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RunSports is a tech platform created by people with first-hand experience of sport, and built to support the way your sport is run every day. Combining understanding with smart intelligence, the RunSports game, membership and officiating tech is simple and effective to use at any scale.
RunSports started out in 2009 as ‘Who’s the Ref’ founded by long-time referee and IT professional, Mark Brown, to solve real-world problems and make every aspect of running sport easier. Using decades of knowhow, RunSports has created a smart, reliable ecosystem with intuitive apps and services
Our focus has always been on long-term stability, so that we can be sure that customers have confidence in us now and well into the future.
Mark Brown, Founder
Our digital platform has streamlined competition and officiating management across multiple sports. Our wearable and pitch-side technology provides referees, umpires and participants from community to elite level with real-time data that integrates with third party systems, enhancing performance and increasing engagement with your online audience.
Our vision has always been to provide all administrators, organisers and participants with the big data they need to make the right decisions.
We believe in making sport administration and governance effortless at every level – for everyone involved. Our clients span national sporting bodies to community leagues run by volunteers, with all having access to the same flexible functionality.
While tech can be complex, we keep ours as clear and simple as possible.
Our business is built on your trust – something we never take for granted.
Sport is all about people – so tech needs to be intuitive, reliable and expert.
We take the stress out of running sport by being calm and capable at all times.
Our company has gone through some big changes recently, click above to discover more.
We work in partnership with a wide range of people and orginisations around the world.
"WTR has transformed the task of making umpire appointments by bringing the process into the 21st century."
Steve Davies, Cricket Wales
“I strongly commend them to you”
M Patz, England Rugby
"It is rocking at this end, great product!"
Mark Fairmaid, Wellington Referees (NZL)
"It was a godsend to go into partnership with WTR"
J Fleming, Scottish Rugby
"I have no hesitation to recommend WhosTheUmpire.com to any organisation that is considering it"
Ermanno Silvano, FIH
Our vision is simple: to maintain and grow our sports management platform and bring together a growing global community of national and regional sports associations. Our multi-lingual, multi-sport system empowers bodies to seamlessly manage any sport at any scale or complexity.
Our mission is to form meaningful relationships with our users, listening to and respecting everyone’s requirements to deliver a solution purpose-designed to fulfil their day-to-day needs.
Discover how our platform supports the people behind the game
