The Athletic: Football News

4.5
47.9K reviews
10L+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

The Athletic is the only daily sports news app you need to keep up with the teams you care about.

DAILY EXCLUSIVE STORIES AND EXPERT ANALYSIS
Go deeper with in-depth, global coverage from our award-winning newsroom of dedicated sports writers. Discover the top stories of the day, breaking news and live score updates.

TOP NAMES IN FOOTBALL WRITING
Enjoy coverage of the biggest teams in the United Kingdom and Europe from David Ornstein, Daniel Taylor, Oliver Kay, Michael Cox and Adam Crafton.

A GLOBAL NEWSROOM
The Athletic brings you top stories across football, tennis, racing and beyond, as well as expert insight and analysis into U.S. professional and college teams.

Terms of Service: https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service

Privacy Policy: https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/10940941449492-The-New-York-Times-Company-Privacy-Policy
Updated on
6 May 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Audio and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
45.2K reviews
Michael Pantano
21 February 2025
Outside of NFL draft season with Dane's content, this isn't worth paying for at all. It's the same quality you can get for free elsewhere. Definitely worth not the $72/yr they want (either with Dane's Beast). Also, be careful. Their business model is like a chain gym franchise. No warning for your renewal and no refunds. They just want you to forget, rather than trying to justify the expense.
7 people found this review helpful
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Christopher Rogers
11 February 2025
The app sacrifices basic accessibility options (like allowing you to zoom the screen on images) for DRM. The more you use it to read articles, the more frustrating this becomes when a complicated line graph will be included that's impossible to digest. On the content side, the NYTimes ownership has unsurprisingly worsened the product. Soccer coverage focuses almost entirely on the biggest teams and the Athletic can't imagine a world where users aren't obsessed with the NFL.
13 people found this review helpful
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Mark Jagger
10 April 2025
I am disgusted that you are unable to view your account settings from the app and that they automatically set your account to renew with no reminders or warning on the only place that I use the athletic, the app!!!!! I've just had 60 deducted from my account for the yearly subscription ag a hugely inflated price to what I paid previously. I am thoroughly disgusted by this, I do occasionally enjoy reading the articles and would be happy to pay what I was previously, but not this, I want a refund!
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What's new

Minor fixes and improvements