Footbeen vs Futbin: similar names, completely different football apps

Wait, are these the same app?

No — and you are not the first person to ask. Footbeen and Futbin sound nearly identical when spoken aloud, and both live in the football world. But they solve completely different problems for completely different types of football fans.

Futbin is a companion tool for EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA) Ultimate Team. It tracks virtual player card prices, helps you build squads, solve SBCs, and plan your FUT strategy.

Footbeen is a personal tracker for real football matches. You log the matches you attend in person, build a map of every stadium you have visited, and track your stats as a groundhopper.

One is for the football you play on your screen. The other is for the football you watch from the stands. If someone told you to "download Footbeen" and you ended up on Futbin — or the other way around — this article will clear things up.

What Futbin does

Futbin is one of the most popular tools in the EA FC ecosystem, and for good reason. It has been the go-to companion for Ultimate Team players for years, with roughly 3.5 million daily active users. In 2025, EA signed an official licensing agreement with Futbin, making it one of the few third-party platforms with direct access to game data.

Here is what Futbin offers:

• Live player prices — real-time market data for every FUT card, with historical price graphs so you can buy low and sell high
• Squad Builder — build and share teams with chemistry calculations, position changes, and manager boosts
• SBC solutions — community-submitted answers to Squad Building Challenges, often posted within minutes of release
• Draft Simulator — practice FUT Draft picks without spending coins in-game
• Player database — every card, every stat, every version, filterable and searchable
• Player reviews — community ratings and comments on how cards actually perform on the pitch

If you play EA FC Ultimate Team seriously, Futbin is essentially required. The depth of market data alone saves hours of manual research, and the SBC solutions have saved millions of coins for millions of players. It is a brilliantly built product that has earned its dominant position in the FUT space.

Futbin is available as a website, an iOS app, and an Android app.

What Footbeen does

Footbeen is for football fans who go to matches. Real matches, at real stadiums, in real life. You log the fixtures you attend, and over time you build a complete record of your football life — every ground, every country, every goal you witnessed from the stands.

Here is what Footbeen offers:

• Match logging — search from 472,000+ pre-loaded fixtures across 176 leagues, tap to confirm you were there
• Personal stadium map — an interactive globe that lights up with pins for every ground you have visited, from Anfield to the Allianz Arena
• Deep personal stats — win rate, goals per match, country count, league breakdowns, season-by-season trends
• Match diary — add photos, ratings, and captions to turn each fixture into a memory you can revisit
• 53 achievements — bronze, silver, and gold badges for milestones like attending matches in 10 countries, completing the 92 Club, or seeing 500 goals live
• My Club — follow your favourite team and see your complete record of supporting them: matches attended, home and away stats, grounds visited
• Football Travel Planner — find upcoming matches near any city in the world, so you can plan trips around live football

Every feature is free. No premium tier, no ads, no subscription. The coverage spans the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Champions League, and 170 more leagues worldwide.

Footbeen is available on iOS, Android, and web.

Side-by-side comparison

Why the names sound the same

It is a coincidence. "Futbin" combines "FUT" (FIFA Ultimate Team) with "bin" (a container — a bin of FUT data). "Footbeen" combines "football" with "been" — as in, "I've been there." Both names are clever wordplay rooted in football, which is why they sound so similar despite being unrelated products built by different teams.

Footbeen and Futbin are not affiliated, associated, or connected in any way. They are independent products from separate companies.

Which one do you need?

This is the easy part.

You need Futbin if...

• You play EA Sports FC (FC 26, FC 25, or earlier FIFA titles)
• You trade players on the FUT transfer market and want live price data
• You need help solving Squad Building Challenges
• You want to theory-craft squads before spending your coins
• Your football life happens primarily on a console or PC

Futbin is the gold standard for this. There is no better FUT companion on the market, and EA's official licensing deal confirms that status. If you play Ultimate Team without Futbin, you are making it harder than it needs to be.

You need Footbeen if...

• You go to football matches — home, away, or neutral
• You want to track every stadium you have visited on a personal map
• You care about your real-life football stats: matches attended, goals seen, win rate
• You are into groundhopping and want to collect stadiums across countries and leagues
• You want a diary of your matchday memories with photos and ratings
• Your football life happens in the stands, on terraces, and in away ends

Footbeen exists because spreadsheets and memory are not enough to capture a lifetime of matchgoing. If you have ever struggled to remember which year you went to a specific ground, or how many matches you have actually attended — this is the app for that.

You need both if...

You play EA FC and go to real matches. Plenty of fans do both. Use Futbin to manage your virtual squad during the week, and use Footbeen to log the match you attend on Saturday. They complement each other perfectly — one for the digital side of your football obsession, one for the real-world side.

If you came here looking for Futbin

You probably want futbin.com. It is an excellent product, and if you play FUT, you should absolutely use it. We genuinely recommend it.

But now that you are here — if you also go to live football, take a look at Footbeen. You might find that tracking your real-world football journey is just as satisfying as managing your virtual one. Your first match log takes 30 seconds, and watching your personal stadium map light up is a feeling no SBC solution can match.

If you came here looking for Footbeen

Welcome. You are in the right place. Here is how to get started:

1. Download Footbeen on iOS or Android, or use it on the web
2. Set your favourite club
3. Log the last match you attended — search the fixture, tap "I was there"
4. Backfill your history — add every match you can remember, going back as far as your memory allows
5. Watch your stadium map fill in and your stats come to life

If you are new to tracking matches, our beginner's guide to groundhopping explains the hobby, and our guide to tracking matches attended walks through how to build your football diary from scratch.

Planning your next away day? The Football Travel Planner shows you every upcoming match near any city. And if you want to set a long-term goal, the Stadium Bucket List is a great place to start.

The bottom line

Footbeen and Futbin are both great products. They just happen to share a similar name while serving completely different football communities. Futbin helps you master the virtual pitch. Footbeen helps you remember every real one you have stood on.

If you have ever confused the two, you are not alone — and now you know the difference.

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