Django circular model reference

Question

I\'m starting to work on a small soccer league management website (mostly for learning purposes) and can\'t wrap my mind around a Django models relationship. For simplicity,

Answer 1

You could use the full application label in the foreign key to the model not yet defined, and use related_name to avoid name conflict:

class Team(models.Model):
    captain = models.ForeignKey('myapp.Player', related_name="team_captain")

class Player(models.Model):
    team = models.ForeignKey(Team)