Football Mania

Data sources & editorial policy

This page documents where Football Mania's information comes from, how often it updates, and how it is processed before reaching you.

Where the data comes from

Football match, team, player, and competition data on Football Mania is aggregated from a primary live-data provider that maintains feeds across the world's professional football competitions. Player market valuations are sourced from independent player-evaluation aggregators. FIFA World Rankings reflect the official monthly publication by FIFA.

For canonical references and official competition pages, see the authority list below.

How AI agents are used

Data on Football Mania is collected via AI agents. Automated ingestion pipelines pull live-data feeds, normalize them, and store the structured records that drive every page on the site. AI agents also generate the per-match preview and recap content surfaced on the Match News page, working from match facts, lineups, statistics, and live commentary.

Editorial decisions, product direction, design, code, and curation are owned by a small human team led by the site's founder. See the About page for who's behind Football Mania.

AI-generated written content is identifiable in context (it lives only on the Match News surface). All score, lineup, statistic, and standings data on the site is taken directly from the upstream feed without AI rewriting.

Update frequency

  • Live match scores and events refresh every few seconds during play.
  • Lineups become available shortly before kick-off.
  • Match statistics and commentary update in near real time during play.
  • Final results, post-match stats, and recap content are available within minutes of full-time.
  • League standings update after each completed match.
  • FIFA World Rankings update monthly, mirroring the official FIFA release.
  • Player market values refresh on an irregular cadence as the upstream evaluator updates them.
  • The site sitemap regenerates every hour; search engines are notified via IndexNow.

Corrections policy

If you spot inaccurate data — wrong score, missing goal, incorrect lineup, outdated player profile, mistranslated competition name — please report it via the contact options on the About page.

Data-feed errors are forwarded to the upstream provider and typically corrected within hours. Local issues (translation, layout, schema) are corrected directly. Where the source is the upstream feed, we don't override it editorially — but we do flag systemic gaps for the data partner.

References & authority links

The following organizations publish the canonical information that Football Mania mirrors and supplements. Where data on this site disagrees with one of these sources, the source below is authoritative.