SportApp: tournament software from Pori, built on years of sport

SportApp is tournament software any organizer can start for free. It is built on years of work with sports federations and the 2024 Flag Football WC.
SportApp video: live scoring on a phone, standings and the playoff bracket in the admin

SportApp.io is tournament software you can set up yourself. Registration and payments, the match schedule, groups and playoffs, live scores and standings are in one place. We release new features every month.

The product is new, but the work behind it is not.

Federation systems since 2017

Appis in Pori, Finland, has developed SportApp since 2017, and it all started from pesäpallo, the Finnish national sport.

Pesäpalloliitto, the Finnish pesäpallo federation, runs its whole operations management on SportApp. In the 2024 season alone, over 3 million individual records were logged across nearly 15,000 games.

The Finnish American Football Federation (SAJL) has been our partner since 2023. Suomen Rugbyliitto’s results and management platform has run on SportApp since 2025. A federation system has to work every weekend of the season, across thousands of games. We build the tournament software to the same standard.

The 2024 World Championships

In August 2024 SportApp was the official tournament management software of the IFAF Flag Football World Championships in Lahti. We did it together with SAJL and IFAF. For the first time at a world championship, every play and every stat of every game was logged in real time.

Lahti showed what a tournament gets when the schedule, results, stats and the live app work together. Right after, we asked: why shouldn’t a club tournament get the same, if the organizer could set it up alone? The new SportApp is our answer.

More than a year in the making

We have built the new SportApp for more than a year. The goal was clear: an organizer opens a tournament, takes registrations and runs the tournament day without a sales call, a setup fee or a spreadsheet.

What is in the new SportApp?

  • Registration and payments. Teams and players register and pay by card. The money goes straight to you through Stripe. The service fee is 2.5% + €3 per team, card fees included.
  • Match schedule. SportApp places the games on your fields and times automatically. You move a single game by dragging it.
  • Groups, playoffs and standings. Pick a template: League, League + playoffs or Full tournament. The group standings fill the playoff bracket, and you set the tiebreakers in the order you want.
  • Live scores. A volunteer scores the game on a phone, and the result is on the tournament page and in the free SportApp app at once.
  • Play-by-play stats. For flag and American football with the Premium add-on, €39 per tournament.
  • Scoreboards and stream graphics. In the 60 Teams, 100 Teams and Unlimited packages.
  • MCP and API. Your own AI can set up the tournament with the API / MCP add-on, €49 per tournament.

You pay once per tournament: free up to 10 teams, bigger tournaments €49, €79 or €149, VAT included. See pricing.

Federations are still at the core

SportApp Federation is still the complete system for national federations and their clubs: competitions, results, licences, transfers, referees and payments. The tournament software is a lighter version of the same system. A one-day tournament uses the same tools a federation runs its whole season on.

The team in Pori

SportApp is made in Pori by Toni, Erno and Henkka.

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Start with a free tournament

Set it up in SportApp today. Upgrade only when the team count asks for it.

Free for up to 10 teams