Coverage & sources
Good analysis starts with good information.
Match results, team performance and available team news provide the context for each daily briefing.
Which competitions?
We cover 24 domestic leagues. In Europe: the Premier League and the Championship, La Liga and the Segunda División, the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, Serie A and Serie B, Ligue 1, the Eredivisie, the Primeira Liga, the Jupiler Pro League, the Süper Lig, the Scottish Premiership, the Greek Super League, the Ukrainian Premier League, the Danish Superliga, the Norwegian Eliteserien and the Cypriot First Division. Elsewhere: Major League Soccer, Argentina's Liga Profesional, the Saudi Pro League, the UAE Pro League and Morocco's Botola Pro.
Continental club competitions are covered where both clubs play in a league from that list — the Champions League, the Europa League, the Conference League, the Copa Libertadores and others.
Anything not named here is not covered. A fixture in a competition we do not rate gets no reading at all rather than a weaker one.
Not every competition has the same depth of information. Daily coverage depends on the fixture schedule and sufficient available data. Thin evidence calls for a more cautious reading.
Where the information comes from
| Source | Information |
|---|---|
| openfootball | Historical match results |
| API-FOOTBALL | Fixtures, lineups, absences and player statistics |
| BBC, The Guardian and Sky | Team news |
| GDELT | Archived news used in historical evaluation |
What can change?
Team news and fixture details can change after an email is sent. Read the briefing as an assessment based on information available when it was prepared.