ESPN launches enhanced free goals app

August 4, 2011   ·   0 Comments

Football fans can catch action from every Barclays Premier League match – within just minutes of it taking place – for free on the enhanced ESPN Goals app on their mobile device.  

Prior to the start of the 2011/12 season ESPN will launch a new, enhanced – and for the first time, entirely free – version of its popular ESPN Goals football app. For fans that want to see all the goals from the Barclays Premier League, wherever they are and without waiting for hours, ESPN Goals will be the first place to see video of the action.

The essential football app for fans of the Barclays Premier League, ESPN Goals will feature:

• Video of goals and match action from every Barclays Premier League match all season long
• Live scores, and fixtures from around the league
• Additional video including match previews, weekend round-ups and ESPN interviews
• An enhanced, easy-to-use video-led interface
• Video alerts:  ESPN Goals sends fans notifications alerting them when goals are scored

ESPN Goals is available at no cost to football fans via Apple iTunes, Android Market, Nokia’s OVI Store, the Blackberry App World, and Windows Phone Marketplace – expanding to two new platforms in its second season, covering the entire range of major smartphone platforms. For information, go to www.espngoals.com.

Tom Gleeson, vice president, digital media, ESPN International said : “Let’s face it, fans are busier than ever and can’t be in front of the TV or at the stadium for all the matches as we’d like. At ESPN, we understand that fans want their football wherever they are,”

“The new, free ESPN Goals app delivers Premier League fans the essential mobile app, keeping them connected to all the goals and highlights, all season long.  In its first season ESPN Goals showed advertisers the audience that they can reach on mobile. In season two we want to connect even more fans to all the goals from every match in the Barclays Premier League.”

ESPN Goals adds to ESPN’s already broad and fast-growing football offering to UK fans, across television, computer and mobile screens. On television this season, ESPN and ESPN HD will feature live coverage of the Barclays Premier League, the FA Cup, Clydesdale Bank Premier League, UEFA Europa League, the German Bundesliga, key pre-season football friendlies, international friendlies and UEFA Euro 2012 qualifiers for Germany and France.

Online, ESPNsoccernet is among the leading football destinations globally, covering the world’s game for the world’s football fans including outstanding coverage of all UK and European football. Offering fans a mix of news, live scores, video and audio, comment, games, social media connectivity and more.  For UK fans ESPN.co.uk brings coverage of UK and European football through a local lens – combining original UK content with the best from ESPN’s other global sites.

ESPN’s mobile services are already well-established with UK fans, with an audience of hundreds of thousands of users every month on mobile devices, and having grown 177 percent year-on-year – far outpacing the mobile sports category (up 43 percent).

* Goals footage is near-live with goals available shortly after being scored except for footage from matches kicking-off at 3pm on Saturday, due to UEFA restrictions. Footage from these matches is available from approximately 5.15pm Saturday.

Tags: Barclays Premier League, ESPN, ESPN Goals, ESPN.co.uk, Tom Gleeson