LeagueOne covers the third tier of English football, and only the third tier. The live table, every fixture and result, all twenty-four clubs, their grounds, squads and head coaches, plus the head-to-head record for every pairing that has met in the division since 1993/94.
Why one division
Almost every football site treats this division as a footnote, a results column below the Premier League and Championship coverage that pays the bills. That leaves a real gap. Supporters of these clubs want the same depth top-flight fans take for granted: the promotion permutations worked out properly, the loan market explained, the attendance figures, the play-off history. Covering one division is the only way to do that well.
It also means we can be honest about what we have. We are not going to pad a match report with Premier League comparisons, and we are not going to quote expected-goals figures for fixtures where nobody reliably measures them.
Where the data comes from
Historical results, half-time scores and match statistics back to 1993/94 come from Football-Data.co.uk's free CSV archive. The current season, fixtures, results, the official table, lineups, match events, squads and head coaches, comes from API-Football. Player, manager and referee photographs and reference biographies come from Wikipedia, re-hosted by us and rewritten in our own words. Ground coordinates come from OpenStreetMap.
Everything is synced to our own database and served from there. No user-facing page makes a live third-party API call, which is why the site stays up when a data provider does not.
One deliberate gap: we do not publish expected-goals numbers for this division. No free source covers it reliably, and we would rather show shots, corners and cards that we can stand behind than a metric we cannot.
Editorial standards
Articles carry a named byline and are written from sourced reporting. We never copy sentences from another publication. Transfer stories are attributed to whoever reported them and described as rumour until a club confirms them, we will not present a report as a completed deal. We correct factual errors promptly; if you spot one, please tell us.
Independence
LeagueOne.co.uk is an independent publication. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the English Football League, any competition sponsor, or any club covered on this site. Club and competition names are used descriptively, for identification only.