About
The story
It started, as most things do, with a pool at somebody's work. A sheet of paper, a tournament bracket, and a group of people convinced they knew better than everyone else in the room. Somebody had to collect the predictions. Somebody had to check the scores. Somebody had to keep it fair by hand — and that somebody always ended up with a spreadsheet that broke in the quarterfinals.
In 2006 we built the first version properly, for football fans in the Netherlands. It worked, so we built one for Belgium. Then the UK, Germany, France, Spain, and across the Atlantic to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the United States. Cycling followed in 2020. Over two decades that grew into more than a dozen separate sites, each with its own name, its own login and its own audience.
That was a lot of doors into the same game. So we brought it together. Everything we learned across those twenty years now lives in two places: football at koppafootball.com, and cycling at koppacycling.com. Same game, far fewer places to remember.
How we build
Every screen earns its place. If a feature does not make the game better on matchday, it does not ship.
How fast the app opens matters. How quickly a prediction locks in matters. Speed is a feature, not an optimisation for later.
No manufactured urgency, no buried settings, no tricks to keep you scrolling. You came here to make a prediction and get on with your day.
Predictions lock when play starts, points are calculated the same way for everyone, and the table is visible to the whole league.
The journey
2006
Our first football prediction platform launches in the Netherlands, later rebuilt and renamed Toernooivoetbal.com with every result kept intact.
2017
Belgium gets its own platform, and the idea that this might work outside one country stops being a theory.
2018
The United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain follow within a single year.
2020
Our first cycling prediction game launches, proving the format works well beyond ninety minutes.
2021
Argentina, Chile and Mexico come online ahead of a busy international calendar.
2022
A platform for football fans in the US, timed for a decade of tournaments heading to North America.
2026
The whole portfolio consolidates into koppafootball.com for football and koppacycling.com for cycling.
Predict the score. Beat your friends.
Enter your predictions before kickoff, earn points when you call it right, and climb the table in a league with friends, family or colleagues. Every major tournament and competition, one account.
Call the stage. Take the jersey.
Pick your riders and predict the stage winners across the Grand Tours and the classics. Built for the three weeks that decide everything.