Pitch
A bold football and sports magazine theme for Ghost: a live-style results strip, scoreboards and result cards made from one tag, league tables, match timelines and a column template.
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About Pitch
Pitch is a bold football and sports magazine theme. One internal tag on a match report builds the scoreboard, the result card and the results strip, and any table with a Pts column becomes a league table with form pills.
Who it is for
- You cover a league, a club or a sport week by week
- You publish match reports, tables and opinion
- You want scores and tables without a plugin or a data feed
- You sell memberships for longer features
Probably not for you if
- You review games with scores out of ten — see Arcade
- You run a general news site — see Gazette
- You publish fiction or serials — see Verse
Pages and layouts
Page templates: Topics (sections), Writers, Membership, Signin, Signup, Account.
Extra post layouts: Column.
Getting set up
- Match reports: add an internal tag #score Home 2-1 Away, for example #score Riverside Rovers 2-1 Ashford United. Add #comp Northern League and #venue Riverside Park if you like.
- Lead story: mark posts as Featured. The newest leads the homepage; the next four make the Top stories list.
- League zones: set Promotion places and Relegation places to match your league.
- Upload the theme zip in Ghost Admin → Settings → Design, then fill in the theme settings.
- Import the sample content if you want to start from the demo and replace it with your own posts.
What you download
- The theme, ready for Ghost 6.0 or later (pitch_1.0.0)
- Documentation in HTML
- Sample content you can import into Ghost
- 12 months of updates and support from the people who built it
Requirements
A Ghost 6 site: Ghost(Pro) on a plan that allows custom themes, or self-hosted Ghost. Memberships and paid tiers use Ghost's own members feature and its Stripe connection; the theme adds the pages and the paywall design. Demo photos are not included in the download.
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What's included
- One internal tag per match report (#score Riverside Rovers 2-1 Ashford United) makes the scoreboard, the result card, the results strip and the score on every card
- Club crests drawn from the team name: initials on a colour that stays the same for each club everywhere on the site
- A results strip under the header that scrolls by itself (and stops on hover or with reduced motion)
- Homepage with a lead story, a numbered Top stories list, Latest results cards and the latest posts
- Match header with a full-width scoreboard: both teams, the score, the winner in colour, the competition (#comp) and the ground (#venue)
- League tables: any table with a Pts column gets crests, green promotion rows, red relegation rows and W/D/L form pills
- Match timelines: a list of minutes (27' Goal! …) becomes a timeline with icons for goals, cards, substitutions and whistles
- Two post layouts: the match/story page and Column, led by the writer's portrait, for opinion pieces
- Light by default, with a floodlit dark mode and a reader toggle
- Sections (topics) and The team (writers) page templates
- Membership page with tiers and a monthly/yearly switch; styled paywall for members and paid stories
- Sign in, sign up and account pages
- Reading progress bar, image lightbox, galleries, callouts and toggle cards
- Self-hosted fonts (Barlow Condensed, Barlow)
- Fully translatable, 18 theme settings, no jQuery
Compatibility & tags
Changelog
v1.0.0 · 2026-09-30
- First release.
// faq
Questions about Pitch
Read more about Pitch
Best Ghost Theme for a Gaming Site in 2026: Reviews, Scores and Release Countdowns
Gaming readers want the score, the platforms and the release date before anything else. Here is what a Ghost gaming theme should do, and how Arcade does it.
Best Ghost Theme for a Football or Sports Blog in 2026
Sports readers want the score before the story. Here is what a Ghost theme for football and sports coverage should do, and how Pitch builds it without a data feed.
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