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About us

The CalcioMap project and how we verify our information

CalcioMap explains how football works. Not what happened last night, but why a club is relegated and how a place in the Champions League is earned. What a play-out involves, and who decides whether a club may enter a league at all.

Why this site exists

Football’s rules live in documents almost nobody reads: licensing manuals, association bylaws, competition regulations. They are public, but they are long, technical and written for people already inside the game.

Anyone wanting to understand a rule finds second-hand explanations instead, often copied from one site to another, carrying the original’s mistakes with them. A wrong figure published once keeps circulating for years.

This site starts from the documents and translates them. Every page lists at the foot the sources it rests on, so anyone who wants to check can do so without taking our word for it.

What you will not find here

The site publishes no news, no live tables, no line-ups and no fixture lists. That is not a technical limitation: it is the choice that holds everything else together.

A league table ages in ninety minutes. A regulation stays valid until it is amended, and when that happens everyone notices. By publishing only the second kind of information, we can promise that what you read today will still be true in six months.

For the same reason club pages carry no squad lists. They explain how a squad is put together: how many goalkeepers are needed, how many players may sit on the bench, which registration limits apply. Those are rules, not names, and names change twice a year.

The two things we refuse

We give no predictions and we do not cover betting. The site explains mechanisms, it does not forecast results, and it has no relationship with operators in that industry.

We do not use ratings we collect ourselves to build scores or quality rankings. Where a source is missing or uncertain, we say so: it is less satisfying than giving a number, and it is the only honest thing to do.

When sources disagree

That happens more often than it sounds. Some historical counts change depending on how sporting proceedings from years ago are treated; some financial figures are revised every season.

In those cases the page says so plainly, rather than picking the most convenient version and presenting it as settled. It makes some texts less clear-cut, and it makes them more reliable.

The languages

The site is published in Italian and English. Neither version is a machine translation of the other: every page is written in the language it is read in.

The reason is that football’s technical terms have no direct equivalents between the two languages. Translating word for word would produce texts that look correct and are wrong in substance.

Where to start

If you know little about football, the guides are the place to begin: they explain one rule at a time and take nothing for granted. Start with how the points system works and how relegation works.

If you are after a particular competition, the league pages gather rules, positions, prize money and transfers in one place: Serie A, Premier League, Champions League and the rest.

If you have found a mistake, the most useful thing you can do is tell us from the contact page. Corrections take priority over any new content.

I quattro principi che seguiamo

Solo cio' che resta vero

Non pubblichiamo classifiche, formazioni o cifre che cambiano ogni settimana. Spieghiamo i meccanismi, che durano: come si accede alle coppe, come funziona un playout, cosa succede se una societa' non ottiene la licenza.

Fonti ufficiali, sempre citate

Ogni pagina elenca in fondo i documenti su cui si basa: regolamenti di lega, norme federali, comunicati UEFA e FIFA. Se una fonte non e' verificabile, l'informazione non entra.

Quando non si sa, si dice

Alcuni dati sono incerti o discordanti fra fonti diverse. In quei casi lo scriviamo apertamente, invece di scegliere il numero piu' comodo e presentarlo come certo.

Scritto per chi non sa nulla

Ogni termine tecnico viene spiegato la prima volta che compare. Chi conosce gia' l'argomento puo' saltare avanti; chi non lo conosce non deve cercare altrove per capire una frase.

Come nasce una pagina

  1. Si parte dal documento

    Prima di scrivere leggiamo il regolamento in vigore. Non partiamo da quello che si legge in giro, perche' e' li' che nascono gli errori che poi si copiano da un sito all'altro.

  2. Si separa la regola dal caso

    Una cosa e' la norma, un'altra e' come e' stata applicata quest'anno. Sulle pagine finisce la norma; l'esempio serve a chiarirla, non a sostituirla.

  3. Si controlla in automatico

    Prima della pubblicazione ogni testo passa da controlli che verificano lunghezze, collegamenti interni, immagini dichiarate e riferimenti a stagioni specifiche. Un testo che non li supera non viene pubblicato.

  4. Si corregge in fretta

    Le segnalazioni di errore hanno la precedenza su qualunque nuovo contenuto. Una pagina sbagliata online vale meno di zero.

Chi scrive

Analisi dei regolamenti dei campionati

Redazione CalcioMap

I testi sono redazionali e non firmati da un singolo autore. Preferiamo dichiararlo invece di inventare un nome proprio per riempire una casella dei dati strutturati: sarebbe il contrario della trasparenza che quella casella dovrebbe garantire.

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  • Contact

    Reports, corrections and partnerships

  • Serie A

    Serie A

    The top tier of Italian football: rules, European qualification, relegation and prize money

  • Champions League

    Champions League

    The top European club competition: league phase format and UEFA prize money

  • How the transfer market works

    How the transfer market works

    From negotiation to contract registration: every step of a transfer