RFT and FanNgage: why we build for the six days between matches

A club's fans are never closer than on matchday. Then the final whistle goes, and from Monday to Friday the club has almost nothing to say to them.

That gap is the problem. Loyalty that lives for 90 minutes is fragile. Fans abroad are left out. Sponsors get a short activation window and no data to prove what it was worth. Real Fantasy Teams (RFT) and FanNgage exist to close it.

Why we built it

RFT was born the day after the Champions League final on 27 May 2018. Liverpool's goalkeeper made two mistakes that handed Real Madrid goals. In fantasy football, Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren lost fantasy points his own performance had earned.

The next morning, over coffee at Geotech, the team asked a simple question: what if fantasy points reflected how a player actually played?

That question became RFT. My job is to take it to the world — to clubs, leagues and venues — and to make it a business for the clubs that use it.

What RFT does

RFT is a fantasy football game built around a realistic scoring system. Fans pick a squad, set a captain, make transfers and compete in leagues — daily or across a whole season. Champions League, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga are in the app today.

And we're building global. We have access to leagues and matches worldwide, with real-time data. From Europe to MLS in North America, RFT isn't tied to one country or region. Wherever your fans are, the game can follow them.

It runs in three ways:

• Consumer app — on the App Store and Google Play, with individual subscriptions.
• RFT Business — private leagues for a club's fans, and for companies that want a game for their own people.
• White label — a fully branded app for a single club, venue or chain, under their own name. It can also sit inside a club's existing app.

How we measure the game

Most fantasy games reward the obvious moments: goals, assists, clean sheets. That's how a defender who played well can still lose points for a goalkeeper's mistake.

RFT scores every player on more than 30 real performance metrics, in every match. Points follow what the player actually did on the pitch, not just what ended up on the scoreboard.

For fans, that means fewer points decided by luck and more by knowing the game. For a club, it means a fantasy game its most serious supporters respect.

What FanNgage does

FanNgage is the club's own app, in the club's own colours. RFT lives inside it. Everything a fan wants between matches sits in one place, behind one login:

• Information — club news, fixtures and results, standings, live match stats, squad and player profiles, push notifications.
• Interaction — fantasy leagues, match predictions, quizzes, a fan corner and a loyalty programme.
• Commerce — the club's merchandise store, sponsor activations and paid league entry.
• Club control — campaigns, fan segments, real-time analytics and the fantasy admin, all run by the club's own staff from one back office. No developer in the loop.

Fantasy is the habit-former. It's what brings a fan back on a Tuesday. And it works because news, predictions, loyalty and the store surround it. The club sets its own leagues, rules, deadlines and prizes. Transfer windows and leaderboards run automatically. The club never touches a spreadsheet.

We're building RFT for ice hockey

Football was the start. Ice hockey is next.

FanNgage already covers both sports. Now we're building a dedicated RFT ice hockey game alongside it, for a hockey club customer. Hockey fans get the same thing football fans do: a fantasy game that scores players on how they actually played, inside their own club's app.

We're talking to top-division hockey clubs right now. If you run a hockey club and want to be early, this is the moment.

One deal reaches a club's whole fan base. Not a campaign. A season.

Why partner with us

• Your fans, all week. Engagement doesn't stop at the final whistle. It runs 365 days a year.
• Your brand. Your colours, your name, your app.
• Your data. In both setups — on our shared platform or fully white-labelled on your own infrastructure — the club owns its fan data.
• Revenue you can see. Sponsors pay per completed activation and get real numbers back. Merchandise, ticketing and paid leagues run in the same app, with your own margin.
• No gambling. RFT and FanNgage are fan games, not betting products. That keeps them right for families, sponsors and club values.
• A team that ships. Geotech builds and runs the platform. I handle the partnership and the commercial side. You deal with people, not a ticket queue.

We work with football and ice hockey clubs, leagues and federations, official supporter groups, and sports bars and venue chains — anywhere in the world.