Set up a tournament with your own AI: the SportApp MCP

Describe the tournament to your AI. It sets up the divisions, teams, venues and structure in SportApp.
The SportApp admin with the tournament structure, next to an AI chat that built it through SportApp MCP

SportApp’s MCP connection lets the organizer’s own AI set up a tournament. You describe the tournament in a chat, and the AI creates the divisions, teams, venues and the structure in SportApp. It comes with the API / MCP add-on.

What do I need?

An AI tool that supports remote MCP over HTTP and OAuth sign-in, for example Claude (claude.ai, Desktop or Code), ChatGPT or Cursor. SportApp doesn’t include the AI or pay for it.

How do I connect it?

  1. Add the address https://manage.sportapp.io/mcp to your AI tool.
  2. Sign in to SportApp.
  3. Choose Allow.

The AI works with your rights and only sees the tournaments you can manage. The sign-in lasts 8 hours and renews for 60 days.

What can the AI do?

It reads and writes, but only the tournament setup.

ToolWhat it doesReads / writes
list_tournamentsYour tournaments and the add-on status. Works without the add-on.Reads
get_tournamentDivisions, teams, stages, groups, venues and fields, plus the next setup stepsReads
validate_structureChecks a proposed structure without saving itReads
create_divisionCreates a division and its teams, and the structure if you wantWrites
add_venuesAdds venues and fieldsWrites
create_structureBuilds stages, groups and games. Replaces stages with the same name.Writes

What doesn’t it do?

The schedule, results, advancement between stages, registrations, payments and publishing stay in SportApp. For those, the AI gives you a link to the right page. It doesn’t delete anything, except when it replaces a stage with the same name, and new divisions stay hidden until you publish them.

Safeguards

  • Everything is checked before saving. If something fails, nothing is saved.
  • Up to 200 teams per division and 100 groups per structure.
  • 120 calls a minute, 30 of them writes.

What does it cost?

The API / MCP add-on is €49 per tournament. It is available for 60 Teams, 100 Teams, Unlimited and Organizer / Club, not for Free. Turn it on from the Update package page; the key and the MCP address are on the tournament’s API & MCP page.

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