added    Data Import tool - Custom Fields in Club, Referee, Stadium

  added    Data Import tool - Staff import

  improved    thumbnails (player, staff, referee) and logos (club, competition) are available on the site search page

  added    Squad - option to disable Group By Position

Squad - option to disable Group By Position

  added    "Additional Referees" and "Fourth official" games on the Referee page

  added    custom color option in Standing Table Colors

  added    possibility to load Initial Standing Table data from another table (useful in some multistage competitions)

Custom color in Standing Table Colors

Load Initial Standing Table data from another table

  fixed    season selector at the Referee's page

  fixed    rendering non-Latin characters in Game temporary player

  fixed    game temp players mixing after save

  fixed    error conflict with Avada Page Builder

  added    "Customizer" >> "Football Leagues" >> "Match List" >> "Kickoff Section Minimum Width"

  fixed    rendering "default empty logo" when team logo is not set   

  improved    Squad rows block - mobile layout

  added    'Date of Death' field in Staff and Referee

"Kickoff Section Minimum Width"

  added    option to add a player to a game as a text string without saving into the database - #1555

  added    Data Import tool - Referee ID &  Referee External ID

  added    Data Import Tool - Matches, Goals, Cards, Substitutes, and Lineups import

  improvements    minor fixes

Option to add a player to a game as a text string

Data Import Tool - Matches import

Data Import Tool - Lineups import

  fixed    Standing table color CSS classes

  fixed    Data Import tool - Clubs 

  added    game Club captain

  added    Game Lineups - minutes in events (Customizer >> FL >> Match >> Minutes in Lineups Events)

  improvements    minor fixes

Game Club captain

Game Lineups - minutes in events

Most of the CSS rules have been rewritten and almost all template files have been changed.
If you have custom Additional CSS rules, revise them.

Most of the plugin display settings had been moved to the Customizer.

  added    new CSS classes to the most template files

  added    special integration with SiteOrigin CSS for easy customizing

  removed    IE support (CSS styles and some scripts)

  improved    optimized and removed unused CSS styles (main CSS file size is reduced appr. 300%)

  improved    loading scripts (Justified gallery + Featherlight) - only on required pages; - removed OverlayScrollbars

  improved    rewroted all plugin templates (using new classes) + better mobile support

  fixed    Staff photos in Birthday widget/shortcode

  improved    Most of the plugin display settings have been moved to the Customizer

  added    Data Import tool - Club ID & Club External ID in Clubs import

  added    Data Import tool - Stadiums Import

New Tutorials

- Customize Football Leagues with SiteOrigin CSS

New Templates

New Customize plugin menu

Customizer

  added    possibility to add Manual player's statistics - #1108

  fixed    Next Match widget - show game from today and newer

  fixed    "Players" shortcode - incorrect goals calculation with own goals

New Tutorials

- Add Player Statistics Manually

Manual Statistics (Player)

  fixed    "Players" shortcode - incorrect number of goals and assists when game lineups not set

  improved    shortcode and widget "Players (scorers & assistants)"

  improved    minor fixes

Shortcode "Players" improvements

- "competition_id" - now supports comma-separated ids

- "club_id" - now supports comma-separated ids

- new argument "penalty_goals" - to show penalty kick goals in brackets

- new argument "games_played" - to show number of games played in separate column

- new argument "group_by_place" - to group players with the same number of goals or assists

- new argument "secondary_sorting" with 2 options: "less_games" and "less_penalty"

  fixed    rendering Referee list in the Game edit page

  added    Assistant Referee games at the Referee page

  added    Plugin Caching System - for caching some complex queries and automatic cache invalidating

Plugin Caching System

Caching system works automatically. 

If you have a problem with it or have a small amount of data, you can disable it in "Settings" >> "Service Links".

Assistant Referee games at the Referee page

  added    Plugin Health page to check some common problems

Plugin Health page

  added    Data Import - player "Bio" field

  improved    minor improvements

  added     Game edit page: squad number in the player selector

  improved    minor performance improvements

  added    WebP image support in gallery

Game edit page: squad number in the player selector

  improved    Game Edit UI (new lineup player selector, updated game events table and selector, special submenu)

  improved    Import Data UI

  added    new fields in Import Data UI >> Player: full_name, national_team, country_of_birth, date_of_death

  fixed    error on loading team squad to edit with fully removed player

  added    Next and Last Match shortcodes (the same as the existing widgets) 

  improved    Club edit page UI

  added    option to change player current club in Squad

  improved    Club Squad admin UI

  added    Data Import >> Club: "National Team" option

  added    home_club and away_club arguments in Matches shortcode

Improved Club Squad admin UI

  added    new Staff and Referee shortcodes

  added    option to count in player statistics Yellow + Yellow/Red as Red card only - (Settings & Tools >> Settings >> General)

