DebutWire
Alerts app that flags every pre-season debut, loan-return, or first-minute appearance for a fan's watched shortlist of players — built for fantasy and Football Manager fans who want to scout early.
Fantasy Premier League players and FM/football scouts who track prospects through pre-season minutes
- Player watchlist with minute-by-minute appearance tracking across friendlies
- 'Debut' alerts the moment a new signing or academy player gets on the pitch
- Side-by-side comparison vs last season's pre-season minutes for the same player
- Shareable short clips and stats cards for social posting
With clubs streaming friendlies on their own platforms and debutants constantly being talked up, fantasy and scouting fans currently stitch this together from Twitter and club websites.
FPL pre-season tracking is clearly established demand — Fantasy Football Scout's Pre-Season Minutes Tracker is headline content, the Premier League's official site embeds FFS data, and Fantasy Football Hub publishes a pre-season results guide. Source trend (Maidenhead vs Wolves) confirms GB fan interest in pre-season debut chatter.FPL 2026/27: Our Pre-season Minutes Tracker is live! ↗Premier League players' stats in pre-season matches ↗
The exact use case is already served by Fantasy Football Scout (Premium Members Tracker with debuts, goals, assists, minutes) and Fantasy Football Hub's pre-season results guide; the Premier League itself surfaces FFS data, signalling incumbents own the niche.FPL pre-season: Premier League friendly results guide 2026/27 ↗Pre-season Minutes Tracker - Datawrapper - Fantasy Football Scout ↗
FFS proves FPL fans will pay (≈£36/yr premium), but debut-only alerting is a narrow slice of those bundles; FFS/FFHub bundle this with many other tools, so a standalone debut-alert product would struggle to justify its own subscription against free Twitter aggregations.The Benefits of an FFScout Membership ↗Complete & Detailed Review of Fantasy Football Hub | FFHUB ↗
Use case is cyclical and seasonal — pre-season windows run roughly 4–6 weeks each summer, with most alerts clustered late July/early August; the FM/fantasy scouting angle is real but a thin vertical that would need expansion to stay viable year-round.FPL pre-season: Premier League friendly results guide 2026/27 ↗
A push-notification front-end is straightforward, but the hard part is sourcing live pre-season data — FFS does this manually and even the Premier League partners with them rather than building in-house, suggesting reliable automated data is non-trivial and likely requires scraping or paid data partnerships.FPL 2026/27: Our Pre-season Minutes Tracker is live! ↗