diff --git a/logs/basketball-scraper.log b/logs/basketball-scraper.log
index 3e5a206..e7fc229 100644
--- a/logs/basketball-scraper.log
+++ b/logs/basketball-scraper.log
@@ -8,3 +8,18 @@
 2025-11-02 16:01:10.568 [pool-3-thread-2] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Handling API request: /api/matches?date=2025-11-02
 2025-11-02 16:01:10.570 [pool-3-thread-2] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Fetching initial cookies from cz.basketball
 2025-11-02 16:01:11.451 [pool-3-thread-2] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Data fetched successfully for date: 2025-11-02
+2025-11-02 16:23:15.445 [main] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Starting Basketball Server...
+2025-11-02 16:23:15.700 [main] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Server running at http://localhost:8000/
+2025-11-02 16:23:24.626 [pool-3-thread-1] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Handling Web request: /
+2025-11-02 16:23:24.713 [pool-3-thread-2] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Handling API request: /api/matches?date=2025-11-02
+2025-11-02 16:23:24.715 [pool-3-thread-2] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Fetching initial cookies from cz.basketball
+2025-11-02 16:23:25.592 [pool-3-thread-2] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Data fetched successfully for date: 2025-11-02
+2025-11-02 16:24:29.839 [main] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Starting Basketball Server...
+2025-11-02 16:24:30.103 [main] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Server running at http://localhost:8000/
+2025-11-02 16:24:33.039 [pool-3-thread-1] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Handling Web request: /
+2025-11-02 16:24:33.100 [pool-3-thread-2] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Handling API request: /api/matches?date=2025-11-02
+2025-11-02 16:24:33.101 [pool-3-thread-2] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Fetching initial cookies from cz.basketball
+2025-11-02 16:24:33.801 [pool-3-thread-2] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Initial request encoding: gzip
+2025-11-02 16:24:33.859 [pool-3-thread-2] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Main request encoding: gzip
+2025-11-02 16:24:33.871 [pool-3-thread-2] DEBUG cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Using GZIP decompression for response
+2025-11-02 16:24:33.972 [pool-3-thread-2] INFO  cz.kamma.czb.BasketballServer - Data fetched successfully for date: 2025-11-02
diff --git a/src/main/java/cz/kamma/czb/BasketballServer.java b/src/main/java/cz/kamma/czb/BasketballServer.java
index 59853ce..ab84ac0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/cz/kamma/czb/BasketballServer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/cz/kamma/czb/BasketballServer.java
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ public class BasketballServer {
             URL initialUrl = new URL("https://cz.basketball");
             HttpURLConnection initialCon = (HttpURLConnection) initialUrl.openConnection();
             initialCon.setRequestMethod("GET");
+            initialCon.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
+            
+            String initialEncoding = initialCon.getContentEncoding();
+            log.info("Initial request encoding: {}", initialEncoding != null ? initialEncoding : "none");
             
             // Get cookies from response headers
             String cookies = "";
@@ -73,9 +77,20 @@ public class BasketballServer {
             URL url = new URL(urlString);
             HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
             con.setRequestMethod("GET");
+            con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
             con.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookies);
 
-            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+            // Handle potential gzipped response
+            InputStream inputStream = con.getInputStream();
+            String encoding = con.getContentEncoding();
+            log.info("Main request encoding: {}", encoding != null ? encoding : "none");
+            
+            if ("gzip".equalsIgnoreCase(encoding)) {
+                inputStream = new java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream(inputStream);
+                log.debug("Using GZIP decompression for response");
+            }
+
+            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
             StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
             String line;
             while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) content.append(line);