Football data product / Live product

MatchTide turns changing football data into clear matchday context

An owned football data platform covering fixtures, results, competitions, teams and standings across English and Ukrainian experiences.

MatchTide homepage with football fixtures and matchday overview
Role
Product direction, interface design and systems engineering
Platforms
Responsive web platform and public data interfaces
Systems
Fixtures and results · Competitions and teams · Standings · Scheduled data processing · Queues and API orchestration · Localised experiences

01 / The problem

Football data is time-sensitive, connected and constantly changing. The interface must make today understandable while the system keeps many dependent records current.

02 / The approach

The product separates matchday, competition and team journeys while background jobs, schedules and guarded provider workflows keep public states coherent.

03 / Product system

Fixtures and resultsCompetitions and teamsStandingsScheduled data processingQueues and API orchestrationLocalised experiences

05 / Difficult decisions

What the product taught me.

  1. 01Freshness must be understandable to users, not only logged internally.
  2. 02Provider limits and partial updates need explicit safeguards.
  3. 03Dense sports information works best when hierarchy survives every viewport.

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