GET Venue by ID

Returns venue information from your requested venue ID.

Base URL

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/venues/{ID}

Example Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 219,
      "country_id": 98,
      "city_id": 68322,
      "name": "McDiarmid Park",
      "address": "Crieff Road",
      "zipcode": null,
      "latitude": "56.409686",
      "longitude": "-3.476928",
      "capacity": 10696,
      "image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images/soccer/venues/27/219.png",
      "city_name": "Perth",
      "surface": "grass",
      "national_team": false
    },

Field Description

Field	Description	Type
id	Refers to the unique id of the venue	integer
country_id	Refers to the country of the venue	integer
name	Returns the name of the venue	string
address	Returns the address of the venue	string
zipcode	Returns the zipcode of the venue	string
state	Returns the state of the venue	string / null
latitude	Returns the latitude of the venue	string
longitude	Returns the longitude of the venue	string
capacity	Returns the seating capacity of the venue	integer
image_path	Returns the image path of the venue	string / null
city_name	Returns the name of the city the venue is located in	string
surface	Returns the surface type of the venue	string
national_team	Indicates if the venue is used for the national team of the country	boolean

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 on 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 to. Below is an example with an explanation 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
countries	Coaches, Leagues, Players, Teams, and way more. Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter the coaches, leagues, players and more based on countries.	&include=fixtures;country&filters=venueCountries:CountryIDs &include=fixtures;country&filters=venueCountries:98

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

NO

Include depth

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

Include options

country city fixtures

Related Entities:

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

• Venue

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/venues/{ID}?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/venues/{ID}?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/venues/{ID}?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/venues/{ID}?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/venues/{ID}?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/venues/{ID}?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))
}