Terms of Service

FDscout ("the Service", "we") is a football recruitment data platform at fdscout.com and app.fdscout.com, operated by Isaac Pells, trading as FDscout ("the Operator"). Contact: contact@fdscout.com. By starting a trial, creating an account or subscribing you agree to these terms. The person who starts a club account confirms they may accept these terms for their club.

1. The Service

FDscout provides football player and team statistics, derived metrics (percentiles, role scores, traits), comparison tools, shortlists and player pools. Data is compiled from licensed third-party sources; we do not guarantee completeness or accuracy, and metrics involve modelling choices that are ultimately editorial judgements. We add features and correct data regularly, so occasional changes and interruptions are expected.

2. Accounts

You must provide a valid email address and keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity on your account. Each login is for one named person and must not be shared. You may sign in with a password or via Google. We may suspend accounts that breach these terms.

3. Free trials

New individual and club accounts start with a 14-day free trial with full access and no card. When a trial ends without a plan, access stops until one is chosen; the account and everything saved in it are kept. One trial per person and per club. We may end a trial early if it is misused.

4. Individual plans

£9.99 a month or £99 a year for one person, billed through Stripe. FDscout is not VAT registered, so no VAT is charged. Plans renew automatically until cancelled from your account, taking effect at the end of the paid period. If you cancel within 14 days of first subscribing and have made only reasonable use of the Service in that time, email us and we will refund your first payment in full. Otherwise payments are non-refundable except where the law requires.

5. Club plans

£2,000 a year for up to 5 seats plus 3 view-only seats. Extra seats are £250 a year each, up to 20 seats in all; larger clubs should contact us. Paid yearly in advance, by card or by invoice payable within 30 days by bank transfer or card. FDscout is not VAT registered, so no VAT is charged. Access starts when a club pays by card or when its invoice is sent. If an invoice is still unpaid 14 days after its due date, the club's access pauses until it is paid. Seats added during the year are charged pro rata to the renewal date; seats can be reduced at renewal by contacting us. Plans renew yearly until cancelled: by card from Billing, or by invoice by emailing us before the renewal date. Either way the plan runs to the end of the paid year. The price can change at renewal; we will tell the club's super admins at least 30 days before. Club plan payments are non-refundable, except where the law requires.

6. Club accounts

The person who starts a club account is its first super admin. Super admins invite and remove people, set each person's role (super admin, member or view-only), manage billing and set the club's options. Members can add to and change the club's shortlists, pools, roles and notes; view-only seats can see them but not change them. Work saved in a club belongs to the club and stays with it when someone leaves. If the club allows private items, a person's private items pass to the super admins when they leave. Each seat is for one named person.

7. Acceptable use

Individual plans are for the account holder's own scouting and analysis, personal or professional. Club plans are for the club's members in their work for the club. You must not scrape, bulk-export or redistribute the underlying statistical data; share logins; resell or republish the Service's output as a competing data product; or attempt to disrupt or reverse-engineer the Service. Sharing individual screenshots and insights (social media, blogs, video) with credit to FDscout is welcome.

8. Intellectual property

The Service, its design and derived metrics are the Operator's property or licensed to it. Underlying match data is licensed from third-party providers and remains their property. Player likenesses and club identifiers are used descriptively to identify entities.

9. Liability

The Service is provided "as is". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for losses arising from use of the Service, including decisions made in reliance on its data. For club accounts, our total liability to a club in any 12 months is limited to the fees the club paid us in that period. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, and nothing affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

10. Changes and termination

We may update these terms; material changes will be notified by email or in-app at least 14 days before taking effect. Continued use after that constitutes acceptance. When a trial or plan ends, your account stays so your work is there if you return. You may close your account at any time by emailing us.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and disputes are subject to the courts of England and Wales (or your local courts where consumer law gives you that right).