SportAPI Review: Live Scores, Stats & Odds for 20+ Sports

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SportAPI is a RapidAPI-hosted sports data service built on Sofascore's dataset, covering live scores, match statistics, lineups, standings, odds, and more across 20+ sports and 5,000+ leagues. It exposes 100 endpoints spanning everything from per-event incidents to player career statistics and esports round data. With nearly 16,000 subscribers and a popularity score of 9.9, it is one of the most widely adopted sports APIs in the RapidAPI marketplace.

17.8k subscribers

9.9/10 popularity

176 ms avg latency

75% success rate

100 endpoints

June 19, 2026 reviewed

What SportAPI covers and who it serves

SportAPI aggregates sports data from Sofascore and surfaces it through a REST API hosted on RapidAPI. The coverage is broad: football (soccer), basketball, tennis, ice hockey, handball, volleyball, baseball, American football, MMA, cricket, rugby, darts, snooker, futsal, badminton, Australian rules, beach volleyball, water polo, cycling, floorball, bandy, and a full suite of motorsport disciplines — Formula 1, Formula E, MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3, Superbike, WRC, NASCAR, DTM, and Indycar. Esports coverage includes CS:GO, Dota 2, and League of Legends.

The target audience is developers building sports-adjacent products: score widgets, fantasy sports platforms, betting tools, sports journalism dashboards, or statistical analysis applications. The depth of the data — incidents, lineups, per-player shot maps, team heatmaps — also makes it relevant for analytics and machine-learning projects that need structured historical match data.

Endpoint architecture and data depth

The documented API base is https://sportapi7.p.rapidapi.com. All requests use RapidAPI's standard header-based authentication (X-RapidAPI-Key and X-RapidAPI-Host). There are 100 endpoints in total; the documentation exposes the following core flows clearly.

Scheduled events

The entry point for most workflows is GET /api/v1/sport/{sport}/scheduled-events/{date}, which returns every match across all categories for a given sport on a YYYY-MM-DD date. If you want to drill down by region or competition first, GET /api/v1/sport/{sport}/{date}/{timezoneOffset}/categories lists all categories (e.g., England, Spain, Germany for football) that have events on a given date, and GET /api/v1/category/{id}/scheduled-events/{date} then returns the events for that specific category. The timezoneOffset parameter accepts seconds from UTC, so UTC+1 is 3600.

Per-event data

Once you have an event ID, four endpoints provide the granular data most applications need:

/api/v1/event/{id} — Core match metadata: teams, status, venue, referee, scores.
/api/v1/event/{id}/incidents — A chronological list of events within the match: goals, yellow and red cards, substitutions, VAR decisions.
/api/v1/event/{id}/lineups — Starting XI and substitutes, with a confirmed flag to distinguish provisional from official lineups.
/api/v1/event/{id}/statistics — Team-level stats grouped by period: possession, shots on/off target, passes, corners, and similar metrics.

Two additional per-event endpoints extend the dataset: /api/v1/event/{id}/odds/{providerId}/all returns betting odds across all markets from a specified provider (use 1 as the default provider ID), and /api/v1/event/{event}/shotmap/player/{player} gives a per-player shot map for football matches.

Tournament and standing data

Standings are fetched via GET /api/v1/unique-tournament/{id}/season/{seasonId}/standings/{type}, where type can be total, home, or away. The tournament and season IDs come directly from the event object, so no separate lookup is required. Other tournament-level endpoints cover round-by-round events, team-of-the-week rounds, and season top players broken down by position.

Team and player endpoints

The remaining endpoints cover team details (/api/v1/team/{id}), squad rosters (/api/v1/team/{id}/players), transfer history, career statistics, rankings, season heatmaps, goal distributions, and top-player leaderboards. Player endpoints offer career statistics, recent events, season shot actions by type, and media assets. Images for both teams and players are served directly from the API.

Esports-specific endpoints

For CS:GO, Dota 2, and League of Legends, dedicated endpoints handle esports-game bans (/api/v1/esports-game/{id}/bans) and round-by-round breakdowns (/api/v1/esports-game/{id}/rounds).

Odds by date

GET /api/v1/sport/{sport}/odds/{providerId}/{date} retrieves odds for all events of a sport scheduled on a given date — useful for building betting aggregation tools without iterating event by event.

