Want to watch a specific matchup, league, sport or even just find a way to fill a specific hole in your obscure sports streaming schedule for the week? Look no further*
(Okay, if you’re unsure of what the different symbols mean, you can look a little further down, as we have an explainer at the bottom of the post.)
CRICKET | CURLING | DARTS | MEN’S RUGBY | SOCCER | NCAA MLAX | NCAA WLAX | PRO LAX | JAI ALAI | SNOOKER | SQUASH | HANDBALL | AUSSIE RULES | | WOMEN’S HOCKEY
FIFA+, YouTube and RugbyPass TV are fully free streaming options, all others may require subscriptions
MONDAY
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Mon, Apr 20 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1 - Session 7 |
Mon, Apr 20 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1 - Session 8 |
Mon, Apr 20 | Men's IPL | GT | MI |
Mon, Apr 20 | AFC Champions League Elite | Vissel Kobe | Al-Ahli |
Mon, Apr 20 | Gambia GFF | Bombada | Greater Tomorrow |
Mon, Apr 20 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1 - Session 9 |
Mon, Apr 20 | Division Honor | Brazil Juniors | Caiquetio |
Mon, Apr 20 | OFC PRO League | South Island United FC | Auckland FC |
TUESDAY
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Tue, Apr 21 | OFC PRO League | South Melbourne FC | Tahiti United FC |
Tue, Apr 21 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1 - Session 10 |
Tue, Apr 21 | PSL | LQ | QG |
Tue, Apr 21 | PSA | Grasshopper Open | Round 1 |
Tue, Apr 21 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1 - Session 11 |
Tue, Apr 21 | Men's IPL | SRH | DC |
Tue, Apr 21 | PSL | RP | MS |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | FUS Rabat | Phoenix Marrakech |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | Raja Ait Iazza FF | AS FAR |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | RSB Berkane | AMLFF Laayoune |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | Union Touarga Sport | Casablanca |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | Wydad Casablanca | Ittihad Tanger |
Tue, Apr 21 | AFC Champions League Elite | Machida Zelvia | Shabab Al-Ahli |
Tue, Apr 21 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1 - Session 12 |
Tue, Apr 21 | WJAL | Devils | Fireballs |
Tue, Apr 21 | BFA Premier League | Brittons Hill | Bagatelle SSC |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division Honor | FC San Nicolas | Caravel |
Tue, Apr 21 | BFA Premier League | St. Andrews Lions FC | Wotton FC |
WEDNESDAY
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Wed, Apr 22 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1 - Session 13 |
Wed, Apr 22 | PSL | KK | PZ |
Wed, Apr 22 | West Indies Champ. | Leeward Islands Hurricanes | Trinidad & Tobago Red Force |
Wed, Apr 22 | West Indies Champ. | Windward Islands Volcanoes | Guyana Harpy Eagles |
Wed, Apr 22 | WST | HALO Snooker | Round 1 - Session 14 |
Wed, Apr 22 | West Indies Champ. | Jamaica Scorpions | Barbados Pride |
Wed, Apr 22 | Men's IPL | LSG | RR |
Wed, Apr 22 | PSL | HK | MS |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | North Carolina | Duke |
Wed, Apr 22 | PSA | Grasshopper Open | Round 2 - Day 1 |
Wed, Apr 22 | Campeonato Nacional | Cupelum | Benfica Bissau |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Syracuse | Virginia |
Wed, Apr 22 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1 - Session 15 |
Wed, Apr 22 | WJAL | Cyclones | Renegades |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | BC | Stanford |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | UPenn | Towson |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Navy | American |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Notre Dame | Clemson |
Wed, Apr 22 | Division Honor | Jong Aruba | Unistars |
THURSDAY
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Thu, Apr 23 | AFL | Western | Sydney |
Thu, Apr 23 | PSL | RP | IU |
Thu, Apr 23 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1/2 - Session 16/1 |
