The sports scheduling research group performs research on sport management and in particular on sport scheduling where a timetable is constructed that states who will play whom, when, and where satisfying the objectives of the sport competition, the public attendance, commercial interests, and even the health of the players. The main goal of this group is to construct models for problems in sport scheduling, to develop efficient methods for solving these models, and to evaluate their performance.

We intend to focus on competitions where successions of home matches (away matches) is not the primary concern, and amateur competitions (where teams have to share their home ground with other sports). Another research goal is the study of sport scheduling under uncertainty, ranging from robust scheduling with pro-active and re-active approaches, to dynamic sport scheduling, where the sport schedule is finalized sequentially, as more information becomes available.

A sports schedule, also called a timetable, states who will play whom, when, and where. Thereby, the schedule must take into account the objectives of the sports competition, the public attendance, commercial interests, and even the health of the players.