Founded in March 2008 as blogsFC.com the site started with just eight contributors and less readers a month than attend Darlington home games. That summer Austria & Switzerland hosted the Eurpean Championships, the writers each choose a team to follow and visitors numbers skyrocketed, we could have filled the Maracanã with the number of visitors.
The site expanded with the creation of individual team blogs and the advent of the Football Journalism Challenge in partnership with FootballJournalism.co.uk. This tournament seeked to find high quality writing talent to join BlogsFC.com but also to help nurture prospective writers in to new talent.
The first Journalism Challenege was a huge success seeing twenty-nine writers take part over eight months. FJC1 concluded in time to run a specific challenege for the 2010 African Cup of Nations in January. The writers covered the teams before, during and after the tournament. BBC Sport's African football expert Piers Edwards recognised the African Nations Cup special coverage we ran, featuring it in his African football blog.
In February 2010 blogsFC.com acquired footballlblogs.co.uk and footballblog.co.uk to further grow the network and aline the name of the site with the primary focus. The aim of footballblog.co.uk today remains the same as when BlogsFC.com was founded, to be the largest independent network of football blogs in the world.
If you would like to help us reach that goal and improve your writing and professional CV, then sign up today. Each writer gets their own personal online journalism CV which features all your latest writing and achievements, to see the CV's of some of the staff at FootballBlog.co.uk click here.
