20 October 2025 – Flashscore, the world’s most popular live scores and sports news app, has announced the expansion of its Follow Player functionality to basketball and ice hockey. The update allows fans to receive real-time updates on their favorite stars from the NBA, NHL and other leagues.
The launch follows the successful rollout of Follow Player for football in September. In just two months, 1.3 million fans have started using the feature for football, following an average of five players each — a total of around 6.5 million player favorites.
With this latest enhancement, Flashscore’s 100 million-plus monthly users can now add up to 100 of their favorite players to receive personalized notifications. These updates include alerts on player lineups, in-game stats such as goals and assists, and post-match performance ratings.
The expansion comes amid strong user engagement with basketball and ice hockey content. During the 2024–25 NBA season, users opened match details more than 1.1 billion times across 1,316 games, averaging around 320,000 users per match. The Los Angeles Lakers emerged as the most-followed team, drawing an average of 515,000 users per game.
In the NHL, there were more than 783 million match detail opens across 1,420 games, with the Washington Capitals leading in popularity — averaging 390,000 users per game. Company data confirms that basketball and ice hockey rank among the most-followed sports on Flashscore, behind only football and tennis.
Tomáš Pondělík, Chief Product Officer at Flashscore, said:
“Following the hugely successful launch of Follow Player for our football fans, expansion to Basketball and Ice Hockey is the next logical step. Fandom is evolving, and we’re seeing a significant shift from fans, especially with the younger generation, following only their favourite teams to a deeper interest in individual players. We see the same trend in basketball and hockey, where superstars often have a global following that transcends team loyalties. Being able to offer our users the chance to follow real-time updates from their favourite football, basketball and ice hockey stars sets Flashscore apart from other live scores apps.
Our community has been asking for this feature, and the data shows a clear appetite for in-depth information. With Follow Player now available for basketball and ice hockey, fans can track their heroes in real time with the fast, non-intrusive notifications they expect from us. We’re already working on adding more meaningful player data to give fans a richer understanding of performance, and this is just the beginning.”