Pricing breakdown

SportAPI uses a freemium model with four published tiers:

Plan	Monthly price	Requests / month	Rate limit
BASIC	$0	50	—
PRO	$15	15,000	20 / second
ULTRA	$100	150,000	50 / second
MEGA	$500	2,000,000	100 / second

Overage on the MEGA plan is billed at $0.001 per request. Custom plans are available on request.

The BASIC tier is better described as a trial than a functional free tier. Fifty requests per month evaporates quickly: a single football match fetched with the full workflow documented above (scheduled events, match info, incidents, lineups, statistics, standings, odds) consumes at least seven requests. That leaves room for fewer than eight complete match lookups before the monthly quota resets. Realistic evaluation or development work requires at least the PRO tier.

PRO at $15/month and 15,000 requests is workable for a low-traffic hobby project or internal tool that monitors a handful of competitions. ULTRA at $100/month covers more demanding applications. MEGA is aimed at production platforms with high request volumes — the 2,000,000 monthly allowance with overage billing gives predictable scaling.

Practical use cases

Score and results widgets: Pull today's scheduled events across a sport, supplement with live incidents, and render a real-time scoreboard.
Fantasy sports: Combine lineups, player statistics, and standings to build scoring engines or injury-aware selection tools.
Betting platforms: Use per-event odds endpoints alongside match statistics and incidents for pre-match and in-play data feeds.
Motorsport dashboards: The breadth of motorsport disciplines — F1 through WRC — makes SportAPI more complete for racing data than many alternatives.
Esports analytics: Ban data and round breakdowns for CS:GO, Dota, and LoL are specific enough to support competitive analytics tools.

Things to consider before integrating

Success rate: The reported average success rate is 81%. For an API used in production, this figure deserves attention — roughly one in five requests returning an error means you need robust retry logic and graceful degradation in your application. Test the specific endpoints and sports you care about before committing to a paid tier, and monitor error patterns to see whether the failure rate is concentrated in particular endpoints.

Request economics: The multi-step nature of enriching a single match means your quota gets consumed faster than single-endpoint APIs. A workflow that fetches events for a full matchday and enriches each match with six sub-requests can burn through hundreds of calls for a busy football Saturday alone. Map out your expected daily call volume against your chosen plan before subscribing.

Latency: The average latency of 235 ms is reasonable for most non-real-time use cases, but if you are building a live ticker that polls continuously, the compounding effect of multiple requests per match cycle will add up.

Endpoint documentation: Only 40 of the 100 endpoints are documented in the public readme. The undocumented endpoints are discoverable through RapidAPI's interface, but you may need to experiment with request parameters.

Rate limits: BASIC has no published rate limit, which is academic given the 50-request monthly cap. PRO starts at 20 requests per second, which is sufficient for most applications at that scale.

Getting started

Sign up on RapidAPI, subscribe to SportAPI, and copy your X-RapidAPI-Key. The quickstart flows in the documentation use Python's requests library and are copy-paste ready. Start by calling the scheduled-events endpoint for football on today's date to verify connectivity, then layer in the per-event endpoints as needed. Keep event.tournament.uniqueTournament.id and event.season.id from each event object — you will need both for standings lookups. For production use, wrap each request in retry logic given the documented success rate.

