The Athletic: Football News

Name: The Athletic: Football News
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Rating: 4.387850284576416 (48077 reviews)
Author: The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company

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4.4

48.1K reviews

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PEGI 3

About this app

The Athletic is the only daily sports news app you need to keep up with the teams you care about.

DAILY EXCLUSIVE STORIES AND EXPERT ANALYSIS
Go deeper with in-depth, global coverage from our award-winning newsroom of dedicated sports writers. Discover the top stories of the day, breaking news and live score updates.

TOP NAMES IN FOOTBALL WRITING
Enjoy coverage of the biggest teams in the United Kingdom and Europe from David Ornstein, Daniel Taylor, Oliver Kay, Michael Cox and Adam Crafton.

A GLOBAL NEWSROOM
The Athletic brings you top stories across football, tennis, racing and beyond, as well as expert insight and analysis into U.S. professional and college teams.

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Updated on

20 May 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.4

45.3K reviews

Dan Sheehy

19 May 2025

Used to be an excellent app but the podcast section is now borderline unusable. As a paid subscriber I now get the ads version of every podcast, not the ad-free version I'm supposed to get. I know I'm not alone. I've also been unfollowed from every podcast, and had to manually re-follow them. Some aren't even searchable via the app and I had to Google them to find them again. It's all very shoddy for a paid subscription service, and the Athletic have made zero effort to communicate about it.

Rob Mathew

16 May 2025

The articles and writing are great, and there are some really great podcasts. The new robotic voice they've recently introduced at the start of podcasts is very cringe worthy. The number of ads in an app that I have a paid subscription for is annoying too. downgraded this another star as they've put in more ads

3 people found this review helpful

Leighton E

16 May 2025

Horrified by the introduction of adverts to podcasts - I was well on the way to cancelling after they didn't replace the beat reporter for my football club, but ad-free podcasts had become one of the only things I used the app for. Now that's gone, I feel like I might as well uninstall. Which makes me sad as there used to be lots of good content - now the amount of content is less than half of what it was, and there are ads everywhere.

1 person found this review helpful