Data Sources & Editorial References

Last reviewed: 18 April 2026

This page lists the data providers, editorial sources and statistical references behind what we publish on Women Live Score. We link directly where we can so readers can audit our work.

Primary data provider

Sportmonks is our licensed football data partner. Every live score, fixture, line-up, goal, card, substitution, standings row and season-level statistic on the site originates from Sportmonks’ feed. Sportmonks aggregates data under direct agreements with league data partners and is based in the Netherlands.

We have a data processing agreement with Sportmonks. No personal reader data is shared with them; the relationship is one-way (data flows from Sportmonks to us).

Editorial sources

Editorial articles — previews, recaps, features, news items — are written against primary sources. In order of preference:

1. Official club, league and federation channels. Press releases, verified social accounts (X, Instagram, club websites), match-day programmes and post-match statements.
2. Verified journalist reporting. Named reporters at established outlets (BBC Sport, The Guardian, The Athletic, The Equalizer, ESPN, Kicker, Goal.com). When we cite reporting, we name the outlet.
3. Player and coach comments. Quoted from named interviews, press conferences or verified social-media posts. We do not invent quotes.
4. Industry data bodies. UEFA, FIFA, FIFPRO, Deloitte Football Money League and similar for sector-level analysis.

We do not use anonymous sources for routine news items. If we ever use an anonymous source for an investigative piece, we say so in the article and describe the reason.

Statistical methodology references

Our probability engine is described in more detail on the methodology page. The core techniques are drawn from standard published work, not proprietary to us:

• Elo rating system as applied to football, based on the adaptations published by Mark Glickman and the FIFA ranking methodology.
• Monte Carlo season simulation at 10 000 iterations, a standard approach in sports analytics literature.
• Expected goals (xG) derived from Sportmonks’ shot-level data; we use their shot-quality model rather than building our own.

We publish the inputs and the output but not the numerical weights of the model. This is a commercial choice, not a research one: anyone with the same inputs and the same public methods would arrive at comparable outputs.

Imagery and media

Article imagery is sourced from licensed pools (including but not limited to Pool/Press agency feeds via Sportmonks) or from AI-generated illustrations under our AI content policy. AI-generated images carry an on-image caption. We do not claim AI-generated imagery is photography.

Club crests, league marks and similar are reproduced under fair-use/informational-use conventions, sourced from the official club or league where possible and from the public Wikimedia Commons archive as a fallback.

Third-party services we rely on

• Hosting: GoDaddy Managed WordPress, with Cloudflare as CDN and DDoS mitigation.
• Analytics: Google Analytics 4 (anonymised, consent-gated per the privacy policy).
• AI models: Anthropic and Google (per our AI content policy).
• Knowledge graph: Women Live Score is entity Q139040204 on Wikidata.

Questions and corrections

If you want to know the source behind a specific claim in an article, or you believe a claim is inaccurate, write to womenlivescore@gmail.com. Confirmed errors are logged on the corrections page and fixed in the article.

This page is reviewed at least quarterly.