# Footy Live for iPad: AFL news — AFL, AFLW scores, stats & news

> AFL and AFLW live scores, stats, news, and fantasy updates for fans. (iPhone/iPad app by Sportsmate Technologies Pty Ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/footy-live-for-ipad-afl-news/id377357762 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sportsmate Technologies Pty Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/1147008622)
- Category: Sports, Entertainment
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.90/5 from 45 App Store ratings · 102 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 13.0 · 69 MB
- Languages: British English
- Released: 2010-06-23
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/footy-live-for-ipad-afl-news/id377357762/reviews.md

## What is Footy Live for iPad?

With over 10 million downloads across the Sportsmate LIVE apps you know you’re in good hands.

The Footy Live app by Sportsmate is the only way to stay up to date on everything AFL. After debuting in 2009, Footy Live has continued to innovate while still putting the fans first, bringing you everything that you need to be the most in-the-know footy fan possible.

Built by footy fans, for footy fans, Footy Live combines up-to-the-second live scores and stats from the AFL, AFLW and all of the major state leagues (VFL, SANFL, WAFL, NEAFL) with the most in-depth statistical database, as well as exclusive analysis and the latest breaking footy news and video highlights. Not to mention Dreamteam scores updated instantly so you can follow your fantasy team throughout the weekend.

Whether it’s an intense Western Derby, the colour of a Showdown or the drama of the final quarter of the AFL Grand Final - don’t just follow your favourite club, join them!

FOLLOW LIVE

Access live coverage of every AFL and AFLW match plus selected state leagues including the VFL, WAFL, SANFL and NEAFL.

Live scores for each match
Play-by-play match commentary 
Detailed team stat sheets, match trends, team lists and shot maps
Player specific stat sheets, fantasy dreamteam scores and shot maps

TRACK YOUR FAVOURITE TEAM AND PLAYERS

Follow the progress of your club and your favourite players throughout the AFL season. 

Follow every thing to do with your club in the dedicated Team News tab
Prepare for every match by syncing your clubs fixtures to your calendar
Stay up to date with the latest club news and team tweets
Keep an eye on your favourite players and their injury status

GET THE STATS

Need a hand with your fantasy team? Been thrown a thorny footy question? Need the perfect AFL trivia answer? Don’t worry we have you covered here too with a detailed database of team and individual player stats.

Up to date club and player stat rankings
Leaderboards for individual stats and KPIs 
Individual player profiles and career stats
Compare players head to head
Re-live players’ best (and worst) matches with our ‘time-machine’

STAY UP TO DATE

Footy Live by Sportsmate also brings you the breaking footy news, along with exclusive match previews (and tips) as well as analysis from Sportsmate’s team of commentators from around the country.

A thorough overview of the day’s play from around the country via the Match Day tab
Access footy news and updates about club teams
Watch and listen to videos and podcast series on demand
Personalise alerts so you never miss any of the action, footy scores or latest news

DOWNLOAD NOW

Footy Live by Sportsmate is available FREE for all football enthusiasts in Australia and around the world. Don’t miss a minute, download now and start tracking live footy scores today!

FEEDBACK WELCOME

We’d love to hear from you how we could make the Footy Live app even better. Please send all feedback to support@sportsmatemobile.com, tweet us at @Sportsmate or use the feedback form inside your app’s Settings.

ABOUT THE DEVELOPERS

Founded in 2009 and based in Melbourne, Australia, Sportsmate Mobile is an Independent Sports Media company which creates and distributes mobile applications focused on delivering lightning fast sport scores and stats to sports fans all over the world.

With over 10 million global downloads, we are Australia's number one sports app network. Our growing suite of apps is built by a dedicated team of sports mad app developers, designers and content creators who are passionate about delivering content sports fans crave.

