ABOUT
What is
Cup Tipper?
A free, accurate, and easy sports competition prediction tracker designed for colleagues, friends, and family members.
ONBOARDING
How to get started
Create your own league or join an existing one — it only takes a minute.
GOOD TO KNOW
How predictions work
A few things worth knowing before you start tipping.
Predict each match once
Your prediction for a match is shared across every league you're in. You only pick once per match, and that pick counts everywhere you're competing for that competition.
Get your predictions in early
Each prediction locks the moment that match kicks off — until then you can change your pick, even mid-competition. Manual tie ordering for a group stays open until every match in that group has started.
Knockout picks start from your group standings
How you rank each group decides who you predict into the first knockout round. After that, every round is graded against what actually happens — you score by picking the winner of each real fixture, so a busted bracket can still rebound as the tournament unfolds.
Break ties your way
When your predicted group standings are level on points, the usual tiebreakers apply first — and where it's still a tie, you can manually set the order to choose who advances.
Editing a score updates everything
Change a match prediction and any standings, tiebreakers, and knockout picks that depend on it update automatically. Manual tie orderings are overwritten when a score edit changes the outcome.
Free and unlimited leagues
Cup Tipper is completely free. Join or create as many leagues as you like — your predictions follow you into all of them.
SCORING
How are points awarded?
Earn points by predicting match outcomes. The more precise your prediction, the more you score. Group-stage matches are worth up to 8 points. Knockout matches add two scores together: bracket points for the teams you predict to reach each round, plus up to 5 scoreline points for the actual result.
GROUP STAGE
3
Correct Result
Pick the right outcome — a win, loss, or draw
1
Team 1 Exact Score
Predict Team 1's exact final score
1
Team 2 Exact Score
Predict Team 2's exact final score
1
Absolute Margin
The score margin matches, even if the direction is reversed (e.g. predict 2-0, result is 0-2)
2
Directional Margin
The exact score margin and direction match (e.g. predict 2-1, result is 3-2)
KNOCKOUT BRACKET
Awarded the moment a team you predicted is resolved into a round — you don't have to wait for the match to be played.
2
Last 32 — per correct team
Correctly predict a team to reach the last 32
3
Last 16 — per correct team
Correctly predict a team to reach the last 16
4
Quarter finals — per correct team
Correctly predict a team to reach the quarter finals
5
Semi finals — per correct team
Correctly predict a team to reach the semi finals
6
Third-place match — per correct team
Correctly predict a team to feature in the third-place match
8
Third-place winner
Correctly predict the winner of the third-place match
10
Final — per correct team
Correctly predict a team to reach the final
15
Champion
Correctly predict the final winner
KNOCKOUT SCORELINE
On top of the bracket points, knockout matches score the actual result with the same precision points as the group stage (up to 5) — there's no separate “correct result” point, since picking who advances is already rewarded above. A match settled in extra time or on penalties is scored on its level scoreline.
1
Team 1 Exact Score
Predict Team 1's exact final score
1
Team 2 Exact Score
Predict Team 2's exact final score
1
Absolute Margin
The score margin matches, even if the direction is reversed (e.g. predict 2-0, result is 0-2)
2
Directional Margin
The exact score margin and direction match (e.g. predict 2-1, result is 3-2)