Thu, Apr 23 | Men's IPL | MI | CSK |
Thu, Apr 23 | PSL | LQ | KK |
Thu, Apr 23 | Seychelles Absa Premier League | St. Michel SC | St. Louis FC |
Thu, Apr 23 | PSA | Grasshopper Open | Round 2 - Day 2 |
Thu, Apr 23 | Campeonato Nacional | FC Cuntum | CF Os Balantas |
Thu, Apr 23 | Leone Rock Premier League | Old Edwardians | Bo Rangers |
Thu, Apr 23 | Daikin HBL | Fuchse Berlin | VFL Gummersbach |
Thu, Apr 23 | Daikin HBL | Frisch AUF! Goppingen | Rhein-Neckar Lowen |
Thu, Apr 23 | PDC - PREMIER LEAGUE | NIGHT 12 | Liverpool |
Thu, Apr 23 | WST | HALO Snooker World Champ. | Round 1/2 - Session 17/2 |
Thu, Apr 23 | WJAL | Chargers | Warriors |
Thu, Apr 23 | NCAA W | Colgate | Army |
Thu, Apr 23 | Suriname Major League | Notch | Broki |
Thu, Apr 23 | NCAA W | Loyola (MD) | Bucknell |
Thu, Apr 23 | Suriname Major League | Inter Wanica | Flora |
FRIDAY
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Fri, Apr 24 | Super Rugby Pacific | Crusaders | Waratahs |
Fri, Apr 24 | AFL | Richmond | Melbourne |
Fri, Apr 24 | County Champ. | Nottinghamshire | Warwickshire |
Fri, Apr 24 | County Champ. | Yorkshire | Sussex |
Fri, Apr 24 | County Champ. | Surrey | Essex |
Fri, Apr 24 | County Champ. | Glamorgan | Leicestershire |
Fri, Apr 24 | Japan Rugby League 1 | D-Rocks | BlueRevs |
Fri, Apr 24 | Men's IPL | RCB | GT |
Fri, Apr 24 | PSL | HK | IU |
Fri, Apr 24 | URC | Cardiff | Ospreys |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Virginia | Drexel |
Fri, Apr 24 | URC | Edinburgh | Sharks |
Fri, Apr 24 | URC | Zebre Parma | Dragons RFC |
Fri, Apr 24 | PREM | Newcastle Red Bulls | Bristol Bears |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA W | Elon | Stony Brook |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA W | ACC | Semifinal |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA W | ACC | Semifinal |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Army | Colgate |
Fri, Apr 24 | WJAL | Renegades | Fireballs |
Fri, Apr 24 | MLR | Seattle Seawolves | Chicago Hounds |
Fri, Apr 24 | AFL | Hawthorn | Gold Coast |
Fri, Apr 24 | Oceania Women's XV | Fiji | Samoa |
Sat, Apr 25 | Super Rugby Pacific | Hurricanes | Brumbies |
CRICKET 🏏
The bat-and-ball game. Three different styles of play — First Class/Test, Class A/One Day International (ODI) and T20 — separated by the number of overs (chances for a team to score runs) available to each teams. We’ll track all three here, but our actual written coverage will focus mostly on T20, the shortest, and increasingly most popular, of the three.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Mon, Apr 20 | Men's IPL | GT | MI |
Tue, Apr 21 | PSL | LQ | QG |
Tue, Apr 21 | Men's IPL | SRH | DC |
Tue, Apr 21 | PSL | RP | MS |
Wed, Apr 22 | PSL | KK | PZ |
Wed, Apr 22 | West Indies Champ. | Leeward Islands | Trinidad Tobago |
Wed, Apr 22 | West Indies Champ. | Windward Islands | Guyana |
Wed, Apr 22 | West Indies Champ. | Jamaica | Barbados |
Wed, Apr 22 | Men's IPL | LSG | RR |
Wed, Apr 22 | PSL | HK | MS |
Thu, Apr 23 | PSL | RP | IU |
Thu, Apr 23 | Men's IPL | MI | CSK |
Thu, Apr 23 | PSL | LQ | KK |
Fri, Apr 24 | County Champ. | Nottinghamshire | Warwickshire |
Fri, Apr 24 | County Champ. | Yorkshire | Sussex |
Fri, Apr 24 | County Champ. | Surrey | Essex |
Fri, Apr 24 | County Champ. | Glamorgan | Leicestershire |
Fri, Apr 24 | Men's IPL | RCB | GT |
Fri, Apr 24 | PSL | HK | IU |
CURLING 🥌
Scottish in origin, curling has gained famed in the US over the last 28 years, since being reintroduced to the Olympics at the 1998 Nagano Games. Curling tournaments are known as “bonspiels” and the largest one is The Brier, named after a tobacco product made by its original sponsor.
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DARTS 🎯
The sport that started it all for us, and still our favorite. Nearly all of the televised tournaments in the sport are run by the PRO Darts Corporation (PDC), especially for affiliate tours like those in Asia.