Staff Shortcode

Option to count in player statistics Yellow + Yellow/Red as Red card only

  added    option to override Countries translations

  added    option "How to count in statistics "second yellow > red" card"

  added    new shortcode and widget - Competition List

New Tutorials

- Competition List shortcode

Competition List shortcode

Competition List widget

Countries translations

option "How to count in statistics "second yellow > red" card"

  added    National team option in Club and Player

  fixed    date picker not working in the Match edit page

  fixed    Matches shortcode: grouping header text (day and month) is not localized

  added    new socials in Player's and Club's profile: TikTok, VK, LinkedIn

  added    possibility to create new League and Season at the Competition edit page

  improved    process of creating multi-stage Competition (on creating Secondary stage the League, Season, and title is filled automatically from the Main Stage values; is shown a list of previously created stages below) 

Data Import

  added    Player - new field "External ID". Can be used on import to update the existing player.  

  added    CSV export for players

  added    support for dynamic custom fields in "Batch Import" >> "Players" 

  added    new fields in "Batch Import" >> "Players":  "Player ID" and "Player External ID"

Use "Player ID" and "Player External ID" to update existing players. You can found more info about it in the Batch Import page.

CSV export for players

  added    new Player option - "Date of Death"

  added    Referee support for "Hide not used seasons" option in the Seasons Dropdown

  added    Competition selector in widgets

  added    "league_id" argument in "FL Matches" shortcode

  added    new arguments in "Matches" widget: "league_id", "season_id", "exclude_ids", "include_ids", "date_from", "date_to", "days_offset", "days_offset_to"

  added    option to show all referees in Match slim layout

  improved    "FL Matches" widget - "competition_id" argument is now optional

  fixed    assistant link in Game Goals block

  improved    logic of cards calculation in "Referee - Finished games"

New Player option - "Date of Death"

Competition selector in widgets

Option to show all referees in Match slim layout

  added    Referee - Finished games and Upcoming games

Referee - Finished games

  improved    CSS Styles - added prefixes to grid classes to prevent conflicts with some themes

  added    referees block in Match Shortcode

  added    "hide_zero" argument in Players shortcode

  added    possibility to choose Match ID in AnWP Selector (used in Match shortcode and some other places)

  added    Data Import - referees

Possibility to choose Match ID in AnWP Selector

Data Import - Referees

  added    Initial Standing Table data

  fixed    Video rendering error in some cases

  added    YouTube default player. Now you can select which video player to use (see screenshot). #736

  fixed    Shortcodes button in Classic Editor

Video Player Settings - Settings > General

YouTube player behavior:

- Main video will be embed

- Additional videos and video widget will be opened in modal

- when you start a new video, others will be paused

- player uses https://www.youtube-nocookie.com host

  fixed    some scripts not work in WordPress 5.6 in Firefox 

  added    new Special Status field in Match edit with 2 options: "Match Postponed" and "Time To Be Defined"

  added    totals row in player stats (if more than one competition)

  added    Club shortcode

  improved    AnWP Selector (used in plugin widgets to select players and clubs)

Special Status field

"Time To Be Defined" - the time of the match will be hidden in all Match cards and layouts

"Match Postponed" - special notice ("Match Postponed") will be added to the Match header (single) and in the bottom line (list)

AnWP Selector

Player Total Stats

  added    support for several competition IDs in Matches shortcode 

  added    Player ID selector in "FL Player" widget, "Player Card" and "Player Data" shortcodes

  added    new shortcode - "Player Data" > Player Data - shortcode

  fixed    incorrect logic of "days_offset" and "days_offset_to" params in Matches shortcode in some cases 

Player ID selector

  added    Player's social links

  added    new options in Match shortcode - "club_last" and "club_next". >> Match shortcode

  added    new options in Squad shortcode - "header", "layout", and "layout_block_columns". >> Squad shortcode

  added    new Settings option - "Hide not used seasons in the Seasons Dropdown" (in "Settings" >> "General")

Hide not used seasons in the Seasons Dropdown

  added    "clone Competition" action

  added    some system strings (cards, text in the flipped countdown) to translatable options (Settings >> Text Options)

  fixed    rendering Coach block in Match shortcode

  improved    minor fixes

"Clone Competition" action

  added    new Match block - Missing Players 

  added    new Player block - Missed Matches

Missing Players

Missed Matches

  added    option to hide/display plugin instances in the frontend search results

  added    possibility to set custom outcome

New Tutorial

- https://anwppro.userecho.com/knowledge-bases/2/articles/788-non-numeric-scores-for-custom-outcome

Custom Outcome

Hide/display in the frontend search results

  added    action to clone Standing Table options

  added    "show_header" option in Match shortcode. Default is "1" - yes. 

