Proxsys Cup

What Proxsys Cup does

Proxsys Cup is an amateur indoor football (zaalvoetbal/futsal) tournament held annually in Gorinchem, Netherlands, during the Christmas holiday period (late December to early January). It is organized under Z.V.V. de Oosterbliek, a local sports association, and has been held each year since the 2016-2017 edition. The tournament serves regional amateur football clubs across five divisions: senior men (organized into multiple pools such as Poule A through Poule F), women (Dames), youth under-17 (JO17), youth under-13 (JO13), and an inclusive G-Dag for disabled footballers. Matches and finals are hosted at a single venue, Sporthal Oosterbliek (Doctor H.B. Wiardi Beckmanplein 60, 4207 NA Gorinchem), and the most recent edition drew more than 1,100 players and approximately 25,000 spectators over a two-week window.

The tournament has no software platform component; its "products" are event-related services including the live competition, online ticket sales via a website shopping cart, a photo and video media archive, a Hall of Fame documenting winners since 2016, regulatory documentation, and sponsorship packages. Supporting infrastructure is a content-managed website (proxsys-cup.nl) providing schedules, results, news, photo galleries, match reports, and promotional materials. Photography and video coverage are produced by named contributors including Etienne Hessels, Martijn Klop, Otto van den Berg, Ronald den Uijl, and OX Visuals. The organization is volunteer-led, with a board including Chairman Ahmed Mahamed, Secretary Marc van der Linden, Treasurer Jaco Vonk, and functional leads for sponsoring, communications, facilities, volunteers, and a disciplinary committee.

The business model is a non-profit amateur sports funding structure. Revenue is generated through ticket sales to spectators and sponsorship contributions from regional brands (head sponsor Proxsys, alongside Sligro, Paans, Coenraads, Unive, AVRES, De Jong AV, and others). The operating geography is strictly Gorinchem and surrounding Dutch regions, with no stated international footprint. There is no external investment, no paid headcount, and no platform commercialization. The enterprise is functionally a community institution rather than a scalable commercial business.

Name

Proxsys Cup

Legal name

Proxsys Cup

Website

https://proxsys-cup.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Proxsys Cup is an annual amateur indoor football tournament held in Gorinchem, Netherlands during the Christmas holiday, organized by Z.V.V. de Oosterbliek for regional clubs across senior, women's, youth, and inclusive G-football divisions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Amateur Sports Events

NAICS

Spectator Sports (71121), Sports Teams and Clubs (711211), Other Spectator Sports (711219)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Championship & Cup Organizers (MPAKADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Youth & Amateur Sports Tournaments (MPAGAMAF), Amateur Sport Governing Bodies & Federations (National/Regional) (MPAKACAD)

Keywords

• Indoor football tournament
• Amateur futsal competition
• Youth football event
• Community sports tournament
• Holiday football tournament

Headquarters

HQ city

Gorinchem

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Proxsys Cup is an annual indoor football (zaalvoetbal/futsal) tournament held each year during the Christmas holiday period (December 20 to January 3) at Sporthal Oosterbliek in Gorinchem, Netherlands. The tournament features multiple competitive divisions including Senioren (senior men), Dames (women), and Jeugd (youth with JO17 and JO13 age categories), each organized into poules (pools) followed by knockout stages culminating in finals. The event also includes a dedicated G-Dag for inclusive G-football players with disabilities.

Product overview

Proxsys Cup is a single unified indoor futsal tournament product organized by Z.V.V. de Oosterbliek in Gorinchem, Netherlands. The core offering consists of the annual Christmas-vacation tournament featuring multiple competition divisions: Senioren (senior men), Dames (women), and Jeugd (youth with JO17 and JO13 age groups), each organized into poules (pools) with knockout finals. Supporting the tournament are add-on services including online ticket sales, a photo gallery with professional photography, video match reports, a Hall of Fame archive, G-Dag inclusive football day, club information/regulations, and sponsorship packages. The product has no modular platform architecture—it is fundamentally a sports event rather than a software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Proxsys Cup Tournament Annual indoor futsal (zaalvoetbal) tournament organized during the Christmas vacation in Gorinchem, featuring multiple divisions for seniors, women, and youth (JO17 and JO13) with pool stages followed by knockout rounds culminating in finals. The 2025-2026 edition featured 1,100 players and approximately 25,000 spectators.
• Ticket Sales (Kaartverkoop)

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Z.V.V. de OosterbliekcoreOthersThe Proxsys Cup is an integral part of Z.V.V. de Oosterbliek. The tournament operates under the organizational umbrella of this local football association, which also runs the Proxsys League.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Sporthal Gorinchem (SGS): Sporthal Gorinchem is a local indoor sports hall and sponsor of the Proxsys Cup, indicating an adjacent regional indoor-sports infrastructure provider in the same community sports ecosystem in Gorinchem.
• Regio-Voetbal: Regio-Voetbal is a regional football news and media platform covering amateur and youth football in the Gorinchem/South Holland area. It is an existing Proxsys Cup sponsor and serves as the regional media ecosystem through which the tournament's coverage is distributed.

Broad incumbents

• KNVB Futsal (Royal Netherlands Football Association): KNVB is the Dutch national football association and operates national-level futsal competitions and cups (Eredivisie Futsal, KNVB Futsal Cup). It is the dominant governing body for indoor football in the Netherlands and represents the regulatory and competitive context within which Proxsys Cup operates as an amateur, regional alternative.
• Eredivisie Futsal: Eredivisie Futsal is the top-tier professional/semi-professional Dutch indoor football league operated under the KNVB. While Proxsys Cup is amateur and regional, Eredivisie Futsal represents the highest level of the same indoor football category and competes for sponsor attention and indoor football mindshare.
• UEFA Futsal Champions League: UEFA Futsal Champions League is the top European indoor football club competition and defines the broader international competitive and sponsorship landscape for indoor football that regional amateur tournaments like Proxsys Cup ultimately feed into.

Regional players

• Proxsys League: Proxsys League is the regular-season league run by the same parent organization, Z.V.V. de Oosterbliek, that runs the Proxsys Cup. It serves as a complementary competitive format for the same regional amateur clubs during the rest of the year, and shares sponsors and infrastructure with the Cup.

Direct peers

• KNVB Districtsbekertoernooien (District Cup Competitions): KNVB district cup competitions are amateur football knockout tournaments organized at sub-national level, sharing the same "regional football cup" model as the Proxsys Cup but operated by the national federation across multiple Dutch districts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ProxsysCup
• Facebookfacebook.com/proxsyscup
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/proxsys-cup

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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