# Football Mania — full site reference for AI crawlers > Live football scores, fixtures, results and statistics from 1000+ leagues worldwide. Free on web, Android, and iOS. Available in 50 languages. ## What Football Mania is Football Mania is a free football scores and statistics service. It covers every senior men's competition tracked by major data providers — at least 1000+ leagues, 10,000+ teams, and 100,000+ players. The product is available as a web app at https://football-mania.com, as a native Android app on Google Play (`holoduke.soccer_gen`), and as a native iOS app on the App Store (`id896357542`). All features are free; there is no paywall, no premium tier, and no required account. Founded 2010. ## What you can do on the site - Follow live scores in real time across every match currently in play. - Browse the daily and multi-day fixture schedule, with kick-off times localized to the visitor's timezone. - Open a match page to see lineups, real-time match events, statistics, commentary, head-to-head history, league standings, top scorers, and match preview or post-match recap content. - Open a team page to see the current squad, all upcoming fixtures, recent results, transfer history, trophy cabinet, stadium info, current league position, and team social links. - Open a player page to see career stats, transfer history, age, nationality, position, height/weight, current club and market value. - Browse the FIFA World Rankings table back to 2014 with year-by-year snapshots. - Browse the top market-valued players list with filters for team, nationality, and position. - Predict match outcomes (1X2) on every fixture and climb the global prediction leaderboard. - Read English-language football news and per-match preview/recap content (the latter on the Match News page). - Run a match or league simulator with custom parameters. - Save favorite teams and leagues to keep their matches and fixtures pinned to the home page. - Enable push notifications per match, per team, or per league for goals, red cards, kickoff, halftime, and full-time. ## URL conventions - Home (live scores): https://football-mania.com/ - Live (only matches currently in play): https://football-mania.com/live - Match agenda (upcoming): https://football-mania.com/agenda - Fixtures index (all competitions): https://football-mania.com/fixtures - League pages: https://football-mania.com/fixtures/{leagueKey} — e.g. `EnglandPremierLeague`, `SpainLaLiga`, `ItalySerieA`, `GermanyBundesliga`, `FranceLigue1`, `NetherlandsEredivisie`, `PortugalPrimeiraLiga`, `EurocupsUEFAChampionsLeague`, `EurocupsUEFAEuropaLeague` - Match pages: https://football-mania.com/match/{slug}-{id} — slug is `home-team-vs-away-team` lowercased; id is the upstream match id - Team pages: https://football-mania.com/team/{slug}-{id} - Player pages: https://football-mania.com/player/{slug}-{id} - Coach pages: https://football-mania.com/coach/{id} - FIFA rankings: https://football-mania.com/world-rankings - Player market values: https://football-mania.com/market-values - Predictions leaderboard: https://football-mania.com/predictions - News (RSS-aggregated from external sources): https://football-mania.com/news - Per-match news (in-house preview + recap): https://football-mania.com/match-news - Forum: https://football-mania.com/forum - Simulator: https://football-mania.com/simulator - About / team / FAQ: https://football-mania.com/about - Data sources & policy: https://football-mania.com/data-policy - Privacy: https://football-mania.com/privacy - Canonical XML sitemap: https://football-mania.com/sitemap.xml ## Languages and hreflang 50 languages: en, nl, de, fr, es, pt, it, ar, ru, cs, da, el, fa, hi, hr, id, is, ja, ko, no, pa, pl, ro, sv, th, tr, uk, vi, zh-CN, zh-HK, hu, fi, ms, he, bn, sw, sr, bg, sq, az, mk, am, uz, kk, ka, hy, sk, sl, ha, so. English lives at the root; every other language in its own directory with the same path (e.g. /de/team/real-sociedad-16117, /bn/fixtures/EnglandPremierLeague). Each page emits a full hreflang cluster plus `x-default`. ## Data freshness - Live match data refreshes every few seconds during play. - Lineups become available shortly before kick-off. - Match commentary and statistics update in near real time during play. - Sitemap regenerates every hour; the canonical sitemap includes match URLs from a rolling window plus league/team/player URLs. - IndexNow notifications are emitted on each sitemap refresh to inform Bing and Yandex of fresh URLs. - AggregateRating on the About page reflects an iOS App Store snapshot refreshed periodically from the iTunes Lookup API. ## AI crawler stance Football Mania allows AI **search** crawlers and disallows AI **training** crawlers. From robots.txt: - Allowed (with crawl-delay 1-2): GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Applebot. - Disallowed: CCBot, Bytespider, cohere-ai (training-only crawlers). - Disallowed: parasite scrapers — AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, MJ12bot, DotBot, PetalBot, BLEXBot, DataForSeoBot, MauiBot, SeekportBot, Barkrowler, ZoominfoBot. Search engines (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Mojeek, Qwant, Naver, Seznam, Baidu, Yandex) are