Key Moments:
- 46% of surveyed UK sports fans identified Flashscore as the fastest platform for live sports results
- Flashscore reached more than four million app downloads and two billion monthly impressions in the UK
- In 2024, the company tripled its processing capacity by moving to a new data center in Prague
Flashscore Leads in Speed and Reliability According to Surveyed Fans
Recent research surveying 2,000 sports fans in the UK revealed that 46% of respondents view Flashscore as the quickest service for receiving live sports scores and updates. This demonstrates a significant preference for the platform’s real-time data capabilities among UK users. Similar trends appeared internationally, with 49% of Italian and 53% of Brazilian respondents naming Flashscore (or Diretta in Italy) as the fastest option.
When assessing reliability, Italian participants regarded Flashscore as more accurate than both competing digital services and national broadcasters. Meanwhile, surveyed users in the UK and Brazil considered Flashscore on par with competitors and local broadcasters in terms of accuracy.
Expansion Milestones and Usage Figures
As Flashscore celebrates its twentieth year, the platform continues to grow its international footprint. The company now serves over 125 million monthly users, with a cumulative total of more than 400 million app downloads and roughly 145 billion impressions per month across all markets.
Within the UK alone, the app has been installed on more than four million devices and records in excess of two billion impressions every month. On average, UK-based users spend close to 30 minutes per day on the app.
Technology and Infrastructure Investments Support Growth
Since its launch in 2006, Flashscore has maintained a focus on delivering sports updates at exceptional speed, aiming to provide results faster than television broadcasts. To support this mission, the company has consistently prioritized infrastructure upgrades, culminating in a strategic move to a new data center in Prague in 2024. This transition enabled Flashscore to triple its processing capabilities and implement a distributed cloud system to further reduce latency.
The robustness of Flashscore’s infrastructure was highlighted during a recent major UEFA Champions League matchday, when the platform managed 34 million users in one day, issued 700 million notifications, and handled up to 1.3 million requests per second—all without service interruptions.
| Market | Survey Respondents | % Identifying Flashscore as Fastest |
|---|---|---|
| UK | 2,000 | 46% |
| Italy | 2,000 | 49% |
| Brazil | 3,300 | 53% |
Leadership Perspective on Sustained Performance
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.”
- Author
Daniel Williams
