Marco Chiesi

XML Team Solutions

Enhance your sports posts with rich, detailed metadata about games, teams, and players, and with live game photos.
SportsPost 2.0 allows WordPress editors to search for player names of athletes in major North American sports leagues, and drop their names directly into their post. These names can then hyperlink to externally hosted Player Profile pages, with expanded news, statistics, and photos of those players.
Bloggers can also optionally register at http://SportsForecaster.com/affiliates to generate advertising revenue from their links.
SportsPost 2.0 also allows editors to search or browse the over 3 million sports photos from Icon Sportswire — a leading sports photo wire service. Selected photos can be inserted directly into any post — without leaving WordPress. Photos can also be imported into WordPress’s Media Library.
Photos are for editorial usage only, and editors must register at IconSportswire.com for an account and login credentials. Photos can licensed using prepaid Credits (no long-term contract necessary), or can be downloaded as part of a monthly subscription package.
SportsPost 2.0 also includes “preview functionality” that allows WordPress administrators to add Sports Widgets from XML Team onto designated locations of any page. Our forthcoming 3.0 release will make it easy to select widgets and drop them in place. Visit the “Support” tab and drop us a message if you’d like more details.
Future versions will allow editors to:
<ul>
<li>Select Sports Widgets that will automatically update your website with current sports coverage.</li>
<li>Identify posts as being Game Previews or Game Recaps for particular sporting events, and then automatically include supplemental game information.</li>
</ul>

SportsPost – Enriched Sports Posts

Enhance your sports posts with rich, detailed metadata about games, teams, and players.

anwppro

A complete solution for any ⚽ football site. Has a variety of unique features, powerful and flexible. Made with football in mind.
⏩ For other team sports (🏉 rugby, 🏀 basketball, 🏐 volleyball, 🏏 cricket, ⚾ baseball, 🏒 ice hockey, handball) use my another plugin – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sports-leagues/" rel="ugc">Sports Leagues</a>
<h4>BASIC FEATURES</h4>
✅ intuitive admin UI 
✅ knockout, round-robin or even mixed and multistaged Competition supported 
✅ separate Club squad for every season (with player position, number, status) 
✅ Match lineups, substitutes, stats, events (goals, cards, substitute, penalty shootout), video, staff, referees 
✅ automatic Standing calculation (or manual) 
✅ automatic Player statistic calculation based on Match events (playing time, goals, cards, etc.) 
✅ initial data import for Clubs and Players with Excel-like spreadsheet 
✅ custom colors in Standing table (for Clubs or places) 
✅ flipped countdown timer for upcoming Matches 
✅ initial points (+ or -) for Clubs in Standing table 
✅ statistics at Player profile page 
✅ stadiums with photo, gallery, additional information, map, matches 
✅ widgets: Clubs, Matches, Cards, Next match, Player, Players (scorers or assistants), Standing table, Birthdays 
✅ 16 different shortcodes with UI helper in Classic Editor 
✅ template system (ability to override output layouts in your theme) 
✅ RTL support 
✅ works with most themes out of the box 
✅ fully translatable from the Admin part 
✅ tons of hooks for developers 
✅ staff, referees, coaches, stadiums and much more …
<h4>LINKS AND DOCUMENTATION</h4>
<a href="https://fl-core.anwp.pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Demo</a> | <a href="https://anwp.pro/the-most-powerfull-football-soccer-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Overview</a> 
<a href="https://anwppro.userecho.com/communities/1-football-leagues#module_9" rel="nofollow ugc">Online Documentation</a> | <a href="https://anwppro.userecho.com/knowledge-bases/2/articles/70-start-guide" rel="nofollow ugc">Start Guide</a> | <a href="https://anwppro.userecho.com/knowledge-bases/11-fl-changelog/categories/28-basic-version/articles" rel="nofollow ugc">Extended Changelog</a> | <a href="https://anwppro.userecho.com/knowledge-bases/2-football-leagues/categories/25-shortcodes/articles" rel="nofollow ugc">Available Shortcodes</a>
<h4>PREMIUM VERSION AVAILABLE</h4>
Want more? Football Leagues has also a <a href="https://anwp.pro/football-leagues-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Addon</a> with many outstanding and unique features.
<a href="https://fl-premium.anwp.pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Demo</a> | <a href="https://footballan.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Real Website Example</a>
<h4>PREMIUM FEATURES</h4>
🔶 Live Scores and Match Live Commentary with Events 
🔶 Match Timeline 
🔶 LIVE Search 
🔶 Club match formation 
🔶 Layout Builder (with tabs) 
🔶 Match scoreboard with image background 
🔶 Tournament Bracket 
🔶 Commentary Match section with new events 
🔶 Head to Head matches section in Match 
🔶 import data from external APIs (required a valid subscription) 
🔶 Standing – manual data edit 
🔶 Standing – columns order and visibility 
🔶 Standing – Conference support 
🔶 Standing – more ranking rules 
🔶 Matches Horizontal Scoreboard (shortcode) 
🔶 Competition – matchweeks as slides 
🔶 Results Matrix 
🔶 Standing Arrows – Dynamics of Ranking changes 
🔶 Widget – Next match extended (timer or flipped countdown) 
🔶 Widget – Competition Matchweek slides 
🔶 Widget – Calendar 
🔶 Calendar Slider 
🔶 Card Suspension 
🔶 Transfers 
🔶 Dynamic SEO Options 
🔶 Send Game Report by Email 
🔶 Automatic User’s Timezone 
🔶 Advanced Statistics 
🔶 Charts: Team Default Statistics & Goals per 15 min. interval 
🔶 Player stats section in Club 
🔶 Player & Referee stats panel 
🔶 24 different shortcodes 
🔶 premium support
<a href="https://anwp.pro/football-leagues-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">Find Out more about Premium Version</a> 
<a href="https://anwp.pro/the-most-powerfull-football-soccer-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Overview</a>
<h4>Translations included</h4>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>Russian: Русский</li>
<li>Polish: Polski (thanks to @forzza)</li>
<li>Danish: Denmark (thanks to @cbdk)</li>
<li>French: thanks to @belgofoot</li>
<li>Italian: thanks to Paolo</li>
<li>Slovenian: thanks to Nejc</li>
<li>Romanian: thanks to Gabriel</li>
<li>German: thanks to Jörg and Sven</li>
<li>Greek: thanks to spirossm</li>
<li>Spain: thanks to Màxim</li>
<li>Brazil (Portuguese): thanks to Marcelo</li>
<li>Dutch: thanks to Patrick</li>
</ul>
<h4>The plugin requires</h4>
<blockquote>
PHP version 5.6 or greater 
 WordPress 4.7 or greater 
 <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmb2/" title="CMB2" rel="ugc">CMB2 plugin</a>
</blockquote>

