World Cup 2026 v4.0.3

World Cup 2026 v4.1.3

⚽ Enhanced Live Match Experience

🕒 New Manual Match Clock
• Added a custom World Cup match clock system.
• Clock starts automatically when a match goes live.
• Stops at half-time and displays 45:00.
• Resumes from 45:00 for the second half.
• Supports extra time phases:

• 90:00 at start of extra time.
• 105:00 at extra time half-time.
• Continues correctly through second period of extra time.
  • Clock automatically stops when the match finishes.

🌍 Public GitHub Clock Synchronisation
• Fixed an issue where remote dashboards could start their own local timer from 00:00.
• All installations now prioritise the exported GitHub match clock.
• Users viewing public dashboards should now see the same match timer as the source integration.
• Improved consistency across Home Assistant installations using public JSON feeds.

⚽ Goal Event Improvements
• Goal events now retain:

• Scorer name
• Goal minute
• Match clock timestamp.
  • Goal timestamps remain available after matches finish.
  • Improved persistence of live goal data.

📡 Public Data Feed Improvements
Additional live match data is now exported to GitHub:
• Manual match clock
• Display minute
• Clock seconds
• Goal events
• Goal scorers
• Match status updates
• Extra time state information

This allows third-party dashboards and public websites to display richer live match information.

📊 Overview Improvements
• Players To Watch now follows the same ordering logic as the Golden Boot rankings.
• Improved consistency between Overview and Statistics sections.

🏟️ Live Centre Improvements
• Cleaner live match presentation.
• Football-style match clock display.
• Improved live event visibility.
• Added information notice explaining that goal timestamps use the manual match clock and may differ slightly from official timestamps.

⚙️ Backend Improvements
• Improved match state tracking.
• Improved GitHub export handling.
• Better synchronisation of live match events.
• Enhanced support for half-time, full-time, extra time and penalties.

🐛 Fixes
• Fixed public dashboards resetting live clocks to 00:00.
• Fixed inconsistencies in Players To Watch ordering.
• Improved goal event persistence.
• Improved live match synchronisation.
• Bosnia & Herzegovina flag alias improvements.
• Various stability and performance improvements.

Thank you to everyone supporting and testing the World Cup 2026 integration. Your feedback continues to help shape the project ahead of the tournament. 🏆⚽