SportAPI endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
Sport
GET	Odds for all events scheduled at a date /api/v1/sport/{sport}/odds/{providerId}/{date}	Return odds for scheduled events for given sport and date. Please note that the API response is not documented correctly as the format is not supported. The actual value of odds…
Player
GET	api_v1_player_nearevents /api/v1/player/{id}/near-events	An example: `331737`
GET	api_v1_player_lastyearsummary /api/v1/player/{id}/last-year-summary	Get players last year summary. Additionally, a map of unique tournaments in which the player has played is returned.
GET	api_v1_player_seasonshotactions /api/v1/player/{id}/unique-tournament/{uniqueTournamentId}/season/{seasonId}/shot-actions/{type}	Get all shot actions by a player for given unique tournament, season and type.
GET	api_v1_player_careerstatistics /api/v1/player/{id}/career-statistics	Get player career statistics of different types.
GET	api_v1_player_media /api/v1/player/{id}/media	Returns media for a player.
GET	api_v1_player_image /api/v1/player/{id}/image	Returns the image of a player. The image is in png format.
Search
GET	api_v1_search_defaultsuggestions /api/v1/search/suggestions/default
GET	api_v1_search_uniquetournamentswithcuptree /api/v1/search/unique-tournaments-with-cuptree/{query}	Returns an array of unique tournaments for given `query`. Query length must be at least 2 characters. Maximum number of returned items is `10`.
GET	api_v1_search_managers /api/v1/search/managers/{query}/{more}	Returns an array of managers for given `query`. Maximum number of returned items is `10` if the `more` parameter is an empty string. If `more` is anything else the maximum number…
GET	api_v1_search_uniquetournamentswithpowerrankings /api/v1/search/unique-tournaments-with-power-rankings/{query}	Returns an array of unique tournaments for given `query`. Query length must be at least 2 characters. Maximum number of returned items is `10`.
GET	api_v1_search_uniquetournaments /api/v1/search/unique-tournaments/{query}/{more}	Returns an array of unique tournaments for given `query`. Maximum number of returned items is `10` if the `more` parameter is an empty string. If `more` is anything else the…
GET	api_v1_search_uniquetournamentssps /api/v1/search/unique-tournaments-with-sps/{query}	Returns an array of unique tournaments for given `query`. Query length must be at least 2 characters. Maximum number of returned items is `10`.
Event
GET	api_v1_event_featuredplayers /api/v1/event/{id}/featured-players	Get featured players for teams participating in event. To see return values go to sandbox tab and enter this id: - event: 7828244
GET	api_v1_event_shotmapperplayer /api/v1/event/{event}/shotmap/player/{player}
GET	api_v1_event_highlights /api/v1/event/{id}/highlights	Returns the highlights of an event. An example: `7836705`
Odds
GET	api_v1_odds_tophead2head_1 /api/v1/odds/{id}/top-h2h/{sport}	Get top 20 head to head results Map keys are event.id from events
GET	api_v1_odds_topteamstreaks /api/v1/odds/top-team-streaks/{streakName}/all	Get top team streaks for provider and sport. Sport is optional and if omitted returns data for all sports.
GET	api_v1_odds_tophead2head /api/v1/odds/{id}/top-h2h/all	Get top 20 head to head results Map keys are event.id from events
GET	api_v1_odds_currentfeaturedevents /api/v1/odds/{id}/featured-events/{sport}
GET	api_v1_odds_featuredeventsbytiers /api/v1/odds/{id}/featured-events-by-tiers/{sport}
GET	api_v1_odds_topwinning /api/v1/odds/{id}/winning/all	Get top winning odds for provider and sport. Sport is optional and if omitted returns odds for all sports.
GET	api_v1_odds_topteamstreaks_1 /api/v1/odds/top-team-streaks/{streakName}/{sport}	Get top team streaks for provider and sport. Sport is optional and if omitted returns data for all sports.
GET	api_v1_odds_toprankedstreaks /api/v1/odds/high-value-streaks/{oddsProvider}	Get top 30 highest-ranked Team Streaks for upcoming events.
GET	api_v1_odds_recommendedprematchodds /api/v1/odds/{oddsProviderId}/recommended-prematch/tournament/{tournamentId}
Rankings
GET	api_v1_rankings_rankingtypes /api/v1/rankings/
GET	api_v1_rankings_uniquetournamentweightclassrankings /api/v1/rankings/unique-tournament/{id}/{weightClass}/{gender}	Returns rankings that contain a certain team
GET	api_v1_rankings_sportsummary_1 /api/v1/rankings/unique-tournament/{id}/summary
Manager
GET	api_v1_manager_index /api/v1/manager/{id}	Returns the manager details. An example: `76039`
Stage
GET	api_v1_stage_featuredstages /api/v1/stage/sport/{sport}/featured
ESportsGame
GET	api_v1_esportsgame_bans /api/v1/esports-game/{id}/bans	List of characters that team forbid for other team to choose. Order chronologically, separated by team.
GET	api_v1_esportsgame_rounds /api/v1/esports-game/{id}/rounds	Get list of rounds for specific esports game
GET	api_v1_esportsgame_playerstatistics /api/v1/esports-game/{id}/lineups	Get player statistics for specific esports game
GET	api_v1_esportsgame_statistics /api/v1/esports-game/{id}/statistics	Team statistics for teams participating in given game.
Team
GET	api_v1_team_rankings /api/v1/team/{id}/rankings	Legacy endpoint; Returns an array of TeamRanking (or its subclasses) entities for a particular team. For subclass types, consult Rankings section, rankings for type action. Use…
GET	api_v1_team_details /api/v1/team/{id}
GET	api_v1_team_topplayers /api/v1/team/{id}/unique-tournament/{uniqueTournamentId}/season/{seasonId}/top-players/{type}	Get top players for given unique tournament, season and type
GET	api_v1_team_careerstatistics /api/v1/team/{id}/career-statistics
GET	api_v1_team_events /api/v1/team/{id}/events/{span}/{page}	Returns events in which team played. Parameter span indicates whether future start dates are wanted or past start dates. An example: `38`
GET	api_v1_team_uniquetournaments /api/v1/team/{id}/unique-tournaments	Returns unique tournaments in which team is participating An example: `38`
GET	api_v1_team_goaldistributions /api/v1/team/{id}/unique-tournament/{uniqueTournamentId}/season/{seasonId}/goal-distributions	Get team goal distributions (home, away, overall) for given unique tournament and season
GET	api_v1_team_image /api/v1/team/{id}/image	Returns the image of a team. The image is in png format.
GET	api_v1_team_standingsseasons /api/v1/team/{id}/standings/seasons	Get tournament-season pairs if standings exist for given team.
GET	api_v1_team_transfers /api/v1/team/{id}/transfers	Returns list of team transfers An example: `38`
GET	api_v1_team_driverhistory /api/v1/team/{id}/driver-career-history	Get career history stats for driver.
GET	api_v1_team_imagesmall /api/v1/team/{id}/image/small	Returns the small image of a team. The image is in png format.
GET	api_v1_team_seasonheatmap /api/v1/team/{id}/unique-tournament/{uniqueTournamentId}/season/{seasonId}/heatmap/{type}	Get team's season heat map. Points are objects in format: ``` { "x" : 4, "y" : 12.5, "count": 2 } ``` An example: - id: `2829` - uniqueTournamentId: `8` - seasonId: `18020`
GET	api_v1_team_racesforseason /api/v1/team/{id}/stage-season/{seasonId}/races	Return races in which driver participates for given stage season.
GET	api_v1_team_players /api/v1/team/{id}/players	Returns players who play for given team. Also, returns two sublists: national and foreign players.
GET	api_v1_team_media /api/v1/team/{id}/media	Returns media and highlights of an team.

