What does football.com track?
Before any consent, football.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 8 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.football.com/livescore/en once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 8
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
- Google Analytics53 requestsAnalytics
region1.google-analytics.com, www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | football.com | 13 months |
| _ga_0GY814184W | Analytics | football.com | 13 months |
| _ga_8FT4THZEH3 | Analytics | football.com | 13 months |
| _ga_CMJQVFDZKJ | Analytics | football.com | 13 months |
| _ga_DN39FN194H | Analytics | football.com | 13 months |
| _ga_M7WGXYTJL8 | Analytics | football.com | 13 months |
| _ga_RWWBN659HC | Analytics | football.com | 13 months |
| _ga_WX469NT1JP | Analytics | football.com | 13 months |
| device-id | Unclassified | www.football.com | 13 months |
| redirect_to_welcome | Unclassified | www.football.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | football.com | Under a day |
The page also wrote 1 key to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.