
Keep your sports site visitors engaged with dynamic match updates! WhenIsTheMatch Widget lets you easily display your favorite team’s next upcoming football match along with real-time score updates during game day.
Perfect for fan blogs, sports news portals, and local club websites looking for a clean, responsive match preview block.
🌐 Guide in Your Language
English • Français • Español • Italiano • Deutsch • Português • 日本語 • हिंदी
⚽ Key Features
- Next Match Countdown: Dynamic timer counting down to kick-off.
- Live Score Updates: Real-time scores and goal tracking for ongoing matches.
- Detailed Match Info: Venue, referee details, and TV channel broadcasts (where available).
- 800+ Teams Supported: Full coverage across major international leagues, cups, and club teams.
- Multilingual Ready: Adapts smoothly for international audiences.
- Lightweight & Fast: Built with performance in mind to avoid slowing down your site.
Usage
Display the widget anywhere on your site (posts, pages, sidebar widgets) using shortcodes.
Quick Start
[whenisthematch team="spain"]
Parameters
- team (required): The slug for the team you want to display (e.g.,
real-madrid,arsenal,spain). You can find team slugs on WhenIsTheMatch.com. - lang (optional): Widget language code. Options:
en(default),fr,es,it,de,pt,ja,hi. - theme (optional): Widget color theme. Options:
dark(default) orlight. - branding (optional): Set to
trueto display a subtle link below the widget. Enabling this helps support ongoing free plugin development! (Default:false)
Shortcode Examples
Basic Spanish Match Widget:
[whenisthematch team=”barcelona” lang=”es”]
Light Theme Widget:
[whenisthematch team=”psg” theme=”light”]
Widget with Support Branding Enabled:
[whenisthematch team=”chelsea” branding=”true”]
External Services
This plugin embeds match information from WhenIsTheMatch.
The widget loads content from:
https://whenisthematch.com
No account or API key is required.
Screenshots

The widget displayed on a WordPress page.

The shortcode used to add a team's next match.

The widget using the light theme.