The 2026 World Cup is over, but a new update for Apple Sports makes the app an even better place to follow soccer around the world. Here’s what’s new.
Apple Sports adds seven new soccer leagues around the world, plus formation details
Apple Sports was just updated to version 4.2, with the new version available now on the App Store.
This update focuses exclusively on serving soccer fans. The World Cup may be over, but there’s plenty of soccer ahead in the US and abroad.
Top comment by Kareem Ajibola-Kameel
It’s FOOTBALL, not soccer. This was a mistake by Oxford when they printed it in a dictionary sent to North America. They included soccer for whatever reason because it was the slang term used by working-class people for the sport. asSOCiation football was simply too long to say, so they shortened it to SOCcer, just like they shorten other things like breakfast to brekkers, technique to tekkers, Wayne to wazza, and Gascoigne to gazza. It’s frankly annoying to everyone you say soccer a slang term from the 1800s no one really uses but americans, especially when the name football is reserved for a hand sport that hardly involves any kicking.
Starting today, Apple Sports has added support for following seven additional leagues around the world. The full list includes:
- Belgian Pro League
- Danish Superliga
- Dutch Eredivisie
- Japanese J1 League
- Polish Ekstraklasa
- Scottish Premiership
- Swiss Super League
Additionally, soccer matches will now feature formations “across most soccer leagues.” Apple says this will make it easy to “visualize the starting lineup for each match.”
On a related note for soccer fans, Apple TV includes access to all Major League Soccer (MLS) matches for free, at no additional cost. And the new season just got started.
Are you using Apple’s Sports app? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments.
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