A football cup for software, IT and technology companies: it brings hybrid teams together on the pitch, with a fixture list built around sprint and release calendars.
The Technology Companies Football Cup is a sector-specific corporate football tournament in which software, IT and technology companies take part with teams of their own employees. The cup is not tied to a fixed date: it opens through pre-registration and the calendar is set together with the participating companies.
Software and SaaS companies, IT services firms and system integrators, cyber security firms, game studios, telecom and hardware companies, and start-ups based in technology parks can take part. Marketplace and e-commerce companies have their own E-Commerce Football Cup.
Hybrid and remote teams. In technology companies, much of the workforce mostly sees colleagues on a screen. A football cup brings together, at regular intervals, people who work on the same project but are rarely in the same room. Match days can be aligned with the company's office days, giving people one more reason to come in.
Cross-functional teams. One team can field developers, product managers, sales and support staff side by side. Teams who usually reach each other through tickets play towards the same goal on the pitch.
Employer brand and hiring. Competition for skilled engineers is intense, and candidates follow company culture on social media. Photos and short videos from match day can be used on the careers page and on LinkedIn, and fielding a team in a sector cup puts the company on the same stage as its competitors.
What drives attendance here is not shift work but release and sprint calendars. Major release weeks, end-of-sprint demo days, year-end code freezes and on-call rotations all affect who is available on match day. Therefore:
The cup calendar is set together with the participating companies; there is no fixed date. The process works like this:
Companies that want to start before enough sector participation has formed can run the same format as an internal cup with their own department teams.
Sector cups currently open for pre-registration: Logistics Football Cup, Finance Football Cup, Energy Football Cup, E-Commerce Football Cup, Retail Companies Football Cup, Pharma and Healthcare Football Cup. If your company would rather run its own tournament or a season-long league instead of a sector cup, see the corporate football tournament and five-a-side league page.
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The cup has no fixed date; the calendar is set together with the companies that pre-register. Once enough companies have joined, the fixture list is built around their release and sprint calendars and shared with participants.
Software, SaaS, IT services, system integration, cyber security, gaming, telecom and hardware companies, as well as technology park start-ups, can take part. Teams are made up of the company's own employees; marketplace and e-commerce companies have a separate E-Commerce Football Cup.
Yes, they can, and match days can be aligned with the company's office days for that reason. Evening slots and a fixture list shared well in advance make it easier for employees joining from other cities to plan.
The standard format is 6+1 on artificial turf with a squad of 10–12 including substitutes; 7+1 can be arranged depending on the pitch. The tournament is played as a group stage followed by knockout rounds, with the final and award ceremony on the same day.
This rarely happens, because release and code-freeze weeks are kept out of the fixture list from the start. Even so, a postponement rule for an unexpected production incident is agreed in advance and a reserve week is kept in the fixture list.
Pre-registration is done through the quote form. You send the number of teams, city and suitable days, and a quote is then prepared for your company based on kit preference and pitch plan.
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