Pre-Season Friendly Passport
A mobile guide for fans of second-tier European clubs that tracks every pre-season friendly, test match, and tour game – with live streams, kickoff times in the fan's timezone, ticket links, and a 'where to watch near me' map for fans traveling to the away end.
Dedicated fans of German 2. Bundesliga and lower English league clubs who follow their team through summer friendlies
- Personalized 'summer tour' calendar for followed clubs with timezone conversion and stream links
- Travel companion: cheapest flights, hostels, and away-day pubs near the friendly venue
- Push alerts when lineups drop and when a new stream link appears mid-match
- Group chat for fellow traveling fans heading to the same test match
Clubs like Eintracht Braunschweig are mid-tour with high-profile friendlies against Premier League opposition; casual fans are tuning in but find no good central tracker.
Footbeen, the closest adjacent product, has only 24 verified store reviews and 400K logged matches; the Bundesliga official app already ships full season fixture lists for both divisions, and the cited Google Trends spike for one friendly is short-window virality, not sustained demand.Footbeen — Football Match Tracker & Stadium Map App ↗The official Bundesliga app ↗
Not wide-open: Footbeen already markets pre-season friendlies as a core use case, Bundesliga's official app handles fixtures, and Fanway/GoalTripp/FanVoyage all tackle the fan-travel side — the idea sits in the gap between, not a green field.Footbeen — Football Match Tracker & Stadium Map App ↗Fanway — Trip Planner for Football Fans ↗GoalTripp | Football Away Trip Planning ↗
Footbeen is explicitly free with no ads and no premium tier, the audience is narrow (2. Bundesliga + lower EFL fans), the use window is ~6–8 weeks/year, and travel affiliates in football travel apps are small-conversion; hard to build a viable paid model.Footbeen — Football Match Tracker & Stadium Map App ↗
Pre-season friendlies are a narrow summer window (June–August); outside that, retention is weak and the value proposition collapses for most users, making year-round subscription logic hard to defend.Get the new Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 fixture lists on your smartphone ↗
Timezone conversion and fixture aggregation are trivial, but aggregating pre-season schedules across dozens of lower-division clubs (most without structured APIs), securing live-stream rights, and building a 'where to watch near me' pub/venue database are substantial data and licensing hurdles.Footbeen — Football Match Tracker & Stadium Map App ↗