  added    "title" option in the "Competition Header" shortcode. It allows to set custom title.

  added    linked Standings in Competitions admin list  

  added    "show_notes" option in Standing shortcode and widget. Default is "1" - yes.

  added    possibility to show Referee and Stadium in the bottom line of Match List item

  added    Match Edit - possibility edit Game Events

  added    Match Edit - assistants for own goal

  added    Match Edit - Stadium field improvements (autocomplete and default option - home club stadium)

  improved    on Standing Table create now are available only round-robin competitions without linked Standing Tables 

  fixed    Match shortcode can be used for upcoming matches

Clone Standing Table options on create

Standings in Competitions admin list

Bottom Line in Match List

Match Edit - Stadium field improvements

  fixed    long club name breaks Match list mobile layout 

  added    "include_ids" option in "Clubs" widget

  added    player country of birth

  added    option for opposite club name in Player Latest Matches: abbreviation (default) or full name

  added    alternative translations for Outcome Letters (W, D, L) in "Settings & Tools" >> "Settings" >> "Text Strings"

  added    referee in Next Match widget

  improved    match list mobile layout

Match list mobile layout

Player country of Birth

Alternative translations for Outcome Letters (W, D, L)

Referee in Next Match Widget

  added    "include_ids" option in "Clubs" shortcode 

  added    possibility to translate all frontend text strings from the plugin admin 

  added    "Custom default club logo" option (Settings & Tools >> Settings >> Display >> Club)

  added    "partial" option in "Standing Table" shortcode and widget to show partial table data 

  added    "bottom_link" option in "Standing Table" to show link to the associated Competition or Full Standing Table

  added    "outcome_id" option in "Matches" shortcode to show outcome label.

New Text Options page 

"Custom default club logo" option

Standing Table Partial Data

Outcome label in Matches shortcode

  added    admin RTL styles

  added    video review widget

  fixed    rendering non-Latin characters in round and group titles

  fixed    removing old match events in some cases

Video Review widget

  added    photos Gallery in Match

  added    additional videos in Match

  improved    photo Gallery styles

Match gallery and additional videos

Additional Videos

  added    RTL support (remove any previously entered RTL CSS fixes from Customizer >> Additional CSS)

  fixed    Birthdays incorrect age calculations on some servers

  fixed    minor style fixes

  added    filter by match status (fixture, result) in admin list of matches 

  added    filter by League and Season in the Standing Tables admin list

  added    filter by League and Season in the Competitions admin list

  added    possibility to add additional referees

  added    Birthdays widget

  fixed    incorrect game time calculation if server timezone option differ from "UTC"

Birthdays Widget

Filter by match status (fixture, result)

Filter by League and Season in the Standing Tables admin list

Additional referees

  added    new option in Matches shortcode: group_by="competition"

  added    new options in Matches shortcode: include_ids and exclude_ids - comma-separated list of match ids.

  added    additional current clubs for Staff

  improved    minor style changes in Match >> Lineups block

  improved    memory usage on edit Club

Additional current clubs in Staff

  added    home Clubs option in Stadium

  added    dynamic Custom Fields for player, club, stadium, staff and referee

  added    "exclude Match IDs" option in Last and Next Match widget

  added    new parameter in Matches shortcode - days_offset_to

E.g.: to get today games set "days_offset_to=1" and "days_offset=0"

  fixed    "(no title)" in Competition and Match menu titles

  improved    Clubs Selector in Competition

  improved    Custom fields filter shortcodes through their hooks

New Tutorials

- Dynamic Custom Fields

Clubs Selector in Competition

Dynamic Custom Fields

"Exclude Match IDs" option in Last and Next Match widget

  added    autocomplete on selecting referees, stadiums, and clubs

  improved    compatibility with admin styles in WordPress 5.3 

  added    option to use a monospace font in Standing table numbers ("Settings" > "Display" > "Standing")

  added    option "Match slug generated with" (club title/club slug). "Club name" was the only one option before.

  added    Match title generator

  added    "group_id" parameter in Matches shortcode

  added    "Last Match" widget

  added    new options in "Next Match" widget: "show club name" and "match link text"

  added    Club social

  fixed    incorrect conceded goals calculation for goalkeepers if the opposite team lineup and subs list is empty

  Action required:    if you have "Next Match" widget, insert and save "match link text" option

  added    "compact" option in the "players" shortcode

  fixed    danger placeholder in standing table notes - https://anwppro.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/267-the-danger-is-not-showing-the-colour-in-standing-table-below

  fixed    duplicate content in Divi themes (sometimes)

  improved    players shortcode: transform layout on small screens

  improved    countdown timer now is based on website time (not on user time as before)

  changed   bump minimum PHP version up to 5.6