“My league blew through fifty games in week three.”
There is no game counter. A 20-team double round robin is 380 fixtures and costs the same as a four-team cup: nothing.
LeagueLobster alternative · checked 2026-08-22
LeagueLobster alternative for leagues and tournaments
LeagueLobster's free tier is fifty games a month with ads; brackets, custom domains and divisions sit in PRO. EasyChamp has no game cap, no ads, single and double elimination and a free public league site at your own easychamp.com address on the Free plan, and pays entry fees into your own Stripe. A domain you own is a quoted concierge setup here, not a PRO checkbox.
The ledger
LeagueLobster and EasyChamp, side by side
The LeagueLobster column is the product's own wording from its public site and help centre on the date shown. The EasyChamp column is read from the plan registry that prints /pricing.
| Topic | LeagueLobster | EasyChamp |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | “Up to 50 games per month are FREE (with ads – using LITE, without PRO features).” Publishing a schedule with more games needs a monthly subscription.checked 2026-08-22 · help.leaguelobster.com › Pricing | Unlimited competitions and players on every plan. Free goes live with up to 8 teams per competition; Club lifts that for every competition. No ad slots on any plan. |
| Subscription | The pricing article's worked example: “$9.95 + 20 x $0.10 = $11.95” for a LITE month with 120 games. Extra games are “$0.10 each in LITE / $0.25 each in PRO”.checked 2026-08-22 · help.leaguelobster.com › Pricing | Free $0 · Club $29/mo · Event Pass $39 once. Flat. No per-game charge on any plan. |
| Caps | “The LITE version is capped at 50 teams and 50 games (per team) per schedule.”checked 2026-08-22 · help.leaguelobster.com › PRO Features | Unlimited competitions and players on every plan. Free goes live with up to 8 teams per competition; Club lifts that for every competition. |
| Playoff brackets | A PRO feature: “Single or double elimination. With or without consolation games or third place game.”checked 2026-08-22 · help.leaguelobster.com › PRO Features | Round robin, group stage, single and double elimination: all four on the Free plan. |
| Custom domain | A PRO feature: “Connect your .com or other domain to your club page.”checked 2026-08-22 · help.leaguelobster.com › PRO Features | A public league site at your own easychamp.com address. Free on every plan, Free included, live the minute you publish. Nothing to install, no hosting, no card. Serving the same site from an address you own is a concierge setup we do by hand with you, on top of a paid plan: not a self-serve toggle, and not part of any plan's price. Tell us the hostname and we quote the setup. |
| Registration payments | “A Stripe account is required in order to use the registration system.” Team, player and free-agent registration; supported in 47 countries.checked 2026-08-22 · help.leaguelobster.com › Registrations & Payments | Same model: Entry fees settle to the organizer's own connected Stripe account. Platform fee 2% + $0.45 per entry, capped at $10, the same on every plan; no plan waives it. Stripe's standard processing fees apply. |
| CSV | PRO imports games from a CSV; finished schedules export to CSV or Excel.checked 2026-08-22 · help.leaguelobster.com › PRO Features · scheduler.leaguelobster.com | CSV exports of standings and player stats on Club, or per event with the Event Pass. No CSV import of teams or fixtures today. |
| “Without a PRO subscription, you are currently limited to 0 emails per day (thanks spammers!)”checked 2026-08-22 · help.leaguelobster.com › PRO Features | Registration and invitation emails are sent on every plan, including Free. |
What you get
The things organizers come here looking for
“The playoff bracket is the paid part.”
Single and double elimination (winners bracket, losers bracket, grand final) are on the Free plan, and a group stage can feed straight into them.
“The public club page was the paid part.”
A public league site at your own easychamp.com address. Free on every plan, Free included, live the minute you publish. Nothing to install, no hosting, no card. The "Powered by EasyChamp" line stays on every public page at every tier. It is not for sale. There are no ad slots on any plan.
“Registration fees should land in my Stripe.”
They do. Entry fees settle to the organizer's own connected Stripe account. Platform fee 2% + $0.45 per entry, capped at $10. The same on every plan.
Switching
Moving from LeagueLobster
LeagueLobster exports a finished schedule to CSV; EasyChamp does not import one today. You recreate the competition in the console (teams, format, rounds) and generate the fixtures, then adjust dates with the bulk scheduler.
Enterprise includes historical data migration done by us. Club and above export standings and player stats as CSV, so the table you build here leaves with you.
Questions
LeagueLobster alternative: asked and answered
Is EasyChamp free like LeagueLobster LITE?
EasyChamp's Free plan is $0 with unlimited competitions, teams, players and games, no ads, and single and double elimination brackets. LeagueLobster's help centre describes LITE as up to 50 games a month free, with ads, and PRO features excluded (read 2026-08-22).
Does EasyChamp charge per game?
No. Plans are flat: Free $0 · Club $29/mo · Event Pass $39 once. The only usage-based charge is the per-entry platform fee on registration payments: 2% + $0.45 per entry, capped at $10, the same on every plan.
Can I run multiple divisions or age groups?
Yes. Each division is its own competition, or its own group inside a competition, with its own table and its own knockout. A club can run as many as it needs on the Free plan.
Does EasyChamp have the scheduling constraints LeagueLobster has?
It generates fixtures for every shipped format and gives you bulk scheduling, kickoff patterns, and a tool to shift a matchday and everything after it. It does not have a constraint solver for coach conflicts or travel time; if that is what you use LeagueLobster for, weigh it.
Can I bring my LeagueLobster schedule across?
Not by file; there is no CSV import today. Recreate the competition and generate the fixtures, or ask about Enterprise, which includes migration done by us.
Do I need Stripe to collect fees on EasyChamp?
Yes, the same as LeagueLobster: you connect your own Stripe account and entry fees settle there. EasyChamp's platform fee is printed on /pricing and itemized in your Plan & Billing fee ledger; it is the same on every plan.
Free tools
Try the engine before you sign up
The generators run in your browser with no account. When the bracket is right, save it as a live competition.
Run the next one on EasyChamp.
Free plan, every format, your own Stripe. The paid part is printed.