The Family Sports Calendar That Actually Works (Without 12 Separate Feeds)
Our household follows the Cowboys, the Cubs, Arsenal, and the Dallas Mavericks. That's four leagues, four separate calendar subscriptions, and — if you let it — four feeds cluttering your calendar with 300+ events a year.
There's a better way to do this. Calendar Collections let you combine any number of teams into a single subscription URL. One feed. All your teams. Updates automatically across everyone's devices.
The Problem with Individual Team Subscriptions
If every person in your household subscribes to their own teams, you end up with a calendar that looks like a Tetris board. A Thursday in October might have an NFL game, an MLB playoff game, an NBA regular season tip-off, and a Champions League match — all visible on everyone's calendar even if they don't care about half of them.
The other problem: if you want to share a "family sports" calendar with everyone in your household, there's no clean way to do it with individual team subscriptions. They're account-based.
How Calendar Collections Fix This
With Calendar Collections, you create a named group (call it "Family Sports" or "Our Teams" or "The Schedule") and add whatever teams you want to it. SportsCal generates a single iCal URL for the whole collection.
Share that URL with your family and everyone subscribes once. Every time someone in your house cares about a game, it's on the shared calendar. When a game gets rescheduled, everyone's calendar updates. No coordination needed.
Some Collections People Actually Use
- "NYC Sports" — Knicks + Yankees + Giants + Rangers + Red Bulls
- "LA Sports" — Lakers + Dodgers + Rams + LAFC
- "UK Fan in the US" — Arsenal + Liverpool + Chelsea (with kickoffs in your local time)
- "Fantasy Roster" — Every team where you have a relevant fantasy player
- "Dad's Teams" — Whatever sports dad actually watches
Does It Work Across Different Calendar Apps?
Yes — because it's standard iCal format. Your partner uses Google Calendar, you use Apple Calendar, the kids use whatever their school-issued Chromebook runs? Everyone can subscribe to the same URL. The events show up natively in each app.
How Many Teams Can You Add?
Unlimited. Premium subscribers can add as many teams as they want to a Collection, and create as many Collections as they need. One for the family, one for work (office sports pool), one for just the college teams — whatever makes sense for your life.
The Watch Links Work in Collections Too
Every game event in a Collection includes the Watch Link for that specific game. So when your family is debating what to watch on a Sunday afternoon, you open the calendar, see what's on, and tap the event to go directly to the right streaming service. It's the most useful part of the whole thing.
Planning to follow your teams for years? SportsCal also offers a one-time lifetime plan — pay $399 once and never pay again.