---
title: "Creating teams — Teams for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Create a team and seat its owner with Teams::create(), create rows directly when you need to, and query teams with scopes and relations."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/teams-for-laravel/creating-teams
language: en
---

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# Creating teams

Create a team from a CreateTeamData DTO through the facade — it seats the owner and is recorded by Teams::fake():

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Teams\DataTransferObjects\CreateTeamData;
use RoundlyConsulting\Teams\Facades\Teams;

$team = Teams::create(new CreateTeamData(
    name: 'Acme Inc',
    isPublic: false,           // default false
    owner: $user,              // default null — added as a member with the owner role
    meta: ['plan' => 'pro'],   // default []
));
```

With an owner, the team is stamped with the owner morph and the owner is added as a member with the roles.owner role (owner by default). Without one, the team has no owner and no initial member. Everything after creation goes through Teams::for($team) — see The Teams facade.

## Creating a team directly

Team is a regular Eloquent model, so Team::create() works too — it creates the row only, without an owner member:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Teams\Models\Team;

$team = Team::create([
    'name' => 'Acme Design',
    'is_public' => false,
    'meta' => ['pricing' => 'per_member'],
]);

// Scopes
Team::query()->public()->get();            // only public teams
Team::query()->withMember($user)->get();   // teams the model belongs to
```

## Team relations

```php
$team->members();        // HasMany<Member>
$team->invites();        // HasMany<Invite>
$team->joinRequests();   // HasMany<JoinRequest>
$team->teamRoles();      // HasMany<TeamRole> — per-team role overrides
$team->owner();          // MorphTo — the owning model (nullable)

$team->name;             // string
$team->is_public;        // bool
$team->meta;             // Collection, cast from JSON
```

## Facade lookups

```php
Teams::roles()->find('admin');   // ?Role
Teams::roles()->all();           // array<string, Role>
Teams::permissions()->all();     // array<string, Permission>
```

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