PitchSide
Matchday companion for pre-season football friendlies that aggregates fixtures, kickoff times, stream links, and team-news drops across a fan's followed clubs.
English football supporters tracking their club's pre-season schedule across multiple friendlies in different countries
- Followed-clubs feed showing every upcoming friendly with kickoff time and venue
- One-tap 'where to watch' lookup that flags official club streams vs broadcast TV
- Push alerts when team-news drops (lineups, injury updates, debuts)
- Travel info for fans attending away friendlies (parking, pub guides, away-day tips)
Pre-season is in full swing — Maidenhead vs Wolves is one of dozens of low-key friendlies whose stream availability is buried inside each club's own platform, frustrating traveling and remote fans.
Pre-season friendlies drive real but modest, highly seasonal search interest (e.g. 'Maidenhead vs Wolves' live coverage on YouTube and dedicated pre-season guides); wheresthematch lists 30+ friendlies in one July week, but the audience only exists mid-June to mid-August.Live 2026/27 Pre-Season Friendlies on TV - UK schedules ↗LIVE | Maidenhead United vs Wolves | Pre-season friendly ↗
Direct competitors already solve the core problem: wheresthematch.com lists pre-season friendlies with broadcaster/stream links, LiveSoccerTV covers club friendlies globally, and FotMob/OneFootball cover fixtures broadly — no wide-open gap.Live 2026/27 Pre-Season Friendlies on TV - UK schedules ↗Club Friendly - Streaming and TV Schedule, Fixtures, Results ↗
Fans already pay for pre-season content (Wolves charges £5 per friendly stream; MUTV, LFCTV, SpursPlay, Celtic TV are paid; DAZN bundles 11 friendlies), but the aggregator itself captures little of that spend — affiliate cuts or a short-window subscription cap revenue.Maidenhead United Vs Wolves: How to Watch the First Public Pre-Season... ↗Watch huge pre-season friendlies featuring Chelsea, Barcelona and... ↗
Inherently seasonal — pre-season is roughly a 4–6 week window each summer; the app has essentially no utility for the remaining ~46 weeks of the year, making standalone retention and recurring revenue very weak.
Technically easy to build a fixture/stream aggregator, but maintaining accurate broadcaster links across 100+ clubs, scraping each club TV, and avoiding legal risk linking paid streams is operationally heavy for a single-purpose app.FotMob vs. OneFootball - What's the Difference? ↗