match A match is a tool for starting a fire. Typically, matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper. One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by friction generated by striking the match against a suitable surface. Wooden matc ...

is a small tool for producing fire and a sports event or game where people or teams compete against each other. Match may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Films

* ''Match'' (film), a 2014 American drama film * ''The Match'' (1999 film), a British film * ''The Match'' (2019 film), an Italian film * ''The Match'' (2021 film), a Croatian-American film * ''The Match'' (2023 film), a Korean Netflix film

Television

* ''The Match'' (TV programme), a British video game program * ''The Match'' (TV series), a British football television series

Fictional characters

Match (DC Comics) Match is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe. He is a clone of Superboy. Match appeared in the ''Superboy'' title, issues of Young Justice and the ''Sins of Youth'' and ''Joker's Last Laugh'' crossover events. Currently, he is a membe ...

, a clone of Superboy *

Match (Marvel Comics) ''New X-Men'' is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics within the X-Men franchise. After the end of Grant Morrison's run on ''X-Men'' vol. 2 titled '' New X-Men'', the title was used for a new series, ''New X-Men: Academy X ...

, a mutant in the X-Men universe

Music

The Matches The Matches are an American rock band from Oakland, California, active from 1997 to 2009. Formed as the Locals, the group changed their name after five years to avoid conflict with a Chicago band of the same name. As the Matches, they self-releas ...

, a pop-punk band from Oakland, California * "Matches" (Sammy Kershaw song), 1998 * "Matches" (Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys song), 2020

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Match'' (play), a 2004 play by Stephen Belber

Brands and enterprises

Match (drink) is a carbonated Japanese soft drink. Match is sold in 270ml (In a plastic bottle), 350ml (Can), 480ml (Can), and 500ml (in a plastic bottle), and 1.5L (in a plastic bottle). It is described as having a moderate sweetness and a refreshing af ...

, a carbonated soft drink sold in Japan * Match (supermarket), a supermarket chain in Belgium, France and Luxembourg *

Match Group Match Group, Inc. is an American internet and technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyO ...

, the owner of online dating services including Match.com **

Match.com Match is an online dating service with web sites serving over 50 countries in twelve languages. Its headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. The company has offices in Dallas, West Hollywood, San Francisco, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, and Beijing. Match is ...

, an online dating service

Periodicals

* ''Match'' (magazine), a British football magazine * ''

Paris Match ''Paris Match'' () is a French-language weekly news magazine. It covers major national and international news along with celebrity lifestyle features. History and profile A sports news magazine, ''Match l'intran'' (a play on '' L'Intransigeant ...

'', a French magazine * '' The Match!'', an atheist and anarchist journal

Organizations

Mothers Apart from Their Children Mothers Apart from Their Children (MATCH) has existed since 1979 as a non-judgmental support group, run by volunteers who are, or have been, mothers separated from their children after divorce Divorce (also known as dissolution of m ...

, or MATCH, a volunteer support group in the United Kingdom *

National Resident Matching Program The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), also called The Match, is a United States-based private non-profit non-governmental organization created in 1952 to place U.S. medical school students into residency training programs located in Uni ...

, commonly referred to "The Match"; procedure for matching medical students with residency programs in the US

Sports and games

Match II Match (also known as Match II and Match III)Turf Newspapers Ltd, "Addendum to Register of Thoroughbred Stallions, Vol. XXV, 1963", London (1958–1965) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse who won major races in England, France and the United Stat ...

, the best-known of several thoroughbred racehorses named Match *

The Match (golf) ''The Match'' is a series of exhibition match play golf challenge matches that began in 2018. The event features major professional golfers or other notable athletes facing each other in a head-to-head competition. The format has varied througho ...

, a series of made-for-TV golf challenge matches involving Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and other sports stars *

The Match Europe v USA The Match Europe v USA was an international two-day outdoor track and field competition between the United States and Europe. It took place 9–10 September 2019 in Minsk, Belarus, three weeks prior to the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doh ...

, an athletics annual competition organised by the IAAF * Match (dominoes), a) to play a domino such that adjacent ends are the same value or b) a domino competition comprising several games

Other uses

Sam Match Samuel Match (January 3, 1923 – January 23, 2010) was an American tennis player. He was born in Los Angeles, California. Match was ranked among the top ten amateur players in the United States in 1948, 1949, and 1950 in both singles and doubl ...

(1923–2010), American tennis player *

Project MATCH Project MATCH began in 1989 in the United States and was sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). MATCH is an initialism for Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity. The project was an 8-year, mul ...

, an American study of alcoholics and their treatment