OrcaScore
On this day

22 August

5,020 matches have been played on this date since 1970: 8,401 goals, 343 competitions, 46 different years.

Upset index

Highlights of this date

Finals, derbies, upsets and record scores — by importance

This date in other sports

The most notable matches of each sport from top-level competitions

Basketball

All (148)

Tennis

All (360)

Volleyball

All (53)

Ice hockey

All (26)

Handball

All (26)

American football

All (8)

Baseball

All (481)

Esports

All (251)

MMA

All (25)

Table tennis

All (45)

Rugby

All (68)

Cricket

All (41)

Futsal

All (86)

Badminton

All (234)

Water polo

All (5)

Aussie rules

All (22)

Beach volleyball

All (2)

Mini football

All (52)

Year by year

The most notable matches of each year — newest first

  1. 2025 1 year ago
  2. 2024 2 years ago
  3. 2023 3 years ago
  4. 2022 4 years ago
  5. 2021 Exactly 5 years ago
  6. 2020 6 years ago
  7. 2019 7 years ago
  8. 2018 8 years ago
  9. 2017 9 years ago
  10. 2016 Exactly 10 years ago
  11. 2015 11 years ago
  12. 2014 12 years ago
Earlier years: 1970–2013 (34 years)
  1. 2013 13 years ago
  2. 2012 14 years ago
  3. 2011 Exactly 15 years ago
  4. 2010 16 years ago
  5. 2009 17 years ago
  6. 2008 18 years ago
  7. 2007 19 years ago
  8. 2006 Exactly 20 years ago
  9. 2005 21 years ago
  10. 2004 22 years ago
  11. 2003 23 years ago
  12. 2002 24 years ago
  13. 2001 Exactly 25 years ago
  14. 2000 26 years ago
  15. 1999 27 years ago
  16. 1998 28 years ago
  17. 1997 29 years ago
  18. 1996 Exactly 30 years ago
  19. 1995 31 years ago
  20. 1994 32 years ago
  21. 1993 33 years ago
  22. 1992 34 years ago
  23. 1990 36 years ago
  24. 1989 37 years ago
  25. 1987 39 years ago
  26. 1986 Exactly 40 years ago
  27. 1984 42 years ago
  28. 1982 44 years ago
  29. 1981 Exactly 45 years ago
  30. 1980 46 years ago
  31. 1978 48 years ago
  32. 1975 51 years ago
  33. 1973 53 years ago
  34. 1970 56 years ago
How are matches picked?

Only from our archive: leading football competitions (priority ≤ 650) and the top two tiers in other sports. Each match gets an importance score: competition weight, final (semi-final), derby (both clubs share a home city), upset (winner's pre-match chance ≤ 40% by odds or our Elo model), goal fest (7+ goals), rout (5+ margin) and round anniversaries (5, 10, 25 … years). Dates are in UTC.