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The Greek Football Federation plays on Drupal!
Client: Hellenic Football Federation (EPO)
Developed by: E-Sepia
Technology: Drupal 11 and Custom API Integrations
Overview
E-Sepia developed the official website of the Hellenic Football Federation, delivering a modern Drupal 11 platform that serves as the Federation's main digital hub. The site provides structured, multilingual (GR/EN) and responsive access to all Federation content, supporting fans, clubs, referees, and officials.
Key Features
Dedicated sections for National Teams, Competitions, Refereeing, Members, Regulations and News
Flexible content modelling and streamlined editorial workflows
Presentation modules for sponsor and partners
Access to documents, forms, referee appointments, licensing material and official regulations
Digital Match-Sheet Integration
A standout element is the integration with EPO’s digital match-sheet back-office system. After each match, officials record results, goals and ranking updates internally. This data is automatically synchronised with the public website, providing real-time updates on:
- Competitions
- Match Results
- Fixtures
- Standings
- Goalscorer statistics
Outcome
A robust, scalable and easy-to-manage Drupal platform that combines reliable content management with automated, real-time sports data—offering an authoritative digital presence for Greek football.
The project aimed to rebuild the official website of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) on a modern, robust, and scalable digital foundation. The core goal was to deliver a platform capable of supporting the federation’s diverse needs—public communication, real-time match information, regulatory transparency, and services for clubs, referees, and national teams. A key requirement was the seamless integration with EPO’s internal digital match-sheet system, ensuring that scores, rankings, and statistics would be updated automatically after every match. The outcome is a modern Drupal 11 platform that enables EPO to communicate effectively with fans and stakeholders, ensures accurate and immediate publication of official match data, and provides a reliable, scalable foundation for future digital services.
Drupal has proved its possibilities in terms of structuring content, tagging it and displaying it using proper caching mechanisms and invalidation techniques. For a website where multiple different content types, different view modes and different listings are required, Drupal was the safe choice providing also an appealing admin UI without too much extra effort. Nodes, Terms and Paragraphs were heavily used to meet the needs of the content.
Another asset we had using Drupal was its BigPipe module and the lazy rendering techniques it allows. The content of the website is mostly originating from Drupal’s own database but there are some specific pages where the content is loaded from an external source; in that case Drupal acts as a proxy, retrieving the data, processing them and outputting them to the client. For these pages to load quickly without worrying about the timely response of the remote server, the dynamic blocks are rendered on screen using BigPipe and lazy loading.
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