Football Law explains the Laws of the Game and rule changes in plain English, and publishes results, fixtures and match previews. This page describes how those articles are produced, so you can judge how far to trust them.
Who runs the site
A small editorial team runs Football Law. The team chooses the topics we cover, sets the standards described on this page and maintains the site.
How articles are researched and written
Every article starts from published sources: official announcements, documentation, data and records.
Nobody on the team tests, plays, buys or uses the products or games we cover. When an article mentions one, the information comes from published sources, not from our own experience.
Where the facts come from
Law explainers are checked against the current IFAB Laws of the Game and the regulations of the competition in question. When a competition applies its own rules, we check those as well.
Results and fixtures come from official competition and club sources.
How we check before publishing
Before an article goes live, its facts are checked against the sources it lists. If a claim cannot be confirmed, we do one of three things:
- correct it
- label it clearly as unconfirmed
- remove it
Each article lists its sources at the end. It also shows the date it was published and the date it was last updated, so you can see how current it is.
Corrections
Mistakes happen. If you spot an error and tell us, we check it. If we confirm the error, we correct the article and change its last updated date.
Independence
We do not publish sponsored articles. No outside party pays for an article or decides what it says.