Scoreboard Live works because whoever is at a fixture can capture a score, and others who are there confirm it. There is no official scorer and no gatekeeper. That is the whole point, and it only holds if people use it honestly.
Last updated 27 August 2026
Only start scoring a fixture if you are actually there watching it. One person scores a game at a time, so claiming it means nobody else can until you are finished. Taking a fixture you cannot see stops the score updating for everyone following it.
You do not need permission. Anyone following either team who was at the game can correct a score. A correction is not an argument: put in what the score actually is, and move on.
Every score, correction and confirmation is recorded and none of it is ever deleted. A correction does not overwrite what came before, it is added after it, so the full history of a fixture stays visible: what was reported, what changed, and when.
We do not show your name against any of it. A score reads as reported by someone at the game, and the number of people who confirmed it is shown instead. Most of the sport here is played by children, and a first name next to a school and an age group identifies a person far more easily than it looks. The count is what tells you whether to trust a score. A name never was.
Your account is still attached to what you do, on our side. It is simply not put on display.
Add real schools, clubs, teams and fixtures. Not joke entries, not test data left behind, not a team that does not play. Anything you add is there for everyone who comes looking afterwards, so a made-up entry wastes other people’s time rather than your own.
Most of what is here is school sport, and much of it involves minors. Scoreboard Live has no comments, no messaging and no player profiles, and shows no names against reported scores. That is a deliberate choice, not a gap. Do not use the fields that do accept text, such as a team or fixture name, to say anything about an individual child.
Adding your school does not make you its representative. Scoreboard Live is independent and is not run or endorsed by any school, university, club, union or league. Do not present yourself, or an entry you have created, as official.
Most of it corrects itself, without anyone having to step in:
Where that is not enough:
It is not an official record and does not claim to be. It tells you where a number came from and how many people at the game are standing behind it. That is more than a score usually comes with. It is not the same as a result confirmed by a governing body.
Use the contact form. A real person reads it.
