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Devout Football · Last updated 12 September 2026

Is my club in it? How does checking in work? I checked in and got no points When does my matchday end? The Dugout and the Deck The Monday email Badges and the 92 Club The Season Pass If you are under 18 A match has the wrong details Deleting your account Getting hold of us

Is my club in it?

If they are in the Premier League, the Championship, League One, League Two or the National League, yes. That is 121 clubs and 121 grounds, with a full fixture list for every division.

You pick your club when you sign up. Everything in the app is then scoped to them: your tables, your Dugout, and the matchday room, which is your own club's fans and nobody else's, home or away.

How does checking in work?

Checking in is how the app knows you were there. It opens an hour before kick-off and closes at the final whistle.

You say where you are watching from: at the ground, at the pub, at home, or round a friend's. If you say you are at the ground, the app takes one location reading at that moment to confirm it. It does not track you before or after, and it never stores your home address.

All four answers count. Being there counts for more, which is the whole point of the tables.

I checked in and got no points

Almost always one of three things.

When does my matchday end?

When you end it. There is no clock and no countdown.

It stays open until you either leave early or go through the end sequence. Until then you can still add photographs, rate the referee and write down what you thought. Come back a week later if you like — it will still be open.

The Dugout and the Deck

The Dugout is your say on the squad. Mark every player out of ten, score six parts of their game, say whether you would keep them or sell them, and name the position that needs new blood. It takes a few minutes and nothing is compulsory.

The Deck is what everybody else made of them. Every Monday the marks become a card for each player carrying the crowd's numbers, not just yours. The cards are redrawn weekly and the season average builds as the season goes.

Your own marks beside the crowd's come back to you in the Monday email, because that comparison is personal and the Deck is the same object for everyone.

The Monday email

One email a week: every match your club played, what you made of each player next to what the rest of the ground made of him, the referee, what the fans said, the points you banked and the badges you picked up.

It is off unless you turn it on. Settings, then email updates. Every one carries an unsubscribe link that works immediately.

Badges and the 92 Club

Badges are earned by doing something, and there is no way to buy one, with a single exception: the Season Pass badge, which marks a Season Pass member and does not count towards any other badge. Badges are earned once and stay earned — a new season never takes them off you.

The cabinet shows the ones you have lit and the ones you have not in the dark, with what each takes written underneath. The 92 Club counts the English league grounds you have checked in at, and lands when you have stood in all ninety-two.

Once you have earned a badge you can buy the real embroidered patch. Only then — the patch is proof of something you did.

The Season Pass

Optional, £3.99 a month or £34.99 a year. It buys room for a whole season of photographs, the fuller numbers behind your season, your Season in Review, and every season you have ever had.

It cannot buy you a place above anybody. Points, tables and badges are earned only, and the Pass does not touch them. Everything that decides who finishes above who is free, forever.

You buy it through the App Store or Google Play, and that is also where you cancel it. We cannot cancel or refund it for you — go to your subscriptions in the store, at least a day before it renews.

If you are under 18

You need to be 13 to join. Between 13 and 18 you can read everything and use every part of your own record — check-ins, points, badges, marks out of ten, your album — but you cannot post free text where other fans see it. No posts or replies on the Terrace, and no written comments in the Dugout.

Your marks still count in full. Writing unlocks on your eighteenth birthday.

A match has the wrong details

Fixtures, line-ups and scores come from a football data provider. Coverage is very good in the higher divisions and thinner further down, so some matches carry less detail than others.

When the feed corrects itself, the app picks the correction up the next time that match is processed, and any points already settled are recalculated rather than left wrong. If something still looks wrong a day later, tell us and include the two clubs and the date.

Deleting your account

Settings, then Account, then delete. You do not have to ask us and you do not have to explain.

It is permanent. Your check-ins, photographs, notes, marks, points and badges go with it.

Getting hold of us

There is no call centre and we are not going to pretend there is. Email us and a person will read it.

privacy@devoutfootball.com

For anything about your data, the same address reaches us, and the Privacy Policy sets out what we hold and your rights over it. The rules of using Devout are in the Terms of Use.

If you are reporting something a fan posted, use the report control in the app rather than email — it reaches the moderation queue straight away and tells us exactly which post you mean.