---
title: "Create Team"
method: POST
path: "/v3/teams"
tags: ["Teams"]
---

# Create Team

`POST /v3/teams`

Creates a team in the Konnect Organization.

## Request body

- object
  - `name` string, required — The name of the team.
  - `description` string — The description of the team.
  - `labels` Labels — Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types. Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".

## Response `201`

A response including a single team.

- TeamResponse — The team object contains information about a group of users.
  - `id` string, uuid, required — The team ID.
  - `name` string, required — The name of the team.
  - `description` string, nullable, required — The description of the team.
  - `system_team` boolean, required — Returns True if a user belongs to a `system_team`. System teams are teams that can manage Konnect objects, like "Organization Admin", or "Service"
  - `labels` Labels, required — Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types. Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required — A Unix timestamp representation of team creation.
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required — A Unix timestamp representation of the most recent change to the team object in Konnect.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `403` — Permission denied

## Changes

- **2026-08-12** `fbe6ce110ba4` — 3 breaking, 7 warning, 1 info
  - the `description` request property's minLength was increased from `0` to `1`
  - the `name` request property's minLength was increased from `0` to `1`
  - the response's body type/format changed from `object`/`` to ``/`` for status `201`
  - removed the optional property `created_at` from the response with the `201` status
  - …7 more
- **2026-08-11** `4fef3868064f` — 1 warning
  - the `name` request property's maxLength was set to `250`
- **2025-10-30** `845120e19d45` — 1 breaking
  - the request property `description` became not nullable
- **2025-10-23** `8ab3ec3ed301` — 1 warning
  - added the new `type` enum value to the `allOf[subschema #2]/invalid_parameters/items/oneOf[#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterStandard]/rule` response property for the response status `400`
- …earlier changes not shown

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/kong/apis/konnect-api-go-sdk/changes/v3/teams/post.md)

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