CASE STUDY
How FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa built a five-season real-time fan experience for Polish futsal
Embedding STATSCORE’s ScoutsFeed and LeagueCenter into the league’s digital backbone turned static match pages into a real-time destination for fans – and a more professional product for everyone watching the league grow.
“Live across every Fogo Futsal Ekstraklasa fixture since 2020/21.”
5 seasons
of partnership
Continuous live data delivery since 2020/21 — the longest-running futsal data partnership in CEE.
100%
of matches covered live
Real-time play-by-play data on every Fogo Futsal Ekstraklasa fixture.
Branded
fan-facing product
LeagueCenter embedded in the league’s own domain, in the league’s visual identity.
About FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa
FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa is Poland’s top-tier futsal competition and one of the most active futsal leagues in Central and Eastern Europe. Paweł Mrozkowiak runs it as CEO.
The league – now carrying the FOGO name through a title sponsorship – has spent the last several seasons doing something most futsal competitions outside of Spain, Brazil and Portugal still haven’t: treating its digital fan experience as core product, not afterthought.
If you lead a futsal federation thinking about that same shift, this story is about your situation.
COUNTRY
Poland
SPORT
Futsal
TIER
Top division
Partnership
Since 2020/21 season
The problem
“Futsal’s biggest digital problem isn’t the sport. It’s how the sport gets shown.”
Polish futsal has had what every league wants: real competition, technical quality, and a fan base that genuinely cares. What it didn’t have was the digital infrastructure to make that experience feel as alive online as it does inside the arena.
Most futsal competitions worldwide sit in the same position. Match days happen. Final results get reported. But the texture of the sport – the shots, the substitutions, the rhythm of a fast-paced 40-minute game – stays inside the venue. For fans following from a phone, that gap matters. For the people who run the league, that gap is the difference between a sporting product and a digital product.
The Fogo Futsal Ekstraklasa team understood this five seasons ago. The on-court product was already there. What it needed was a way to bring that product onto every screen, in real time, in a format the league actually controlled.
The decision
In the 2020/21 season, FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa partnered with STATSCORE. The brief was practical: deliver live match data, league standings, and statistics in a professional format the league could embed across its own digital platforms.
Five seasons later, what Paweł Mrozkowiak still names first when asked what makes the partnership work isn’t a feature list. It’s how STATSCORE shows up: reliably, flexibly, and in a working relationship with the league rather than at the league.
“We would wholeheartedly recommend STATSCORE to other organisations. What sets STATSCORE apart is not only the reliability and quality of the data, but also the partnership approach, flexibility, and truly excellent communication.”
Paweł Mrozkowiak
CEO at FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa
See it in action
“STATSCORE offers us a range of tools that allow us to follow live, everything that happens during FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa matches – not just final scores, but every event happening in real time.”
Paweł Mrozkowiak
CEO at FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa
ScoutsFeed
FUTSAL DATA LAYER SOLUTION
ScoutsFeed is STATSCORE’s live sports data feed service. A network of trained scouts at every venue captures play-by-play data in real time: goals, shots, attacks, fouls, substitutions. Every incident, with minimal latency, ready to power any front-end.
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LeagueCenter
FUTSAL FRONT-END SOLUTION
LeagueCenter is where ScoutsFeed data becomes a fan-facing product. Live standings, team and player statistics, fixture schedules, pre-match comparisons, live match visualisations – fully branded to the league’s identity, embedded directly in the league’s own website.
For FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa, this means every stat captured at the venue appears in real time, in the league’s look and feel, on any device, without sending fans somewhere else.
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ScoutsFeed
FUTSAL DATA LAYER SOLUTION
ScoutsFeed is STATSCORE’s live sports data feed service. A network of trained scouts at every venue captures play-by-play data in real time: goals, shots, attacks, fouls, substitutions. Every incident, with minimal latency, ready to power any front-end.
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LeagueCenter
FUTSAL FRONT-END SOLUTION
LeagueCenter is where ScoutsFeed data becomes a fan-facing product. Live standings, team and player statistics, fixture schedules, pre-match comparisons, live match visualisations – fully branded to the league’s identity, embedded directly in the league’s own website.
For FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa, this means every stat captured at the venue appears in real time, in the league’s look and feel, on any device, without sending fans somewhere else.
