Flashscore's terms allow personal use only. They forbid scraping its content without its consent, and loading its server with automated requests. To follow matches, the site's own Favorites send live alerts. Its main football data comes from Opta, a data provider. A proxy does not change any of this.
What Flashscore's terms say
The site is run by Livesport s.r.o. in Prague, and its terms are dated 1 April 2023. For users who do not register, the terms apply their provisions on the nature and use of the site, and the rules below sit in that part, the section "Site content".
| rule | what the terms say |
|---|---|
| personal use | Use of the site is "for your personal use only. You may not use the Site for any commercial purpose." |
| database | The database is "protected by a special right of the database provider". Taking or publishing it, or a substantial part of it, needs "our explicit consent". |
| automated requests | "You may not burden our server on which the Site is hosted with automated requests, nor may you assist any third party in such activity." |
| scraping | No use of the content "by embedding, aggregating, scraping or recreating it without our express consent", unless the law provides otherwise. |
What robots.txt says
Its robots.txt keeps every crawler it does not name out of the live, finished and scheduled match lists and the personal "my" pages for each sport, and out of addresses under /standings/ and /draw/. It shuts 17 named crawlers out of the whole site, among them CCBot, Bytespider and Diffbot. The robots.txt standard, RFC 9309, says its rules "are not a form of access authorization", so the terms still decide.
Favorites and notifications
The site's own way to follow matches is Favorites. You tap the star next to a match or team. It then shows the latest scores and fixtures, and sends "tailored real-time notifications". You can follow up to 200 teams and 200 matches, and finished matches are cleared from the list.
Where Flashscore's data comes from
The terms say results come from "other independent sources (from third parties), internal efforts or other official applications". The FAQ names the sources:
| item | where it comes from |
|---|---|
| football data | Opta, "the primary data provider". |
| the 40 or more other sports | "a variety of providers and sources". |
| live commentary, major competitions | its own or partner editors. |
| live commentary, minor competitions | it "can sometimes be created by AI". |
The FAQ adds that other sites may show other stats, and this might be because they use another provider.
The scrapers on GitHub and the sellers
A search of GitHub for "flashscore scraper" lists 70 projects, and one for "flashscore" lists 432. The most starred Flashscore project, with 151 stars, scrapes match results and statistics with a browser tool. Another scrapes betting odds, filtered by bookmaker. A third runs around the clock with a "stealth" plugin and weighs "detection risk". Its own notice says scraping third-party websites "may violate their Terms of Service".
Two pages we read from proxy and scraping sellers pitch home IP addresses for sports data. Neither mentions the site's terms.
Where a proxy fits
For Flashscore, a proxy does not fit. The terms forbid scraping without consent, and automated requests that burden its server, whatever address they come from. To follow a match, use Favorites.
For other work where a proxy is allowed, what a residential proxy is explains the type. How to check if a proxy is working shows how to test one. Residential traffic without city targeting starts at $0.44/GB, and every plan is on our pricing page.
The limits of this page
We read Flashscore's terms, robots.txt and three FAQ pages from our server in St. Louis on 4 October 2026. We loaded no match, live or standings page by script, did not create an account and did not test notifications. We did not read Opta's own terms. This page is due for a check by 4 January 2027.
Sources
Every page below was read on 4 October 2026, from our server in St. Louis.
- Flashscore, Terms of Use, dated 1 April 2023, and its robots.txt.
- Flashscore, FAQ, with its sections on sport data and results and on Favorites and other features.
- IETF, RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol.
- GitHub's repository search for "flashscore scraper" and "flashscore" (not linked).
