Whether you’re organizing your 9-team tournament, playing in the tournament, or are a supportive parent or friend following a team, you’ll need a printable bracket to keep track of the field.  With a bracket you can stay on top of the latest games and get a sense of the larger tournament standings with any one of our printer-friendly brackets, which all come in a variety of layouts and formats.

What about an 9-Team Bracket?

Tournament brackets vary in size based on the amount of teams participating. A 9 team bracket doesn’t work out as evenly as a 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 team tourney would. In addition to an even number of teams, there needs to be an equal number of brackets as teams advance into the following rounds.  For nine competing teams, there’s an odd number of winning teams moving into the next round, which means one team would not have a match up. You’ll definitely need a play-in game to even things out, literally.

Take a look at the bracket sample to get a visual of what we’re talking about. You’ll see how the tournament will progress from the first round to the second round and beyond.

Bracket Template: Blank, Printable for 9 Teams

Our single-elimination, nine team printable brackets comes in several printable options, so you can download and print them out in PDF, full-size image (JPG) or in Excel in the most popular formats.

Download our 9 team printable tournament bracket in XLSX or this 9 Team Printable Tournament Bracket PDF Just make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat to properly download and view PDFs.

With our brackets, they’re not limited to just basketball or baseball tournaments. As long as the tournament is single-elimination then our printable, blank brackets will work with any tournament. Here’s a list of team sports that our printable brackets will work with (in alphabetical order): baseball, basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, rugby, and soccer. The brackets can be used for some individual sports such as tennis or wrestling.

Kyle Glag