Because of the way time (zones) work, nearly every single tournament happens somewhere between “too early in the morning for most people” and “right in the middle of the workday” but we’re sure you’ll be able to figure how to get it in.
PROGRAMMING NOTE: If a PDC tournament is available on Peacock and you have Peacock, we strongly recommend watching the event on there, as it is the exact same broadcast as the PDC app and doesn’t have to be streamed from your phone or other device to watch on TV.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Thu, Apr 23 | PDC - PREMIER LEAGUE | NIGHT 12 | Liverpool |
RUGBY 🏉
Rugby (both 15s and 7s) is almost certainly the hardest sport for us to keep track of, as the sheer number of leagues is a bit overwhelming for even the most seasoned fans. And that’s before taking into account the disjointed nature of most of their schedules that result from the sport’s emphasis on international competitions which pull players away from leagues for weeks at a time.
All of which means that every weekend (and some weekdays) rugby is almost always on in one form or another, but not always in the way you might be anticipating.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Fri, Apr 24 | Super Rugby Pacific | Crusaders | Waratahs |
Fri, Apr 24 | Japan Rugby League 1 | D-Rocks | BlueRevs |
Fri, Apr 24 | URC | Cardiff | Ospreys |
Fri, Apr 24 | URC | Edinburgh | Sharks |
Fri, Apr 24 | URC | Zebre Parma | Dragons RFC |
Fri, Apr 24 | PREM | Newcastle Red Bulls | Bristol Bears |
Fri, Apr 24 | MLR | Seattle Seawolves | Chicago Hounds |
Fri, Apr 24 | Oceania Women's XV | Fiji | Samoa |
SOCCER ⚽️
To be as clear as is humanly possible, association football is not obscure at all, obviously including in America (as we’ll be hosting the World Cup in a few months). HOWEVER, there are any number of obscure leagues and cups that we will be tracking.
Because how else are you going to know when your favorite Sammarinese team is playing against their biggest rival and how to watch it?'
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Mon, Apr 20 | AFC Champions League Elite | Vissel Kobe | Al-Ahli |
Mon, Apr 20 | Gambia GFF | Bombada | Greater Tomorrow |
Mon, Apr 20 | Division Honor | Brazil Juniors | Caiquetio |
Mon, Apr 20 | OFC PRO League | South Island United FC | Auckland FC |
Tue, Apr 21 | OFC PRO League | South Melbourne FC | Tahiti United FC |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | Raja Ait Iazza FF | AS FAR |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | FUS Rabat | Phoenix Marrakech |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | RSB Berkane | AMLFF Laayoune |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | Union Touarga Sport | Casablanca |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division 1 Féminin | Wydad Casablanca | Ittihad Tanger |
Tue, Apr 21 | AFC Champions League Elite | Machida Zelvia | Shabab Al-Ahli |
Tue, Apr 21 | BFA Premier League | Brittons Hill | Bagatelle SSC |
Tue, Apr 21 | Division Honor | FC San Nicolas | Caravel |
Tue, Apr 21 | BFA Premier League | St. Andrews Lions FC | Wotton FC |
Wed, Apr 22 | Campeonato Nacional | Cupelum | Benfica Bissau |
Wed, Apr 22 | Division Honor | Jong Aruba | Unistars |
Thu, Apr 23 | Seychelles Absa Premier League | St. Michel SC | St. Louis FC |
Thu, Apr 23 | Campeonato Nacional | FC Cuntum | CF Os Balantas |
Thu, Apr 23 | Leone Rock Premier League | Old Edwardians | Bo Rangers |
Thu, Apr 23 | Suriname Major League | Notch | Broki |
Thu, Apr 23 | Suriname Major League | Inter Wanica | Flora |
Fri, Apr 24 | Macau First Division | Hang Sai | Benfica |
Fri, Apr 24 | Seychelles Absa Premier League | Bel Air FC | Light Stars FC |
Fri, Apr 24 | LFA First Division League | Downtown FC | Jubilee |
Fri, Apr 24 | Leone Rock Premier League | Luawa | Kamboi Eagles FC |
LACROSSE 🥍
We track men’s and women’s lacrosse at the collegiate and pro levels in field and box forms.
MEN’S D1 LACROSSE 🚹 🎓🥍
Although we only include Top 20/25 games for the “big” list up top, in this part of town we include everything. This is what we call in the business “service journalism” as we have found it incredibly frustrating how disjointed the entire scheduling and streaming apparatus is for the sport at that level. It is our one true calling to put all this stuff in the same place.
