Pre-Season Pal — A tour companion for football fans abroad
An app that follows your club through every summer friendly — lineups, goals, where to stream, and an AI-written half-time summary — so you don't have to dig through fifteen different broadcaster pages to know how the new signing is bedding in.
English football supporters following their club's pre-season tour
- Auto-follow your club with pre-match alerts, broadcast info, and confirmed streams
- AI-written half-time and full-time summaries focused on new signings and youth minutes
- Travel mode for fans actually at the away friendly: kickoff countdown, nearest pub, transit
- Squad tracker that records minutes played across the tour for every player
Late July is the peak of the pre-season calendar — Ajax vs Burnley is one of dozens of friendlies on the same day, and no major app treats pre-season as a first-class product.
Real but narrow: globalgameguide.com's full pre-season tour guide and OneFootball's per-club pre-season coverage (e.g. Inter pre-season piece) show genuine fan interest, but it's a 4–6 week summer window targeting only English club fans abroad.2026 Football Pre-Season Friendlies Ultimate Guide: Full Schedule, Summer Tours, Tickets, TV & Live Stream ↗Inter, pre-season is here! All friendlies on OneFootball ↗
No dedicated 'tour companion' product, but OneFootball (85M MAUs) and FotMob already bundle pre-season fixtures, news, lineups and stream-locators into their main apps, and wheresthematch.com publishes pre-season TV schedules — leaving limited whitespace for a standalone.home | OneFootball ↗Live 2026/27 Pre-Season Friendlies on TV - UK schedules ↗FotMob - Football Live Scores ↗
Hard to charge: pre-season is roughly 4–6 weeks/year, competitors like OneFootball are ad-supported with massive scale (85M MAUs) and FotMob Plus piggybacks on year-round usage — a summer-only app is unlikely to justify a subscription.Onefootball: Revenue, Competitors, Alternatives - Growjo ↗FotMob vs OneFootball vs ESPN: 5 Soccer Apps Ranked (2026) ↗
Severe seasonality: window is mid-July to mid-August only; product has no natural extension into the regular season where FotMob/OneFootball dominate, so 11 months a year the app sits dormant.2026 Football Pre-Season Friendlies Ultimate Guide: Full Schedule, Summer Tours, Tickets, TV & Live Stream ↗
Buildable as a thin wrapper using FotMob/Opta lineups data and an LLM for half-time summaries, but aggregating live streams across global broadcasters involves rights/licensing complexity, and there is no obvious API for 'where to watch by country' beyond scraping wheresthematch.com-style guides.Live 2026/27 Pre-Season Friendlies on TV - UK schedules ↗