A match is a small tool for producing fire.

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 (2025 film), a Korean film

• The Match (2026 film), an Argentine documentary 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), a clone of Superboy

• Match (Marvel Comics), a mutant in the X-Men universe

• Match, a character from the first season of Battle for Dream Island, an animated web series

Music

• The Matches, a pop-punk band from Oakland, California

• "Matches" (Sammy Kershaw song), 1998

• "Matches" (Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys song), 2020

Plays

• Match (play), a 2004 play by Stephen Belber

Brands and enterprises

• Match (drink), a carbonated soft drink sold in Japan

• Match (supermarket), a supermarket chain in Belgium, France and Luxembourg

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

• Match.com, an online dating service

Periodicals

• Match (magazine), a British football magazine

• Paris Match, a French magazine

• The Match!, an atheist and anarchist journal

Sports and games

• Match II, the best-known of several thoroughbred racehorses named Match

• The Match (golf), a series of made-for-TV golf challenge matches involving Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and other sports stars

• The Match Europe v USA, 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

• Match (chess), either a competition between two teams or a series of games between two individuals in chess

• Match TV, a Russian free-to-air TV channel

Other uses

• Sam Match (1923–2010), American tennis player

• National Resident Matching Program, commonly referred to "The Match"; procedure for matching medical students with residency programs in the US

• Project MATCH, an American study of alcoholics and their treatment

See also

• Match grade, a category of firearms and ammunition

• Slow match, a slow-burning cord or twine fuse

• Match! Arena, a Russian pay TV channel

• Match! Game, a Russian pay TV channel

• Matching (disambiguation)