What the API does and who it is for
Free API Live Football Data is a broad-coverage football (soccer) data API that surfaces structured information across the full lifecycle of a match — from pre-match odds and fixture lists through live scores and events to post-match statistics and head-to-head history. Coverage spans more than 2,100 leagues globally, including all of Europe's top five leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1), major competitions across the Americas, Asia, Australia, and a long tail of regional and lower-division leagues in Europe and South America.
The API targets developers building sports applications: fan score-tracking apps, fantasy football tools, betting dashboards, analytics platforms, or any product that needs current or historical football data. Its freemium structure means a solo developer or small startup can validate an integration at zero cost before committing to a paid tier.
Endpoint walkthrough
The API exposes 65 endpoints in total; the 40 documented below cover every core domain. All endpoints use HTTP GET, which keeps integration straightforward — queries are driven by URL parameters such as league ID, team ID, player ID, or event ID.
League and competition data
/football-get-all-leaguesand/football-get-all-leagues-with-countriesreturn the full catalogue of supported leagues, optionally enriched with country metadata./football-popular-leaguesnarrows the list to high-traffic competitions, useful for populating a default view./football-get-league-detailand/football-get-league-logopull metadata and imagery for a specific league by its ID./football-league-all-seasonslists available seasons per league, which matters when you need to query historical fixtures.
Match and fixture data
/football-get-matches-by-datereturns all fixtures on a given calendar date — the workhorse for a daily schedule view./football-get-matches-by-date-and-leaguenarrows that by league, and/football-get-all-matches-by-leagueretrieves the full fixture list for a league across a season./football-current-livedelivers live scores for all matches currently in progress — the core endpoint for any real-time score widget.- Individual match endpoints (
/football-get-match-detail,/football-get-match-score,/football-get-match-status,/football-get-match-location,/football-get-match-referee,/football-get-match-highlights) let you fetch granular data for a single event by its ID.
Statistics
The API separates statistics into three scopes for each event:
/football-get-match-all-stats(full match)/football-get-match-firstHalf-statsand/football-get-match-event-firstHalf-stats/football-get-match-secondhalf-statsand/football-get-match-event-secondhalf-stats
Having first-half and second-half splits is particularly useful for in-play applications or post-match tactical analysis.
Teams and players
/football-get-list-all-teamreturns all teams in a league;/football-get-list-home-teamand/football-get-list-away-teamfilter by playing context./football-league-teamgives full team detail by team ID;/football-team-logoretrieves the team crest./football-get-list-playerlists a team's squad;/football-players-searchlets you search across all players by name;/football-get-player-detailand/football-get-player-logoreturn individual profile data and imagery.
Lineups, head-to-head, and odds
/football-get-hometeam-lineupand/football-get-awayteam-lineupfetch the starting XI and bench by event ID — critical for pre-match or live display./football-get-head-to-headreturns historical encounters between the two sides in a given fixture.- Odds are covered by three endpoints:
/football-event-odds(raw pre-match odds by event),/football-get-match-oddspoll(aggregated poll), and/football-get-match-odds-voteresult(vote outcomes).
Standings
/football-get-standing-home and /football-get-standing-away both accept a league ID and return home-only and away-only league table splits — a level of granularity useful for prediction models beyond a plain overall table.
Pricing breakdown
| Plan | Monthly cost | Requests/month | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 | 100 | — |
| Pro | $9.99 | 20,000 | — |
| Ultra (recommended) | $19.99 | 200,000 | — |
| Mega | $49.99 | 500,000 | $0.0009 per request |
The Basic plan's 100 requests per month is tight — enough to explore endpoints and prototype responses, but not enough to run even a lightweight production app. A simple page that polls live scores every 60 seconds during a two-hour match will consume around 120 requests per game, exceeding the monthly quota in a single session.
The Pro tier at $9.99 gives 20,000 requests, which is workable for a personal project or a low-traffic niche site covering one or two leagues. At 198 ms average latency, most request budgets will be spent on polling intervals rather than on heavy batch calls.
Ultra at $19.99 is the recommended entry point for any app with real user traffic. 200,000 requests per month works out to roughly 6,450 requests per day, which supports moderate polling frequencies across multiple concurrent users or leagues.
Mega at $49.99 adds overage billing at $0.0009 per request beyond the 500,000-request base. That overage rate is low enough that a burst month does not become prohibitively expensive — an extra 100,000 requests costs $90 in overage on top of the $49.99 base, so budget accordingly if your traffic is spiky.
Practical use cases
- Score widgets and dashboards: Poll
/football-current-liveon an interval to show in-progress scores; supplement with/football-get-match-statusand/football-get-match-scorefor focused single-match views. - Fantasy football tools: Player profiles via
/football-get-player-detail, squad lists via/football-get-list-player, and lineup data via the lineup endpoints combine to give the player context fantasy platforms need. - Betting and prediction apps: Pre-match odds from
/football-event-odds, head-to-head history, and standings splits (home/away) provide the inputs that statistical prediction models typically require. The provider also mentions predictions and player transfers as available features. - League directory or explorer: The full league catalogue with country metadata, logos, seasons, and team lists is enough to build a browsable football encyclopedia without supplemental data sources.
Limitations and things to check before integrating
Request quotas are the primary constraint. The free tier (100 requests/month) is suited for exploration only. Even the Pro tier can run thin if you support multiple simultaneous users polling live data. Before integrating, map out your worst-case request volume: number of concurrent users × polling interval during peak match hours × number of endpoints called per cycle.
Endpoint documentation depth varies. The public listing describes endpoints at the name level; the exact query parameters, response schemas, and pagination behavior are not detailed in the available documentation. Budget time to test each endpoint during integration to understand the actual response shapes.
65 total endpoints, 40 documented here. The remaining 25 endpoints likely cover the advanced features mentioned — predictions, player transfers, and additional competition-level data — but their specific behaviors would need to be verified against the full API reference.
No mention of authentication method or SDK support in the available data; confirm the auth mechanism (API key header, query parameter, OAuth) when signing up.
Getting started
Sign up for the Basic plan — no credit card is required — and use the 100 free monthly requests to map out the endpoints relevant to your use case. Start with /football-get-all-leagues to retrieve league IDs, then walk through the match and team endpoints for a league you know well so you can verify data accuracy. Once you have confirmed the integration works and have a realistic request-volume estimate, pick the paid tier that covers your projected usage with a comfortable headroom buffer. Given the Mega plan's overage option, it can absorb unexpected traffic spikes without service interruption.
