About FootballFansWhat does FootballFans.eu provide you
At FootballFans.eu you can:
- Keep your football diary and publish your personal fan life
- Log your visited matches and stadiums
- Post photos and reports of your visits
- Find a match nearby, wherever you are, with our Quick Match Locator
- Plan your match visits for the season, travel together or arrange tickets with other fans
- Follow the activities and fan updates of your football friends
- Rate your visited matches and stadiums
- Complete your profile with your top visited matches and stadiums
- View the results, line-ups and additional statistics of hundred thousands of matches
- Add missing matches of your own visits or edit and improve the match details of your own visits
- View your achievements and compare them with those of your friends
- Put the football stadiums you visited on your personalized Football Map
- Display your groundhopping record and compare yourself with other groundhoppers
- Check your progress on your way to the 92-club
- View the results, fans, pictures, videos and reports on the page of your favorite team or country
- Log your collection of memorabilia and present these to other fans in your personal digital museum
- Stay up to date with the live scores
Site introduction
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About usIt´s all about Passion, Pride, Expression
About us
This is not about us, this site is about you: what really matters on FootballFans.eu are the FootballFans, not the players.The FootballFans
Our floodlights are on the crowd in the stands, the passionate fans spending their time, money and energy on the most beautiful sport in the world. We want to share their experiences and joy of football.These genuine fans make football, even more than the players or clubs. It´s the fans following their team that makes this sport great. Those who stand in the rain on a dark and windy Wednesday night cheering their favourites to victory. Being out-sung and out-numbered by the home crowd, but having the edge because your songs are better. The explosion of joy when your team is the underdog and unexpectedly beats the favourite opposition. But also the long drive home after losing another match in injury time. Ending up in a two hour traffic jam because of road works can make your night really miserable. Showing up at work the next morning and your colleagues already smiling but still asking, “So, how did they do last night?”. It´s part of the game though and it also has its charm. You can only really enjoy winning when you know how it feels to lose.
It is all about “Passion, Pride, Expression”. Passionate FootballFans have pride in what they are doing. We want to create a platform of true FootballFans, where they can express themselves and share their experiences and emotions with other fans.
We want to put the spotlight on you, the individual FootballFan, and let you tell the story of your FootballFan life.
Pre match
There is no such football experience as attending a match.
“There is always some tension when you get nearer to the ground. There is excitement in the air about what is to come, it is always 90 minutes but never the same. Lots of people walking to the stadium wearing team colours, speeding up their pace. Little kids holding their fathers hand full of expectation. First drink a few beers in the pub. The smell of burned hamburgers and lousy hot dogs. A quick snack before it starts. Putting a few quid on the first goalscorer at the betting office outside the ground. After that, to the souvenir shop to get a new cap. Buying two match programmes; one to read during half-time, the other to add to your collection. Eventually you have to hurry up again. The queue before the gate is always too long. Minutes feel like hours, you never have that feeling when you are waiting for the bus. The crowd in the stadium gets noisy, singing their songs. You feel the tension. Can´t this queue move any faster? You are getting nervous, because it always takes too long to get in. You hand over your ticket. You pass the security check. You hurry up the stairs and work your way to your seat. Finally, you sit down, just in time. What a relief, you don´t want to miss the kick off. The sun is shining and you have a perfect view on the pitch. The scent of wet grass. Then the music starts. Everybody stands up, starts singing and clapping their hands. The players enter the field. They stand in line and salute the crowd. Captains shake hands. The referee tosses the coin. Players stir each other up for the final motivation. The teams line-up. The whistle blows, let's kick off.”Kick off
At FootballFans.eu you can:
- Keep your football diary and publish your personal fan life
- Log your visited matches and stadiums
- Post photos and reports of your visits
- Find a match nearby, wherever you are, with our Quick Match Locator
- Plan your match visits for the season, travel together or arrange tickets with other fans
- Follow the activities and fan updates of your football friends
- Rate your visited matches and stadiums
- Complete your profile with your top visited matches and stadiums
- View the results, line-ups and additional statistics of hundred thousands of matches
- Add missing matches of your own visits or edit and improve the match details of your own visits
- View your achievements and compare them with those of your friends
- Put the football stadiums you visited on your personalized Football Map
- Display your groundhopping record and compare yourself with other groundhoppers
- Check your progress on your way to the 92-club
- View the results, fans, pictures, videos and reports on the page of your favorite team or country
- Log your collection of memorabilia and present these to other fans in your personal digital museum
- Stay up to date with the live scores
Home team
This site is made for FootballFans, by FootballFans. We are mad about football, enjoying the “fan life”. We have been FootballFans for as long as we can remember. We have been attending matches of our favourite teams, groundhopping, collecting programmes, tickets, cards and other memorabilia. Football colours our lives, always enjoying a game of football.
We believe that there are lots of fans like us sharing the same passion. For this website we have been inspired by different groundhoppers who make beautiful websites, displaying their groundhopping adventures and sharing their knowledge with other fans. It is a joy to read all the stories of other enthusiastic fans, who take pictures, write reports and display the programme and ticket. We believe there are lots of fans who would like to log their record too but, for different reasons, are not able to do it. We want to offer them this platform where they can easily log their FootballFan record themselves. This site is meant to maintain your personal FootballFan life.
The line-up
We offer actual and historical results. Additional information, such as line-ups and events, is available about matches played in the last couple of years. In the coming months we will gradually extend our results offering to hundreds of competitions. We want to extend that in the future.You have the opportunity to add your own historical matches to the database to complete your record. You can also add or edit statistics of matches, when they are not complete.
We have done our utmost to ensure that the data is correct and complete. If you see any errors or omissions though, about teams, stadiums or matches, that you can't fix yourself, then please let us know and we will fix it for you. We will process your request and give you feedback on the action we will take.
Yellow card
We are firm believers in communities. Wikipedia is a community that we fully support. Its goal is to share information freely around the world to provide all people with knowledge. Wikipedia is a valuable source of information to us. We use the information on our site and we refer to Wikipedia and its contributing source wherever possible. We try to be very careful and accurate when referring to Wikipedia, but if in some situation the source is not named adequately and you feel that your rights are infringed then please let us know and we will act and rectify this.We donate to Wikipedia every year because we support this initiative.
Red card
Football is a game with rules to control the match and so is this site. We are led by one basic football principle and ask you to act according to this principle, “Fair play.” If that is not clear enough, then you can read our code of conduct in which we explain the rules. The referee leads the match and will see whether everybody behaves according to the rules. If not, he can blow the whistle, give free kicks and warnings. Even a red card is possible.Next match?
We have lots of ideas for the future, but we believe it is more important to know what you want you want. Do you have any ideas about how to improve the site? What are you looking for as a FootballFan? We are trying to create a site for the real FootballFan and add different value than other sites. So any dissenting ideas to improve the site are more than welcome, as long as it is beneficial to the genuine FootballFan. You can contact us with the contact form.
The final whistle!
Last but not least, we hope that you enjoy the site. If so, please spread the word and tell your FootballFriends. We want to fill this stadium with FootballFans.“Enjoy the match”.
