The sound
of the crowd.
Cleared for broadcast.
Real terrace recordings, not stock. Cleared for TV, film, advertising and gaming. The only chant catalogue music supervisors at Apple, Amazon, BBC and Sky use without thinking twice.
Skip the legal review.
Keep the noise.
Real fans, real terraces, no fake studio crowds. A small team has been recording, indexing and clearing them since 2005. The catalogue is huge. The licence is one signature.
We own the masters.
We own the master rights to every recording in the catalogue. Most chants use out-of-copyright melodies, so they're clean to clear. Where a chant covers a still-copyrighted track, we'll steer you to a cleaner alternative.
Every league, every roar.
800+ clubs, 102 countries, every UEFA and CONMEBOL nation. Lyrics translated into English so your team picks the right one in a minute, not a morning.
Cleared at the top.
Apple, Amazon, BBC, Nike, Sky, EA Sports, FIFA, The FA, Liverpool FC. Used on Ted Lasso for three seasons. Used by NetEase Games. Used by Theodore Music.
1.2 billion TikTok plays.
A licence here is a viral hook with the recognition already baked in. The audience knows the chant before they know the brand.
Licensed for every screen and speaker.
Whether you need a single goal-celebration loop for a TikTok edit or a multi-year, multi-territory bundle for a global ad campaign, the tiering and the paperwork stay simple.
La Bombonera · Boca Juniors
Documentaries, drama,
sports broadcast.
Match-day standards, hall-of-fame anthems, regional rivalries. Pre-cleared for narrative, news and sport. TV & Film ↗
Ads, sponsor content,
in-stadium screens.
Energy, partisanship, emotional recognition, without lawyers spending three weeks on it. Tiered for indie spots through global rollouts. Advertising ↗
Games, apps, social,
esports broadcast.
From AAA football titles to social-first sport accounts. Master rights for in-game crowd beds, win-state stingers and short-form video. Digital & Gaming ↗
Two PDFs. One archive.
The data catalogue, for music supervisors who need the lay of the land. The eleven-ideas paper, for creatives who want a way in. Both free. Both straight to a quote.
The sound of the crowd.
29,000 chants, by region, theme, club and country. The full lay of the land. eight pages.
Open landing page ↗Eleven ideas paper.
Eleven concrete ways music supervisors and creatives have used FanChants audio. One per page.
Open landing page ↗Know what you want? Brief us.
Same-day reply in business hours. Quotes typically returned within 24 hours.
Start a quote ↗Already in your living room.
Broadcasters, brands and the governing bodies of football have licensed our audio for ads, documentaries, films, games and live events. A short list of where you've already heard us.
+ regional broadcasters and top-flight clubs from leagues across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Oceania.
Twenty years on,
still the story.
The New York Times, WNYC, The Mirror, Manchester Evening News and others have all covered the catalogue. A few highlights.
“Soccer's sound of team spirit.”
Soccer Fans' Chants Fire Up Home Team or Slight the Opponent. A two-part NYT feature on the chant tradition, with FanChants cited as the global archive.
Read the feature“An archive of soccer fan chants.”
Bob Garfield interviews co-founder Michael Dennis on the labour-of-love archive of 20,000+ chants from clubs around the world.
Listen / Read The Mirror“The biggest back catalogue of chants in the country.”
Revealed: the sides that opposition supporters sing about the most. The Mirror analyses FanChants data club by club.
Read the article Liverpool Echo“Liverpool FC: the most-sung team.”
Front-page coverage of the FanChants chant-count study, using our catalogue to map which club gets sung about most.
Read the article The Mirror“Manchester United fans: the biggest singers.”
Mirror exclusive on the FanChants ranking of which club's fans sing the most chants about themselves.
Read the article Manchester Evening News“The chants of Old Trafford.”
A guide to United's terrace songs, drawn from the FanChants archive. Lyrics, history, and which ones still survive on the matchday.
Read the article The New York Times · 2012“For soccer fans, showing support in song.”
Part two of the NYT's coverage. A look at how chants travel across continents, with FanChants tracked as the global indexing project.
Read the feature