The news stays free. The extras are worth paying for.
Every report, every live score and every forum thread on SportzCrazy is free to read and always will be. Membership buys you a quieter page, deeper analysis and a seat closer to the newsroom — and it pays the salaries of the eleven journalists who file it.
Reader Memberships
Compare everythingThree tiers, no upsell traps, no dark patterns. Switch or cancel from your account page in two clicks — we will never make you phone anybody to leave.
Advertising & Partnerships
Request the full deck4.2 million monthly readers, 61% of them between 18 and 34, 74% on mobile, and a session that runs eleven minutes on a match night. Rates below are indicative gross for a standard four-week flight; agency and annual-commitment discounts are negotiated case by case.
Run-of-site display
970×250 billboard, 300×250 MPU and the in-article 320×100. Viewability floor of 72%, measured third party.
₹180 CPM
Sponsored content
Written by our commercial studio, never by the newsroom, and labelled "Paid partnership" at the top of the page and in every feed.
₹2,40,000 /piece
Podcast host reads
60-second mid-roll on The Third Umpire, Offside Rule or Pit Wall Radio. Read live by the host, scripted with you, approved by you.
₹900 CPM
Video pre-roll
Six-second bumper or 15-second skippable ahead of highlights, press-conference cuts and the daily video desk.
₹520 CPM
Newsletter placement
Top or mid slot in The Daily Siren, 7:30 AM IST, Monday to Saturday. One advertiser per send, no exceptions.
₹38,000 /send
What we will not sell
No real-money betting or fantasy-gambling creative. No takeovers of a live match centre. No advertiser gets sight of an unpublished story, and no commercial partner has ever been given a right of reply before publication. If a brief needs the newsroom to write it, the answer is no — the studio will write it instead, and it will be labelled.
Compare Every Tier
| Feature | Free Reader | SportzCrazy+ | Superfan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹0 | ₹149 / month | ₹1,299 / year |
| News, match reports and columns | All of it | All of it | All of it |
| Live scores and match centre | Full access | Full access | Full access |
| Advertising shown | Yes | None | None |
| Premium analysis and tactics file | — | Included | Included |
| Fantasy Pro tips before lock | Free tips only | 90 minutes early | 90 minutes early |
| Podcast early access | Release day | 48 hours early | 48 hours early |
| Statistics archive depth | 24 months | Since 2008 | Since 2008 |
| Followed teams for score alerts | 3 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Fan forum | Read and post | Read and post | Plus Superfan rooms |
| Comment edit window | 5 min | 30 min | 30 min |
| Members-only interviews | — | — | 2 a month |
| Matchday newsletter | — | — | Every India fixture |
| Monthly editor's call | — | — | 45 minutes, on the record |
| Merchandise discount | — | 5% | 20% |
| Offline reading and print view | — | Included | Included |
| Desk response time | 3 working days | 2 working days | 1 working day |
| Cancel any time | Nothing to cancel | Yes, two clicks | Yes, two clicks |
What Your Membership Funds
SportzCrazy has taken money from advertisers since 2019 and it has never bought a sentence. Membership revenue matters because it is the part of our income that has no opinion about what we publish — and in 2026 it crossed 38% of the total for the first time.
Here is the honest breakdown of where a rupee of membership money went last financial year, audited by our parent company and published in full in our annual transparency note.
Students, Clubs & Institutions
50% off SportzCrazy+ while you study
₹75 a month or ₹599 a year with a valid student email or a scanned institution ID. Verified once, then re-verified each August. Applies to every undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma programme in India.
Seat licences for academies, clubs and newsrooms
Bulk SportzCrazy+ from 10 seats upward, billed annually against a GST invoice, managed from one admin console. Used by district cricket academies, ISL youth setups, sports-science departments and two regional newsrooms.
Billing & Cancellation
How you can pay
UPI (GPay, PhonePe, Paytm, any BHIM app), Visa, Mastercard, RuPay and American Express, net banking with 52 Indian banks, and UPI Autopay or card mandate for recurring plans. International cards are accepted for the same rupee amount.
GST invoices
Every payment generates a GST invoice within four hours, emailed and stored in your account for seven years. Add your GSTIN before checkout and it prints on the invoice so your business can claim input credit.
Cancel any time
Account → Membership → Cancel. Two clicks, no retention call, no "are you sure" maze. Access continues to the end of the period you have already paid for, and the mandate is revoked with your bank the same day.
14-day refund window
Full refund inside 14 days of a first payment or an annual renewal, no reason required. After that, annual plans are refunded pro rata on request. Money reaches your bank in five to seven working days.
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Members On The Record
"I bought SportzCrazy+ for the ad-free reading and stayed for the tactics file. Fourteen months in and it is the only sports subscription I have not cancelled during a boring international break."
"The Superfan forum is the only sports room online where a reporter actually turns up and defends their own copy. Worth the ₹1,299 for the editor's call alone — she took my question about the WPL coverage budget and answered it properly."
"We licensed 60 seats for our academy's coaching staff. The archive back to 2008 settles more dressing-room arguments than any video app we have paid five times as much for."
Pricing Questions
Full FAQNo. News reporting, live scores, match centres, standings and the fan forum stay free to read without an account, and that commitment is written into our editorial charter. Membership only ever adds things — an ad-free page, deeper analysis, earlier podcasts — it never takes away something you had yesterday.
All display units, video pre-roll and sponsored recirculation modules are removed for SportzCrazy+ and Superfan members, and no third-party ad tag loads at all — which usually takes about 1.4 seconds off a match-centre page load on mobile. Host-read podcast sponsorship stays in the audio file because it is baked into the recording, and paid-partnership articles remain on the site, clearly labelled, because removing them would be hiding a disclosure.
Yes, from Account → Membership at any time. Moving from monthly to annual charges the annual price immediately and credits the unused part of the month you have paid for. Moving from annual to monthly takes effect at your renewal date rather than instantly, so you keep the year you already bought.
Because the Superfan extras — the member forum, the interviews, the editor's call — cost us newsroom time rather than money, and we would rather have a big room than a lucrative one. The gap is deliberately small so that anyone already committing to a year has an easy reason to come closer to the desk.
Monthly plans renew each month and annual plans renew each year, both by UPI Autopay or card mandate as required by RBI rules. We email annual members seven days before a renewal with the exact amount and a one-click cancel link, and monthly members get a receipt every time. Nobody is ever renewed at a higher price without a separate email 30 days in advance.
A membership covers one person across up to four devices, which comfortably handles a phone, a laptop, a tablet and the TV browser. We do not currently sell a family plan; if more than one person in a household wants their own forum identity and their own followed teams, a second membership is the honest answer, and institutional seat pricing starts at ten.
It gets you a faster reply, not a different answer. Members are promised a desk response within one to two working days against three for free readers, but moderation decisions, corrections and complaints are judged on the facts alone. We have removed posts from Superfan members and upheld corrections raised by readers who have never paid us a rupee.
You keep full access until the end of the period you have paid for, then drop back to the free tier with its rolling 24-month statistics window. Nothing you wrote in the forum is deleted, your followed teams are preserved, and your saved articles stay in your account — if you resubscribe later everything is exactly where you left it.
Still deciding? Ask us anything first.
Membership questions, GST invoices, seat licences for an academy, or a media brief for the commercial desk — the newsroom answers everything itself, Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM IST.