diff --git a/apps/match/src/match.app.ts b/apps/match/src/match.app.ts
index 3d2f446..3baee59 100644
--- a/apps/match/src/match.app.ts
+++ b/apps/match/src/match.app.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
 	GAME_VERSION,
 	getAccount,
 	getClubSummary,
+	getExpiredPresenceAccountIds,
 	getExpiredPresenceInstanceIds,
 	getFriendIds,
 	getJoinableInstance,
@@ -565,19 +566,22 @@ function presenceUpdateMessage(
 
 /**
  * Push a SubscriptionUpdatePresence to every online friend of `playerId` after their
- * presence changes (they entered a room). Mirrors the reference's PlayerPresenceChanged:
- * only currently-connected friends receive it (an offline friend gets nothing, not a
- * queued stale frame), so it's an ephemeral batch send. The room instance the friends
- * see is read from the player's stored presence — the authoritative record just written,
- * the same one the heartbeat replays. Best-effort: a hub or lookup failure is logged and
- * swallowed, so it never fails the matchmake that triggered it.
+ * presence changes (they entered a room, logged out, or lapsed). Mirrors the reference's
+ * PlayerPresenceChanged: only currently-connected friends receive it (an offline friend
+ * gets nothing, not a queued stale frame), so it's an ephemeral batch send. The room
+ * instance the friends see is read from the player's stored presence — the authoritative
+ * record just written, the same one the heartbeat replays; with the row gone (logout, or
+ * the cron sweep purging a lapsed row) the read is null and the frame is the offline
+ * snapshot (roomInstance null, isOnline false). Takes `Env` rather than a request context
+ * so the sweep, which has no request, sends the same frame. Best-effort: a hub or lookup
+ * failure is logged and swallowed, so it never fails the matchmake that triggered it.
  */
-async function notifyFriendsPresence(c: Context<App>, playerId: number): Promise<void> {
+async function notifyFriendsPresence(env: Env, playerId: number): Promise<void> {
 	try {
-		const friendIds = await getFriendIds(c.env.DB, playerId)
+		const friendIds = await getFriendIds(env.DB, playerId)
 		if (friendIds.length === 0) return
-		const presence = await getPresence<RoomInstance>(c.env.DB, playerId)
-		await c.env.RECFLARE_NOTIFICATIONS_HUB.getByName(HUB_INSTANCE).notifyPlayersEphemeral(
+		const presence = await getPresence<RoomInstance>(env.DB, playerId)
+		await env.RECFLARE_NOTIFICATIONS_HUB.getByName(HUB_INSTANCE).notifyPlayersEphemeral(
 			friendIds,
 			NotificationType.SubscriptionUpdatePresence,
 			presenceUpdateMessage(playerId, presence?.roomInstance ?? null, presence?.appVersion)
@@ -649,7 +653,7 @@ async function enterRoom(c: Context<App>, id: number, roomInstance: RoomInstance
 	// The player's presence changed — tell their online friends where they went, reading
 	// the instance back from the presence we just stored. Best-effort; never blocks or
 	// fails the matchmake.
-	await notifyFriendsPresence(c, id)
+	await notifyFriendsPresence(c.env, id)
 }
 
 /** Returned when a room isn't in the DB — and for every other opaque refusal. */
@@ -1859,7 +1863,7 @@ const app = new Hono<App>()
 					// Their presence changed — tell online friends they went offline. Presence
 					// is already cleared, so notifyFriendsPresence reads null and sends the
 					// offline snapshot (roomInstance null, isOnline false).
-					await notifyFriendsPresence(c, id)
+					await notifyFriendsPresence(c.env, id)
 				}
 			}
 			return c.body(null, 200)
@@ -3506,14 +3510,26 @@ const app = new Hono<App>()
  * running after the purge above: this order is what makes a lapsed row count as a
  * departure. Fullness is recomputed last, so it works from the final head-count and
  * skips (returns null for) the instances just deleted.
+ *
+ * A lapsed row is also the player going offline, exactly as a logout is — the client just
+ * never got to post one (it crashed, or lost its connection). So the sweep tells each
+ * lapsed player's online friends what `POST /player/logout` would have: the offline
+ * SubscriptionUpdatePresence. Without it a crashed player's friends kept seeing them
+ * online until their own client re-read the friends list. The account ids are read
+ * before the purge (the rows are what remembers who lapsed) and the frames sent after
+ * it, so `notifyFriendsPresence` reads no presence and sends the offline snapshot.
  */
 async function sweepExpiredPresence(env: Env): Promise<void> {
 	const staleInstanceIds = await getExpiredPresenceInstanceIds(env.DB)
+	const lapsedPlayerIds = await getExpiredPresenceAccountIds(env.DB)
 	const removed = await deleteExpiredPresence(env.DB)
 	const emptyInstanceIds = await deleteEmptyRoomInstances(env.DB)
 	for (const instanceId of staleInstanceIds) {
 		await refreshInstanceFullness(env.DB, instanceId)
 	}
+	for (const playerId of lapsedPlayerIds) {
+		await notifyFriendsPresence(env, playerId)
+	}
 	// Sample the player count into `stat` — taken after the purge, so it's the live
 	// rows and not the ones that just lapsed. One row per cron run: the `online` series.
 	const online = await countOnlinePlayers(env.DB)
diff --git a/apps/match/src/test/integration/api.test.ts b/apps/match/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
index 38a035a..bf77b46 100644
--- a/apps/match/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
+++ b/apps/match/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
@@ -2161,6 +2161,48 @@ describe('auth-gated endpoints', () => {
 		expect((await getRoomInstance(env.DB, solo))?.isFull).toBe(false)
 	})
 
