Duplicated teams

Hi, and thanks for the links — they made this quick to check. It isn't a duplicate. Team 8628 is West Ham United Women; upstream it sits in the Women's Super League, while team 8 is the men's Premier League side. Merging them would have been wrong. What you did find is a real problem, just a different one: we don't cover women's competitions at all, so that row has zero matches attached and reads as an empty duplicate. There are roughly 2,500 team rows in the same state — teams that exist in our database because they appeared somewhere upstream, in competitions we don't carry. Two things on us: the name should say "West Ham United Women" so it isn't ambiguous, and a team with no matches in any competition we cover shouldn't be presented as a normal team page. I'd rather fix those than hide the row, because the team is real. Thanks for reporting it properly instead of assuming it was rubbish data. - Bzzoiro

No apology needed — you were right, and it was the most useful part of the report. Nothing did tell you it was a women's team. We were copying the name from upstream, where that club is called just "West Ham" while the men's side is "West Ham United", and we carried across nothing else that would separate them. Expecting you to guess that was unreasonable. Fixed today. Teams now carry the gender we get from upstream, and where it is a women's team the name is shown as "West Ham (Women)" — in search, in the team list and on the team page itself. It only gets added when the name doesn't already say it, so nothing ends up as "Barcelona Women (Women)". The same report also got something else fixed. The search was offering 287 team entries with no matches and no squad behind them — bracket placeholders like "1A" and "1B", which are the group winners before a draw resolves, plus teams from competitions we do not cover. Those no longer show up as search results. They are not deleted and still answer at their own URL; they just stopped being offered as if they were something to look at. Thanks for pushing on it instead of writing it off as bad data. - Bzzoiro

Closing this — both halves are shipped and live. Teams carry the gender we get from upstream and a women's side reads as "West Ham (Women)" in search, in lists and on its own page, only where the name does not already say it. And the 287 team entries with no matches and no squad behind them stopped being offered as search results; they are not deleted and still answer at their own URL. Thanks again — the second fix only exists because you pushed back instead of accepting the first answer. - Bzzoiro