Sport Connect: Platform shaping the future of Vietnamese sports tournaments

Over the past year, Sport Connect has emerged as a professional sports tournament management and operation platform, bringing tournaments, especially pickleball, into the era of comprehensive digitalization. From practical needs to the mission of spreading a healthy lifestyle, Sport Connect's journey shows its determination to build a modern - connected - civilized sports community.

Before Sport Connect appeared, many grassroots sports tournaments often encountered obstacles such as manual operations, difficulty controlling competition schedules, slow results updates, or lack of synchronized communication channels. This made the experience of athletes, referees and organizers not really complete.

Sport Connect was formed with the aim of solving those “bottlenecks”:

Sport Connect was established to solve those “bottlenecks”:

• Standardize all organizational work, from registration - drawing lots to operating each content.

• 100% digitalization of processes, ensuring transparency and professionalism.

• Strengthen community connections, helping players access information quickly and accurately.

With the philosophy of professionalism - dedication - efficiency, Sport Connect quickly made a strong impression in the grassroots sports community.

The numbers speak for themselves.

The effectiveness of this solution has been proven by impressive numbers in less than 1 year:

• Nearly 50,000 athletes registered and competed;

• More than 200 tournaments with 700 events are fully operated;

• Nearly 38,000 matches are professionally managed, with results updated continuously and transparently.

In addition, the system brings together nearly 100 operators and more than 200 accompanying referees across the country.

In parallel, Sport Connect also provides solutions for live streaming by field, live streaming each match, and real-time commentary to help make the tournament more attractive and spread more widely to the community.

The platform is available on both Android and iOS and features a modern website system for creating tournaments, registering, tracking progress and looking up results.

Spreading sportsmanship and connecting the community

Sport Connect defines its mission as not just a simple technology platform, but as the name Sport Connect suggests, it is also a bridge to help the community of pickleball players in particular and sports in general develop sustainably.

Through large-scale tournaments such as: National Young Entrepreneurs Pickleball Tournament 2025 (over 1,000 athletes), VTVcab OPEN CUP Pickleball Tournament 2025 - Jogarbola Cup (over 800 athletes), Hanoi Radio Pickleball Tournament 2025 (over 600 athletes), Dan Tri Pickleball Tournament 20 years - Bright new days (600 athletes) or grassroots tournaments in many provinces and cities, contributing to spreading the spirit of movement, health training and positive lifestyle.

In addition, the unit is always ready to accompany tournaments that bring great community value like this. By applying technology to the tournament management, we hope that the tournament will spread to more people, contributing a small part to support difficult circumstances in society such as the "Green Dream" Pickleball Tournament 2025 organized by the Journalists and Public Opinion Newspaper, the "Bright Tomorrow Open Cup" Pickleball Tournament organized by the Bright Tomorrow Fund, the "Dong Do Hospital Grand Match" Pickleball Tournament organized by Dong Do Hospital.

Mr. Nguyen Phu Duc, Co-founder of Sport Connect, said that promoting the application of technology in sports data assessment and management helps make pickleball and other grassroots sports more popular, while also building a civilized, transparent, and fair competition environment through the application of technology.

“I hope that in the future, through this sport, we will create a community connecting athletes – clubs – organizers – referees, helping the Vietnamese sports movement reach new heights. In addition, we will work with localities and organizations to promote the image of sports associated with tourism and culture,” Mr. Duc shared.

Looking to the future: A comprehensive digital sports ecosystem

In the coming period, Sport Connect aims to become the leading sports platform in Vietnam, continue to improve technology, increase livestreaming, apply more technology such as AI to tournament operations and management; improve the experience and benefits for athletes, and aim to expand to many new sports.

SportConnect hopes to not only be a tournament operation tool, but also a connection center for the sports-loving community, where everyone shares their passion, develops the movement and accompanies on the journey of health - joy - connection.

Source: https://tienphong.vn/sport-connect-nen-tang-dinh-hinh-tuong-lai-giai-dau-the-thao-viet-nam-post1801814.tpo