The football season started this past weekend with the Premier League. Other leagues and competitions like LaLiga and Champions League will soon follow. Just as we did for the World Cup, in this article, we list some of the apps that could help you keep updated with the action as it unfolds.
Official apps
Under this segment, we look at the official league and competition apps (i.e. no third party)
Premier League App
The Premier League App brings you latest league and club news, fixtures and live scores, a statistics tab to show you the overall stats for players, and finally, the fantasy Premier League feature for one to manage a team of players selected from a pool of all clubs.
This year the Premier League app comes with a new feature under stats which enables you to compare stats between two players. Users continue to receive tailored news and notifications basing on the selected favorite clubs they choose to follow.
Follow this link to download the app
LaLiga app
Similar to the Premier League app, the LaLiga App presents you with content from the Spanish League ‘LaLiga’, covering fixtures/match schedule, live scores, statistics and table standings among others.
One of the unique features about this app is its gallery tab, which contains match-day and club images. In addition to this, it also relays other key content (fixtures and stable standings) from other competitions such as the Premier League, Bundesliga among others.
La Liga also has a fantasy app separate from the official app that allows you to play the La Liga fantasy league.
Follow this link to download the apps
Champions League and Europa League
The Champions and Europa leagues unite top football clubs across Europe in a group and knock-out competition.
The apps by UEFA bring to you match fixtures and results, major highlights, all-time statistics (club history) for your club, latest news about Europe football clubs, video and photos; this keeps you posted on all events during the competition.
Follow this link to download the UEFA Champions League app and here to download the Europa app.
The Champions League Fantasy App
Playing the Champions fantasy league needs another app, unlike Premier League fantasy that is embedded within the general app. Champion Fantasy allows you to create a team of players selected from Europe clubs taking part in the competition. You are awarded points according to their performance which you can show off with your friends in a private manager league.
Download it here.
FIFA app
The FIFA app continues its work after having been the best World Cup app we had. The app brings you major football news across the world, fixtures, results and table standings from all leagues including the local StarTimes Premier League.
Download the FIFA app.
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News and TV
In this category, we look at some of the apps that have general news and enable you to live-stream games.
Bleacher Report
The Bleacher Report is among the best sports news apps. Apart from covering team news, live scores and event alerts, the app has an algorithm for capturing breaking and trending news from other sports publications.
The trending news is captured after a particular story has appeared from the various sites whose news you follow via the app.
In other words, the app is similar to the Flipboard, a news app that brings you a briefing from various news publishers.
Follow this link to now load bleacher report
DStv app and SuperSport
When it comes to Premier League, DTSV maintains the majority of the rights to broadcast the games. DSTV customers can live-stream games via the DSTV Now app through the same account details of their decoders.
Get the app.
beIN Sports
beIN Sports app brings major sports stories from all major leagues at your desk. It covers basketball, Formula One, Tennis among others; it provides a full program guide with corresponding channels for live-streaming the games.
For live-streaming purposes, users incur an extra charge starting at US$18.
To get BeIN Sports, click here
Iflix and StarTimes
After these two introduced special live-streaming packages which made their usage cheaper during the World Cup, one could consider them to follow up on some of the sports season action.
For instance, for the German Bundesliga action, Startimes being the official broadcaster, will bring you all games and highlights through their app and this time round StarTimes is the official sponsor for our local league so we expect the app to bring local football on your phone.
Kwese also broadcasts some games such as the Carabao Cup, has official club television stations like the Liverpool FC app, NBA TV for Basketball, Kwese Sports 1 and 2 which also bring some live Premier league games.
Click here to get the iflix app and here for StarTimes app.
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