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Onefootball (previously iLiga / THE Football App) is a German mobile football application based in Berlin, Germany, that provides users with news, live scores, fixtures, results, tables and stats for over 140 leagues and in 16 languages worldwide. Founder and CEO Lucas von Cranach started Onefootball as a text-based service in 2008, and shortly thereafter Onefootball became one of the first sports apps available on Apple’s App Store. As of February 2015, the app has amassed a total of over 20 million downloads worldwide and is available on iOS, Android, Windows and the web.
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Life at onefootball
History
Onefootball was founded as motain GmbH by Lucas von Cranach in March 2008 in Bochum, Germany and moved to Berlin in 2010. The app originally started as a text-based service that pushed scores and results to users’ mobile phones but shortly thereafter became a purpose-built mobile application. Until April 2014, the app was known as iLiga within Germany and THE Football App in the rest of the world. According to interviews, the company renamed its app to Onefootball in order to have a globally comprehensible name and to better reflect the fact that most football fans have one favourite club team and one national team. In April 2014 Onefootball moved from their office in Berlin Mitte to the Fabrik complex on Greifswalder Strasse in Prenzlauer Berg, which was also home to Swedish audio distribution platform Soundcloud until mid-2014. Approximately 60 employees from 25 countries work in their 15,000-square-foot football-themed office space with its football goals and artificial grass floors, which was designed by the Munich firm TKEZ architecture & design.
Partnerships
Onefootball has developed a number of partnerships over the past several years. In 2012 they created an app for the Euro 2012 app in cooperation with Carlsberg, which was referred to as “the most successful branded app ever”. For the 2014 World Cup, Onefootball partnered with Volkswagen to create Onefootball Brasil.
Onefootball announced in March 2015 that they had developed a version of the app for Apple Watch. They were also featured in the Apple Spring Forward Event on 9 March 2015.
Later that same month, Onefootball released Tackl, an extension app on Facebook Messenger that allows users to combine football match events with photos and send them to friends via Messenger.
Funding
In April 2013, Onefootball received €10 million Series A funding from Earlybird. Six months later, in October 2013, they received a further €5 million from Union Square Ventures. Lakestar invested an undisclosed sum in the company in 2014.