Scoreboard software for stadiums: run matchday with one operator

Built for one person, not a production team

A broadcast crew splits the job across a director, a graphics operator and a technical director. Clubs running matchday on their own don't have that luxury, and they don't need to. ArenaCue Scoreboard puts score, clock, match events and sponsor rotation on one screen, controlled from one keyboard, so the person at the table on Saturday afternoon can manage all of it without a second screen or a second pair of hands.

The operator picks which monitor drives the stadium screen, whether that's an LED wall, a TV or a projector. There's no separate render machine and no production switcher to configure before kickoff.

The same app from a compact hall to a high-tier LED wall

A futsal hall running on a single TV and a top-flight stadium running a large LED wall use the same ArenaCue Scoreboard app. The canvas follows the format of the screen you already have, whether that's 16:9, an LED strip or a square panel, and the operator arranges score, clock and sponsor boxes to fit. Clubs moving from a sports hall into a bigger venue, or stadiums running reserve and first-team matches on different displays, don't need to learn a new system or buy new software at each step.

That consistency matters for clubs and stadiums with more than one venue or more than one pitch. The same licence model, the same interface and the same operator workflow carry across all of them, from the smallest indoor court to a Jupiler Pro League or Challenger ground.

• Sport profiles for football, futsal, basketball, volleyball and hockey
• Drag-and-drop layout per sport, per match phase or per screen format
• One operator, one PC, one app for score, clock and sponsor rotation

What one operator actually controls on matchday

Before kickoff, the screen shows a countdown to the planned start, plus any announcement or ticker the control desk wants to push out. Once the match begins, the operator tracks score and clock, logs match events for the sport profile in play, and lets sponsor rotation run on its own schedule in the background.

None of this needs a broadcast background. The interface is built around buttons and shortcuts a volunteer or a part-time staff member can learn before their first matchday, not a vision-mixer workflow designed for a trained technical director.

• Countdown to kickoff plus live announcement or ticker from the control desk
• Score, clock and match events per sport profile, logged as the match runs
• Sponsor rotation and proof-of-play running automatically alongside the match feed
• Operator tools for local music, Stream Deck control, capture and venue backup

Sponsors without a sales assistant on shift

Sponsor boards used to mean someone manually swapping static slides between halves, or hoping a laptop with a browser overlay didn't freeze at kickoff. ArenaCue Scoreboard assigns sponsors a budget of seconds per match phase and rotates them automatically, logging every completed clip as it plays. That log is what proof-of-play is built on: a record you can hand to a sponsor after full-time instead of a promise about screen time.

This runs without any extra staffing. The operator sets the rotation once before the match and the software carries it through kickoff, halftime and full-time without intervention.

Local matchday, simple recovery

Matchday control runs locally on the matchday PC, so a shaky stadium internet connection on a Saturday afternoon doesn't stop the clock or the score. Internet is only needed for activation and periodic licence checks, not for running the match itself.

If a PC fails or a club needs to move the setup to another machine, a venue backup is one ZIP file containing the database and all media. Restore it on the same PC or a different one and the layouts, sponsor rotation history and match data come back with it. Clubs that need a feature the app doesn't have yet request it from inside the app, rather than waiting on a separate support channel.

Choosing the right licence for your venue

Club Scoreboard is €99 per month excl. VAT, self-serve through Stripe, and it includes the full scoreboard package: there's no cheaper tier with fewer functions, because scoreboard functions aren't locked behind dearer buttons. Perimeter and stand LED is a separate app, ArenaCue LED Boarding, at €149 per month excl. VAT, licensed on its own because it drives different zones and playlists rather than a second screen inside the scoreboard app.

Stadium venues in the Jupiler Pro League or Challenger tier move to a quote package starting from €349 per month excl. VAT. That tier isn't a feature unlock, it's extra service and SLA for venues running at a higher operational level. It's arranged by quote rather than Stripe self-serve, since stadium deployments usually involve more than one screen and more than one matchday scenario to plan for.

Conclusion

Scoreboard software for stadiums doesn't need to assume a broadcast crew that most clubs and venues don't have. One Windows app, one operator and one PC can run the score, clock, sponsor rotation and proof-of-play from a compact hall up to a high-tier LED wall, with the same workflow at every step. Clubs and stadiums evaluating a setup for their own venue can start with the scoreboard software overview and work out from there.

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