Time/ | League/ | Team 1 | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA M | Sacred Heart | Iona |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA M | Canisius | Marist |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Hampton | Stony Brook |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Virginia | Drexel |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | St. Joseph's | Delaware |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | High Point | Richmond |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Army | Colgate |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Holy Cross | Boston U. |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Villanova | Georgetown |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Navy | Loyola (MD) |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | St. Bonaventure | Hobart |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Lafayette | Lehigh |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | St. John's | Providence |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA M | Denver | Marquette |
WOMEN’S D1 LACROSSE 🚺🎓🥍
Time/ | League/ | Team 1 | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Tue, Apr 21 | NCAA W | Drexel | Temple |
Tue, Apr 21 | NCAA W | UConn | Harvard |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | North Carolina | Duke |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Coastal Carolina | Kennesaw St. |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Austin Peay | Lindenwood |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Syracuse | Virginia |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Liberty | Delaware |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Gardner-Webb | High Point |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Wofford | Mercer |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | BC | Stanford |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | UPenn | Towson |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Longwood | Radford |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Mercyhurst | Robert Morris |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Presbyterian | Winthrop |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Navy | American |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Lehigh | Lafayette |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Stetson | Jacksonville |
Wed, Apr 22 | NCAA W | Notre Dame | Clemson |
Thu, Apr 23 | NCAA W | Colgate | Army |
Thu, Apr 23 | NCAA W | Holy Cross | Boston U. |
Thu, Apr 23 | NCAA W | Loyola (MD) | Bucknell |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA W | Cincinnati | SD State |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA W | Elon | Stony Brook |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA W | ACC | Semifinal |
Fri, Apr 24 | NCAA W | ACC | Semifinal |
PRO LACROSSE 🥍
Pro lacrosse basically comes in two forms, box or field, with the former taking place in hockey rinks and, honestly, looking like a hockey game with players on their feet instead of skates. Also, more goals. WAY more goals. The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is the box lacrosse league, while the men’s Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) and the Women’s Lacrosse League (WLL) are field lacrosse leagues.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Fri, Apr 24 | NLL | Vancouver Warriors | Halifax Thunderbirds |
JAI ALAI 🪄
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Tue, Apr 21 | WJAL | Devils | Fireballs |
Wed, Apr 22 | WJAL | Cyclones | Renegades |
Thu, Apr 23 | WJAL | Chargers | Warriors |
Fri, Apr 24 | WJAL | Renegades | Fireballs |
SNOOKER 🔴
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Mon, Apr 13 | WST | World Champ. Quals | Round 3 - Session 5 |
Mon, Apr 13 | WST | World Champ. Quals | Round 3 - Session 6 |
Mon, Apr 13 | WST | World Champ. Quals | Round 3 - Session 4 |
Tue, Apr 14 | WST | World Champ. Quals | Round 4 - Session 1 |
Tue, Apr 14 | WST | World Champ. Quals | Round 4 - Session 2 |
Wed, Apr 15 | WST | World Champ. Quals | Round 4 - Session 3 |
Wed, Apr 15 | WST | World Champ. Quals | Round 4 - Session 4 |
SQUASH 🏸
Somewhere between tennis, badminton, racquetball and jai alai sits squash. We know about as much as you do, unless you’re a huge squash fan, than you almost certainly know more than us. But we’re going to learn and you’re going to be so proud.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Tue, Apr 21 | PSA | Grasshopper Open | Round 1 |
Wed, Apr 22 | PSA | Grasshopper Open | Round 2 - Day 1 |
Thu, Apr 23 | PSA | Grasshopper Open | Round 2 - Day 2 |
Fri, Apr 24 | PSA | Grasshopper Open | Quarter Finals |
HANDBALL 🤾
In our hometown, we had a European Handball intramural league which played after school to a full gymnasium most of the time. Apparently our enthusiasm for the game has spread across Europe, which has handball leagues in places we didn’t even know existed.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Thu, Apr 23 | Daikin HBL | Fuchse Berlin | VFL Gummersbach |
Thu, Apr 23 | Daikin HBL | Frisch AUF! Goppingen | Rhein-Neckar Lowen |
Fri, Apr 24 | Daikin HBL | GWD Minden | THSV Eisenach |
Fri, Apr 24 | Daikin HBL | SG Flensburg Handewitt | MT Melsungen |
Aussie Rules Football 🦘🏈
Australia Rules Football, or ‘Aussie Rules,’ is one of the “big three” not-actually-foot-based ‘football’ games, along with American/”gridiron” football and the rugbies (union and league).
