GET Seasons by Search by Name

Returns all the seasons that match your search query.

Base URL

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/seasons/search/{searchQuery}

Example Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 18334,
      "sport_id": 1,
      "league_id": 271,
      "tie_breaker_rule_id": 169,
      "name": "2021/2022",
      "finished": true,
      "pending": false,
      "is_current": false,
      "starting_at": "2021-07-16",
      "ending_at": "2022-05-29",
      "standings_recalculated_at": "2023-02-13 15:55:31",
      "games_in_current_week": false
    },
    {
      "id": 18369,
      "sport_id": 1,
      "league_id": 501,
      "tie_breaker_rule_id": 169,
      "name": "2021/2022",
      "finished": true,
      "pending": false,
      "is_current": false,
      "starting_at": "2021-07-31",
      "ending_at": "2022-05-15",
      "standings_recalculated_at": "2023-02-13 15:55:32",
      "games_in_current_week": false
    },

Field Description

Field	Description	Type
id	Refers to the id of the season	integer
sport_id	Refers to the sport of the season	integer
league_id	Refers to the league of the season	integer
tie_breaker_rule_id	Refers to the type of tie-breaker rule used to determine the season winner	integer
name	The name of the season	string
finished	Indicates if the season finished or not	integer
pending	Indicates if the season is pending or not	integer
is_current	Indicates if the season is the current season or not	integer
standing_method	Returns the standing calculation used in the season	string
starting_at	The starting date of the season	string
ending_at	The end date of the season	string

Query Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
api_token	YES Another option is to provide the API token in the header.	Your unique API token. Ex. ?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN
include	NO	Enrich the API response with more data by using includes. Ex. &include=participants;events
select	NO	Select specific fields on the base entity. Read how to select fields in our tutorial.
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.
locale	NO	Translate name fields of the API Response in your selected language. Find more information and which languages are available on our translations page.

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
N/A	N/A	Not available for this endpoint.	N/A

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.

Using an include? Check their respective filters on their entity page. For example if you use &include=fixtures, you can apply fixture-related filters.

Dynamic Filters	Available on Entity	Description	Examples
types	Statistics, Events, Lineup, and way more. Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter the season statistics on a selection of types separated by a comma.	&include=statistics&filters=seasonstatisticTypes:TypeIDs &include=statistics&filters=seasonstatisticTypes:52,88
leagues	Fixtures, Seasons, Standings, and way more. Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter the seasons based on leagues.	&include=league&&filters=seasonLeagues:leagueIDs &include=league&&filters=seasonLeagues:2,8
stages	Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter season stages based on stage IDs	&filters=stageStages:stageIDS &filters=stageStages:77457866
rounds	Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter season rounds based on round IDs	&filters=roundRounds:roundIDS &filters=roundRounds:290018
topscorers	Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter season topscorers based on type IDs	&include=topscorers&filters=seasonTopscorerTypes:TypeIDs &include=topscorers&filters=seasonTopscorerTypes:208

Filters

More information on how to use filters can be found on our tutorials on how to filter. If you want more information on which filters to use you can check out the following endpoint:

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/my/filters/entity?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN

Pagination

YES

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description	Example
order	No	Returns seasons ordered by id (asc or desc). Defaults to asc	&order=desc
per_page	No	The amount of results to return per page (max 50.). Defaults to 25.	&per_page=30
page	No	You can paginate using the has_more parameter to determine if you can still propagate through the results.	&page=2

Include depth

You can use a total of 3 nested includes on this endpoint

Include options

sport league teams stages currentStage fixtures groups statistics topscorers

Related Entities:

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

• Season

Postman

We also offer detailed postman documentation with examples and a complete up-to-date version of all our endpoints. Below is a button that lets your fork the collection or import it.

Code Example

Ruby

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/seasons/search/{searchQuery}?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/football/seasons/search/{searchQuery}?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/football/seasons/search/{searchQuery}?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/football/seasons/search/{searchQuery}?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/football/seasons/search/{searchQuery}?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/football/seasons/search/{searchQuery}?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))
}