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Integration architecture diagram
THE RESULTS
Five seasons in, the partnership has produced three concrete outcomes for Fogo Futsal Ekstraklasa:
01
On the league’s platforms a real-time fan experience that gives supporters a reason to stay on the league’s platforms
02
More professional-looking digital product that strengthens the league’s position in every commercial conversation it has – with sponsors, media partners and bookmakers alike.
03
A documented operational track record across hundreds of matchdays.
- Real-time data on every match
Every FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa fixture covered by ScoutsFeed since 2020/21. - Five consecutive seasons
The longest-running futsal data partnership in Central and Eastern Europe. - Branded fan experience live
LeagueCenter embedded in the league’s own domain, in the league’s visual identity, on every device. - Operational reliability
Dedicated communication channels and a documented support formula across multiple seasons of live matchdays. - League professionalisation as a commercial asset
A more sophisticated digital product strengthens the league’s standing with sponsors, media partners and bookmakers.
“The data we receive from STATSCORE is primarily used so our fans can follow live what is most exciting during Fogo Futsal Ekstraklasa matches – which translates into greater popularity, attractiveness and viewership for our league.”
Paweł Mrozkowiak
CEO at FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa
What real-time data does for fan retention
The first visible change was in how fans followed the competition.
Once ScoutsFeed data started flowing live into LeagueCenter, supporters stopped waiting for full-time scores. Every match became a real-time experience accessible from any screen – a reason to open the league’s site during a fixture, and a reason to come back.
For any futsal federation considering a similar move, this is the fundamental shift: digital engagement grows when there is something genuinely worth following.
Live, professionally presented match data gives fans a reason to return and a reason to stay longer.
League professionalisation as a commercial asset
A more professional-looking digital product changes the conversation a league is able to have with anyone evaluating its commercial value. Sponsors, media partners and bookmakers all assess leagues on what they can see and measure.
This isn’t a single attribution story. The league’s commercial momentum – including its title sponsorship with FOGO — is the result of work across many areas. What the Statscore partnership contributes specifically is the digital data layer: a fan-facing product that demonstrates the league takes itself seriously as a media and broadcast asset, and a real-time infrastructure that gives commercial partners something tangible to point at when they evaluate the league’s digital footprint.
Operational reliability
In live sports data, operational reliability matters as much as any feature. A feed that fails during a match, or takes hours to correct, causes real damage to the fan experience and the league’s credibility. Five seasons of live coverage is its own proof point.
“We evaluate our current cooperation with STATSCORE very positively. We have developed communication channels that allow us to react quickly to anything that happens during or between matches. These years have allowed us to develop an excellent communication formula.”
Paweł Mrozkowiak
CEO at FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa
How it works
How we built this - for the technical readers
Products deployed
- ScoutsFeed – live play-by-play data feed.
- LeagueCenter – white-label competition data hub.
Data scope
- Every FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa fixture covered live.
- Event types captured: goals, shots, attacks, fouls, substitutions, plus higher-order match events.
- Standings, fixtures, team stats and player stats refreshed automatically.
Integration on the league side
- LeagueCenter embedded directly into the league’s own website domain.
- Visual identity of the league applied throughout (no STATSCORE branding on fan-facing surfaces).
- Mobile-first responsive design as default.
Operations
- Dedicated communication channels between STATSCORE and the league for live-match incidents.
- Multi-season operational track record – the partnership ships through every matchday with documented support response.
Timeline
- Initial integration: launched in time for the 2020/21 season.
- Ongoing: expanded scope across five subsequent seasons.
What’s next
FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa’s next phase is bringing the same live data layer onto television. The same ScoutsFeed pipeline that powers the league’s digital experience can be extended into broadcast graphics – giving TV viewers richer in-match statistics and giving the league a stronger position in conversations with media partners and bookmakers.
“We want the scope of data to be as wide as possible during TV broadcasts – which strengthens Fogo Futsal Ekstraklasa’s marketing position and contributes to better cooperation with our sponsors, media partners and bookmakers.”
Paweł Mrozkowiak
CEO at FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa
This is the point at which a league’s data strategy starts directly influencing media rights conversations and broadcaster negotiations. It’s the next chapter of the model that started in 2020.
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