Top 15 Best Football Stats Websites in 2026

Football stats sites broadly fall into four camps: live-score apps, advanced-metric archives, betting-focused tables, and transfer or financial databases. A handful are useful for serious research. Most are competing for the same fan-app market with shallow data and a heavy ad load. This guide covers the fifteen that actually matter, ranked by what each one is good at.

The shortlist: FootyMetrics, FBref, Sofascore, FotMob, FootyStats, WhoScored, Understat, Transfermarkt, Flashscore, 365Scores, Forebet, The Analyst, Soccerway, Football-Data.co.uk, and SoccerSTATS. Each is reviewed below with the specific job it fits, where it falls short, and how it pairs with the others.

1. FootyMetrics

FootyMetrics is a football stats and betting research platform covering 115+ leagues. Player, team, and referee data sit on the same screen as live bookmaker odds. Filters cover last-N matches, home or away, opponent difficulty, and the position the player started in, and they auto-save in the browser between visits. The point of the design is to remove the click-wait research workflow that defines almost every other site on this list.

The killer feature is Trends. The FootyMetrics algorithm scans tens of thousands of players and teams every day and surfaces the ones who have been consistent enough in a stat that the next match is realistically predictable. Each Trend card shows the hit rate, P90, match-by-match history, and live odds for the next fixture. Filters cover minimum odds, hit rate, position, and league. Nothing else on this list publishes a comparable consistency-detection system.

Three further tools are rare to find anywhere else. The Player Props Finder lets you filter every upcoming fixture by custom statistical conditions. The Player Props Edges tool surfaces price gaps between bookmakers on player props in real time, which is rarer still. The Fixture Scout filters upcoming matches by team-form conditions and is in the same uncommon category.

The standard pieces are also there: predicted lineups, head-to-head stats, the FootyMetrics prediction model. Referee profiles include cards per game, fouls per game, and home and away tendencies. Most stats sites don't cover refs at all. Hit-rate tables for team corners, cards, BTTS and goals show the opposing team's hit rate in the same row, which most other sites either gate behind a paywall or omit entirely.

What it doesn't do: no xG or xA, no live in-play data. Bookmaker coverage is still expanding. There's no native mobile app yet, just a fast PWA. Historical archive depth is shallower than FBref's 10+ year coverage.

Free for almost everything, no signup needed for the core data.

Best for: betting research where hit rates, live odds, and player props all need to be visible together.

2. FBref

FBref is the deepest free advanced-stats archive on the public web. xG, xA, progressive passes, pressures, shot-creating actions, plus historical seasons going back more than a decade. For statistical modelling and tactical research, it's irreplaceable.

The interface looks like it hasn't been touched in fifteen years. Pages dump raw numbers into walls of tables with no visual hierarchy and no betting framing. Reading FBref is a skill you have to learn. The data is all there but you need to know exactly which column you're looking for. There's also a recent reported issue where FBref lost access to Opta data, which has affected coverage on certain leagues and seasons.

The site is fast, at least. Pages load in under a second. Mobile responsiveness exists in name only. Tables overflow sideways and you scroll horizontally through almost every metric.

For day-of betting research, FBref is too slow. For deep tactical analysis, statistical modelling, or historical comparisons across multiple seasons, no other free resource comes close.

Best for: advanced metrics and historical depth.

3. Sofascore

Sofascore is the best general-purpose football scores and stats app, full stop. Coverage spans almost every league worldwide. Live data updates fast. The heatmaps, shot maps, and Attack Momentum charts are genuinely useful, not just visual sugar. Predicted lineups are reliable. Injury and suspension data is one of the most accurate free sources available.

For betting research the gap shows immediately. Checking a player's shots over their last five matches means opening each match individually, clicking the lineup tab, clicking the player, and scrolling to the stats section. That's roughly five clicks per match with a page reload between each, every single visit, because filters don't persist. By the time you've checked one player across five fixtures you've made about twenty-five clicks. The same query on a stats site with persistent filters takes one.

The web version carries a heavy ad load and slows down during peak fixture windows. The mobile app is well-built but inherits the same per-fixture data model. Every match opens fresh, no aggregation across fixtures.

Best for: live scores, fan-side score tracking, and accurate injury data.

4. FotMob

FotMob has the cleanest mobile interface among live-scores apps and significantly fewer ads than Sofascore. Heatmaps, shot maps, and xG breakdowns appear in match views. Push notifications are handled well. Injury and suspension data is reliable.

The trade-off is league coverage. Top European leagues, the Champions League, and a wide range of non-European competitions are covered well. Some leagues Sofascore carries, for example the Egyptian Second Division, aren't on FotMob. For users who follow very obscure lower tiers or regional leagues, Sofascore is the safer pick. For top-five Europe and the major South American leagues, FotMob is probably the best free phone app on this list.

The other gap is interpretation. FotMob's stat pages stop at season averages and P90 values without distribution context. A striker averaging 3.2 shots per match could mean consistent 3-shot games, or a high-variance distribution like 0, 1, 8, 1, 6 across five fixtures. For betting, distribution shape matters more than the mean. FotMob doesn't surface that distinction.

