Honest numbers, by fans

What you rate

At full time you rate five things out of 10: the team, the manager, the owner and board, transfers and the squad, and matchday and value. The rating window opens at full time and closes 72 hours later. In weeks without a league match (international breaks), you rate the week instead.

At each international break and at the end of the season there’s a fuller season report: the owner, board, manager, signings, players, matchday, ticket prices and the academy, graded A to F.

The Fan Mood Index

The index is the weighted average of a club’s five ratings for the week, times 10: 0 is fuming, 100 is dreamland. Each fan counts once a week; if you rate two matches in a week, your ratings are averaged first.

A club only appears once it has 50 weighted ratings in a week. Below that, a few people could speak for a whole fanbase, so we show progress instead of a number.

How we stop brigading

• One club per fan, set by your first rating and locked for the season.
• One rating per match. You can change it until the window closes; you can’t stack it.
• Weighted by trust. Signed-in fans count in full and guests count half. Accounts younger than 14 days count a quarter of that.
• Rate limits per network.
• Spike holds. If a club suddenly gets far more brand-new raters than usual, those ratings are held out of the index until a person reviews them.
• No free text. Ratings are numbers and one-tap verdicts, so there’s nothing abusive to publish.

A patient rival could open an account, wait two weeks and rate your club. It costs them their own club for the season, and weighting limits the effect. We can’t rule it out completely, so we say so here.

What we publish

Only club-level averages and counts. Nobody can see how an individual fan rated, and there are no public profiles.

What we don’t use

No club crests, league logos, kit designs or player photos. Cards use our own art built from two colours. Club names appear only to say which club fans are rating. Rate My Club isn’t affiliated with any club, league or governing body.

Fixtures

The season’s fixture list comes from openfootball, a public-domain (CC0) dataset. Results and moved kick-off times come from Wikipedia’s season article and club season articles, by Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; we check them every 30 minutes. Scores are facts; if a source is wrong or behind, we fix it by hand. If a kick-off time moves, the rating window moves with it.

Who runs it

Rate My Club is run by Flavr Web Dev Ltd, a small UK company (161 Cicero Crescent, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK11 4DR). Questions or corrections: contact us.