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Security report for premierleague.com

Premier League · Media · United Kingdom

Low risk. No critical or high findings.

Security score

89/100

Risk levelLow

0–100, higher is better. How it is calculated

The Premier League official website serves as a comprehensive digital platform for football fans worldwide, offering the latest news, match fixtures, results, player and club information, and fantasy football games. It holds a leading market position as the official media outlet for the English Premier League, targeting a global audience of sports enthusiasts and fantasy gamers. The site integrates e-commerce through its official shop and provides rich multimedia content including videos and podcasts. Technically, the website employs a modern technology stack including JavaScript frameworks, Google Tag Manager for analytics, OneTrust for cookie consent management, Adobe Launch for tag management, and Firebase for backend services. The site is mobile-optimized, accessible, and SEO-friendly, ensuring a high-quality user experience across devices. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS, implements multiple security headers, and uses a consent mechanism for cookies, reflecting good security hygiene. However, it lacks publicly available security policies, incident response information, and vulnerability disclosure channels, which are recommended for enhanced transparency and trust. Overall, the website is professional, trustworthy, and well-maintained, though the absence of WHOIS registration data and direct contact information for security or business inquiries slightly reduces transparency. Strategic improvements in security communication and contact availability would further strengthen its posture.

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NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
88/ 100 · Low
Checks completed
7of 7

NIS2 Art. 21(2)

  1. (a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
  2. (b) Incident handling: One indicator
  3. (c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
  4. (d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
  5. (e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
  6. (f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
  7. (g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
  8. (h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
  9. (i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
  10. (j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside

This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.

GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.

Priority findings

No critical or high findings. These medium findings are worth fixing next.

  1. Security headers

    Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.

    • Medium

      Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

      Prevents MIME type sniffing

      What to do: Add "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff"

      • CAPEC-209
      • ASVS V3.4.4
      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    • Medium

      Missing X-XSS-Protection header

      Legacy XSS protection (deprecated but still recommended)

      What to do: Add "X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block"

    • Medium

      Missing Permissions-Policy header

      Controls browser features and APIs

      What to do: Implement a Permissions-Policy to restrict feature access

      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends Permissions-Policy: accelerometer=(), autoplay=(), camera=(), cross-origin-isolated=(),…

  2. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • Medium

      Privacy policy may not be GDPR compliant

      Privacy policy lacks explicit GDPR compliance elements

      What to do: Update privacy policy to explicitly address GDPR requirements and user rights

  3. DNS health

    DNS sends visitors and email to the right servers. Misconfigured records can cause outages or let someone redirect your traffic.

    • Medium

      DNSSEC Not Enabled

      DNSSEC is not configured for this domain

      What to do: Enable DNSSEC to prevent DNS spoofing attacks

      • CAPEC-142
      • RFC 4033
      • RFC 4035

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  • Security score drift

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Results by check

Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.

How this score is calculated

The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.

Counted in this score

SSL/TLS
100
Security headers
60
Email security
98
DNS health
85
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
88
Average
89

Not counted

  • NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
  • OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.

Findings that cap the score at 49

Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.

  • The certificate is not trusted by browsers
  • The website is not served over HTTPS
  • A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
  • The page loads a script from a compromised source
  • The domain registration has expired
  • SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain

Partial scans

When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.

Risk levels

  • Critical0–25
  • High26–49
  • Medium50–75
  • Low76–100

Breach exposure

Leaked credentials and lookalike domains from OffSeq Breach. The counts are free; the detailed lists are paid add-ons.

Dark web exposure

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Leaked records that mention premierleague.com, from OffSeq Breach.

Total records
760,631
Employees
5
Customers
760,546
Third parties
80
Weak passwords
16%

Latest record dated 2025-11-12 · 438 subdomains affected

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  • –fantasy.premierleague.com2025-11-12
  • –fantasy.premierleague.com2025-11-12
  • –fantasy.premierleague.com2025-07-20
  • –fantasy.premierleague.com2025-07-20
  • –fantasy.premierleague.com2025-04-14

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Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

The Premier League website operates as a key digital asset for the English football league, leveraging its global brand to engage fans through news, live scores, fantasy football, and merchandise sales. Its business model combines media content delivery with interactive gaming and e-commerce, generating multiple revenue streams. The platform's extensive partnership ecosystem includes major brands and marketing partners, enhancing its market reach. The site demonstrates strong growth indicators through continuous content updates and user engagement features. Competitive advantages include official league status, exclusive content, and a loyal fan base. Strategic observations highlight the importance of maintaining digital innovation and compliance with evolving privacy regulations to sustain market leadership.

Security posture

The Premier League website exhibits a mature security posture with enforced HTTPS, comprehensive security headers, and a robust cookie consent framework aligned with GDPR requirements. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected in the analyzed content. However, the absence of a published security policy, incident response plan, or vulnerability disclosure mechanism represents a compliance gap and potential risk in incident management transparency. The site would benefit from explicit communication channels for security issues and regular third-party script audits to mitigate supply chain risks. Overall, the security maturity is good but can be enhanced by adopting industry best practices for security governance and transparency.

Recommendations

  1. Publish a detailed security policy and incident response information on the website.
  2. Implement and publicize a vulnerability disclosure program or security.txt file.
  3. Provide clear and direct contact information for security and business inquiries.
  4. Regularly review and audit third-party scripts and libraries for vulnerabilities.
  5. Enhance transparency on data retention and privacy practices to strengthen GDPR compliance.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Premier League
Description
Official website of the Premier League providing latest news, fixtures, scores, results, player and club information.
Key services
Football news and updates, Match fixtures and results, Fantasy Premier League games, Official merchandise shop, Video content and podcasts
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
JavaScript, Google Tag Manager, OneTrust Cookie Consent, Adobe Launch (Adobe DTM), Firebase, BlazeSDK, HLS.js
Performance
moderate
Mobile
excellent
Accessibility
good
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Cookie consent mechanism
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML
  • Use of security headers

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
good

Advertising

Ad networks
Google DoubleClick
Marketing tools
OneTrust Cookie Consent, Adobe Launch
Transparency
good

Site quality

Design
excellent
User experience
excellent
Content relevance
excellent
Navigation
excellent
Professionalism
excellent
Trustworthiness
high

Key observations

  1. Website is fully accessible with rich content and navigation.
  2. Strong use of privacy and cookie consent mechanisms.
  3. No direct contact emails or phone numbers publicly listed; contact via forms.
  4. Use of multiple third-party scripts for analytics and advertising.
  5. No visible security.txt or vulnerability disclosure page.
  6. WHOIS data unavailable, limiting domain registration transparency.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on a modern JavaScript-based infrastructure with integration of multiple third-party services such as Google Tag Manager, OneTrust for consent management, Adobe Launch for tag management, and Firebase for backend support. It uses asynchronous script loading to optimize performance and supports mobile responsiveness with adaptive design. The presence of HLS.js indicates support for streaming media content. While the site performs moderately well, opportunities exist to improve hosting transparency and reduce reliance on multiple external domains to minimize potential security risks. Technical debt appears low, but continuous modernization and performance tuning are recommended to maintain optimal user experience.
Standards and sources

Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.

Retrieved 2026-10-25

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