Recognition: teams & kits
Match uniforms and liveries; name kits once, reuse them.
Not every athlete shows a clear number, and numbers don't tell you who they play for. Visual team matching reads the kit — the uniform or livery — and groups everyone wearing it. Name a kit once ("Pioneers home", "Lions away") and SnapFlow tags every player in it, then reuses that kit at the next fixture.
Turn it on
On the album's Edit → Workflows page, under People detection, switch on Match athletes to their team. SnapFlow discovers the distinct kits in the album as photos come in. Web
Discovered kits
The People page grows a Discovered kits panel — one card per distinct kit SnapFlow has spotted, with a sample crop. You provide zero input up front; SnapFlow finds the kits and you just name them.
Each unnamed kit card lets you:
- Name the kit — e.g. "Pioneers home", "Marshals".
- Team — pick a team from your registry, or type a new name (which stays album-local until you promote it).
- Promote to registry — once a kit has an album-local team, promote it so the team becomes reusable across every event.
- Save, Cancel, or Ignore (delete a kit SnapFlow got wrong, like a stray crowd colour).
Saved kits show their team and a scope badge (registry-backed or album-local), with an Edit button to adjust later.
Active kit per team
A team often has more than one kit — home, away, third. On the People page's Expected teams panel you pin the teams playing today and choose each one's active kit for this event. That's what resolves the classic clash where both sides wear red: tell SnapFlow it's Pioneers navy vs Lions crimson today and matching snaps into place.
Setting teams by hand
You're never locked into the automatic result. Anywhere a player, face cluster or number appears you can Set team to pin it explicitly, and the numbers and faces chapters both cover their own Set-team controls. Once you've corrected a few, the rest of the album's team labels re-aggregate around your choices.
Why kits, not just numbers
Kits catch the players whose numbers never face the camera — and they're how you build a team gallery: every shot of every player on one side, ready to deliver to the club.
Album-scoped by default
New kits and teams are album-local until you explicitly promote them to your registry. That keeps one event's "Lions" from silently merging with a different "Lions" elsewhere — promotion is always a deliberate click.
Next: clustering vehicles.