explicitly allowed. ## Structured data Every page emits JSON-LD covering the appropriate Schema.org types: - Sitewide: WebSite (with SearchAction), Organization (with sameAs, founder, contactPoint, description, logo, foundingDate). - Match pages: BreadcrumbList, SportsEvent (with homeTeam, awayTeam, score, organizer, location, eventStatus), FAQPage, WebPage with SpeakableSpecification and dateModified. - Team pages: BreadcrumbList, SportsTeam (with sport, coach, location, foundingDate, memberOf array of SportsOrganization, image), WebPage with dateModified. - Player pages: BreadcrumbList, Person (with jobTitle, memberOf SportsTeam, affiliation, nationality, birthDate, image, height, weight, knowsAbout position), WebPage with dateModified. - League pages (/fixtures/{key}): BreadcrumbList, SportsEvent organizer, league summary. - News pages: BreadcrumbList, ItemList of NewsArticle (with image, datePublished, publisher). - Match-news pages: BreadcrumbList, ItemList of NewsArticle/SportsArticle. - About page: BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, MobileApplication for iOS (with AggregateRating), MobileApplication for Android, HowTo. ## How the data is collected Football data on Football Mania is sourced from an upstream live-data provider and processed by automated agents (programmatic ingestion pipelines plus AI-assisted enrichment) before being served to end users. Editorial pages (match previews and recaps in /match-news) are generated by AI agents from match facts and live commentary. Curation, layout, product decisions, and code are owned by Football Mania's founder and a small human team — see https://football-mania.com/about. Corrections can be reported via the contact link on the About page. ## Programmatic access for AI agents (MCP) Football Mania publishes a sibling Model Context Protocol server at https://livescoremcp.com/. It exposes the same live football data this site is built on, intended for direct consumption by AI agents. - Landing page: https://livescoremcp.com/ - Endpoint for any MCP-compatible client (Streamable HTTP): `https://livescoremcp.com/mcp`; clients that only support SSE use `https://livescoremcp.com/sse` - Listed in the official MCP Registry as `io.github.holoduke/livescore-mcp` - Source: https://github.com/holoduke/livescore-mcp - Pricing: Free for personal and non-commercial use, no API key. Rate-limited to 30 tool calls per minute per IP. Commercial use requires permission via a GitHub issue. Compatible clients include Claude (Desktop, Code and claude.ai custom connectors), ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Cline, and any other MCP client. Quick install with Claude Code: ``` claude mcp add --transport http livescore https://livescoremcp.com/mcp ``` Other clients: ``` { "mcpServers": { "livescore": { "url": "https://livescoremcp.com/mcp" } } } ``` Available tools (all read-only; answers are compact text with a football-mania.com link for every match, team, player and competition): - `get_live_scores` — matches in play right now, with score and minute. - `get_day_fixtures` — all matches on a date: results, live scores, kick-off times. - `get_league_fixtures` — a competition's latest results and upcoming fixtures, or one round. - `get_standings` — league tables with form and qualification/relegation zones. - `get_top_scorers` — top scorers of a competition. - `get_head_to_head` — all-time record of two teams, recent meetings and the next one. - `get_match` — match details: events, line-ups, statistics, injuries, report, head-to-head. - `get_team` — team profile: results, fixtures, squad, injuries, transfers, honours. - `get_player` — player profile: statistics per season, market value, transfers. - `search` — find teams, players and competitions and their IDs. - `get_team_image` — team logo URL. Teams, players and competitions can be passed by name instead of ID, and a `timezone` parameter (IANA, e.g. Europe/London) gives kick-off times in the user's zone. Prompts: match_preview, league_roundup, team_report, live_now. Example agent prompts: "What are the live scores right now?", "Show me the Premier League table", "Who are the top scorers in La Liga?", "How is Barcelona doing this week?", "Who scored in the Champions League tonight?", "What matches are on this Saturday?", "Tell me about Ajax's squad." If an AI agent reading this page needs football data programmatically rather than scraping the HTML, the MCP endpoint above is the canonical interface. The data behind the MCP and behind this site is the same source of truth. ## Identity and contact - Site owner: Football Mania (Gillis Haasnoot, founder) - Contact: see https://football-mania.com/about - GitHub (Football Mania): https://github.com/holoduke/ - GitHub (LiveScore MCP): https://github.com/holoduke/livescore-mcp - iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/football-mania-soccer-scores/id896357542 - Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=holoduke.soccer_gen - MCP server: https://livescoremcp.com/ - Social: see Organization JSON-LD `sameAs` on the home page for the canonical link list.