Flashscore ranked fastest sports app by UK fans ahead of 2026 World Cup

Sports fans in the UK have identified Flashscore as the fastest platform for live sports results, according to new research examining how audiences follow live sport.

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A survey of 2,000 UK sports fans found that 46% considered Flashscore to be the quickest platform for delivering results and updates, underlining the growing importance of real-time data delivery for modern sports audiences.

Similar findings were recorded internationally. In Italy, 49% of 2,000 respondents selected Flashscore — known locally as Diretta — as the fastest platform, while in Brazil, 53% of 3,300 participants shared the same view.

The research also highlighted confidence in Flashscore’s reliability across all three markets. In Italy, respondents recognised Flashscore as being more accurate than competing services and national broadcasters’ platforms. Meanwhile, users in the UK and Brazil viewed Flashscore as equal to or close to competitors and national broadcasters in terms of accuracy.

Flashscore Director of Engineering Tomáš Kavka said:

“It is not one magic technology that solves everything, it is a lot of small and larger right decisions over time.

Serving a user in South America from Europe is technically possible, but speed is in our DNA. If we want to be the fastest on every continent, we need to be as close as possible to the user. And the data needs to reach that location the moment it appears in our database.”

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The findings arrive as Flashscore marks its 20th year since launch and continues its global expansion. The platform now attracts more than 125 million monthly users worldwide, has surpassed 400 million app downloads across its portfolio, and generates approximately 145 billion monthly impressions each month.

In the UK alone, the Flashscore app has been downloaded more than four million times. The platform records over two billion monthly impressions in the country, with users spending close to 30 minutes per day on average using the app.

Flashscore’s focus on speed has been central to its development since launching in 2006. The platform has concentrated on delivering sports information to users in milliseconds, aiming to provide updates instantly — often ahead of television broadcasts — with “faster than the TV” acting as an internal benchmark.

To maintain this performance, Flashscore has continued investing in infrastructure designed for large-scale real-time delivery. In 2024, the company relocated to a new data centre in Prague, tripling its processing capacity while implementing a distributed cloud architecture intended to support low-latency delivery.

The infrastructure has also supported Flashscore during high-traffic sporting events. During a major UEFA Champions League matchday earlier this season, the platform handled 34 million users in a single day, delivered 700 million notifications, and processed up to 1.3 million requests per second without disruption.

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