+	test('the cron sweep tells a lapsed player’s friends they went offline, as a logout does', async () => {
+		type Batch = {
+			playerIds: number[]
+			notificationType: number | string
+			data: { playerId: number; isOnline: boolean; roomInstance: Record<string, unknown> | null }
+		}
+		const hub = () => env.RECFLARE_NOTIFICATIONS_HUB.getByName('global')
+		const sent = async (): Promise<Batch[]> =>
+			(await (await hub().fetch('http://do/all')).json()) as Batch[]
+
+		// 825 is friends with 826; 827 has no friends and lapses alongside.
+		await env.DB.prepare(
+			'INSERT INTO relationship (requester_id, target_id, relationship_type) VALUES (?1, ?2, ?3)'
+		)
+			.bind(825, 826, 3)
+			.run()
+		await seedPresence(825, nowSeconds() - 10)
+		await seedPresence(827, nowSeconds() - 10)
+		await hub().fetch('http://do/all', { method: 'DELETE' })
+
+		const ctx = createExecutionContext()
+		await scheduled(createScheduledController(), env, ctx)
+		await waitOnExecutionContext(ctx)
+
+		// Exactly one frame: the friend of the lapsed player, carrying the offline
+		// snapshot — the same frame `POST /player/logout` sends. The friendless player
+		// produces none.
+		const batch = await sent()
+		expect(batch).toHaveLength(1)
+		expect(batch[0]!.playerIds).toEqual([826])
+		expect(batch[0]!.notificationType).toBe('PresenceUpdate') // SubscriptionUpdatePresence
+		expect(batch[0]!.data).toMatchObject({ playerId: 825, isOnline: false, roomInstance: null })
+		expect(await countPresenceRows(825)).toBe(0)
+
+		// A second sweep has nothing lapsed → nothing sent.
+		await hub().fetch('http://do/all', { method: 'DELETE' })
+		const ctx2 = createExecutionContext()
+		await scheduled(createScheduledController(), env, ctx2)
+		await waitOnExecutionContext(ctx2)
+		expect(await sent()).toEqual([])
+	})
+
 	test('records an `online` stat sample of the live presence count on each run', async () => {
 		await env.DB.prepare('DELETE FROM stat').run()
 		const before = (await env.DB.prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) AS n FROM presence WHERE expires_at > ?1')
diff --git a/packages/domain/src/presence-db.ts b/packages/domain/src/presence-db.ts
index 82bab80..2658e94 100644
--- a/packages/domain/src/presence-db.ts
+++ b/packages/domain/src/presence-db.ts
@@ -373,6 +373,25 @@ export async function getExpiredPresenceInstanceIds(
 	return results.map((r) => r.id)
 }
 
+/**
+ * The players whose presence rows have expired — the players about to be purged by
+ * {@link deleteExpiredPresence}. Read BEFORE the purge: once the rows are gone nothing
+ * remembers who lapsed, and their friends are owed the same offline
+ * SubscriptionUpdatePresence a logout sends (the lapse IS their logout, just one the
+ * client never got to post). Includes lobby (null-instance) presence — a player idle
+ * in the lobby who stops heartbeating has gone offline too.
+ */
+export async function getExpiredPresenceAccountIds(
+	db: D1Database,
+	now = nowSeconds()
+): Promise<number[]> {
+	const { results } = await db
+		.prepare('SELECT account_id AS id FROM presence WHERE expires_at <= ?1 ORDER BY account_id')
+		.bind(now)
+		.all<{ id: number }>()
+	return results.map((r) => r.id)
+}
+
 /**
  * Purge expired presence rows — housekeeping only, since reads already ignore them
  * (and `INSERT OR REPLACE` keeps a single row per account, so the table is bounded