King of the Hill — A New Way to Run Quick Play Football Campaigns

One King. Every Team Wants the Throne.

Season replays are great. Playoffs are great. But sometimes you want something looser — a format where any game could flip the whole order, and every match carries weight from the first whistle to the last.

That's what King of the Hill gives you. One team holds the hill. Everyone else queues up to knock them off. Win, and you stay. Lose, and you drop to the back of the line. The first team to rack up your target number of wins is crowned champion.

It sounds simple. It plays out with more drama than you'd expect.

How It Works

King of the Hill is a free companion app for Quick Play Football — open it alongside the game and it handles everything else.

You start by importing your teams from Team Creator or Fantasy Season — same CSV you're already using, no extra setup needed. Set your wins target (I usually go with 3 or 5 for a longer campaign), hit Randomise to shuffle the play order, and start. The app tells you who's on the hill and who's challenging. You play the match in Quick Play Football, come back, enter the score, and move on.

Winner holds the hill. Loser joins the back of the queue. The next challenger steps up automatically. No ties — if you enter equal scores, the app bounces them back and makes you sort it out on the field.

Your progress saves automatically, so you can close the tab mid-campaign and pick up exactly where you left off.

What Makes It Work as a Format

The queue mechanic does something interesting to how you think about each match. The team on the hill isn't just trying to win — they're trying to survive long enough to reach the target. And the challengers aren't playing in isolation either. Every team you beat pushes you closer, but the king resets with each new challenger.

A team that loses early can claw back through the queue. A dominant king can be dethroned right before they clinch. I've had campaigns where a team won four on the bounce from mid-table and stole the crown.

The Standings tab tracks W-L records for every team across the whole campaign — so even teams that never take the hill have a story by the end.

Play It Free

King of the Hill is free to use in your browser — no install, no account, no nonsense. If you're already running Quick Play Football, it drops straight into your workflow.

Give it a go with a league of 8 teams and a target of 3 wins. First session should take under an hour. Come back and tell me who took the crown — and who made the longest run from the back of the queue.