you can't pick the same club twice. Back Manchester City in week one and you can't have them again for the rest of the pool, however tempting the fixture looks. That's what turns it from a guessing game into something you have to plan.
Everyone starts together and the field thins out week by week until one person is left standing. That's the winner.
An organiser opens a gameweek. Everyone picks a club from that week's fixtures — Premier League or EFL Championship, depending on the pool — and picks lock 30 minutes before the first kickoff of the gameweek, not before your own club plays. A Monday night team still has to be picked by Friday.
Once the last match of the gameweek finishes, the organiser settles the round. Anyone whose club won survives and banks three points. Everyone else is out. Miss the deadline without picking and you're out too — the same as losing.
Because the game would never end otherwise. A rule where draws survive means a cautious player can pick a defensive side every week and last indefinitely. Requiring a win forces a decision: back a favourite and spend a good club, or take a risk and keep them in reserve.
Most pools here are free. An organiser can set an entry fee of £5 or £10, in which case every entry goes into a prize pot that the last player standing takes. If nobody survives the final round the pot rolls into the next pool or goes back to the players — whichever the organiser decides.
Entry fees are collected between the people playing. This site records who has paid and what the pot is worth. It never handles money, holds money, or pays anyone out.
Free pools can include up to three automated players — The Gaffer, The Pundit and Deadline Dave. They follow exactly the same rules as everyone else: one club a week, each club once, out on a draw. How each of them chooses isn't published, and working it out over a season is part of the game. They're marked AI wherever they appear, so you always know which is which.
Nothing. Creating a pool, joining one and playing are all free. There are no adverts and nothing to buy.
Register, create a pool, and share the link with whoever you want in it. You choose the competition, whether there's an entry fee, and which gameweek it starts on. Anyone with the link can join until the first round locks — or you can keep it invitation-only.
Private pools aren't listed above. If an organiser has given you the exact name or code, enter it here to reach the pool.
Check your bank statement, then tick players off here. No money moves through this site — this is a record of what you've received.
The same figures that go out by email every Tuesday morning — live, rather than a week old.
Last updated 24 September 2026. This describes what Last Man Standing holds about you, why, and what you can do about it. It is written to be read, not to be got past.
Justin Buckle, trading as 2BaD Software & Media Productions, is the data controller for lastmanstanding.vip.
Anything about your data — questions, requests, complaints — goes to privacy@lastmanstanding.vip, and will be answered within one month.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Email address | To sign you in, confirm your account, reset your password and send pick reminders if you want them |
| Username and display name | So other players in your pool know who picked what |
| Your picks and results | This is the game. Which club you backed each gameweek, whether you survived, your points |
| Pool chat messages | Visible only to players in that pool |
| Private messages | Visible only to you and the person you sent them to |
| Whether your entry fee is marked paid | A yes or no recorded by your organiser. No payment details are held — money never passes through this site |
| Problem reports you send | To fix what you told us about |
| Failed sign-in attempts | To notice someone trying to break into an account. The address tried and the reason, nothing else |
| A log of administrative actions | So it can be shown later who settled a pool or eliminated a player, if it is ever disputed |
| Which reminder emails you were sent | So you are not emailed twice about the same deadline |
Your password is never held here. It is held by our authentication provider as a hash, which nobody here can read or reverse.
Performing a contract — your account, your pools, your picks and your messages. Without these there is no game to play.
Legitimate interests — failed sign-in records and the administrative log, kept to protect accounts and to settle disputes about how a pool ended. Both are minimal and neither is used to profile anyone.
Consent — pick reminder emails, which are optional and can be switched off in Settings at any time without affecting anything else.
Other players. People in your pool see your display name, your picks once they lock, your results and anything you post in that pool's chat. Private messages are seen only by the two of you, unless one of you reports a message, which makes that single message visible to a platform admin.