AnWP Football Leagues

Do you plan to create a wordpress Website about Football? Or do you plan to empower your Football oriented Website with amazing Features like leagues, squads, fixtures, results, match Details and statistics, stuff and more? Then you should really try this amazing plugin from AnWP! 

Before I found AnWPs Football Leagues, I used sportspress by themeboy. From the visual site, both plugins are pretty similar, but there are a lot of reasons, why I stopped working with Sportspress and use AnWPs Football Leagues now.

Reason #01 - The Price

For the full package with unlimited Support, Football Leagues Pro is available for 150 USD per site. Sportspress does the same for 450 USD, but for unlimited sites and for more sports. Anyway: AnWPs Advantages kill SportsPress and Features like maps and match Events are available in the free plugin, compared to sportspress, where These are payed Features.

Reason #02 - Frontend

Both plugins are well styled and maybe it´s a matter of taste, what you prefer. A Little Advantage of Sportspress is, that they use table tags in the whole plugin and this makes it easier to include Features like table Tools, sorting and filtering, while Football Leagues uses divs in most tables. Both can be styles with CSS, so it´s not a really big Advantage for sportspress. And if AnWP includes some Features like filtering (for example: select match day in Dropdown for league tables or select Player in Dropdown for squad lists), i would never miss the table layout of sportspress again.

Reason #3 - The backend. 

And this is where the Magic happens. Sportspress is not hard to handle, but from my Point of view, AnWPs Football Leagues is a lot easier to administrate. There are powerfull Dropdowns in the backend, that allow to select entries (for example Players) from a great styled Dropdown list with live filtering. Also the way how match Events are added is incredible, even you can not really add your own match Events (drinking breaks, etc.). For General Football matches, Football Leagues brings everything to your wordpress site. Goals, Owngoals, Cards (Yellow, Red and Yellow-Red - sportspress does not know yellow red), substitutions and more. It´s incredible easy to add your Details.

Reason 4: Themes

I tested both plugins with a lot of payed and free themes and I noticed, that the plugins style is heavyly influenced by the themes CSS in sportspress, but not in Football Leagues. In Sportspress, you can Change some styles in the backend (not possible with Football Leagues), but you can use CSS to bring the Magic. Sportspress Team (themeboy) offers some payed and one free theme to Play with, but those are pretty limited to sportspress. If you use other themes that are not styled for sportspress, there could be the one or other compatibility problem. I don´t found any with Football Leagues plugin.

Anyway: Suggestions

Apart from filtering tables, some Shortcodes in Football Leagues could have more power (sorting, coloring, Change order, etc.). Also I would love to have more Styling Options right from the backend (also for tables like squads to make them more suitable to the rest of the plugin). And last but not least, I would really love to Change some sections of the plugin:

1) In all Shortcodes: Change the order of columns
2) in Match Details: Use hover tooltips on the Icons and remove the Goals sections instead
3) use Icons in match statistics for better first view on what a statistic bar is for
4) Use Team Colors and use them on single Team, single match, etc.
5) allow calculated statistics like "win rate, loss rate, draw rare, Goals per match, Cards per match, etc., allow to add or remove single stats (I hided Shots via CSS cause I only Need Shots on Goal).
6) more toplists like Fair Play, Goals, Audience, Stadium capacity, maybe Club worth/Players worth, Assists, etc.
7) A view for plugin categories... When I add the Team category to the wordpress menu, a blog like list of all Teams is shown. That does not look really good.
8) new Football rules: Cards for Trainers and stuff

Maybe Pro?

I don´t own pro actually (I plan to buy in the next months). So I don´t know if some of the suggestions are already part of Football Leagues Pro.

@AnWP
Need tester/Translator?

I am german and I love your plugin. Is there is a testing cyclus or you Need someone to translate to german, feel free to contact me. I would love to help and help making your plugin the best choise for Football enthusiasts. :) Great Work!

Best Regards
Digi
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You will get a lot more than expected!

A complete solution for any football site. Knockout and round-robin competitions, player profiles and statistics, squads, standings and stadiums.

SportsPost – Enriched Sports Posts vs AnWP Football Leagues