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Recommended sites
Everything here earns its place on merit: the sites we lean on while building the model and writing about it. No affiliate links, no paid placements — if that ever changes, it will say so on this page. Run an independent football site we should know about? Get in touch.
Stats & numbers
Where we sanity-check form, fixtures and the numbers behind a match.
FBreffbref.comThe deepest free football statistics site there is — per-match shooting, passing and possession tables going back decades.Understatunderstat.comClean expected-goals (xG) numbers per shot, match and season for the big European leagues.Transfermarkttransfermarkt.comThe reference for squads, transfers and market values — the community valuations our squad-value snapshots come from.Sofascoresofascore.comLive scores with unusually rich in-match stats and player ratings, on a fast interface.Flashscoreflashscore.comThe workhorse livescore: every league you can think of, standings and H2H in two taps.
Analytics reading
For understanding why models like ours work — and where they fail.
StatsBombstatsbomb.comThe most influential football-analytics writing of the last decade, plus genuinely open event-data releases.The Analysttheanalyst.comOpta's editorial arm — data-led previews and long reads built on the industry's reference dataset.RSSSFrsssf.orgThe Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation: results and tables for practically every competition ever played. Zero design, endless substance.
Open data & developers
The free sources this site is built on — use them to check our work or build your own.
football-data.orgfootball-data.orgThe free fixtures-and-results API behind our pipeline: 12 competitions, honest limits, run by one person for years.Football-Data.co.ukfootball-data.co.ukTwenty-plus years of results with closing odds as plain CSVs — the dataset our model was bootstrapped and backtested on.openfootballgithub.comPublic-domain football datasets maintained in the open on GitHub.
Safer gambling
If betting stops being entertainment, these are the places to go. No affiliations — we link them because they matter.