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REVIEW
EFN Imps Edition is a Lincoln City fan app that does the small things well.
A focused matchday companion for Imps supporters — fixtures, results, league position, and a club-coloured wrapper around the news that actually matters in LN5.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
EFN - Imps Edition
ULTIMAPPS
OUR SCORE
6.8
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
There is a category of football app that no major studio will ever build: the single-club companion for a side outside the Premier League. EFN — the English Football Network — fills it by shipping one branded build per club, and the Imps Edition is the Lincoln City version.
Open it on a Saturday morning before a 3pm kick-off at Sincil Bank and the value is obvious. The next fixture sits at the top with kick-off time and opposition. The league table highlights Lincoln’s row. The scores tab is ready to update at five past three. Open it on a Tuesday afternoon in June and there is not much to do.
It is not trying to replace the official channels. It is trying to be the tab you tap on the way to the ground, and it mostly is.
It is not trying to replace the official channels. It is trying to be the tab you tap on the way to the ground, and it mostly is.
FEATURES
EFN — Imps Edition is one entry in the wider EFN (English Football Network) family of fan apps, with a build dedicated to Lincoln City. The home tab pulls the upcoming fixture and most recent result to the top, with kick-off time, opposition badge, and competition tag. Below that sits a rolling news feed aggregated from supporter blogs, regional press, and the club's own announcements.
Standard league-app furniture is here: full season fixture list with filters for league, FA Cup, EFL Cup, and Trophy; a live League One table that highlights Lincoln's row; a squad list with shirt numbers and positions; and a results archive that goes back several seasons. A separate scores tab shows live scorelines across the division on Saturday afternoons, which is the single feature most Imps fans will actually use during a 3pm kick-off.
Push notifications can be toggled per category — goals, full-time results, team news, and general announcements. There is no in-app ticketing, no audio commentary, and no video highlights; for those the app links out to the official Lincoln City site or the EFL iFollow service.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The focus is the win. Most football apps try to cover 92 clubs and end up generic. EFN — Imps Edition starts from the assumption that you are a Lincoln supporter and orders everything accordingly: your fixture is the headline, your table row is highlighted, your news is on top. That is a small editorial decision that makes a daily difference.
The Saturday-afternoon scores tab is fast and uncluttered, which is more than can be said for several of the bigger apps in the category. Notifications fire promptly when a Lincoln goal goes in, and the app stays well under 30MB installed — a fair trade for what it does.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The news feed quality varies. Aggregation from third-party blogs means the same story can appear three times with three different framings, and the editorial weighting does not always push the official club announcement to the top. A simple source-tagging system, or a "Club Official" filter, would tidy this up significantly.
Beyond matchday, the app is quiet. There is no transfer rumour tracker tuned to the lower divisions, no historical stats, no fan forum, and no integration with the official EFL stats provider that powers the bigger Premier League apps. For a club whose fanbase has weathered every division from the Conference upward, a deeper history section — past seasons, classic results, hall-of-fame players — would give long-time supporters a reason to open the app between fixtures.
CONCLUSION
Imps fans who want a single tap to the next fixture, the league table, and Saturday's scores will find this app does that job without fuss. Casual supporters and stats-hungry fans will outgrow it quickly. The EFN model — one branded build per club — is a reasonable way to serve smaller clubs that will never get a bespoke premium app, and Lincoln City is exactly the kind of club it suits.