Best for: mobile-first live scores on top European and major global leagues.

5. FootyStats

FootyStats publishes team-level betting hit rate tables and pre-fixture predictions for over/under, BTTS, and corners markets across 2,000+ leagues. Better visualisations than FBref but still mostly tables, with a slightly more modern feel than FBref's table dump.

The betting-list angle is what makes FootyStats useful: top teams by over 9.5 corner hit rate, top BTTS percentages, that kind of ranking. Odds are shown alongside, which would be useful, except the bookmaker behind those odds isn't named, and there's no comparison across books. The bigger gap: if a team has a 71% over 9.5 corners hit rate, you'd want to see the opposing team's hit rate in the same row. FootyStats doesn't surface that. FootyMetrics does, on its corner stats page, free without an account.

Player stats are limited to season averages, totals, and P90 values. No per-match breakdown, no last-N games view. Premium gates corners and cards tables that are free on FootyMetrics without an account. Salary data is rare among stats sites, only a few publish it. For betting it's mostly a curiosity.

Best for: pre-built over/under and BTTS team rankings, when deeper player-level data isn't needed.

6. WhoScored

WhoScored has predicted lineups and surfaces some odds, but only one number per fixture. No cross-bookmaker comparison.

The genuinely unique angle is on team stats: shot-position visualisations split by left side, right side, middle, six-yard box, and outside the box. No other site on this list does this at the same granularity. If the question is whether a team's goals come from cutbacks, set pieces, long-range shots, or near-post crosses, WhoScored is the cleanest free source.

Player stats fall back to plain tables. The proprietary player rating system is widely cited in football media, though the rating formula isn't published. You can't see exactly how a number is reached, which limits its use for modelling. The site has popups and inline ads similar to Sofascore. Mobile is fine but hasn't been refreshed in years. Coverage skews to major leagues.

Best for: shot-zone tactical analysis.

7. Understat

Understat looks deceptively simple at first glance. A header with five leagues and a search bar, that's it. The depth is in the visualisation layer: goal situations, situations by shots, goals, xG, xG per shot, shots by formation, shot zones. It's the cleanest free way to identify teams over- or under-performing their underlying numbers.

A team consistently outscoring its xG difference is a candidate for regression to the mean, and Understat presents that comparison better than any free site available. For xG-driven betting strategies, it belongs in the stack.

It is not a direct betting tool. No odds, no hit rate framing, no prop angle. Coverage is narrow by design: Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, and the Russian Premier League. Mobile experience is minimal.

Best for: xG-based regression analysis on top European leagues.

8. Transfermarkt

Transfermarkt isn't a stats site in the traditional sense. It's the public database for player market values, transfer histories, contract information, and injury archives. Match statistics are basic by design. Goals, assists, cards, that's it.

For bettors, Transfermarkt's value is concentrated in three places. The injury archive is granular at the player level and dated, which makes it useful for assessing reliability before a player props bet. Squad-depth views indicate rotation risk in fixture congestion or cup competitions. Market value tracking flags clubs likely to underperform when they sell key players.

The site is slow and ad-heavy, and the interface is dated. There are no advanced metrics, no betting odds, no hit rate framing. Use it as a supporting tool alongside a real stats site, not as a replacement for one.

Best for: injury history, squad rotation analysis, and transfer-market context.

9. Flashscore

Flashscore is a live-scores utility with global league coverage and basic odds comparison for 1X2, over/under, and BTTS markets. The platform has clear bookmaker affiliations. Welcome-bonus advertising is visible across the site.

Statistically, Flashscore covers similar ground to Sofascore and FotMob with shallower depth. Predicted lineups appear pre-fixture. Once a match concludes, the standard xG, shots, and possession breakdown is published per fixture, but there's no way to filter a player's last 10 matches or build any aggregated research view. Each fixture page lives independently.

The "Buzz" text commentary is a reasonable supplement when streaming isn't available. As a research surface, Flashscore can't compete with the betting-focused or analytical sites on this list.

Best for: live score tracking and basic 1X2 / over-under odds comparison.

10. 365Scores

365Scores is a live-scores app with broad worldwide league coverage. Live match data is decent, but the interface sits a step behind FotMob and Sofascore in nearly every dimension. The UI feels less smooth, and several ads can't be dismissed.

For live matches in progress the data is fine. Goals, lineups, basic possession and shot counts all show up. Where 365Scores falls short is everything around the live match itself. There are no pre-match stats, no aggregated player history, no odds comparison, and no hit rate framing. As soon as a fixture ends the data goes back into the same fixture-page-only model that limits Flashscore.

What 365Scores has going for it is reach. League coverage is wide, including markets where Sofascore and FotMob are less dominant. As a fallback when one of the better-built apps misses a specific competition, 365Scores fills the gap.

Best for: worldwide live-score coverage when better-built alternatives don't carry a specific league.

11. Forebet

Forebet is a math-based football prediction site covering most major leagues. The platform publishes algorithmic forecasts for 1X2, over/under, BTTS, and correct score markets, with a numerical confidence score per pick.

