footballWINNERS
A free football prediction game running since 2001, rebuilt on nemCMS with its own games module: play first and register at the end, weekly and season tables, private leagues, form guides and live football news.
- Client
- footballWINNERS
- Services
- Custom features · New build
- Website
- footballwinners.co.uk ↗
footballWINNERS has run a free football prediction game since 2001. Players pick 10 winners each week from the top 25 fixtures across the Premier League, Championship and League One.
The game had been split across an old SilverStripe site and a separate app, and people who visited weren't playing because they were asked to sign up before they could try it. The new site needed to bring everything together, make playing instant, and run the weekly and season tables behind the scenes.
- A custom games module for two games: Pick 10 Winners (get all 10 right) and Best Picks (points for every correct winner)
- Play first, register later: visitors make their picks straight from the homepage and only create an account when they submit
- Fixture import from a simple spreadsheet, with results and scoring run from the admin
- Weekly and season tables, plus private leagues for friends and colleagues, approved by an administrator
- Results emails, and name filtering to keep player and league names clean
- A form guide for the Premier League and Championship, shown on its own page and beside each fixture
- Live UK football headlines from major news sites, alongside around 70 news articles migrated from the old site
- A 65-second “How it works” video, made in-house with no stock footage
The game, the tables and the news now live on one site, run by one team from one admin. It shows nemCMS doing far more than a brochure site: a fully interactive game built on the same platform that powers the rest of these websites.