Fixture Calendar - All sports, all timings, all venues, in one place.
FixtureCalendar.com - A discovery that makes my life easier!
Full disclosure - this is NOT a paid piece but I did discover this whilst using social media, so it was organic but I think the guys at Fixture Calendar might have known what I was looking for.
One of my biggest frustrations is trying to navigate the sporting calendar, being a fan of so many sports, and working in the sports industry.
There is so much top class (and not so top class) sport on nowadays that a genuine sporting calendar that encompasses all games and events is hard to come by.
If you’re like me and hate to miss out on live sport, you might have found yourself checking scores on your phone during a poorly-timed trip to the in-laws, desperately running around a foreign city searching for an Irish Bar showing the rugby in the early hours, or finding yourself in the toilets with a group of fellow wedding guests watching the final overs of a tight summer Test match.
To non-sports fans, this might seem ridiculous. For the rest of us, these are very real scenarios that usually happen several times per year.
I recently stumbled upon (remember that?) fixturecalendar.com, a website that aims to make it easier for people to plan around sport, whether for organising trips or events well into the future or simply to find kick-off times for the game this weekend.
These guys are an early-stage startup that built the sports planning website during the pandemic. With sport returning sporadically after Covid and fixtures times and locations changing frequently, it sounds like the Fixture Calendar team are working non-stop to keep the site up to date. On the positive side, their flexibility means that they are often more accurate than Google and look much further into the future than BBC Sport and the like.
One of the things I love is being able to search by location or date, so I can see exactly what is on in any sport on any particular date range.
“Are you free for aunty’s 70th birthday party on the last weekend in July?”
“Let me check the calendar.” - final Lions v SA Test and Tokyo Olympics days 8&9 - “Nope, sorry Aunty.”
An added bonus is the addition of curated links to news, stats, tickets, watch online and I’m told there is more to come.
The website is one of the best I’ve seen for accurate sports fixture information - especially for the longer term - and I will be bookmarking this site for whenever I want timezone clarity.
Check it out, it’s free and you’ll use it a lot. I am already.
