Flashscore, the live scores app with more than 100 million monthly users, has launched its new Follow Player functionality, described internally as the company’s “flagship enhancement of 2025”. The feature enables fans to track individual football players in real time, receiving notifications for key events such as starting lineups, goals, substitutions, red cards and post-match ratings.
Users can follow up to 100 players, with additional notifications for assists, yellow cards, missed penalties and transfers to be introduced in future updates. Flashscore also plans to expand the feature to other sports, including basketball and hockey. Alongside the new alerts, the app now provides player-specific statistics such as expected goals, passing accuracy and duels won.
Since its rollout, almost 350,000 users have selected at least one player to follow, averaging six players each, amounting to about two million tracked players in the first month. Cristiano Ronaldo tops the global list of most-followed players, ahead of Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal. Kylian Mbappé and Neymar also rank among the top names, with Jude Bellingham in 10th place.
In the UK, Mo Salah and Cole Palmer join the global top four, alongside new entries such as Alexander Isak, João Pedro and Florian Wirtz.
Flashscore announced the feature ahead of the Legends Charity Game in Lisbon between Portugal Legends and World Legends, where the platform, an official strategic partner of the match, will provide real-time updates via Opta data from Stats Perform. The event at Estádio José Alvalade, featuring former stars such as Luís Figo, Kaká and Carles Puyol, aims to raise €1 million for charity and acts as the opening highlight for the SBC Summit iGaming conference.
Tomáš Pondělík, Chief Product Officer at Flashscore, said: “This is our flagship app enhancement of the year. Fandom is evolving and we’re seeing a significant shift from fans following only their favourite teams to a deeper interest in individual players. Our community has been asking for this feature for some time but we wanted to launch it at the right moment, when we had the strongest player data on the market and a clear understanding of what fans expect. That’s why we focused on delivering fast, non-intrusive notifications during live matches, without cluttering their feed.
“We also know fans crave real insights, so we’re already working on adding more meaningful player data – from pre-match previews and live statistics to post-match ratings – giving them a richer understanding of performance. With Follow Player, fans can finally track their football heroes in real time, and this is just the beginning. We’ll be expanding to basketball and hockey later this year, alongside more notification types and new ways to explore upcoming fixtures.”