Suppliers who process it on our behalf. If you want to know which companies these are, ask at privacy@lastmanstanding.vip and we’ll tell you.
| A database and authentication provider | Stores your account, your pools and your picks, and handles signing you in. Your data is held in the EU (Ireland) |
| A website hosting provider | Serves the site to your browser |
| An email delivery provider | Sends invitations and reminder emails |
| A GIF search provider | Only if you open the GIF picker in chat. Your search terms reach them; your identity does not |
Two things your browser fetches directly from other companies, which means those companies see your IP address: the site’s fonts, and the sign-in library.
Fixture and odds data comes in from football-data.org and The Odds API, named here because we credit them rather than because they receive anything. Nothing about you is sent to them.
There is no analytics, no tracking and no advertising on this site. Nothing you do here is measured for anyone's benefit, sold, shared for marketing, or used to build a profile of you. There are no third-party cookies because there are no third-party scripts beyond the two named above.
The only things stored in your browser are your sign-in session and your own settings — theme, sound, which layout you prefer. They stay on your device.
Everything above is kept while your account exists. When you delete your account it goes, on the terms below — there is no separate archive and no backup copy that outlives it beyond the routine backups our hosting provider keeps for a short period.
Pools you played in are kept as long as the pool exists, because they are also other players' records.
In Settings, at the bottom. It takes effect immediately and cannot be undone.
Deleted outright: your email address, your login, your username, your private messages, your pool chat posts, any problem reports you sent, invitations addressed to you, failed sign-in records for your address, and your reminder history.
Kept, with nothing linking it to you: your picks and results, under the name Former player.
That last part is deliberate and worth explaining. Your picks are part of other people's games. If everything you did vanished, a finished pool that twelve people played and paid into would silently become a pool of eleven, and someone's win would no longer make sense. What is kept is a record of a game, not a record of a person: nothing left behind identifies you.
Two things will stop a deletion from Settings, and both are fixable. Running a pool other people are still playing in — finish it or hand it to another organiser first, because you are the only person who can settle it. And being a platform admin — an account with that much reach takes two people to remove.
If you are a platform admin and want your account gone, email privacy@lastmanstanding.vip. Another admin will step your account down to a normal one and you can then delete it yourself. The request is honoured either way; it just cannot be done alone.
Under UK GDPR you can ask for a copy of your data, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, ask that its use be restricted, object to how it is used, and ask for it in a portable form. Correcting your own details and deleting your own account can both be done in Settings; for anything else, email privacy@lastmanstanding.vip.
There is no charge, and no question asked about why.
You must be 18 or over to use Last Man Standing. Pools may involve an entry fee agreed between players, and this site is not intended for children.
If you are unhappy with how your data has been handled, please raise it at privacy@lastmanstanding.vip first — most things are a misunderstanding and are quicker to fix directly.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or on 0303 123 1113, without coming here first.
Playing from outside the UK? Last Man Standing is run from the United Kingdom and your data is stored in the EU (Ireland). The rights above apply to you the same way. If you are in the EU or the EEA you can also complain to your own country's data protection authority instead of, or as well as, the ICO.
If this changes in a way that affects you, the date at the top changes and you will be told in the app. Old versions are kept so you can see what changed.
Last updated 25 September 2026. The agreement between you and this site. The privacy policy covers your data; the Rules page covers how the game is played.
Last Man Standing is a website for running survival football pools. Each round you pick one club you think will win. If they win, you go through. A draw or a defeat puts you out. Each club can be used only once in a pool, and the last player standing wins.
The site keeps track of pools, picks, fixtures and results. It does not run your pool. A person creates each pool, invites the players, decides whether there's an entry fee, and settles it at the end. That person is the organiser, and they are not us.
We provide the platform. Accounts, fixtures, the picking mechanism, the scoring, and a record of what happened.
Organisers run pools. They set the entry fee if there is one, decide who is in, collect money if money is involved, settle the pool, and pay out. They are also responsible for the rules they tell their players.
