diff --git a/soccerdata/match_history.py b/soccerdata/match_history.py
index 18baa77..0343f82 100644
--- a/soccerdata/match_history.py
+++ b/soccerdata/match_history.py
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ def read_games(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
                 reader,
                 encoding="ISO-8859-1",
             ).assign(season=skey)
+            # Cleaning BOM characters in column's names
+            df_games = df_games.rename(
+                columns={col: col.replace("", "") for col in df_games.columns}
+            )
             if "Time" not in df_games.columns:
                 df_games["Time"] = "12:00"
             df_games["Time"] = df_games["Time"].fillna("12:00")