Random Team Generator

Enter one person on each line, choose how the groups should be sized, and select Generate teams. The tool shuffles the roster and assigns every entered person to one team.

You can create teams by choosing a fixed Number of teams or by setting a target People per team. The generated groups are displayed individually and as formatted text that can be copied for a class, game, meeting, workshop, or practice session.

Use Reshuffle to create a different arrangement from the same roster. Use Start over to clear the generated result while keeping your current settings available for editing.

Select Number of teams when you already know how many groups you need. For example, entering 24 people and choosing 6 teams creates six groups of four.

When the number of people does not divide evenly, the remaining people are distributed across the teams. This keeps the difference between the largest and smallest teams to no more than one person.

The requested number of teams cannot be greater than the number of people. This prevents the generator from creating empty groups.

Select People per team when group capacity matters more than the final number of teams. The generator calculates how many groups are needed to include everyone without exceeding the selected target size.

The value is a target maximum rather than a promise that every group will contain exactly that many people. For example, 17 people with a target of 4 creates five groups sized 4, 4, 3, 3, and 3.

Distributing the smaller remainder across several teams avoids leaving one unusually small final group whenever a more even arrangement is possible.

The generator first shuffles the complete roster. It then moves through the shuffled list and assigns each person to the next team in sequence, returning to the first team after reaching the last.

This round-robin distribution keeps team headcounts as even as possible. If the roster cannot be divided exactly, team sizes differ by no more than one person.

Every roster row is assigned exactly once. A person is not intentionally repeated or left out unless the same name was entered on more than one line.

Teachers can use the group generator for classroom discussions, projects, revision activities, laboratory work, reading groups, presentations, and temporary seating teams.

Choose the number of teams when the classroom has a fixed number of tables or activity stations. Choose people per team when an assignment works best with pairs, groups of three, or another target size.

Random grouping can reduce the influence of habitual friendship groups or manual selection, but the generated result should still be reviewed when learning support, accessibility, behaviour, language, or safeguarding requirements affect placement.

Use the generator to divide players for informal matches, training drills, party games, board games, quizzes, gaming sessions, and recreational activities.

The tool creates teams with balanced headcounts, but it does not know each participant’s skill, fitness, position, experience, or preferred role. For a competitive match, review the result and make any adjustments needed to produce appropriate teams.

Selecting Reshuffle creates another random arrangement without requiring you to re-enter the roster.

Facilitators can divide attendees into breakout groups for discussions, training exercises, brainstorming sessions, networking activities, and team-building tasks.

Custom team names can represent room numbers, table colours, project topics, departments, or activity stations. Enter one team name per line in the same order the teams will be displayed.

When fewer custom names are supplied than the number of generated groups, the remaining groups automatically use names such as Team 3 or Team 4. Extra custom names are ignored.

To create partners or pairs, select People per team and enter 2. The generator creates as many two-person groups as possible.

When the roster contains an odd number of people, one group will contain a single person. The tool does not create a duplicate person or leave anyone unassigned to force every group to contain exactly two people.

Random pairs can be used for study partners, interview practice, peer feedback, conversation exercises, games, or short collaborative tasks.

Open Custom team names to replace the default Team 1, Team 2, and Team 3 labels. Enter one name per line, such as Blue Team, Gold Team, or Table A.

After generating the groups, select Copy teams to copy a formatted list containing every team name, member count, and assigned person. A message confirms whether clipboard access succeeded.

Reshuffling preserves the current roster, sizing mode, size value, and custom team names while producing a new random assignment.

Every non-empty line is treated as a separate person. If the same name appears twice, both rows are shuffled and assigned independently.

This behaviour supports people who genuinely share the same name, but it also means accidental duplicates can place one person in two teams. Review the roster before generating when each participant should appear only once.

When two people have the same name, add an identifying detail such as an initial, number, class, or department so the generated result remains clear.

Roster parsing, randomization, team generation, reshuffling, and formatting happen in your browser. Names and generated groups are not uploaded or added to the page URL.

The tool does not permanently save the roster or generated teams. Copy the result before closing or refreshing the page when you need to keep the assignment.

This generator is intended for everyday group organization. It is not an independently audited drawing system and should not be treated as proof of procedural fairness for regulated selections, valuable prizes, employment decisions, or other high-stakes processes.