UK fans rank Flashscore as fastest sports app ahead of 2026 World Cup

Flashscore has been ranked the fastest sports results platform by UK fans, according to new research into how audiences consume live sport.

(AsiaGameHub) –   In the UK, a survey of 2,000 sports fans found that 46% identified Flashscore as the quickest platform, highlighting the critical importance of real-time data delivery for modern audiences.

This trend is mirrored in Italy, where 49% of 2,000 respondents named Flashscore the fastest, and in Brazil, where 53% of 3,300 participants reached the same conclusion.

Users in all three nations also recognised Flashscore for its reliability. In Italy, Flashscore (known locally as Diretta) was recognised as being more accurate than competitors and national broadcasters’ platforms, while in the UK and Brazil, Flashscore was recognised as being equal to or close to competitors and national broadcasters’ platforms.

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.”

The findings come as Flashscore continues to scale globally in its 20th year since launch. The platform attracts more than 125 million monthly users worldwide, with more than 400 million app downloads across its portfolio, and generates approximately 145 billion monthly impressions.

The Flashscore app has also been downloaded over four million times in the UK, with more than two billion monthly impressions and users spending close to 30 minutes per day on average within the app.

Flashscore’s reputation for speed is the result of a 20-year focus on delivering data in milliseconds. Since launching in 2006, the platform has been built around the principle of delivering all the important sports information to fans as it happens. That means meeting expectations for updates to appear instantly, often ahead of TV broadcasts, with “faster than the TV” serving as an internal benchmark.

To support this, Flashscore has invested in infrastructure built for real-time delivery at scale. In 2024, the company moved to a new data centre in Prague, tripling processing capacity, alongside a distributed cloud architecture that ensures low-latency delivery.

This combination enables Flashscore to maintain both speed and reliability during peak moments. During a major 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, demonstrating its ability to operate at scale without disruption.