# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000891103
**File Stem:** 0000950103-25-009987
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 19262
**Document Hash:** 103de524017b1fbe985d2a1ee904f254
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000950103-25-009987.hdr.sgml**: 20250806

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000950103-25-009987

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 15

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250806

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250806

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20250806

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Match Group, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000891103
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SERVICES-COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, DATA PROCESSING, ETC. [7370]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 06 Technology
- **EIN:** 592712887
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-289283
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251187383

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 8750 NORTH CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 1400
- **CITY:** DALLAS
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 75231
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 2145769352

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 8750 NORTH CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 1400
- **CITY:** DALLAS
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 75231

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20040712

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** INTERACTIVECORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20030623

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** USA INTERACTIVE
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20020508

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 6, 2025**

**Registration No. 333-**

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM S-8**

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER**

**THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933**

**MATCH GROUP, INC.** 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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|:---|:---|:---|
| **Delaware** |  | **59-2712887** |
| (State or other jurisdiction of <br> incorporation or organization) |  | (I.R.S. Employer<br> Identification No.) |
|  | **8750 North Central Expressway, Suite 1400**<br>**Dallas, TX 75231**<br>**Telephone: (214) 576-9352** <br>|  |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code) | (Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code) | (Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code) |

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**Match Group, Inc.** 

**Amended and Restated 2024 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan**

(Full title of the plan)

**Sean Edgett**

**8750 North Central Expressway, Suite 1400**

**Dallas, TX 75231**

**Telephone: (214) 576-9352**

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

*With a copy to:*

**Richard D. Truesdell, Jr.**

**Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP**

**450 Lexington Avenue**

**New York, NY 10017**

**(212) 450-4000**

**Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.**

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|:---|:---|
| **Large accelerated filer** ⌧ | **Accelerated filer** □ |
| **Non-accelerated filer** □ **(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)** | **Smaller reporting company** □ |
|  | **Emerging growth company** □ |

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**If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.**

**EXPLANATORY NOTE**

Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, this Registration Statement is being filed by Match Group, Inc. (the "Registrant") to register an additional 4,200,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), of the Registrant issuable under the Match Group, Inc. Amended and Restated 2024 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan (as may be amended from time to time, the "2024 Plan"), which was most recently approved by the Registrant's board of directors on April 28, 2025 and by the Registrant's stockholders on June 18, 2025. This Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant's registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on February 27, 2025 (File No. 333-285335) and the post-effective amendment No. 1 to the registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on February 27, 2025 (File No. 333-239711) to the extent not superseded hereby.

**PART I**

**INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS**

The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this filing in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and the introductory note to Part I of the Form S-8 instructions. The document containing the information specified in Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Plan as required by Rule 428(b)(1).

**PART II** 

**INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT** 

**Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.**

The following documents are incorporated herein by reference:

(a) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Commission on [February 27, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000027/mtch-20241231.htm) ;

(b) The Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2025, filed with the Commission on [May 8, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000076/mtch-20250331.htm) and the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2025, filed with the Commission on [August 6, 2025](http://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000891103/000089110325000124/mtch-20250630.htm) ;

(b) The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on [February 4, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089882225000002/mtch8k020325.htm) (Film No. 25589402), [February 4, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000018/mtch-20250204.htm) (Film No. 25589101), [March 3, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000030/mtch-20250228.htm) , [April 7, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000110465925032508/tm2511679d1_8k.htm) , [April 29, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000110465925040671/tm2513319d1_8k.htm) , [May 8, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000074/mtch-20250508.htm) and [June 20, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000084/mtch-20250618.htm) ; and

(c) The description of the Registrant's common stock, par value $0.001 per share, which is contained in [Exhibit 4.1](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110324000014/mtch10-k20231231ex41.htm) attached to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 10-K (File No. 001-34148), filed on February 23, 2024.

In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents. The Registrant is not incorporating by reference any documents or portions thereof, whether specifically listed above or filed in the future, that are not deemed "filed" with the Commission.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein, (or in any other subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein), modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

**Item 8. Exhibits.**

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| **Exhibit Number** |  |
| 4.1 | [Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's 8-K, filed on June 20, 2025 (File No. 001-34148))](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000084/mtch8-k20250618ex31.htm) |
| 4.2 | [Fifth Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant's Form 8-K, filed on June 20, 2025 (File No. 001-34148))](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000084/mtch8-k20250618ex32.htm) |
| 5.1\* | [Opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (filed herewith)](dp232459_ex0501.htm) |
| 23.1\* | [Consent of Ernst & Young LLP (filed herewith)](dp232459_ex2301.htm) |
| 23.2\* | [Consent of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)](dp232459_ex0501.htm) |
| 24.1\* | [Power of Attorney (included in signature page hereof)](#a_001) |
| 99.1 | [Match Group, Inc. Amended and Restated 2024 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Appendix A to the Registrant's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Commission on April 29, 2025 (File No. 001-34148))](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000089110325000067/mtch-20250429.htm) |
| 107\* | [Filing Fee table](dp232459_exfilingfees.htm)<br>|

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\* Filed herewith.

