SportsEngine & TeamRunner Partner to Power Sports Event Marketplace
TeamRunner and SportsEngine have partnered to assist tournament directors and team managers with top notch orgranization of their events. Both companies have encountered tremendous success over the years as they have provided its users with a cost efficient and effective managaement tool.
Soccer News: SportsEngine and TeamRunner announced an integration to help tournament directors and team managers save money and simplify planning for everyone who organizes tournaments. Through integration with SportsEngine, TeamRunner further simplifies team managers’ jobs utilizing existing team information in SportsEngine.
“While we have long supported tournaments with schedules, scores, standings, and bracket technology, we know there are several other things that need to be done to ensure smooth operations and create a positive experience for visiting teams,” said Rick Ehrman, VP of business development at SportsEngine. “Integrating with TeamRunner and their expansive marketplace allows us to provide additional tools to our customers.”
Thousands of sports organizations have chosen SportsEngine to run their website, tournaments, leagues, online registration, and mobile apps. Through these applications over 525,000 sports teams, clubs, and leagues have been able to drastically reduce the time they spend on administration and communication, allowing them to focus on time with their athletes.
“SportsEngine and TeamRunner are the leading organizations in their markets and working together will benefit all involved,” said Ziad Tleimat, TeamRunner CEO. “Integrating with SportsEngine allows us to offer their customers better buying power in our marketplace and when businesses compete teams always win.”
Hundreds of tournaments have turned to TeamRunner, including the world’s largest soccer tournament with 3,500 teams in 12 cities, to create an integrated one-stop marketplace enabling the tournament directors to focus on what matters most: creating the best sporting event and a great customer experience for participating teams.
“Sports event management and logistics are very difficult to manage, time consuming and can be very expensive. TeamRunner marketplace streamline and simplifies the process while making it very transparent” said Hank Steinbrecher, Former Secretary General of U.S. Soccer and TeamRunner chairman of the board of advisors.
Additionally, TeamRunner allows team managers to create a trip profile and invite businesses in destination cities to bid and compete for the trip. TeamRunner marketplace has simplified life for the hundreds of event directors, vendors, complexes, and thousands of team managers and members.
“The future is here. TeamRunner marketplace simplifies life for team managers. Now it takes them less than a couple of minutes to reserve their team rooms and restaurants, buy parking passes, tournament merchandise, and manage all of their needs,” said Bob Turner, director of Business Development at TeamRunner.
The integration is available today for any SportsEngine or TeamRunner customer. To learn more about the integration and schedule a demo, visit here.
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