Table Tennis Tournament Software Compared

Any tournament tool can draw a bracket. Table tennis adds rules that a bracket generator never sees, and each check below can be done on a vendor's own page or in a free trial before you commit a club championship to it.

1. What gets stored. Some tools keep only the match result, some keep every game score, and a few count each rally on a scoreboard. Turniermeister says it in plain German: "Im Produkt werden die vollständigen Satzstände erfasst, keine Ballwechsel", and its entry form checks neither the 11 points nor the two-point lead. A game typed in as 11:10 goes through.

2. Best of 5 or best of 7. ITTF Law 2.12.1 allows a match of any odd number of games. Most club events play best of 5. The PZTS 2026/2027 regulations (point 6.15.2) require four won games in the main singles draw of the Polish senior championships and several other national events. Every product here that publishes a limit stops at best of 5.

3. How a group tie is broken. ITTF regulation 3.7.5.1 gives 2 match points for a win, 1 for a played loss and 0 for an unplayed match. Under 3.7.5.2 a tie is decided only by the matches between the tied players, by the ratio of games won to lost and then points. PZTS (5.2.4) settles a tie on points by the direct match when two players are level and by a mini-table of their mutual matches when three or more are; ratios from all group matches count only if the mini-table still ends level, and after that lots are drawn. DTTB (WO D 7.5) counts plus and minus points, then game and ball differences from every match, and only then head-to-head. Each of the three federations breaks a tie its own way, so find out which rules your software follows before the group stage ends.

4. Team matches. ITTF regulation 3.7.6 lists five team systems, among them the New Swaythling Cup (three players, five singles) and the Corbillon Cup (four singles and a doubles). German teams of four play the Bundessystem, two doubles and eight singles (WO E 6). A team match is several individual matches that add up to one result, and most tools either treat it as a separate format or leave it out.

5. Price model. Per player, per tournament, per month, or free. For an 80-player open the gap between models runs into three figures.

6. Where the league lives. Licensed players with a rating already play their official league in a federation system, click-TT in Germany or the PZTS system in Poland. No tool on this page replaces that layer, and none says it does.

Turniermeister is a tournament planner from Austria with servers in Germany, a language menu with German, Austrian German, English, Slovenian and Italian, and its own pages for table tennis, tennis and padel. The table tennis wizard asks for the number of players, tables, the time window and best of 3 or best of 5, then proposes groups, a knockout round and a table plan.

Its table tennis page is unusually frank about what the product does not check. Full game scores go in, rallies do not, and the form validates neither the 11 points nor the two-point lead. Group matches and placement rounds are, in their words, "nicht als Tischtennis-Regelablauf validiert". A seeding list by QTTR or by last year's placings is something you build yourself. The group preset gives 2 table points per match win and then counts game and point difference, which they describe as a product default and not a rule of any association. ITTF 3.7.5 works the other way round, with head-to-head first and ratios in place of differences.

A team competition made of several singles is a separate format in their catalogue, and the table tennis page says a team lineup or player rotation is not promised.

Price. The demo is free for good, with one private tournament per tournament type. Public pages, helper access, saved teams and sponsors need a paid plan. A 30-day pass costs €29 once, the monthly plan €19 and the yearly plan €149, with Pro tiers for larger organisers at €299, €499 and €699 a year. The table tennis template costs €3.99 once or comes with the premium plan or the 30-day pass. The free demo does not include it.

Rankedin is a racket-sport platform from Norway with tournaments, club leagues, team leagues and rankings. Its E-Referee manual lists table tennis among the supported sports with "scoring till 11. Best of 1, 3, 5 Games", and a second article says its scoreboards work for every sport E-Referee supports. Tournaments can be created for singles, doubles or teams. The manual pages we read do not describe a Swaythling or Corbillon order of play.

Basic is free and covers creating, running and ending a tournament, with draws, seeding, scheduling and result entry. Live scoring with E-Referee and scoreboards sits in Premium, priced per tournament by field size: €14.90 up to 24 players, €29.90 up to 48 and €59.90 unlimited. Online entry fees go through Stripe with an extra 1% Rankedin fee. Federations get a plan at $5 a month for up to 1,000 members, free until December 2026.

A 40-player club open with live scores on every table therefore costs €29.90. Best of 7 is not on their list.

Score7 runs whatever bracket you give it. It offers round robin, knockout, double elimination, Swiss, and groups into a knockout, handles scores "from goals to sets", and lets referees and players report their own results. The free Starter plan allows one active tournament with Score7 branding and ads. Paid plans (Essentials, Pro, Unlimited) raise the limit to 3, 10 or unlimited active tournaments; the pricing page we read shows no amounts. Challonge's pages returned an error when we checked on 27 October 2026, so this comparison says nothing about what Challonge does for table tennis.

Score7 does not name table tennis on the pages we read, and the only racket sport it names is padel. For a one-evening knockout that hardly matters, since the winner of each match simply moves on. In a group it does, because Score7 does not describe the 2-1-0 match points, the ITTF, PZTS or DTTB tie order, or a team match.

Scoring. The table tennis scoreboard counts rally by rally with ITTF defaults: games to 11 with a two-point lead, three games to win, service changing every two points and every point from 10-10, change of ends at 5 in the last possible game, one time-out per match. In a draw the organiser sets games to 11, 15, 21 or 25 points and matches to one, two or three won games, for the whole draw or for a single match.

Formats. Singles by default, with a switch to doubles. Singles run as a knockout, a round robin, or groups into a knockout: one to four groups with 1 or 2 through from each (4 or 8 from a single group), plus up to two of the best remaining players. A third-place match and a consolation round are options. Tables are resources with an automatic schedule that sets start times and flags clashes.

Group table. A new draw starts with the ITTF 3.7.5 rules: 2 points for a win, 1 for a played loss and 0 for a walkover. When players are level on points, only the matches between them count, first points, then the game ratio, then the point ratio, and once one player is separated the rest are compared again from scratch. The engine does not draw lots, so a tie the rules leave open is settled by the organiser. The draw can be switched to DTTB WO D 7.5 or to custom points, which keep the older order and give 1 point for a walkover. A league offers ITTF and DTTB in the setup wizard and in Settings, and starts on the older preset.

On the day. A referee QR code per match opens the score panel for that match only. If the organiser switches on player reporting, players enter the result of group and round robin matches and the opponent confirms it; knockout results are confirmed by the organiser. A season league with individual players works the same way.

Price. Free, with no player cap and no fee per tournament.

What we do not have. No team match as one unit, so each match of a Swaythling, Corbillon or Bundessystem fixture can be scored but nothing adds them into a team result. No best of 7 and no game to 6 without a two-point lead. No group order of play by ITTF 3.7.5.5, no TTR or other rating, no payments, no notifications and no link to click-TT or PZTS.

Start with the table tennis tournament setup, try the live scoreboard on a single match first, or read the organiser guide.