If you are unsure of the differences between Aussie and rugby, here has a quick explainer on how the game works (mostly written by Brad):
Played on a cricket oval, so the field is massive
Points are scored via kicks through two sets of uprights at either of the field, which sort of look like this: I I I I
Through the center goalposts (without a defender touching it) is 6 points (defender touching is 1 point)
Kick though outside goalposts is 1 point
Tackling is allowed, climbing up a players back to catch a kick is allowed.
If a player cleanly catches a kick, it is called a “mark” and…
They get 10 seconds before a defender can try to tackle them (they can only kick it and can’t run until the ref says “play on”)
PROGRAMMING NOTE: All AFL games are available on Watch AFL. However, it is one of the most expensive streaming services in sports — $20/week, $39/month,$182/year, — and most of the games are available in the US on the Fox Sports family of networks. We’ve listed below which of those channels you can see each game on, which we strongly recommend instead of paying almost $200 a year for the privilege. Especially if you are only Aussie curious and not Aussie committed. Unless you are also an insomniac who uses the games to fall asleep and find the yearly subscription to be cheaper than gummies or melatonin.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Thu, Apr 23 | AFL | Western | Sydney |
Fri, Apr 24 | AFL | Richmond | Melbourne |
Fri, Apr 24 | AFL | Hawthorn | Gold Coast |
WOMEN’S HOCKEY 🚺 🏒
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Wed, Apr 22 | PWHL | Ottawa Charge | Boston Fleet |
Wed, Apr 22 | PWHL | Minnesota Frost | Seattle Seawolves |
*Don’t see your favorite league or sport covered above? Comment below with what’s missing and, if you can, give us a link to the schedule and/or where it’s available to stream (preferably for free)
A FEW NOTES
Each sport we track gets its own emoji, to have them each stand out in their own ways amidst a sea of text and lines.
Most sports will be obvious, though there may be a few that you wouldn't know unless you know, like snooker, which uses red and blue balls (yes, we know) in the sport. We’ve decided to use the red ball (🔴) for the sport because it stands out a little better.
For squash, we used the badminton (🏸) emoji, because there is no squash emoji and “shrunken tennis ball emoji with two piles of money next to it to show it’s a sport so wealthy the have private aviation companies sponsor their tournaments” seemed weird.
Finally, we used a magic wand (🪄) for jai alai because there is no jai alai emoji and the league we track was/is(?) called magic city jai alai.)
Gender1 (🚺,🚹, et al.) comes first, at least in the emoji “coding" we use. This is not done to make a political statement (read our newsletter, you’ll get enough of them there) but because the sports are usually described in that order (i.e., no one in real life says hockey “women's style,” as that would be insane. They say "women’s hockey".)
Any match in a team sport that has flags2 next to team names denotes either an international qualifier or tournament, like the T20 or FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC), a tournament match for a regional competition (like the EHF Champions League) or multi-country league (such as the United Rugby Championship or URC). Single nation leagues, like France’s Top 14, will feature the country’s flag (in the case, 🇫🇷) as part of the league signifiers.
HOWEVER, if a team is featured in a single-nation league, but is in involved in an international competition, such as the Champions League-style tournaments, they will appear with a flag next to them even when competing in domestic leagues.
These 🥇🥈🥉 refer to the tier a league or tournament is for their country or region, the latter of which are signified by 🌍 (Africa/Central Asia), 🌎 (the Americas) or 🌏 (East Asia/Oceania). For European tournaments (both the national team championship and club champions’ league competitions) we use the European Union flag 🇪🇺.
For international competitions whose venues/locations change, like Rugby/Cricket World Cups or the aforementioned URC, this symbol will be used: 🌐.
For tournaments that occur in one fixed country year-over-year, we will use a flag of the country it takes place in.
The flags next an individual competitor’s name in an international individual sport, like squash or snooker, symbolize whichever countries the participants represent, not necessarily where they were born or even live.
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2 Or, in the case of the West Indies (🌴a palm tree) in cricket or “All-Ireland” (🍀a shamrock) in many sports, including cricket, symbols used by the teams themselves in lieu of flags.