WordPress Soccer Plugins to Enhance Your Team’s Site

Last Updated July 24, 2023

The beautiful game! We thought we would take a slight detour from our more serious plugin breakdowns and try something more fun today. A lot of soccer-related websites run on WordPress. These can be fan blogs, commentary websites, or even official sites for professional teams. All of them have very specific content needs that only a football site needs. Thankfully, the generous WordPress developer community has stepped up to help. We’ve compiled a short list of some of the best WordPress soccer plugins. Hopefully, one or two of these can help you take your soccer site to the next level with exciting new features and content.

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Popular WordPress Soccer Plugins

The WordPress soccer plugins on our list are available for free. They can be manually downloaded from the plugin repository at WordPress.org. Or, if you want an easier way, they can also be installed and activated from the Plugins screen of the WordPress admin.

We have done our best to summarize each of these plugins’ features and capabilities. They all offer unique ways to include exciting soccer content on your site. Oh, and for plugins with a premium or paid upgrade, we’ve discussed those features as well.

Let’s start learning about some neat WordPress soccer plugins.

AnWP Football Leagues

AnWP Football Leagues is one of the most useful WordPress soccer plugins we will feature here. It is designed specifically for any football site. It provides powerful features and an intuitive UI for you to use. The plugin supports knockout, round-robin, mixed, and multistaged competition features. You may separate the club squad for every season with player details.

In addition, this plugin lets you manage details like match lineups, substitutes, stats, events, video, staff, and referees. It automatically calculates standings and player statistics. Imports are shown in an Excel-like spreadsheet. You can adjust custom colors for the standing table. It has extra features as well like a countdown, points, stadiums with photos and information, and 16 different shortcodes to use.

AnWP Football Leagues has its own widgets to insert clubs, matches, cards, next match, players, and more into your site’s layout. There is a template system for more customization. The is compatible with most themes and fully translatable.

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Premium Version

Football Leagues Premium is the paid version of the plugin and gives you more features to play around with and take advantage of.

It includes unique capabilities like live scores and live commentary during matches. A match timeline is an additional option as well. There is a layout builder with tabs, a match scoreboard with an image background, and tournament brackets.

In Standings, you can manually edit data if needed, adjust column order and visibility, have conferences, and include more ranking rules. Matchweeks can be shown as slides and it includes a results matrix. A user’s timezone is calculated automatically for times, advanced statistics are included, and a game report can be sent to you by email.

Soccer Widgets

Soccer Widgets allows you to show football scores and table rankings within your WordPress soccer site. These are done with the shortcodes included so they are easy to implement. This plugin is able to track data across 250+ football competitions that happen worldwide. In addition, the plugin can be translated into several languages.

All you need to do is install and activate the plugin, look for the Soccer Widgets item in your admin area, and generate the shortcode. You can generate a shortcode for things like results and table rankings quickly. The shortcode can be pasted anywhere on your posts or pages. You can adjust the width of your tables through HTML. To change aesthetics, you can use the customization options to adjust style and colors.

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Soccer Live Scores

Soccer Live Scores is a simple plugin that shows the live scores of your chosen soccer match anywhere on your WordPress site. Scores can be displayed on posts, pages, or custom post types. This plugin can be especially useful for sports sites and blogs that are covering game results. Or on the official websites of soccer teams so that fans can find standings and results. An important note however is that the live data has to be added through the site administrator in the backend menus. The plugin does not support any use of soccer data coming from external APIs.

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Premium Version

Soccer Engine is the paid and more advanced version of the plugin. It comes with way more features under its belt. It is described as the ultimate soccer plugin as you can do things like create soccer competitions, generate standings, display statistics, and even show the individual profiles of the players.

A match may be created simply by adding the names and logos of the teams with options for real-time updates and additional score modes. Within the Events menu, you can add important details such as the match, team, minute, description, and any additional information. Event types display icons on the front end and represent things going on in the match such as a yellow card, red card, double yellow card, substitution, and goal. You can create your own events if you wish, such as a missed penalty, and give it a custom icon as well.

You may customize the aesthetics of the plugin as well. Change the colors and typography of every element. Viewers will be able to see scores update without refreshing the page. Finally, this plugin can handle an unlimited amount of matches.

WP Championship

WP Championship is probably the most unique of the WordPress soccer plugins on our list. It lets you create a guessing game on your site with not only soccer but any tournament. With this plugin, you can do things like define the number of groups playing, the points that the winner receives, and who loses. Teams may be defined, named, and even given their own icons.

Matches may be defined as final or pre-final and you can optionally send emails about how the game is going at the moment to keep your visitors updated. You may define admins who can change match results and show stats for admins and users. There are various bonus features, for example, a player can select matches and get double points.

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Soccer Action

Soccer Action is the last of the WordPress soccer plugins we will be discussing. This plugin serves as a drag-and-drop editor for adding soccer actions and tactics content to your site. You can talk about soccer and also express and represent deep talking points and discussion within your posts.

To create a soccer action, all you need to do is assign a name to your action along with a description of it. Then you may select the category of your assets and choose from the provided graphics in the elements section to insert into the field. Once you’ve repeated this several times, you can save. To add your creations to your posts, you just need to copy the shortcode associated with your chosen action and paste it into the right place within your content.

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Find the Best WordPress Soccer Plugins

That’s the end of our look at some of the neatest WordPress soccer plugins. They are all free to use and will help you grow and improve your football websites. If you want to purchase the pro versions, when applicable, we hope we’ve done enough to educate you on what you get.

Running a soccer site, either professionally or as a hobby, can be a lot of fun. There are so many unique and interesting ways to get information across to visitors. These plugins can be the icing on the cake and make your site as useful, and fun to read, as possible with very little development work on your part.

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Looking for More Ways to Improve WordPress?

Before you go, are you here looking for WordPress soccer plugins for a client project? If so, you might be interested in learning about our White Label WordPress plugin.

White Label was developed to help freelancers and developers simplify and rebrand WordPress for their clients. Create a new login page, replace colors and logos, edit and remove menu items, and much, much more.

Check out the entire list of features to see all of the ways White Label can help your clients. Customize the WordPress admin experience to make managing content less confusing for clients and lower support requests for your team.

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