Soccer is the largest section on Vertize Sports. Read one competition's pages and you can read them all: a fixtures page that goes round by round, a table that marks what each place is worth, and a simulator that starts from the real table and lets you finish the season yourself.
Twenty competitions and what each one offers
The Premier League lives at the short addresses /soccer/fixtures, /soccer/table and /soccer/simulator. Every other competition sits one level deeper, such as /soccer/table/championship.
- England: the Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and National League, each with fixtures, a table and a simulator; the FA Cup, with fixtures only; and the Carabao Cup, with fixtures and a bracket simulator.
- Spain, Italy, Germany and France: the top two divisions of each, La Liga and LaLiga 2, Serie A and Serie B, the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, all with fixtures, a table and a simulator.
- Sweden, Norway and Denmark: the Allsvenskan, Eliteserien and Superliga, again with all three pages. The first two are played inside a single calendar year, so their seasons are named for one year rather than two.
- Australia: the A-League, with all three pages in Sydney time. United States: MLS, with a schedule and conference standings but no simulator.
Reading a fixtures page
Fixtures go matchday by matchday, with a strip of numbered links for jumping to any round; MLS, which has no matchdays, is laid out by month and night. The matchday about to be played carries a Next up tag, a finished match swaps its kick-off time for the score and a Full time tag, and the ground is listed under each fixture. European times are in UTC, the A-League is in Sydney time and MLS is in US Eastern. League pages other than the Premier League's open with a season box: matches played, matches left, the date of the next match and the share of the season done. Data comes from live sports feeds, usually refreshed every 30 to 60 minutes while a competition is in play and every six hours between seasons.
Reading a table: zones and tie-breaks
Every table lists played, won, drawn, lost, goals for and against, goal difference, points and a Form column with each club's last five results. A win is worth three points and a draw one. Rows are tinted by zone, with a cut line where each zone ends:
- In the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, the top four places are marked Champions League and the next two Europa League. Relegation is three clubs in the first three of those and two in the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, where the 16th-placed club plays a play-off and is not marked as relegated.
- Lower divisions use Promotion, Play-offs and Relegation. In the Championship the top two go up, places three to eight enter the play-offs, a six-team format that starts in 2026-27, and the bottom three go down.
- Other formats have their own labels: the Superliga's championship and relegation rounds, the A-League's semi-finals and elimination finals, and the playoff and wild card places in each MLS conference.
European places can shift when a cup winner qualifies another way, so the markers show the usual lines. Level on points, each league applies its own tie-break list: goal difference comes first in the Premier League, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, the head-to-head record in La Liga and Serie A, and wins before goal difference in MLS. A projection cannot replay every tie-break, so treat an exact tie as provisional.
How the league simulators work
A simulator opens on the real table. Matches already played are locked, shown as FT with their real score. Every open match has two goal boxes, the table beside them re-sorts as you type, and a bar counts how many open matches are filled in.
Two pairs of buttons fill the boxes for you. Simulate season and Simulate matchday draw scores from a rating model: each club has a rating, the gap between two ratings sets how many goals each side is expected to score, and the actual score is drawn from a Poisson distribution. Two evenly matched clubs are expected to score 1.50 goals at home and 1.25 away, so home advantage is built in. Random season and Random matchday ignore the teams on purpose, so a big club can finish second from bottom; that is why they say random, not simulate. Clear returns to the real table.
The ratings are set before the season. In those five leagues a club's rating blends its finishing position last season with the market value of its squad, with squad value weighted slightly more; elsewhere it comes from last season's tables, using goal difference per match and a step between divisions. They do not change as results arrive, and the model knows nothing about injuries, later transfers, fixture congestion, European and cup commitments, or promotion and relegation play-offs. A run is one possible season, not a forecast: simulate twice and you get two tables, and the useful information is which places barely move between runs. How each model decides games is on the methodology page.
The Carabao Cup bracket
A cup tie is decided by who goes through, not by a score, so the Carabao Cup simulator has no goal boxes: you click the club that advances. Ties already played are locked with the real result. Rounds not yet drawn are drawn on the page at random, with no seeding, and New draw reshuffles them; Premier League clubs that have not appeared in a published round are added when the next round is drawn. Simulate to the final decides every open tie from ratings built on last season's English tables, with a small home edge, and a banner names the winner. The FA Cup page lists its ties round by round as they are drawn.
More soccer reading on the site
- How many points it takes to get promoted: four second divisions, six seasons counted.
- Which league scores the most: goals per game in sixteen leagues.
- How much home advantage is worth: a full season of games counted in six leagues.
Free, with no account and nothing to install. Nothing you enter is stored: close the tab or refresh the page and the season goes back to what really happened.