In short

Cup Manager is built for the organiser of a cup and handles the whole event: registration, payment, draws, scheduling, referees, accommodation and meals, check-in, results, website and app. Profixio is a broader platform for federations, leagues and cups.

	Cup Manager	Profixio
Focus	Cups and tournaments, the whole event	Platform for federations, leagues and cups
Scheduling	Proven automatic scheduling that the world's largest youth tournaments, including Gothia Cup and Norway Cup, use to schedule thousands of matches. Developed from a master's thesis in computer science at Lund University. Included, and can be rerun as many times as you like	The CupCom engine, developed by SINTEF in 2005–2006. A finished match schedule can be ordered for 2,500 SEK per 100 matches
Price per team	44 NOK (Basic)	25 SEK (Basic) or 35 SEK (Complete)
Support during the tournament	On-call support is included	A support phone during the tournament costs 2,000 SEK
Payment	Card, Klarna and Swish. The money goes straight to the tournament's own Stripe account	Transaction fee of 1.7% (Basic) or 3.4% on cards (Complete)
How you work	The organiser works in a program for PC and Mac with all data in the cloud. Teams, referees and spectators use the web and the app	Web-based
Major tournaments	Gothia Cup, Norway Cup, Dana Cup, Piteå Summer Games	See Profixio's own tournament list

Scheduling

Cup Manager's scheduler is built on constraint programming, an established branch of AI research. Its foundation is a master's thesis in computer science at Lund University, written for tournaments the size of Gothia Cup with up to 1,600 teams and 4,500 matches. The rules you set are entered as hard requirements and are not traded off against each other with weights or penalty points. If they cannot all be met, you are told which day, match and rule it got stuck on.

Profixio's CupCom engine was developed by the research institute SINTEF in 2005–2006. It is sometimes said that this gives Profixio the edge in scheduling. Cup Manager's engine has the same kind of scientific foundation, and it is used by the largest tournaments: both Gothia Cup and Norway Cup build their match schedules in Cup Manager. According to SINTEF, Norway Cup's match schedule was previously delivered by their researchers.

In Cup Manager you build the schedule yourself. Scheduling is included in the price, you can rerun it as many times as you like, and workshops for building the schedule are part of the support. Read more about how the scheduler works and about AI scheduling.

Price and support

Profixio has a lower price per team. Cup Manager's price includes things that Profixio charges extra for: unlimited support and training, on-call support during the tournament days, and help with the match schedule. See Cup Manager's pricing.

Which system suits whom?

Profixio is a good fit for federations and organisations that want leagues, licences and cups on the same platform, and for anyone who wants fully web-based administration.

Cup Manager suits anyone who organises a cup and wants the whole event in one system: from registration and payment to accommodation, meals, referees, check-in, live results, website and a dedicated app. That applies to local tournaments with 30 teams as well as the world's largest youth tournaments.

Sources

• Profixio CUP, features and pricing
• Profixio: Ordering a match schedule
• SINTEF: Optimal fixture scheduling
• Cup Manager's thesis on scheduling (PDF)
• Frequently asked questions about Cup Manager