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What SportsArena365 runs on

Most sports sites won't tell you where their data comes from or whether they're allowed to publish it. Here's our full list, including the sources we deliberately refuse to use.

Recurring external subscriptions

€0.00

Per month. Anything that would change this figure needs sign-off before it is switched on.

Lovable Cloud (database, auth, server functions)

enabled€0.00 additional

Accounts, votes, quiz scores, activity, ads, content storage

Commercial rights verified:: yes
Usage limits:: Included in the existing Lovable plan

No separate third-party subscription. No card, no external vendor.

Google Fonts (Archivo, Inter Tight)

enabled€0.00

Typography

Commercial rights verified:: yes
Usage limits:: None

Open Font License; commercial use permitted.

OpenLigaDB

test-only€0.00

German football fixtures, results, standings

Commercial rights verified:: unverified
Usage limits:: No published limit

No published data licence. Confined to the noindex /live validation page. Never used in the commercial product.

football-data.org

research-only€0.00 (live scores would cost €12/mo — NOT enabled)

Football fixtures and standings

Commercial rights verified:: yes
Usage limits:: Free tier: delayed data, 10 requests/minute

Best future candidate. Requires attribution. Live scores are a paid tier and need approval.

TheSportsDB

research-only€0.00

Multi-sport reference data

Commercial rights verified:: no
Usage limits:: Free tier is development use only

Free tier forbids app-store publishing and grants no clear commercial website rights.

API-Football / API-Sports

research-only€0.00

Multi-sport live data

Commercial rights verified:: unverified
Usage limits:: Free tier: 100 requests/day

MLB / NHL / ESPN internal endpoints

disabled€0.00

US league live data

Commercial rights verified:: no
Usage limits:: n/a

MLB explicitly forbids commercial use. NHL and ESPN publish no API terms at all. Permanently excluded.

Display ad networks (AdSense, Ezoic and similar)

disabled€0.00

Advertising revenue

Commercial rights verified:: n/a
Usage limits:: Revenue share, no subscription

Placements are built and serving house ads. No network connected yet.

Sportsbook / casino affiliate programmes

disabled€0.00

Affiliate revenue

Commercial rights verified:: n/a
Usage limits:: n/a

Architecture ready with per-country gating. Nothing activated. Requires legal review per market.

First-party measurement (built in-house)

enabled€0.00

Page views, sections, referrers, quiz and vote activity, ad performance

Commercial rights verified:: n/a
Usage limits:: Stored in our own database

No third-party analytics script, no cookies, no cross-site identifiers. Visitors are counted with a daily rotating hash that cannot be traced back to a person.

Article imagery

disabled€0.00

Illustrating explainers and stories

Commercial rights verified:: n/a
Usage limits:: n/a

No stock photo subscription and no scraped press images. An image is only published with a recorded source and usage right.

Email, analytics, monitoring, translation, AI, odds

disabled€0.00

Various

Commercial rights verified:: n/a
Usage limits:: n/a

No such service is connected. None is required for the current product.

How we count visitors

We measure our own traffic in our own database. There is no third-party analytics script, no advertising cookie and no cross-site identifier. A visit is recorded with a hash that rotates every day, so we can tell how many people read a page without being able to work out who they were, and nothing links one day's reading to the next.

Which pages we ask search engines to index

A page is only submitted to search engines if it clears every one of our quality conditions: original writing, no unlicensed data, a real answer of at least 350 words, a unique subject, a title and description within sensible limits, and working links to the rest of the site. Anything that fails stays readable but is marked as not for indexing and is left out of our sitemap. Our testing pages and personal pages are never indexed.

Empty sections you can see

Each competition on SportsArena365 has a full set of sections — teams, players, schedule, results, standings, statistics, articles, guides and history. The ones that need a live or proprietary data feed are visibly empty and say so. We would rather show you an honest gap than fill a table with numbers we are not allowed to publish or cannot verify. Those sections are also kept out of search until they hold something worth reading.

Images and languages

We publish an image only when we have recorded where it came from and what we are allowed to do with it. No press photos are lifted from other sites. SportsArena365 is written in English only for now; the site is built so other languages can be added later, but we would rather publish nothing than publish a machine translation nobody checked.

Why there are no live scores yet

We built and tested a full live-score engine. What we could not find is a free feed we are clearly licensed to publish commercially. Several popular options either forbid commercial use outright, publish no terms at all, or are undocumented internal endpoints. Rather than publish data we have no right to, we've kept scores switched off and put the effort into writing, quizzes and fan debate instead.