## Key features

- Live AFL and AFLW scores
- Detailed player and team stats
- Breaking footy news and analysis
- Fantasy Dreamteam score updates
- Personalized alerts
- Video and podcast highlights

## What do users think of Footy Live for iPad?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Good injury report
- 👍 Useful for keeping up with news
- 👍 Great for checking scores
- 👍 Informative player stats
- 👍 Good companion app
- 👍 Easy to see ladder
- 👍 Updates on news
- 👍 Best footy app
- 👍 Works well
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Amazing
- 👍 Reliable and user-friendly
- 👍 All the info a fan needs
- 👍 Informative
- 👍 Brilliant app
- 👍 Packed with info
- 👍 Great to have local times
- 👍 Great way to keep up
- 👍 Fantastic app
- 👍 Well designed and easy to navigate
- 👍 Brilliant app
- 👍 All the right stats
- 👍 Informative player drill downs
- 👍 Super fast updates
- 👍 Fabulous app
- 👍 Top app, clear and concise
- 👍 Great resource for those abroad
- 👍 Decent standalone
- 👍 Amazing app
- 👍 Fantastic app
- 👍 Live scores update quickly

**Cons**

- 🐛 App is broken
- 🐛 Information not available
- 🐛 Glitches appeared and not fixed
- 🐛 Useless app
- 🐛 Terrible on iPad
- 🐛 Cannot load 2026 season
- 🐛 Poor app design
- 🐛 No longer supported
- 🐛 New stories contain no content
- 🐛 Cannot read anything
- 🐛 Out of date
- 🐛 Very poorly written app
- 🐛 Endless gambling ads
- 🐛 Annoying app
- 🐛 Not updated for three years
- 🐛 Drop down doesn't render correctly
- 🐛 Will not update to 2025
- 🐛 Live game doesn't appear
- 🐛 App is a disgrace
- 🐛 Doesn't open in correct league or round
- 🐛 Live games missing
- 🐛 Not good anymore
- 🐛 No scores on Match Day
- 🐛 Match disappeared from page
- 🐛 Matches approaching half time not started
- 🐛 Full time called early
- 🐛 Cannot default to current round
- 🐛 Full time result doesn't reflect final scores
- 🐛 Player bios out of date
- 🐛 Bugs and lack of updates
- 🐛 Issue with changing between leagues
- 🐛 Letters replaced by dots
- 🐛 Current round a week behind
- 🐛 Doesn't open at current round
- 🐛 Last update over 3 years ago
- 🐛 Doesn't update to current round
- 🐛 Player profiles outdated
- 🐛 Blank head silhouettes
- 🐛 Player photo shows old club
- 🐛 Bio doesn't mention club change
- 🐛 Team names not in English
- 🐛 Aboriginal naming
- 🐛 Name discrimination
- 🐛 Won't use until English names return
- 🐛 Stop aboriginal naming
- 🐛 Screen format needs improvement
- 🐛 Says I'm in 2021
- 🐛 Lacks AFLW player numbers
- 🐛 Freezes a lot
- 🐛 Needs better statistics
- 🐛 Gambling ads saturate
- 🐛 Toxic gambling promotions
- 🐛 Annoying to deal with ads
- 🐛 Notifications turn off
- 🐛 Ladder still has 2 conferences
- 🐛 17+ rating
- 🐛 Disgusting gambling ads spoil it
- 🐛 Crashes constantly on iPad Pro
- 🐛 Scores take too long to update
- 🐛 Cannot check games from last year
- 🐛 Commentators mumble and talk about themselves
- 🐛 Keeps crashing on iPad
- 🐛 Delay in updating scores
- 🐛 Third rate without faster updates
- 🐛 Doesn't update scores
- 🐛 Commentators spoil the viewing
- 🐛 Player stats wrong
- 🐛 Commentators reminisce too much
- 🐛 Doesn't update