+ 50 more endpoints on the provider's documentation.

SportAPI pricing

Plan	Price	Rate limit	Quotas
BASIC	Free	—	Requests: 50 / monthly
PRO	$15 / month	20 / second	Requests: 15,000 / monthly
ULTRA	$100 / month	50 / second	Requests: 150,000 / monthly
MEGA Recommended	$500 / month	100 / second	Requests: 2,000,000 / monthly (then $0.0010 each)

Frequently asked questions

What sports does SportAPI cover?

SportAPI covers 20+ sports including football, basketball, tennis, ice hockey, MMA, cricket, rugby, darts, snooker, a wide range of motorsport disciplines (Formula 1, MotoGP, NASCAR, WRC, and more), and esports titles CS:GO, Dota 2, and League of Legends.

How much does SportAPI cost and is there a free tier?

There is a free BASIC plan at $0 per month, but it is limited to just 50 requests per month. Paid plans start at $15/month (15,000 requests), then $100/month (150,000 requests), and $500/month (2,000,000 requests with $0.001 per request overage). Custom plans are available on request.

What is the reported success rate for SportAPI?

The average success rate is 81%, meaning roughly one in five requests may return an error. Developers should build retry logic and error-handling into any integration that depends on this API.

What authentication method does SportAPI use?

SportAPI is hosted on RapidAPI and uses standard RapidAPI header authentication, requiring X-RapidAPI-Key and X-RapidAPI-Host headers on every request.

What types of per-match data can I retrieve?

For each event you can fetch match details, a chronological list of incidents (goals, cards, substitutions, VAR decisions), confirmed or provisional lineups, team statistics grouped by period, tournament standings (total, home, or away), betting odds across multiple markets, and per-player shot maps.

How many requests does a typical match data workflow consume?

Fetching a full dataset for a single match — scheduled events, match info, incidents, lineups, statistics, standings, and odds — requires at least seven API calls. On the free BASIC plan of 50 requests per month, that leaves room for fewer than eight complete match lookups before the quota resets.

SportAPI Review: Live Scores, Stats & Odds for 20+ Sports

What SportAPI covers and who it serves

Endpoint architecture and data depth

Scheduled events

Per-event data

Tournament and standing data

Team and player endpoints

Esports-specific endpoints

Odds by date

Pricing breakdown

Practical use cases

Things to consider before integrating

Getting started

SportAPI endpoints

SportAPI pricing

Frequently asked questions

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