Players play. You're responsible for your own picks, your own deadline, and your own arrangements with your organiser.
If your organiser doesn't pay a prize, doesn't collect fees fairly, or falls out with you about any of it, that is between you and them. We record what happened in the game; we are not a party to whatever you agreed between yourselves.
This is the part worth reading twice.
If that arrangement doesn't suit you, play a free pool or don't play.
Pools are arranged between the people in them. Where a pool has an entry fee, that is a private arrangement between an organiser and their players. We take no part in it, hold none of it, and take nothing from it.
Last Man Standing is played in many countries, and what is allowed differs in each. Organisers are responsible for making sure the pool they run is lawful where they and their players are. In a lot of places a pool among friends, colleagues or members of a society is treated differently from one open to the public; some countries restrict paid pools far more tightly than that, and a few prohibit them outright. If you are not sure, run it free to enter — a free pool raises none of this.
This site does not operate gambling, does not hold stakes, and does not profit from any pool.
Pool chat and private messages are for the people in them. Don't post anything unlawful, abusive, or that you wouldn't say to someone's face at the pub. Don't use the site to advertise, to collect other people's details, or to run anything other than the pool you're in.
A pool's name travels further than its chat: it goes out in invitation emails to people who have never used the site, in result emails, and onto the public Hall of Fame. Choose one you'd be happy for a stranger to receive. A platform admin may rename a pool whose name isn't suitable, and will tell the organiser why — nothing else about the pool changes.
Messages can be reported. A reported message — and only that message — becomes visible to a platform admin so it can be looked at.
We can remove content, suspend an account or close it where these terms are broken. We'll say why.
Last Man Standing is designed, built and run by a single entity, to one vision, and is offered as it is. That means there is no support desk and no service guarantee: we don't promise the site will always be available, that fixture data will always be timely, or that reminder emails will always arrive. Contact is by email.
Deadlines are set by the football calendar, not by us, and they don't pause because the site is down. Make your pick early rather than relying on a reminder.
We may change, suspend or withdraw features. If a change affects a running pool, we'll tell the organisers.
Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law says can't be limited.
Beyond that, and because this service is free to use, we are not liable for:
Don’t try to get into anyone else’s account, or into any part of the site, its database or its servers you haven’t been given access to. Don’t introduce anything designed to damage or disrupt it, and don’t attack it or attempt to overwhelm it.
In the UK that conduct is an offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, and most other countries have an equivalent. We record failed sign-in attempts and administrative actions. We will report serious attempts to the relevant authorities and co-operate with them.
Your access ends immediately if you do any of this.
The site itself — its design, its code, its wording and the way it works — belongs to us. You are welcome to use it, link to it and tell people about it. You may not copy it, reproduce it, or build something from it, by hand or by machine, without asking first.
Fixture and result data comes from football-data.org and remains theirs. Club names and badges belong to the clubs. Last Man Standing is not affiliated with the Premier League, the EFL or UEFA, and nothing here implies their endorsement.
What you write — your messages, your pool names — stays yours. You give us only what we need in order to show it to the people it is meant for.
Some pages link outward — to news sites, to the fixture data provider, to a payment page an organiser has chosen, or to other projects of ours. We do not control those sites, we are not responsible for what is on them or what they do with your information, and a link is not a recommendation. Read their own terms before relying on them.
Covered in the privacy policy, which sets out what is held, why, how long for, and how to have it deleted. Deleting your account is done from Settings and takes effect immediately.
These terms may change. The date at the top changes with them, and anything that affects you materially will be flagged in the app. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting it.
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have non-exclusive jurisdiction — meaning a claim can be brought there, but does not have to be. If you live somewhere else, none of this takes away rights you have under the law of your own country, and you can still bring a claim in your local courts where that law allows.
Last Man Standing is operated by Justin Buckle, trading as 2BaD Software & Media Productions. Contact: privacy@lastmanstanding.vip.
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