Abstract
Sports leagues and tournaments are scheduled daily around the world. Although the underlying problem is a hard mathematical problem, most end-users resort to manual scheduling. In 2005, SINTEF’s optimisation developed CupCom for Profixio AS. This is an optimisation engine for tournament scheduling, which last year scheduled around 150,000 matches of handball, football and volleyball in Norway and Sweden. We have also been helping the Norwegian Football Federation with scheduling their top professional leagues for several years. I will talk about this and our new large research-based innovation project together with PROFIXIO AS.