Bolt.fo
A football news and statistics platform for the Faroe Islands that keeps articles, league tables and player records in one place.
Bolt.fo is a Faroese-language football news site for the Faroe Islands, covering what the site describes as the islands' most popular sport. It combines news articles with images and a statistics layer: live league tables and standings, player statistics for top scorers, assists and combined totals, penalty records, transfer tracking of departures and arrivals by year, and the European performance records of Faroese players. Coverage is organised across men's, women's, youth, national team and foreign football, with advertisement placements throughout.
Project interface
- Client
- Bolt.fo
- Project Type
- Sports news and statistics platform
- Industry
- Media & Sport
- Platform
- Public website, Faroese
- Engagement
- News publishing, statistics and data presentation
- Status
- Live
- Live
- bolt.fo
Business Context
Football coverage that has to be both a news site and a record book.
Bolt.fo covers football in the Faroe Islands, which the site describes as the most popular sport there. It publishes news articles with images across men's, women's, youth, national team and foreign football, and it maintains the records readers return to between articles: league tables and standings, player statistics, penalty records and player transfers by year from 2022 to 2026.
A site of this kind carries two different workloads. News has to be published quickly and read easily, while tables, standings and player statistics have to stay current and consistent with each other as results come in. The site also carries advertisement placements, so its page layouts have to hold editorial content, data and advertising together.
The Challenge
Publish football news alongside live tables, standings and player records that stay current, in one Faroese-language site readers can navigate by competition.
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Editorial and data side by side
Articles and statistics had to live in one structure without either crowding out the other.
02
Tables that stay current
League tables, standings and player statistics are presented as live data, so they had to be kept current and consistent with each other.
03
Records across seasons
Transfers are tracked by year from 2022 to 2026, penalties are recorded and Faroese players' European performances are logged, so the site needed a stable structure for multi-season data.
04
Navigation by competition
Readers follow men's, women's, youth, national team or foreign football, and the site had to let them move between those areas quickly.
KAPAT Approach
How KAPAT approached the work.
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Sections
Coverage organised into men's, women's, youth, national team and foreign football, with a miscellaneous area for transfers by year.
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News
Articles with images published within each section.
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Statistics
Live league tables and standings, player statistics, penalty records and European performance records presented alongside the news.
04
Transfers
Departures and arrivals tracked by year from 2022 to 2026.
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Advertising
Advertisement placements positioned within the page layouts.
What Was Delivered
What was delivered.
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News articles
Football news with images, organised by men's, women's, youth, national team and foreign football.
02
Live league tables and standings
Current tables and standings for the competitions covered.
03
Player statistics
Top scorers, assists and combined totals.
04
Penalty records
A record of penalties kept alongside the player statistics.
05
Transfer tracking
Departures and arrivals tracked by year, 2022 to 2026.
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European performance records
Records of Faroese players' performances in European football.
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What KAPAT Handled
KAPAT's contribution.
Outcome
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