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Lost normal Footy live
- Can only get News
- Never works as it should
- Glitches appeared last year which were not fixed
- Now can only get VFL
- Opens to last weeks scores
- Games not there
- Works ok on phone but terrible on iPad
- Almost impossible to change to current season
- Stopped working
- New stories contain no content
- Can not read anything
- No text appears
- Claim that Collingwood lad is the hero is wrong
- Lopsided view of football
- The worm turns on itself during the first quarter and remains wrong
- App opens on the correct round instead of the previous round
- App opens on the previous week, rather than the current week
- Drop down doesn't render correctly and usually doesn't respond to clicking
- Will not update to 2025
- Live match not listed
- App is a disgrace
- Doesn't open in correct league or round
- Live games are missing
- Not good anymore
- Scores not shown on Match Day
- Match disappeared off the Match Game page
- Matches approaching half time not started on the app
- Full time called on match with 10 minutes to go
- Cannot update to the current round
- One round behind each week
- Full time result does not reflect the final scores
- Player bios are several years out of date
- Match tab opening to the previous round instead of the current round
- Bugs and lack of updates are starting to make it annoying
- Changing between AFL and other leagues has become almost impossible
- Letters that make up eg AFL or SANFL have been replaced by dots
- App thinks the current round is last weeks
- Annoyingly takes you there even after you’ve selected the real current round
- Nothing has been updated for ages
- Current round defaults to previous week
- Painful
- Doesn’t open at current round
- Last update was over 3 years ago
- App doesn’t update to current round anymore
- Keeps reverting to the previous round
- Player profiles/histories have not been updated for some years
- Blank head silhouettes instead of photos for new-to-AFL players
- If a player changes clubs, the app uses the same photo as the one for the old club
- Player's bio doesn’t mention the club change
- Team names are not in English
- Team names are not real team names
- Ramming it down our throats isn’t inclusive or balanced
- Won’t be using this app until English team names return
- Stop aboriginal naming
- Improve screen Format
- Says im in 2021 but were at the granny in 2022
- App still hasn’t made the effort to list all of the players’ numbers for AFLW
- Freezes a lot
- Needs better statistics
- Gambling ads now saturate
- Even worse ads for t-shirts with pro gun messaging
- Annoying to deal with all the ads and toxic gambling promotions
- Every time you open the app it opens on the previous week
- This doesn’t happen on my phone, just the ipad
- Every time I click on the notification bell to turn notifications on every time I exit the game the notification bell turns and I can’t see my notifications
- The AFLW had abandoned the conference system. Why does the ladder still have 2 conferences?
- It’s good but it is 17 plus. WHATS WRONG WITH IT?!
- The propaganda: “we’re always updating our app …”
- The reality: last update was over 3 years ago.
- Crashes constantly on iPad Pro
- Any time you hover the cursor over the bottom menu bar the app crashes
- Scores take 2 minutes to update after a team scores
- Can’t check games from last year that good
- A crash report pops up and crashes
- The commentators such as Brereton, Lyons and a couple of others that mumble on about there own lives rather than the football
- The iPad version keeps crashing every time you open it up
- Far too long a delay in updating scores
- The very best app is no longer available and offered a LIVE LADDER service...and live scores updated every 2 minutes or less.
- The scores update before channel 7 calls it which shows that the live scores actually work.
- The players stats have just gone wrong!
- The football commentators are spoiling the watching of good football
- The app is ok for checking current scores.
- Match previews are never available prior to the game.

**Most requested features**

- See what channels footy is on
- List league ladder or next matches
- Show what channels the footy is on
- Show free to air channels
- List VFL and AFL
- Show channel listings
- Fix app to open on correct round
- Update to 2024 season
- Update player profiles
- Update player histories
- Add photos for new players
- Update player bio for club changes
- Provide option to toggle name type
- Provide both names on teams
- Return English team names
- Improve screen format
- List all AFLW player numbers
- Add better statistics
- Remove ads and gambling promotions
- Paid version to remove ads
- Fix notification bell issue
- Remove conference system from AFLW ladder
- Fix 17+ rating
- Remove gambling ads
- Add heatmaps
- Feature to put selected players to top of list on iPad
- Faster score updates
- Live ladder service
- Video highlights
- Update app for 2018 season
- Update almanacs and team details
- Update Richmond page with Premiership and Brownlow Medal records
- Live video feed
- Match previews available prior to game
- Update player stats

## Recent user reviews (10 of 102)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/footy-live-for-ipad-afl-news/id377357762/reviews.md

### 3/5 — Lost it with approach to adds

*2026-05-17, version 8.3.2*

Liked the app with its structure but recent changes with adds that are very hard to escape became annoying. Then I get an add telling me I had a virus, imposed over the iPhone screen, but really just plugging an anti-virus app. Wholly irresponsible so deleted this app immediately and back to the AFL app for me

### 1/5 — Disappointed

*2026-05-14, version 8.3.2*

Discussed that you did not bother giving any stats tonight would have liked to see free for cats as umpires were pathetic.

