On January 20, 2016, Facebook introduced a new feature called Facebook Sports Stadium.
Today we’re launching the Facebook Sports Stadium, a dedicated place to experience sports in real-time with your friends and the world.
With 650 million sports fans, Facebook is the world’s largest stadium. People already turn to Facebook to celebrate, commiserate, and talk trash with their friends and other fans.
Now we’ve built a place devoted to sports so you can get the feeling you’re watching the game with your friends even when you aren’t together.
Knowing that football is of global importance and a major world interest, Facebook has added this fantastic feature that lets sports lovers view games and matches in realtime. They can also view:
Posts from your friends, and their comments on plays
- Posts and commentary from experts, like teams, leagues and journalists, with easy access to their Pages
- Live scores, stats and a play-by-play
- Game info, like where to find the game on TV
To use this feature, all you have to do is search for the game.
Facebook Sports Stadium is only available for American football games for now. In coming weeks, it will cover other sports such as basketball, soccer and much more from around the world.