Live Football Scores

I was recently asked about live football scores and what’s the best way of keeping track of them now that the new football season is well under way. There are various websites that will track the live football scores for you, but they vary widely in terms of usability and having slight delays in terms of updating.

The best way that I’ve found so far is to use the Live Score Centre on the Sky Sports website. It’s a service which has been developed over the past few years, each year introducing improvements and making it better to use.

As well as the traditional goal and foul ticker system at the bottom of the screen, here’s some of the other features included:

• Live football scores, updated very quickly as things actually happen.
• Details of starting line-ups, player bookings and substitutions.
• A live premiership table - which means you see your team move up and/or down (but hopefully up!) the table as all the games progress!
• Match stats - gives details of shots on goals, fouls, possession and even the pass success rate!
• Add fixtures to your “My Home” page and it will keep track of all the games you’re interested in - all on the one page, no matter what competitions they are involved in.

To give you an idea of how comprehensive this live football score system is, here’s just a few of the leagues and competitions that it tracks (plus there’s lots more on top of this too):

• Barclays Premier League
• Coca-Cola Championship
• Coca-Cola League One
• Coca-Cola League Two
• Co-Op insurance Cup
• Scottish Premier League
• Scottish First Division
• Scottish Second Division
• Scottish Cup
• Welsh Premier League
• Spanish Primera Liga
• Italy Serie A
• Italy Serie B
• German Bundesliga
• German 2. Bundesliga
• French Lique 1
• French Lique 2
• Dutch Eredivisie
• Irish Premiership
• Eircom Division One
• Portuguese Liga
• Swedish Allsvenskan
• Blue Square North
• Blue Square South
• Copa Del Rey
• Ryman Premier Division
• Unibond Premier Division

Finally, once your live football scores are over, you can then use Sky’s Live Score Centre to track the live sports results of other sports including Formula 1, rugby, cricket and golf.

Have you used this service to track your live football scores before? What do you think to it? Have you found one that’s better?