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.
// overview
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
No. Pitch is a theme for Ghost, the open-source publishing platform. It needs a Ghost 6 site, either on Ghost(Pro) with a plan that allows custom themes, or self-hosted Ghost.
No. You upload the zip in Ghost Admin and change colours, homepage sections and text in the theme settings (18 of them). The documentation walks through every setting. Custom CSS is optional.
Yes. The theme includes a membership page with your tiers and a monthly/yearly switch, a styled paywall for members-only and paid posts, and sign-in, sign-up and account pages. Payments run through Ghost's built-in Stripe connection, so you keep your subscribers and your revenue.
Yes. Every word the theme shows comes from a translation file, so you can translate it into your site's language.
The regular licence covers one website that you or your client run. The extended licence is for a single end product that you sell to others, for example a paid product where buyers receive a site built on the theme. If you are unsure which one you need, contact us before you buy.
Yes. Our Ghost theme install and setup service puts the theme on your Ghost site, sets your colours, navigation and homepage, connects memberships and imports your content. See the services page for the price.
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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