Free Softball Lineup & Roster Template (Excel)
What's in the softball lineup and roster template
The file has three sheets: Roster, Lineup Card, and Playing Time, covering the three things a coach manages across a season.
Roster lists every player with their jersey number, primary and secondary positions, and notes. Lineup Card is a printable grid with a column per inning where you write in the batting order and each player's position for that inning. Playing Time logs games, innings played, and at-bats per player.
Filling in the lineup card
The lineup card is a manual grid, not an auto-generated batting order: you write the position code (P, C, 1B, and so on, or X for bench) into each inning column for each player yourself, the way a coach fills out a lineup card by hand before a game.
Printed or viewed on a tablet, it gives you one page per game showing the full defensive lineup by inning, which you fill in based on your own rotation plan.
Tracking playing time and the team average
On the Playing Time sheet, log each player's games and innings played, and innings per game calculates automatically per player.
The summary calculates the team's average innings per game, giving you a single reference number to compare each player against - it's a manual reference point, not an automatic fairness flag that highlights players below average. You decide, by eye, who's trending under the team average and adjust your own rotation accordingly.
A chart of innings played by player gives you a quick visual read on how playing time is distributed across the roster.
Why this beats a blank spreadsheet
Building a roster sheet, a printable per-inning lineup grid, and a playing-time log with innings-per-game math from scratch takes real setup time before your first game of the season.
This template already has that structure in place - you fill in players, write your lineup per inning, and log innings played, and the per-game math and team average are calculated for you.
How to use it
- Add every player to the Roster sheet with their number, primary and secondary positions, and notes.
- Before each game, fill in the Lineup Card grid with the batting order and position code per inning.
- After each game, log games, innings played, and at-bats per player on the Playing Time sheet.
- Check innings per game per player against the team average in the summary and chart.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I use this softball lineup template in Google Sheets?
Yes. Upload the downloaded file to Google Drive, then open it and choose File > Save as Google Sheets. The playing-time formulas keep working.
Does the lineup card auto-rotate the batting order?
No. It's a fill-in-yourself grid - you write the position per inning per player, the same way you'd fill out a paper lineup card. There's no automatic rotation.
Does it automatically flag players who aren't getting fair playing time?
No. It calculates the team average innings per game as a reference number. Comparing individual players to that average and deciding who needs more time is up to the coach.
Is this template really free?
Yes. You give an email address to download it, and then it's yours to use with no further cost.
Is this the same as the tryout evaluation form?
No, they're different tools. This is a season lineup and roster tracker; our separate softball tryout evaluation form scores and ranks players during tryouts.