No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is football.com legit or a scam?
Established live scores platform with a 31-year-old domain and registered UK company behind it.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a live scores and statistics service for football and basketball matches. Its domain was registered in 1994, giving it over three decades of history. A UK limited company with London headquarters has operated under the name since at least 2000. No scam reports or complaints appear in our research, and independent review sites rate it as safe. The page loads cleanly with no malicious redirects or suspicious forms detected.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for football.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain football.com registered December 21, 1994 (31+ years old) via GoDaddy, privacy-protected registrant
- FOOTBALL.COM LIMITED active UK company since at least 2000 with London headquarters and 51-200 employees per LinkedIn
- Scamadviser rates site 'Very Likely Safe' citing high Tranco traffic rank and valid SSL
- Signed José Mourinho as global ambassador in October 2023 for gaming platform
- Operates live scores app on Google Play under Football.com Group / FOOTBALL INTERNET LIMITED
- Site focuses on real-time football/basketball scores, fixtures, stats with no detected scam family matches
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we think football.com is legit and safe for consumers to access ."
FOOTBALL.COM LIMITED (company 03940634), registered office Suite Q, Athene House, 86 The Broadway, London, NW7 3TD; privately held, London HQ
Our research located no scam reports or consumer complaints. A positive assessment from independent review sites describes the site as safe. Business records confirm FOOTBALL.COM LIMITED is an active UK company with London headquarters since at least 2000.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://football.com/
- 2301https://football.com/
- 3302https://www.football.com/cross-domain
- 4200https://www.football.com/livescorecross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on football.com and not a lookalike like f-ootball.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on football.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- football.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. football.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M03, expiring in 92 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- football.com is 31.4 years old, registered on 12/21/1994 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. football.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- football.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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