How LiveFootbal reports on football

LiveFootbal.com exists to help supporters follow football with clarity: accurate live scores, well-organised fixtures and results, and human-written context around the competitions, clubs and matches that matter. We publish because the football supporter deserves better than clickbait, auto-generated filler and paywalled recaps of goals they already watched.

Every editorial page — guides, league and team overviews, match previews, news analysis — is written to answer a specific reader question, not to hit an arbitrary word count.

Editorial work is credited to a named author on our Authors page. Each writer has a public profile describing their background and areas of coverage. Longer explainers and evergreen guides sit under the LiveFootbal editorial byline when they are the product of the team rather than a single author. We do not publish anonymously and we do not publish sponsored posts disguised as editorial.

A typical editorial piece goes through four stages:

1. Brief. An editor scopes the piece around a real reader question — a fixture, a rule, a competition format, a tactical question.
2. Research. The writer gathers primary sources: official competition rulebooks, federation press releases, licensed data feeds, match footage and quotes from on-record interviews.
3. Draft & edit. A second editor reviews the draft for structure, factual accuracy, tone and clarity before it is published.
4. Publish & date. Every editorial page carries a visible published date, and a "Last updated" date when we revise it. Substantive revisions are dated; typo fixes and stylistic tweaks are not.

Numbers, quotes and rules must be traceable to a primary source before we publish. Historical records (all-time top scorers, competition winners, Ballon d'Or lists, World Cup facts) are cross-referenced against official FIFA, UEFA and national federation archives. Where sources disagree we say so in the text rather than pick a number without attribution.

Live data — scores, fixtures, standings, line-ups — is provided by our licensed data partners and is subject to their own error-correction workflow. When we spot a data error we push a fix upstream andreflect it in our own display.

Our full policy is on the Fact-checking policy page.

Live scores, fixtures, results, standings, top scorers and line-ups are aggregated from licensed sports-data providers. Third-party news headlines are ingested from licensed news APIs and displayed with a link back to the original publisher — we do not republish full third-party articles.

Refresh cadences, providers and archival sources are documented on the Data sources page.

If we get something wrong we correct it in place, add a dated note at the foot of the article, and — where the error was material — link to the corrected version from any related pages. Trivial typo fixes are not noted separately.

To report an error, use the Contact page or email the address below. Full process: Corrections policy.

Editorial decisions — what we cover, how we cover it, which players and clubs we scrutinise — are made independently of advertisers, affiliate partners and any commercial relationship the site may have. Display advertising is served through third-party ad networks and is clearly separated from editorial content. Affiliate links, where they appear, are labelled.

No club, federation, agency or brand has editorial approval over any piece published on LiveFootbal.com.

General enquiries, tips, corrections and rights questions: editorial@livefootbal.com. You can also use the Contact form.