Stadionfunk
A companion app for German football fans who support clubs below the Bundesliga - aggregating regional news, club-history timelines, full lower-league fixture coverage, and per-club supporter boards for the 140+ clubs that mainstream sports apps ignore.
German football supporters of Regionalliga, 3. Liga, and amateur clubs who can't find their team in mainstream sports apps
- Personalized club feed for any of ~140 lower-division clubs, including smaller Heimatvereine
- Club-history archive with re-foundings, insolvency events, and caretaker-presidents - the kind of legacy story regional media covers but the app stores don't index
- Fixture, table, and Aufstiegsrelegation tracker across Regionalliga down to Oberliga
- Per-club supporter discussion and transfer talk board to replace the scattered Facebook groups fans use today
The death of KSV Hessen Kassel co-founder Holger Brück shows regional clubs' histories are being written only in regional public media - the gap that lets an app own the German lower-league fan
140+ lower-league clubs exist in Germany but per-club fan bases are tiny and fragmented; mainstream apps (Kicker, OneFootball, FotMob, 365Scores) already publish 3. Liga and Regionalliga fixtures/news, suggesting the 'no coverage' premise is overstated.3. Liga | Spieltag - Tabelle - News Statistiken - kicker ↗Regionalliga matches, tables and news 2024/2025 - FotMob ↗
Whitespace is narrow: regionalliga.de is already a dedicated niche aggregator, Kicker/OneFootball/FotMob cover 3. Liga and Regionalliga, and Vogut already positions itself as 'the platform for amateur football' in Germany (though weakly validated with ~560 downloads).Regionalliga - News & Ergebnisse - Regionalliga.de ↗Vogut - Apps on Google Play ↗
Lower-league fans are highly price-sensitive (cost-of-living pressure documented globally for non-league supporters); existing dedicated player Vogut is free with no ratings yet, and regionalliga.de appears ad-supported — no clear evidence of paid willingness in this niche.Football Costs Too Much to Watch: How Lower League Football Saves The Game ↗Vogut - Free APK Download for Android - AppBrain ↗
Regional football clubs in Germany are structurally permanent (DFB pyramid, 100+ year-old clubs), and local-press coverage gaps are a durable, slowly-worsening trend as regional public media shrinks — supports a multi-decade horizon.Regionalliga - News & Ergebnisse - Regionalliga.de ↗
Aggregating fixtures and tables is feasible (public DFB data), but producing club-history timelines and per-club supporter boards for 140+ clubs requires either expensive editorial/UGC moderation or scraping regional outlets — significant content-ops cost for a small team.Vogut - Apps on Google Play ↗