**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on the 6th day of August, 2025**.**

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|:---|:---|
| **MATCH GROUP, INC.** | **MATCH GROUP, INC.** |
| By: | /s/ Sean Edgett |
|  | Name: Sean Edgett |
|  | Title: Chief Legal Officer and Secretary |

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**POWER OF ATTORNEY**

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Sean Edgett and David Shipley, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement and any and all additional registration statements pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or either of them or their or his or her substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

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|:---|:---|:---|
| Signature  | Title  | Date  |
| /s/ Spencer Rascoff | Chief Executive Officer and Director<br> (principal executive officer) | August 6, 2025 |
| Spencer Rascoff |  |  |
| /s/ Steven Bailey | President and Chief Financial Officer<br> (principal financial officer) | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 6, 2025 |
| Steven Bailey |  |  |
| /s/ Philip D. Eigenmann | Chief Accounting Officer<br> (principal accounting officer) | August 6, 2025 |
| Philip D. Eigenmann |  |  |
| /s/ Thomas J. McInerney | Chairman of the Board | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 6, 2025 |
| Thomas J. McInerney |  |  |
| /s/ Ann L. McDaniel | Director | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 6, 2025 |
| Ann L. McDaniel |  |  |
| /s/ Darrell Cavens | Director | August 6, 2025 |
| Darrell Cavens |  |  |

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| /s/ Glenn H. Schiffman | Director | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 6, 2025 |
| Glenn H. Schiffman |  |  |
| /s/ Kelly Campbell | Director | August 6, 2025 |
| Kelly Campbell |  |  |
| /s/ Laura Rachel Jones | Director | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 6, 2025 |
| Laura Rachel Jones |  |  |
| /s/ Melissa Brenner | Director | August 6, 2025 |
| Melissa Brenner |  |  |
| /s/ Pamela S. Seymon | Director | August 6, 2025 |
| Pamela S. Seymon |  |  |
| /s/ Sharmistha Dubey | Director | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 6, 2025 |
| Sharmistha Dubey |  |  |
| /s/ Stephen Bailey | Director | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 6, 2025 |
| Stephen Bailey |  |  |

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## Exhibit 5.1

**EXHIBITS 5.1 AND 23.2**

![](image_004.jpg)

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

davispolk.com

**OPINION OF DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL LLP**

August 6, 2025

Match Group, Inc.

8750 North Central Expressway, Suite 1400

Dallas, TX 75231

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel for Match Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "**Company**"), in connection with the preparation and filing of a registration statement on Form S-8 (the "**Registration Statement**") with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to 4,200,000 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "**Common Stock**"), issuable pursuant to the Match Group, Inc. Amended and Restated 2024 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan (as may be amended from time to time, the "**Plan**").

We, as your counsel, have examined originals or copies of such documents and such matters of fact and law as we have deemed necessary for the purposes of rendering the opinion expressed herein.

In rendering the opinion expressed herein, we have, without independent inquiry or investigation, assumed that (i) all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and complete, (ii) all documents submitted to us as copies conform to authentic, complete originals, (iii) all signatures on all documents that we reviewed are genuine, (iv) all natural persons executing documents had and have the legal capacity to do so, (v) all statements in certificates of public officials and officers of the Company that we reviewed were and are accurate and (vi) all representations made by the Company as to matters of fact in the documents that we reviewed were and are accurate.

Upon the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the Plan have been duly authorized and, when and to the extent issued pursuant to the Plan upon receipt by the Company of adequate consideration for the shares of Common Stock specified therein, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

We are members of the Bar of the State of New York, and the foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.

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| Very truly yours,<br>|
| /s/ Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP |

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## Exhibit 23.1

**EXHIBITS 23.1**

**Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm**

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the Match Group, Inc. Amended and Restated 2024 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan of our reports dated February 27, 2025, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of Match Group, Inc. and subsidiaries and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Match Group, Inc. and subsidiaries included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP

New York, New York

August 6, 2025

## Ex-Filing

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#### Ex-Filing Fees

#### CALCULATION OF FILING FEE TABLES

#### S-8

#### Match Group, Inc.

#### Table 1: Newly Registered and Carry Forward Securities

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| **Line Item Type** | **Security Type** | **Security Class Title** | **Notes** | **Fee Calculation<br> Rule** | **Amount Registered** | **Proposed Maximum Offering<br> Price Per Unit** | **Maximum Aggregate Offering Price** | **Fee Rate** | **Amount of Registration Fee** |
| *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* | *Newly Registered Securities* |
| Fees to be Paid | Equity | Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share | (1) | Other | 4200000 | $33.98 | $142716000.00 | 0.0001531 | $21849.82 |
| Total Offering Amounts: | Total Offering Amounts: | Total Offering Amounts: | Total Offering Amounts: | Total Offering Amounts: | Total Offering Amounts: | Total Offering Amounts: | $142716000.00 |  | 21849.82 |
| Total Fees Previously Paid: | Total Fees Previously Paid: | Total Fees Previously Paid: | Total Fees Previously Paid: | Total Fees Previously Paid: | Total Fees Previously Paid: | Total Fees Previously Paid: |  |  | 0.00 |
| Total Fee Offsets: | Total Fee Offsets: | Total Fee Offsets: | Total Fee Offsets: | Total Fee Offsets: | Total Fee Offsets: | Total Fee Offsets: |  |  | 0.00 |
| Net Fee Due: | Net Fee Due: | Net Fee Due: | Net Fee Due: | Net Fee Due: | Net Fee Due: | Net Fee Due: |  |  | $21849.82 |

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#### __________________________________________ Offering Note(s)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1) This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this "Registration Statement") covers shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share ("Common Stock"), of Match Group, Inc. (the "Company" or
"Registrant") (i) authorized for issuance under the Match Group, Inc. Amended and Restated 2024 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan (the "Plan") and (ii) pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), any additional shares of Common Stock that may become issuable under the Plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split or other
similar transaction. Amount of Registration Fee estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act, solely for the purpose of
computing the registration fee, based on the average of the high and low prices reported for a share of Common Stock on the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq Global Select Market) on July
30, 2025.