The problem
Tournaments still run on whiteboards and spreadsheets.
Every weekend, thousands of organizers juggle paper rosters, group chats, hand drawn brackets, and a calculator for standings. ID and age cheating goes unchecked. Existing tools each do one format, charge per team, and leave the public portal, payments, and communication to other apps. The result is chaos that does not scale from a local cup to a national circuit.
The solution
One platform, every format, the whole lifecycle.
NdamBa League replaces the whiteboard. Create a tournament from a template or a custom builder, register teams with verified players, auto draw pools and brackets, run a live match console that doubles as the official record, and publish a branded public portal with live standings and awards.
Any format
Round robin, single and double elimination, groups plus knockout, pool play to Cup and Plate and Bowl, Swiss, and multi stage.
Player passport
Capture residency and ID, verify age and documents, and review flags for duplicates or wrong age before kickoff.
Live record
Score, goals by player, cards, and subs feed auto standings with configurable tie breakers and auto bracket draws.
Public portal
Schedules, live scores, brackets, standings, and awards on a branded page for every tournament.
Market
A global, recurring need.
We start where the pain is sharpest and the love is deepest: diaspora and community tournaments such as the Northeast Veterans Tournament, then expand to youth clubs and national federations.
Product and moat
Why this is hard to copy.
- A true template plus custom builder for any format. Most tools support one.
- A live match console that is the official record, so standings and brackets compute themselves.
- A player passport with state aware ID and age verification and a human review queue.
- Regional to national circuit roll up, so qualifiers feed national finals automatically.
- In app communication that bridges to WhatsApp and SMS, plus an offline match day console for fields with no signal.
- Built on the TaTech platform: shared auth, billing, AI, and a cross app control plane.
Traction
Live and multi tenant today.
Shipped
Full lifecycle in production at league.ndamba.app, EN, FR, and ES, installable and offline capable.
First tenant
The Northeast Veterans Tournament, seeded from the real 11 team whiteboard event, is the proof case.
Ready to scale
Any organizer can self serve a tournament. Payments, public portal, and comms are built in.
Business model
Recurring revenue per tournament.
Organizer SaaS
A subscription per organizer for unlimited tournaments and the full control center.
Registration fee
A small platform fee on each paid team or player registration processed through the portal.
Federation tier
A premium tier for circuits that roll regional results into national finals.
The ask
Partner with us to win the season.
We are raising to expand the sales motion into youth clubs and federations, harden payments across Africa and the US, and grow the circuit roll up. If you back founder-led, AI-native software that reaches underserved markets first, let us run your next tournament.