Favourites and alerts on ScoreMondo, how to follow your teams
To follow something on ScoreMondo you tap the star next to a match, a team or a league. There is nothing to register: favourites and settings are saved on your device. If you also tap Turn on notifications and allow them in the browser, goals, red cards and final scores of everything you follow arrive as alerts, and you decide whether they come instantly, only once confirmed, or a little late so they never overtake your TV picture.
Favourites without an account
Suppose you follow Liverpool and the Premier League. Star the club on its team page and the league on its league page; from then on their matches sit at the top of the today's football scores list. You can star four kinds of things:
- a single match (Follow this match),
- a team, which covers all its matches,
- a league or cup,
- a player, with Follow player on the player page.
On your first visit a Pick your team step suggests popular clubs and lets you search. Later, the favourites list has three tabs, Matches, Teams and Leagues, and you can drag entries into the order you like. A league you never read can be hidden with Hide league on the home page; the Hidden leagues list in the settings brings it back. Under Start page you choose whether ScoreMondo opens on Matches or on My favourites.
Moving favourites to another device
A new phone does not mean starting again. On the old device open Settings, then Favourites, then Move to a new device. It shows a QR code and an eight-character Transfer code in the form XXXX-XXXX.
- Point the new device's camera at the QR code, or
- choose Import with a code on the new device and type the code.
The code is valid for 10 minutes and works once. It carries your followed matches, teams and leagues, their order, the hidden leagues and your notification choices (event types, per-follow settings, quiet hours, sound and alert timing). No personal data travels. One step stays manual: the new device has to turn notifications on itself, because the permission belongs to each device.
Turning notifications on
Tap Turn on notifications and choose Allow when the browser asks. It is free and can be switched off at any time. It works in browsers that support web push. On iPhone and iPad, web notifications work only after ScoreMondo has been added to the Home Screen, and the device needs iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or later; Apple's browser team describes that requirement in its WebKit announcement.
Every follow can have its own event types and its own timing. The Default notification profile is what each new follow starts with, so set it once to your taste. Send a test notification shows at once whether everything works.
One limit is worth knowing: instant notifications are available for up to 30 leagues per device. Any league beyond that is marked Daily digest only.
Instant, Verified or Delayed
Alert timing is the setting that decides how fast an alert may be.
| Mode | What happens | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Instant | Goals and cards arrive the moment the data source sees them. If VAR cancels a goal, the same notification is corrected to "Goal disallowed". | Anyone away from a screen who wants to know first. |
| Verified | Goals, red cards and penalties arrive once a second source confirms them or they have stood for 15 seconds. A cancelled goal never reaches you. Other events still arrive at once. | Anyone who dislikes celebrating a goal that is then taken back. |
| Delayed | Every notification of the match arrives later by the delay you pick: 30, 45, 60, 75 or 90 seconds (60 by default). | Anyone watching on TV or a stream that runs behind live data. |
Why a goal can be taken back at all is covered in how VAR reviews work, and where the data comes from in how live scores work.
Which events can alert you
For football, a new follow alerts you by default about kick-off, goal, red card, penalty, half-time and full time. Four more are opt-in under Notify me about: Corner, Yellow card, missed or saved penalty, and Line-ups announced.
Other sports have their own moments, depending on the sport. A basketball follow can report the start, half-time, a close finish, overtime and the final score; ice hockey reports the start, goals, overtime and the final; tennis and volleyball report the start, each set won and the final. You set these the same way from today's basketball live scores or any other sport page.
Quiet hours, sound, summary and personal alarms
- Quiet hours: pick a start and an end time; in that window no notifications and no goal sounds reach you.
- Notification sound: on or off.
- Daily digest: a morning message with today's matches and, if you like, an evening one with today's results for your teams and leagues, at the time you choose, in your device's time zone.
- Personal alarms: up to 30, saved on the device and delivered as notifications, so notifications must be on.
Alarms answer narrower questions than a normal follow: my team scores; the score changes after a minute you set; a red card is shown; the result would change the league position (football only, in leagues with a table); a followed player comes on or scores (football only, in matches with published line-ups, and a few minutes late); a reminder some minutes before kick-off; the half-time score; the full-time result. Minute-based alarms exist for sports with a match clock: football, futsal and ice hockey.
Spoiler protection
If you plan to watch a recording, switch on Spoiler protection. Scores and results then stay hidden until you tap Show score, and that applies to lists, match pages, events, titles and notifications. It can be on in general or for one match only.
My favourites, multi-view and TV mode
My favourites gathers your teams, leagues and players from every sport in one feed: live first, then what is coming up, then the latest results.
Multi-view shows up to six live matches side by side with score, minute, last event and pressure. Add a match with the panel button on the match (Add to multi-view) or from your live favourites.
TV mode is a large, high-contrast live board for a bar, an office or a second screen. It runs full screen, rotates its pages by itself and keeps the screen on. Its source can be your multi-view matches, your favourites or the live matches of one sport.
Your team's matches in your calendar
On a team page, Add to calendar downloads the team's upcoming matches as an .ics file, the standard calendar format defined in RFC 5545. Subscribe in your calendar app adds a subscription instead, which keeps itself up to date: the feed asks calendar apps to refresh about every six hours, though the real interval depends on the app. The calendar is per team, not per league or per match.
Installing ScoreMondo
ScoreMondo is an installable web app: choose Install the app or add it to the home screen from the browser, with no store involved. On iPhone and iPad, open the site in Safari, tap Share and then Add to Home Screen.
The Android app is on Google Play. It adds a home-screen widget, sound and vibration per notification type through the phone's notification settings, and, where the device supports it, Live score on the lock screen, which starts by itself when a favourite team kicks off. The ScoreMondo apps page lists what is available; a store badge (Get the app) appears in the footer only for stores where the app is actually published.
Frequently asked questions
The alert arrives before I see the goal on TV. What can I do?
Choose Delayed and pick a delay close to how far your picture runs behind, from 30 to 90 seconds. All notifications of that match then wait that long. Because timing can be set per follow, you can delay just the match you are watching.
Notifications arrive late on my Android phone. Why?
Battery saving can put the app to sleep; Android's Doze and App Standby restrict background network use on idle devices. Set battery use for ScoreMondo to "Unrestricted" or "Don't optimize". The app has a button that opens the battery settings.
Can I add a whole league to my calendar?
No. The calendar download and subscription exist per team. To keep an eye on a whole competition, star it from the list of leagues and read what each match status means for postponed or suspended fixtures.