### 5/5 — Good

*2026-03-23, version 8.3.2*

I liked your injury report straight to the point

### 1/5 — Footy live for Ipad

*2026-03-14, version 8.3.2*

Lost my normal Footy live can only get News  can't get league ladder or next matches etc

### 1/5 — Trash

*2026-03-14, version 8.3.2*

This app has become TRASH. Never works as it should. Information not available. Use yo be very good but now it’s plain TERRIBLE.

### 1/5 — Broken: was great; no more

*2026-03-14, version 8.3.2*

Footy Live was a reliable app on iPad in past years, but glitches appeared last year which were not fixed. Now I can only get VFL (not interested), no AFL.  Useless app.

### 4/5 — Good app.....but...

*2026-03-07, version 8.3.2*

I think this app is great...but why does the 2026 version not have what channels the footy is on anymore… last year, you were able to see what was on free to air as the channel was listed above the team name.
This seems to have been taken away.
Annoying

### 1/5 — Shocking

*2026-03-06, version 8.3.2*

The app opens to last weeks scores while games are I’m progress ain’t even there.  Works ok on my phone but the one for iPad is terrible and I can’t understand why any developer would be stupid enough to release it like this.  
Pity I couldn’t give it zero.

### 1/5 — Update

*2026-03-06, version 8.3.2*

Haven’t updated yet !!!

### 1/5 — Cannot load 2026 season

*2026-03-05, version 8.3.2*

It is almost impossible to change to the current season using the iPad app. Very annoying with very poor app design

## Frequently asked questions about Footy Live for iPad

### What does the Footy Live app do?

The Footy Live app provides comprehensive coverage of Australian Football League (AFL) and AFLW matches. It offers live scores, play-by-play commentary, detailed team and player statistics, breaking news, video highlights, and fantasy league score updates.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include live coverage of every AFL and AFLW match, in-depth statistical databases, personalized alerts for scores and news, dedicated team news tabs, and access to exclusive analysis and video content.

### Is this app free to use?

Yes, the Footy Live app is available for free. While the core features are free, it may offer in-app purchases for additional content or features, and it is supported by advertisements.

### What leagues and competitions does the app cover?

The app covers all AFL and AFLW matches, as well as selected major state leagues including the VFL, SANFL, WAFL, and NEAFL. It provides live scores and stats for these competitions.

### Who is the target audience for this app?

This app is designed for Australian football enthusiasts, including fans of the AFL and AFLW. It's ideal for those who want to stay informed about their favorite clubs, players, and all aspects of the game, including fantasy sports.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 8.3.2 — 2021-04-14

We’re always updating our app to ensure you get the best live score experience.

- Bug fixes and stability improvements

Please email support@sportsmatemobile.com with any feedback or questions.

### 8.3 — 2021-03-17

We’re always updating our app to ensure you get the best live score experience.

- Bug fixes and stability improvements

Please email support@sportsmatemobile.com with any feedback or questions.

### 8.2.3 — 2020-09-26

We’re always updating our app to ensure you get the best live score experience.

- iOS 14 support
- Bug fixes and stability improvements

Please email support@sportsmatemobile.com with any feedback or questions.

### 8.2.2 — 2020-08-05

We’re always updating our app to ensure you get the best live score experience.

- Bug fixes and maintenance updates

Please email support@sportsmatemobile.com with any feedback or questions.

### 8.2.1 — 2020-07-31

We’re always updating our app to ensure you get the best live score experience.

- Bug fixes and maintenance updates

Please email support@sportsmatemobile.com with any feedback or questions.

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