Football Pool for WordPress

This plugin adds a fantasy sports pool to your blog. Visitors of your website can predict outcomes of matches and earn extra points with bonus questions. Every player can view scores and charts of the other pool contenders.

The plugin installs some custom tables in the database and includes match information for the UEFA 2024 Championship, but it can be easily updated with match info for other championships or sports. Note: deactivating the plugin may delete all plugin data from your database. To avoid this, make sure the “keep data on uninstall” option is enabled in the settings (it’s on by default since version 2.3.1).

I originally coded this pool in PHP as a standalone website for the UEFA 2000 championship and rewrote it several times for every European Championship and World Cup since. I kept adding features every year. In 2012, I turned it into a WordPress plugin and uploaded it to the plugin directory. I hope you enjoy it.

A special thank you to everyone who donated, helped translate, reported bugs, or contributed in any other way to improving the plugin!

Features

Users can predict match outcomes.

Automatic calculation of the pool ranking, or define a custom ranking for a group of matches.

You can add bonus questions for extra fun (single answer and multiple choice).

Add your own teams and match data for other competitions.

Import or export game schedules.

Automatically calculate championship standings.

Flexible scoring options.

Built-in pages and shortcodes to display the pool on your blog.