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FIRST DOWN SCOTLAND NFL
Learn the game. Meet fans of your team. Keep that club in one place.
This is the front door. If you are new to American football, or already a fan looking for people who actually follow the same side, start here. Everything you normally get from six different sites, all in one place, explained so it is easy to understand. No American jargon, and nobody using the word fanny with a different meaning.
NFL Scheme Battles
Which team runs the scheme?
Choose your team. Put your town on the map. Find your NFL community. Scotland first, then the rest of the UK: Wishaw, Motherwell, East Kilbride, Paisley and Dundee, not just the big cities. No sign-up.
- Fans on the map
- 134
- Towns
- 77
- Scotland leader
- Bills · 8 towns
Latest flip: Chiefs just put Cadder on the map. This scheme’s spoken for.
1. Learn the game
From first down to Super Bowl, in plain English
Short lessons, a glossary, quizzes, diagrams, rivalries and famous players. Mini Games sit next door if you want a score: rules for beginners, and fun trivia just for fun. Built for UK beginners who keep hearing yards, downs and flags and want them explained without the jargon first.
Open Learn →2. Meet fans of your team
Discord for the chat. Pubs for kick-off.
Find Scottish and UK supporters of the same NFL team. Talk in Discord instead of hoping a Facebook group still exists. When you want the game in the room, use the pub list and watch it together.
Open Community →Latest guides
Read before you stay up
Original guides for Scottish and UK fans, not a copy of an American magazine. Updated for the 2026 NFL season.
About 8 min
How to watch the NFL in the UK
Where the games actually are in Britain: Channel 5, Sky, Game Pass and Netflix, and how to read a US kick-off without staying up by accident.
Read the guide →About 8 min
Learning American football as a UK beginner
The words the broadcast assumes you know, translated for people who grew up with football or rugby, plus a path through the lessons.
Read the guide →About 8 min
Late kick-offs: how UK fans survive Sunday and Monday nights
Sunday Night Football is a Monday morning problem. A practical way to follow the late slate if you have to be at work.
Read the guide →About 8 min
Picking an NFL team when you have no local club
No Scottish franchise, no school team, no inherited scarf. A decent way to pick one of the 32 and then find the other people who picked them too.
Read the guide →Start here
Lesson one
Pick a side
Choose a favourite so the site can follow with you
Thirty-two clubs. One pick. We use it for news, fantasy, the Sunday card, and to point you at fans of the same team.
Follow the league
Late nights, scores, table, rookies
Late Night Diary
When the late games land in the UK
Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night: kick-off in UK time so you can plan a nap or a day off.
Open →Live scores
Who is winning tonight
A Flashscore-style board for the current week: Scheduled, Live, Final or Bye. It polls while games are on.
Open →Standings
The table, by division
AFC and NFC, four clubs each. Wins, losses, ties, and who sits first in the division.
Open →Rookie Watch
This year’s drafted class
This season’s drafted rookies: team, position, round, and season stats when the feed has them.
Open →Score history
Has this final happened before?
Type two totals and see how often that scoreline appears in our public historical table.
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