UEFA/FIFA scores API

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Dmitry Teplyakov picture Dmitry Teplyakov · Nov 14, 2012 · Viewed 114.4k times · Source

Does anybody know if UEFA or FIFA provide a scores api for football matches, official team players list, transfers, etc?

I found footytube api but not sure ofits stability and completeness..

Answer

sincepast picture sincepast · Jul 21, 2013

UEFA or FIFA don't seem to provide any API to get the information you want. However, there are some third-party services which support that:

  • OPTA - Both commercial and free. They have incredible database about matches. Whoscored.com currently uses it.

  • Others: livescoreboards, xmlsoccer, ...

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