These are the terms for using Scoreboard Live. By creating an account you agree to them.
Last updated 27 August 2026. These are the same terms that apply inside the app.
Scoreboard Live is a place where the people at a game put the score in, and other people who were there confirm it.
It is free. There is nothing to pay, no licence and no per-team fee. If that ever changes we will say so in advance, and nothing you have already done will become chargeable after the fact.
You need an account to use Scoreboard Live. Section 09 covers who may have one.
Use your own name and a working email address, keep your sign-in details to yourself, and tell us if you think somebody else has got into your account.
Anything done from your account is treated as done by you, including anything done by somebody you have let use it.
Our Community Guidelines set out how scoring, correcting and adding are expected to work. They form part of these terms, so agreeing to these means agreeing to those.
The short version: score the game you are actually at, correct a score rather than argue about it, add things that really exist, and do not present yourself or anything you add as official.
You keep whatever rights you already had in anything you add. You are giving us permission to show it inside Scoreboard Live, which is the only way any of this works.
Two things follow from how the product is built, and both are worth being plain about:
If a school, club, league or other rights holder tells us something of theirs is here and should not be, we will take it down. Use the contact form and say what it is and where it is.
As far as the law allows, if somebody brings a claim against us because of something you added that you did not have the right to add, that claim is your responsibility rather than ours.
Scoreboard Live is a community record, not an official one.
Scores are put in by whoever was at the game. We do not attend fixtures, we do not verify results, and we do not appoint or approve scorers. What we show you is 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.
So: do not rely on Scoreboard Live as the official result. If a decision matters, such as a league standing, a selection, a qualification or a protest, confirm it with whoever actually runs that competition. Any decision you take on what you read here is your own.
Please read this section. It limits what we are liable for.
Scoreboard Live is free, and it is provided as it is. As far as the law allows, we do not promise that it will always be available, always be up to date, always be accurate, or always work without faults.
As far as the law allows, we are not responsible for loss you suffer because a score here was wrong, late or missing, or because Scoreboard Live was unavailable. As section 06 says, the scores come from other people at the game, and this is not an official record.
What we do not limit. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our responsibility for gross negligence, for anything done dishonestly or deliberately, for death or personal injury, or for anything else that the law does not allow to be excluded. If any part of this section goes further than the law permits, it applies only as far as the law permits and the rest still stands.
What we collect and who sees it is set out in our Privacy Notice. It is worth reading. In particular:
You must be 18 or older to create an account, and you should not try to create one if you are not.
Somebody under 18 may still use Scoreboard Live, through an account held by an adult, with that adult’s permission and under their supervision. A child looking up their own team’s result on a parent’s phone is exactly what this is for. What a child may not do is hold an account of their own.
The reason is about storage rather than access. Most of the sport here is played by children, and holding as little information about young people as possible is the simplest way to look after them. It is about whose details we keep, not about who deserves to see a score.
If we find out an account holder is under 18 we will close that account. If a child has created one, tell us and we will deal with it.
You can stop using Scoreboard Live whenever you like. Ask us and we will close your account.
Closing an account does not remove score reports, for the reason given in section 04. Your account stops working; the record of the games stays.
We can suspend or close an account under section 05.
These terms will change as the product does. When they change materially we will tell you, by email to the address on your account or by a notice when you next open Scoreboard Live, rather than quietly swapping the page. The date at the top will be updated.
If you do not agree with a change, stop using Scoreboard Live and ask us to close your account.
These terms are governed by South African law, and the courts of South Africa have jurisdiction.
If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, that part is treated as though it were not here and the rest still applies.
Use the contact form on the website, or Contact Us in the app. Both reach the same person, and a real person reads it.
