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SofaScore is a sports data company based in Zagreb, Croatia. The company primarily offers live scores services through its website and mobile application. SofaScore products cover around 11,000 tournaments in over 20 different sports and more than 30 languages. The company was founded in 2010 and was eventually renamed SofaScore in 2012.

History
SofaScore was established in March of 2010 by the co-founders Ivan Bešlić and Zlatko Hrkać as a live scores website. After creating a mobile application in 2011, the organization was eventually renamed and branded “SofaScore” a year later, at the eve of the UEFA EURO 2012.

In 2014, SofaScore expanded its domain of service from live scores to sports data analysis, becoming a client of the British sports analytics company Opta Sports.

Using the real-time data collection process provided by Opta, SofaScore branded its services as an analytical tool for sports lovers, diverging from providing solely live scores to include such features as statistical player ratings , attack momentum , attribute overview or heatmaps.

As of April of 2020, the SofaScore products were used by approximately 20 million people worldwide on a monthly basis.

Academy
In 2016, SofaScore started a cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb. Branded “SofaScore Academy”, this project consisted of the STEM students getting additional education by participating in a number of workshops.

Editor
In 2019, SofaScore started a project with a goal to improve the coverage of grassroots and amateur level of sports. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund, SofaScore Editor will provide an opportunity for people involved in an amateur level of sports to actively input and organize results and statistics for the competitions they are engaged in.