The interface is dated, though noticeably better than FBref. Ads are present throughout the site. Page hierarchy is built around the prediction output rather than around research depth, so a quick "what does the model think about Liverpool vs Chelsea" lookup is the natural use case.

The limits show fast for serious research. Stats coverage stops at season averages. There are no advanced metrics, no per-player data, and no live odds comparison. The model itself is closed: there's no way to see what features it weighs or filter the output beyond the basic categories shown. Forebet is closer to a tipster aggregator with maths behind it than a stats site in the traditional sense.

For comparison, FootyMetrics also publishes predictions for every fixture across 1X2, total goals, BTTS, corners, and double chance, paired with the underlying player and team stats so you can see why each prediction lands where it does. FootyMetrics is also ad-free, which Forebet is not.

Best for: quick algorithmic match predictions on major leagues.

12. The Analyst

The Analyst is Stats Perform's consumer-facing brand, powered by Opta data. The site publishes power rankings, predictions, and advanced player and team stats with a polished interface and its own visual style.

What sets The Analyst apart from the editorial-only sites in this space is that it surfaces match-by-match player stats alongside the editorial content. Power rankings and predictions are weekly editorial output, not algorithmic feeds, so the cadence is slower than a research tool but the analytical angles are interesting.

Two friction points stand out. Ads are present and some don't dismiss cleanly. The site doesn't show betting odds at all, so for any betting research you'd be using The Analyst as a context layer alongside a different stats site rather than as a primary surface.

Coverage is limited to top leagues. If you follow the Premier League, Champions League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, or major international tournaments, The Analyst is genuinely useful for understanding the underlying numbers. For lower tiers or non-European leagues, look elsewhere.

Best for: editorial analysis, power rankings, and match-by-match advanced stats on top leagues.

13. Soccerway

Soccerway is essentially a different-branded version of Flashscore. The data, layout, and feature set are largely interchangeable. Same broad league coverage, similar fixture and lineup pages, similar shallow per-fixture stats.

If you have a preference, it usually comes down to which one loads faster on the connection you're using. There's no meaningful editorial or analytical reason to pick one over the other day-to-day.

Best for: Flashscore alternative when you want a second source for fixture data.

14. Football-Data.co.uk

Football-Data.co.uk looks like a website from the year 2000, because it basically is. The design is text-only and almost entirely unchanged from its early-2000s origins. Bookmaker ads exist on the site, but they're old-style banner ads rather than the modern overlay kind that follow you around the page.

What it has is the most-referenced free archive of historical match data in CSV format. Each league file contains match-level data going back twenty years on the major leagues: date, teams, results, half-time scores, shots, corners, fouls, cards, and historical bookmaker odds. For anyone building a model from scratch, the data here is the standard training set.

There's no API, no UI for the data, and no live updates. Files are refreshed weekly during the season. Click, download, parse, build.

Best for: historical match data downloads for statistical modelling.

15. SoccerSTATS

SoccerSTATS is a long-running free stats aggregator. Big ads, unclear navigation, lots of text and tables stacked endlessly, mobile is unusable. It stays on this list because it publishes detailed historical timing-of-goals breakdowns and league-table splits that some other free sites don't surface as cleanly.

For in-play markets like "next team to score" or "goal in next 15 minutes", the timing data is genuinely useful as a reference point. Most other sites publish goal totals but less detail on when in the match those goals tend to come.

For literally anything else, skip it.

Best for: historical goal-timing data for in-play goal markets.

How to choose

The strongest research stack depends on what you're doing. Most professional bettors and analysts combine three or four of the platforms above:

• Prop betting: FootyMetrics for hit rates with live odds, FBref or Understat for underlying numbers, Transfermarkt for injury context.
• Statistical modelling: FBref for raw historical depth, Understat for xG, Football-Data.co.uk for downloadable CSVs to feed into models, Flashscore or FotMob for in-fixture data.
• General football following: Sofascore or FotMob covers most needs on mobile, with 365Scores as a fallback for leagues the bigger apps miss.
• Algorithmic predictions: Forebet for quick model output, The Analyst for editorial context behind the numbers.
• Transfer-window research: Transfermarkt is the only sensible primary source. Soccerway as a backup for historical fixture and squad data.

The bottom line

The fifteen sites above each cover a specific corner of the football stats world. For everyday research that combines stats and betting in one place, FootyMetrics is the answer. Per-match stats for any player, team, and referee in any time window. Hit rates with live odds attached. Predictions for every fixture across 1X2, total goals, BTTS, corners and double chance. The Trends feature surfaces consistent picks automatically, and hit-rate tables show opponent context that most other sites paywall or omit. Free across the platform, no ads, no signup needed for the core data.

The other fourteen sites on this list each fill a specific gap. FBref for historical depth and advanced metrics. Sofascore and FotMob for live scores. Transfermarkt for transfers and injuries. Football-Data.co.uk for downloadable CSVs. Use them when the question fits their angle. For everything else, FootyMetrics has it in one place.