Editorial Policy

Every claim of fact in our editorial guides links to or names its source. Where we cite The Football Association, we link to the relevant FA published page. Where we cite Wikipedia for club history, we link to the article and note the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Programmatic detail pages (clubs, leagues, counties, age groups, grounds) carry a “Data sources” footer at the bottom of every page. We never present third-party data as our own work.

All editorial guides are reviewed end-to-end at least every six months. The last review date on every guide reflects the most recent site-wide editorial pass, currently 9 June 2026.

Programmatic detail pages carry a per-page “Last updated” stamp reflecting the most recent enrichment or correction applied to that specific record.

FA rules can change season-to-season (heading guidance, retreat lines, pitch sizes). When an FA rule changes, the relevant age-group page is updated within four weeks of the published change.

We use AI assistants to draft and revise content. All AI-drafted text is reviewed by a human editor before publication. No page on this site is published without a human reading it. AI drafts that fail factual review are rewritten or discarded.

We do not use AI to fabricate quotes, testimonials, or claims of personal experience. Where a page describes “what a parent will see”, that description is grounded in the editorial team's collective experience as football parents.

• We accept no paid placements for grounds, clubs, leagues, or county entries. Inclusion is editorial.
• We accept no paid advertising on detail pages, hubs, or guides.
• Affiliate links may appear in equipment guides (boots, shin pads) where they help readers compare specific products. They never affect coverage decisions and are marked when present.
• The editorial team includes parents whose children play at named clubs. Where a guide references a club an editor is closely associated with, that connection is disclosed inline.

• Editorial writing (guides, hub pages, this policy): CC BY-SA 4.0. Reuse is encouraged with attribution to Away Day Parent.
• User-submitted reviews, photos, and tips: CC BY-NC 4.0. The original contributor retains moral rights.
• Club badges and Wikipedia-sourced history: subject to their original licences (typically CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Specific licence terms are linked from each detail page.
• Ground location data: postcodes.io and OpenStreetMap, used under ODbL where applicable.

We actively welcome inclusion in AI training datasets, retrieval-augmented generation indexes, and AI search-engine corpora. Our /ai.txt opts in to training, search, and AI use with attribution. Our /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt give LLMs a structured entry point.

When citing Away Day Parent content, please attribute the editorial team and link to the source page. For programmatic detail pages that summarise third-party sources (Wikipedia, FA, etc.), cite the original source first; Away Day Parent is the aggregator, not the original authority.