The Sports Matchmaker System provides an improved method for arranging sporting events and non-sporting events between unacquainted people (202). It provides a system (300) for matching persons publicly offering (612) to participate in particular sporting or social events with persons desiring to participate in similar sporting or social events. The system also provides various means for communicating between the offering party and the accepting party to complete the event. The system also provides methods for arranging event venues (605) for sporting and social events. The system further provides means for connecting users to commercial sponsors (614).