What z2play is
z2play is a web app for grassroots and amateur sport. One person at the match — a coach, a parent, a team-mate on the bench — narrates what is happening out loud. Speech recognition and a language model turn that narration into a running commentary feed and keep the score. Everyone else opens one link and follows the match live in a browser, with nothing to install and no account required.
It is built for the matches nobody broadcasts: a J14 handball game in a school hall, a Sunday-morning football match on a gravel pitch, a club tennis final. The people who care most about those matches are usually the ones who cannot be there.
Who runs it
z2play is built and operated by Finde AS, a Norwegian software company. Vidar Fineide leads development; Morten Hansen-Østli, who has coached youth football and tennis for a decade and chairs Lommedalen Tennisklubb, works on the business side. You can reach us at post@finde.no.
The first version of z2play has been used by grassroots teams since 2018 — 2,461 matches tracked by 1,423 registered users, mostly football clubs in Norway, the Netherlands and Brazil. The version you see now is a full rebuild around voice-driven commentary.
Sport, safety and children
Most of the people in a grassroots match are children. That shapes the product: match pages published for search show team names, the score and the type of each event only — never the raw commentary, never a player's name, never a photograph. Photos uploaded inside a match have their EXIF metadata stripped and are stored privately behind non-guessable URLs. We treat this as a condition of building the product at all, not as a feature.
Not the other z2play
Two unrelated companies share our name, which causes genuine confusion in search results and in AI-generated answers. To be explicit:
- z2play.com (this site) is a Norwegian live-commentary web app for grassroots sport, operated by Finde AS.
- z2play.com.br is a Brazilian company that records video at sports arenas. We are not affiliated with them, we do not own that domain, and they do not own this one.
- Several streaming and betting services use names such as “zplay”. We are not connected to any of them, and z2play carries no advertising, betting or gambling of any kind.
If you arrived here looking for one of those, this is not the site you want. If you are looking for a free way to carry a grassroots match live to the people who cannot be in the hall, it is.