GET All Transfers

Returns all transfers available within your subscription.

Base URL

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/transfers

Example Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "sport_id": 1,
      "player_id": 35659846,
      "type_id": 219,
      "from_team_id": 148048,
      "to_team_id": 3736,
      "position_id": 25,
      "detailed_position_id": 154,
      "date": "2021-12-27",
      "career_ended": false,
      "completed": true,
      "amount": 909000
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "sport_id": 1,
      "player_id": 320984,
      "type_id": 218,
      "from_team_id": 904,
      "to_team_id": 3901,
      "position_id": 26,
      "detailed_position_id": 153,
      "date": "2021-12-27",
      "career_ended": false,
      "completed": true,
      "amount": null
    },

Field Description

Field	Description	Type
id	Refers to the id of the transfer	integer
sport_id	Refers to the sport related to the transfer	integer
player_id	Refers to the player related to the transfer	integer
type_id	Refers to the type of the transfer	integer
from_team_id	Refers to the team the player transferred from	integer
to_team_id	Refers to the team the player transferred to	integer
position_id	Refers to the position of the player	integer
detailed_position_id	Refers to the detailed position of the player	integer
date	Displays the date of the transfer	string
career_ended	Indicates if the player has ended his career	integer
amount	Displays the amount of the transfer	string
completed	Indicates if the transfer is completed or not	boolean
completed_at	Displays the date time of when the transfer has been completed	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
IdAfter	GET All Transfers	Filter all transfers starting from a certain transfer ID. Handy if you're doing an import for all transfers and want to continue from a certain ID.	&filters=IdAfter:transferID &filters=IdAfter:1100

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, Transfers and way more. Check this endpoint for all filter possibilities.	Filter the transfers on a selection of type ids separated by a comma.	&include=type&filters=transferTypes:TypeIDs &include=type&filters=transferTypes:219,220

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 transfers 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 1 nested includes on this endpoint

Include options

sport player type fromTeam toTeam position detailedPosition

Related Entities:

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

• Transfer

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/transfers?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/transfers?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/transfers?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/transfers?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/transfers?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/transfers?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))
}