Football schedules

A season of matches on one screen

A football season runs from August to May and a club plays about once a week, so the season is long, thin and awkward to see whole. The grid puts every club down the left and every date across the top, and names the opponent in the cell where they meet. Reading a column tells you everything on that day at once; reading a row tells you which four clubs a side meets over the next month, and how the matches are spaced — which is the part that decides how a run of results should be read.

Nine competitions are covered — Premier League, Championship, Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1, Eredivisie, Primeira Liga, Champions League — across England, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Europe, 192 clubs in all. Home and away are marked by colour and by an @ before away opponents, and once a match has been played its final score replaces the matchup, so the same page carries the season behind you and the season ahead.

Kick-off times, and the ones that are not set yet

A schedule is published a season ahead; kick-off times are not. Broadcasters select matches about five or six weeks out, and only then is a match pinned to a slot — it can move day as well as time. Until then the grid shows the date and no clock, because a placeholder a reader cannot tell from a real kick-off is worse than no time at all. Confirmed kick-offs are converted into your own timezone automatically, with a manual override, which is the difference between a Sunday 4.30pm kick-off and whatever that is where you are reading.

Every club, its own page

Each of the 192 clubs above has a full schedule page: every match with its kick-off in your timezone where it is confirmed, the home and away split, and the ground. The competition's grid is one click away from each of them.

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