Free random team generator. Paste names, choose how many teams, and split everyone into fair, evenly-sized teams instantly. No sign-up needed.
Paste your roster, choose how many teams you need, and we’ll shuffle everyone into fair, evenly-sized teams.
12 people.
Choosing teams by captains-pick-in-turn is slow, and it always leaves someone picked last. The random team generator does it instantly and impartially: paste everyone's names, say how many teams you want, and it shuffles the whole roster and deals people out into balanced groups. Nobody's feelings get hurt, no one stacks the lineup, and the team sizes come out as even as the numbers allow.
The generator shuffles your list with a true random shuffle, then deals names out one at a time across the teams — like dealing a deck of cards. That round-robin dealing guarantees the teams differ in size by at most one person. If you split 12 people into 3 teams you get three groups of 4; split 13 into 3 and you get sizes of 5, 4, and 4. No team is ever left short by more than a single member.
Letting two captains alternate picks feels traditional, but it has a real cost: someone is always chosen last, the strongest players get clustered on whoever picks first, and the whole ritual can take longer than the game itself. Random assignment fixes all three problems at once. Skill levels get spread around by chance instead of stacked, the awkward last-pick moment disappears, and teams are ready in the time it takes to paste a list. If you want to re-balance after seeing the result, a single re-roll reshuffles everyone — far faster than re-drafting by hand.
Every split uses your browser's random number generator, so the shuffle is genuinely random and no name is ever favored toward any team. Your roster never leaves your device — nothing is uploaded — and the generator is free with no sign-up or install. Just need to pick one person rather than build teams? Switch to the wheel mode for a single random pick, or use the dedicated random name picker. To draw a single winner with a classroom or raffle feel, try the wheel of names.
It shuffles your whole list randomly, then deals names out one at a time across the teams — like dealing cards. This round-robin method guarantees the teams differ in size by at most one person, so a roster that doesn't divide evenly still produces the fairest possible split.
You can split your roster into anywhere from 2 up to 50 teams. Just enter the number of teams you want and press generate; the tool distributes everyone as evenly as the count allows.
Yes. Press "Generate teams" again for a completely fresh random shuffle and a new set of teams. Each generation is independent, so you can re-roll as many times as you like.
Yes. Switch to the "Pick One (Wheel)" mode to spin a wheel and select a single random name from the same list, then switch back to team mode whenever you need balanced groups.
Completely. The team generator runs entirely in your browser — the names you paste are never uploaded or stored on our servers, and they're gone when you close the tab.