GET All Countries

Returns all the countries available within your subscription.

Base URL

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/countries

Example Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 2,
      "continent_id": 1,
      "name": "Poland",
      "official_name": "Republic of Poland",
      "fifa_name": "POL",
      "iso2": "PL",
      "iso3": "POL",
      "latitude": "52.147850036621094",
      "longitude": "19.37775993347168",
      "geonameid": 798544,
      "borders": [
        "BLR",
        "CZE",
        "DEU",
        "LTU",
        "RUS",
        "SVK",
        "UKR"
      ],
      "image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images//countries/png/short/pl.png"
    },
    {
      "id": 5,
      "continent_id": 7,
      "name": "Brazil",
      "official_name": "Federative Republic of Brazil",
      "fifa_name": "BRA",
      "iso2": "BR",
      "iso3": "BRA",
      "latitude": "-10.81045150756836",
      "longitude": "-52.97311782836914",
      "geonameid": 3469034,
      "borders": [
        "ARG",
        "BOL",
        "COL",
        "GUF",
        "GUY",
        "PRY",
        "PER",
        "SUR",
        "URY",
        "VEN"
      ],
      "image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images//countries/png/short/br.png"
    },
    {
      "id": 11,
      "continent_id": 1,
      "name": "Germany",
      "official_name": "Federal Republic of Germany",
      "fifa_name": "GER",
      "iso2": "DE",
      "iso3": "DEU",
      "latitude": "51.20246505737305",
      "longitude": "10.382203102111816",
      "geonameid": 2921044,
      "borders": [
        "AUT",
        "BEL",
        "CZE",
        "DNK",
        "FRA",
        "LUX",
        "NLD",
        "POL",
        "CHE"
      ],
      "image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images//countries/png/short/de.png"
    },

Field Description

Field	Description	Type
id	Refers to the id of the country	integer
continent_id	Refers to the continent of the country	integer
name	Displays the name of the country	string
official_name	Displays the officiel name of the country	string
fifa_name	Displays the official fifa shortcode name of the country	string
iso2	Returns the two letter country code	string
iso3	Returns the three letter country code	string
latitude	Returns the official latitude position of the country	string
longitude	Returns the official longitude position of the country	string
geonameid	Returns the official geonameid	integer
border	Returns all the neighbour countries of the country	string
image_path	Returns the image path of the country	string

Query Parameters

Query Parameters	Required?	Description
api_token	YES	Your unique API token
include	NO	Enrich the API with more data by using includes
select	NO	Select specific fields on the base entity
filters	NO	Filter the API response on multiple related entities. There are static filters and dynamic filters. Please find the possibilities in the Static and Dynamic Filter tab.

Static Filters

Static filters are always the same and filter in one specific way without any custom options. Each static filter is listed below and has a description of how it filters. For more information, please look at our Filters page.

Static Filters	Available on Entity	Description	Example
IdAfter	GET All Countries	Filter all countries starting from a certain country ID. Handy if you're doing an import for all countries and want to continue from a certain ID.	&filters=IdAfter:countryID

Dynamic Filters

The dynamic filters are based on entities and includes. Each dynamic filter uses an entity to filter on and one entity to apply the filter on. Below are examples with explanations of how filters are set up. For more information, please look at our Filters page.

Dynamic Filters	Available on Entity	Description	Examples
regions	Region Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter regions based on countries.	&include=regions&filters=regionCountries:regionIDS
leagues	Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter leagues based on countries.	&include=leagues&filters=leagueCountries:leagueIDS

Pagination

Yes

Include depth

You can use a total of 2 nested includes on this endpoint

Include options

continent leagues regions

Related Entities:

Get an overview and explanation of all the fields returned in the API response. The related entities for the countries' endpoints are:

• Country

Code Example

Ruby

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/countries?api_token={your_token}")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.sportmonks.com")
payload = ''
headers = {}
conn.request("GET", "/v3/core/countries?api_token={your_token}", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/countries?api_token={your_token}',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $respons

Java

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/countries?api_token={your_token}")
  .method("GET", null)
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Node.js

var unirest = require('unirest');
var req = unirest('GET', 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/countries?api_token={your_token}')
  .end(function (res) { 
    if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error); 
    console.log(res.raw_body);
  });

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/countries?api_token={your_token}"
  method := "GET"

  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}