Sporx

What is Sporx?

Sporx is a sports news site at sporx.com, published in Turkish with an English-language About page. Its own About page states that it was “Launched in 2005” and that the organisation operates “5 different brands with their 5 web - mobile sites and 17 mobile apps for iOS, Android, iPad and Windows Phone”.^[1] Those are the outlet's claims about itself and are reported here as such; the site's künye page could not be retrieved, and no publishing company is named on the pages that were.^[2]

The About page also states that the site “has rapidly grown and became the number 1 'sports news' network in Turkey”. That is the outlet's own characterisation of itself; it is quoted here and not adopted, and no measured figure supporting it could be retrieved.^[1]

What does Sporx cover?

The site's standing sections are Futbol, Basketbol, Voleybol, Tenis, Motor Sporları, At Yarışı, Hentbol and Diğer Sporlar — football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, motorsport, horse racing, handball and other sports — with live scores, match commentary, transfer news and statistics alongside them.^[2]

The domestic football core is defined by the federation's own statute, which sets the Süper Lig at nineteen clubs playing a double round-robin for 2024–2025, with four relegation places and international entry on UEFA's criteria and list, and reserves the naming of the division exclusively to the federation's board.^[3] The statute records that the nineteen comprised the sixteen clubs remaining in the division after 2023–2024 and three promoted from TFF 1. Lig.^[3]

How large is Sporx's audience?

No audited audience figure for the site could be retrieved. There is no audited web measurement figure quoted here because none was obtained, and traffic estimators are not audited measurement and are not used.

The site states its own reach in social terms rather than in audited ones. Its About page claims “7 Twitter accounts, 5 Facebook accounts and 2 Instagram accounts with 10 million followers”. That is the outlet's own claim, it is undated on the page, and a follower count is not an audience measurement.^[1]

The nearest published measurement of sports-content consumption in the market is the regulator's: the Radyo ve Televizyon Üst Kurulu's Medyametre Medya Kullanım Alışkanlıkları Araştırması 2024, conducted face to face with 15,766 respondents aged 15 and over across 26 provinces with fieldwork in January–August 2024, lists “Spor Yorum Programları” among the television programme types watched at 35.7 per cent. That is a television figure and it does not speak to this site.^[4]

Since when has Sporx existed?

The site's own About page states that it was launched in 2005; no independent confirmation of that year could be retrieved, and the claim is attributed rather than adopted.^[1]

The same page states that the site won the Türkiye Spor Yazarları Derneği “Best News” award in 2013, 2014 and 2015, which it describes as “the highest profile award for sports services; including newspapers, TVs, magazines and web sites”. Those are the outlet's claims about its own honours, and this page carries them with their claimant and does not verify them against the association's own record.^[1]

Why does Sporx matter in Turkey's sport?

It is a specialist digital title that names no broadcaster and no newspaper group on the pages retrieved, and its section list carries volleyball, handball, tennis and horse racing as standing sections alongside football and basketball.^[2]

On the environment in which it publishes, Reporters Without Borders places Türkiye 163rd of 180 countries in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index with a score of 27.94, on indicator scores of 20.16 political, 26.78 economic, 31.20 legal, 28.93 social and 32.61 security.^[5] The ranking is reported as published and no inference is drawn from it about this site. The opening sentence of the Media landscape section of its Türkiye country page reads: “With 90% of national media outlets under government control, the public has turned towards media outlets of varying political stances that are independent and critical of power over the past five years to learn about the impact of the economic and political crisis on the country.” That sentence is quoted as published, at country level.

The commercial scale of the domestic football it covers is documented by the federation rather than by the outlet. The Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu announced on 2 March 2024 that package E of the tender for the transfer of Süper Lig and TFF 1. Lig broadcasting rights had gone to Krea İçerik Hizmetleri ve Prodüksiyon A.Ş. at “sezonluk 182.000.000,00-USD (218.400.000,00-USD KDV DAHİL)”, with 11 March 2024 set as the deadline for completing the legal procedures; the announcement does not state which seasons the contract covers.^[6]