RoadBack
A promotion-tracker companion for supporters of clubs relegated from the Premier League or Championship — fixtures, transfer news, fan podcasts and a season-long 'road back' leaderboard for clubs like Leicester City, Southampton and Ipswich.
fans of Premier League or Championship clubs now playing in League One or the Championship who want one app that actually covers their club
- Per-club news and push reminders for every League One and Championship fixture involving relegated clubs
- Promotion tracker leaderboard ranking 'fallen giants' (Leicester, Southampton, Leeds-on-the-rise, etc.) by their path back up
- Per-club podcast aggregator pulling fan, club-official and local-radio feeds into one queue
- Historical comparison view showing how past relegated giants fared in their first lower-league season
Leicester City dropping into League One for only the second time in their history is trending (100+ searches) and a generation of fans who grew up on the Premier League title now care intensely about lower-league coverage that mainstream apps under-serve.
Clear emotional engagement from relegated-club fans: Guardian devoted long-form coverage to Leicester's slide and Reddit's r/Championship thread on relegated clubs draws active discussion, plus dedicated forums like SaintsWeb prove the audience is large enough to self-organize.Leicester's decline and fall feels like a cruel parable as League One beckons ↗How we feeling Ipswich/Leeds/Leicester/Saints fans? - Reddit ↗
Mainstream apps already cover EFL thoroughly: OneFootball markets EFL 2025/26 coverage, SofaScore is praised for lower-league depth, and even modest clubs like Southampton have their own official app — so a 'relegated-club' framing is a thin wedge, not a coverage gap.OneFootball - Football Scores - App Store ↗Southampton FC App | Southampton FC Official Site ↗
Forza Football proves the subscription/ad-removal model exists for football apps, but FasterCapital explicitly flags niche lower-league subscriptions as hard to monetise and willing-to-pay for one-club tracker apps is unproven.Forza Football - Transfers on the App Store ↗Football subscription service: Sideline Strategies: Navigating ... ↗
The 'road back' narrative is event-driven and short-lived: Wikipedia's 2025-26 Leicester page shows the club already bounced back to the Championship that season before another relegation in April 2026, meaning the core appeal flips off within 1-3 seasons once promotion is achieved.2025-26 Leicester City F.C. season - Wikipedia ↗
Trivial to build: podcasts/RSS, fixtures, transfer feeds and news aggregation are all available via open APIs and RSS; Forza Football and similar one-team trackers show the pattern is proven and shippable in weeks, not months.