diff --git a/apps/match/migrations/0002_stat.sql b/apps/match/migrations/0002_stat.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77f3d8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/match/migrations/0002_stat.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+-- Server statistics sampled over time — one row per sample, as the presence cron
+-- writes them. Generated from packages/domain/src/stats-db.ts (STAT_SCHEMA_DDL) — keep
+-- in sync.
+--
+-- `stat_type` names what was measured (currently just `online`: the number of live
+-- `presence` rows, i.e. players online, taken right after the expired ones are swept).
+-- `value` is the measurement and `datetime` is when it was taken, as an ISO-8601 UTC
+-- string so it reads directly and sorts lexically.
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS stat (
+  stat_type TEXT NOT NULL,
+  value INTEGER NOT NULL,
+  datetime TEXT NOT NULL
+  );
+
+-- For "the `online` series over a time range".
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_stat_type_datetime ON stat (stat_type, datetime);
diff --git a/apps/match/src/match.app.ts b/apps/match/src/match.app.ts
index fecfa96..7d280da 100644
--- a/apps/match/src/match.app.ts
+++ b/apps/match/src/match.app.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
 	Accessibility,
 	areFriends,
 	canManageRoom,
+	countOnlinePlayers,
 	createRoomInstance,
 	createRoomInvite,
 	deleteEmptyRoomInstances,
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ import {
 	MessageType,
 	MOST_ACTIVE_CLUBHOUSE_LIMIT,
 	recordRoomVisit,
+	recordStat,
 	refreshInstanceFullness,
 	RoomInstanceType,
 	setPresence,
@@ -2903,10 +2905,14 @@ async function sweepExpiredPresence(env: Env): Promise<void> {
 	for (const instanceId of staleInstanceIds) {
 		await refreshInstanceFullness(env.DB, instanceId)
 	}
+	// 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)
+	await recordStat(env.DB, 'online', online)
 	// The tagged logger is request-scoped (its middleware never runs for a cron), so
 	// log plainly here — Workers observability picks it up either way.
 	console.log(
-		`presence sweep: removed ${removed} expired rows, deleted ${emptyInstanceIds.length} empty instances, refreshed ${staleInstanceIds.length} instances`
+		`presence sweep: removed ${removed} expired rows, deleted ${emptyInstanceIds.length} empty instances, refreshed ${staleInstanceIds.length} instances, ${online} online`
 	)
 }
 
diff --git a/apps/match/src/test/integration/api.test.ts b/apps/match/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
index 8e13171..ebc2cd3 100644
--- a/apps/match/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
+++ b/apps/match/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
 	ROOM_SCHEMA_DDL,
 	seedRoomWithSubRooms,
 	setPresence,
+	STAT_SCHEMA_DDL,
 	SUBROOM_SCHEMA_DDL,
 } from '@repo/domain'
 
@@ -124,6 +125,8 @@ beforeAll(async () => {
 	for (const stmt of PRESENCE_SCHEMA_DDL) await env.DB.prepare(stmt).run()
 	// Room invites (owned by this worker) — POST /invite mints a row per invite.
 	for (const stmt of ROOM_INVITE_SCHEMA_DDL) await env.DB.prepare(stmt).run()
+	// Stats (owned by this worker) — the presence cron samples the online count into it.
+	for (const stmt of STAT_SCHEMA_DDL) await env.DB.prepare(stmt).run()
 
 	// Accounts table (owned by the auth worker) — dorm creation reads the username
 	// to name the room. Seed the players the dorm tests authenticate as.
@@ -1909,6 +1912,30 @@ describe('auth-gated endpoints', () => {
 		expect((await getRoomInstance(env.DB, solo))?.isFull).toBe(false)
 	})
 
+	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')
+			.bind(nowSeconds())
+			.first<{ n: number }>())!.n
+
+		const ctx = createExecutionContext()
+		await scheduled(createScheduledController(), env, ctx)
+		await waitOnExecutionContext(ctx)
+
+		const rows = (
+			await env.DB.prepare('SELECT stat_type, value, datetime FROM stat').all<{
+				stat_type: string
+				value: number
+				datetime: string
+			}>()
+		).results
+		expect(rows).toHaveLength(1)
+		expect(rows[0]!.stat_type).toBe('online')
+		expect(rows[0]!.value).toBe(before)
+		// Stamped with the current time, as ISO-8601.
+		expect(Math.abs(Date.parse(rows[0]!.datetime) - Date.now())).toBeLessThan(10_000)
+	})
+
 	// Age an instance past EMPTY_INSTANCE_GRACE_SECONDS by backdating its `createdAt`
 	// (the generated `created_at` column follows the blob), so the empty-instance sweep
 	// can be exercised without waiting out the grace window.
@@ -2444,9 +2471,7 @@ describe('auth-gated endpoints', () => {
 
 		// The one frame an invite from a client on `version` pushes, with the RoomInviteId
 		// the call answered — a v2 invite names it in its Data.
-		const inviteFrom = async (
-			version?: string
-		): Promise<{ frame: Sent; roomInviteId: number }> => {
+		const inviteFrom = async (version?: string): Promise<{ frame: Sent; roomInviteId: number }> => {
 			await hub().fetch('http://do/all', { method: 'DELETE' })
 			const res = await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/invite`, {
 				method: 'POST',
diff --git a/packages/domain/src/index.ts b/packages/domain/src/index.ts
index 7f91dee..5c5af58 100644
--- a/packages/domain/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/domain/src/index.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ export * from './room-instance-db'
 export * from './room-comments-db'
 export * from './room-invites-db'
 export * from './presence-db'
+export * from './stats-db'
 export * from './gifts-db'
 export * from './inventory-invention-db'
 export * from './lists-db'
diff --git a/packages/domain/src/stats-db.ts b/packages/domain/src/stats-db.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e785fb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/domain/src/stats-db.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/**
+ * Server statistics sampled over time (`stat` table). The `match` presence cron
+ * records one `online` sample per run — the count of live `presence` rows once the
+ * expired ones are swept. Migration: apps/match/migrations/0002_stat.sql.
+ */
+
+/** Schema DDL (mirror of apps/match/migrations/0002_stat.sql). */
+export const STAT_SCHEMA_DDL: string[] = [
+	`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS stat (
+		stat_type TEXT NOT NULL,
+		value INTEGER NOT NULL,
+		datetime TEXT NOT NULL
+	)`,
+	`CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_stat_type_datetime ON stat (stat_type, datetime)`,
+]
+
+export interface StatRow {
+	statType: string
+	value: number
+	datetime: string
+}
+
+/** Record one sample of `statType`, stamped with the current UTC time (ISO-8601). */
+export async function recordStat(
+	db: D1Database,
+	statType: string,
+	value: number,
+	now: Date = new Date()
+): Promise<void> {
+	await db
+		.prepare('INSERT INTO stat (stat_type, value, datetime) VALUES (?1, ?2, ?3)')
+		.bind(statType, value, now.toISOString())
+		.run()
+}
+
+/** Samples of `statType`, oldest first. */
+export async function getStats(db: D1Database, statType: string, limit = 1000): Promise<StatRow[]> {
+	const { results } = await db
+		.prepare(
+			'SELECT stat_type, value, datetime FROM stat WHERE stat_type = ?1 ORDER BY datetime ASC LIMIT ?2'
+		)
+		.bind(statType, limit)
+		.all<{ stat_type: string; value: number; datetime: string }>()
+	return results.map((r) => ({ statType: r.stat_type, value: r.value, datetime: r.datetime }))
+}