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Football API 3.0
  • Welcome
    • 🛬Welcome
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  • API
    • 💡Request options
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    • 📚Code libraries
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  • Endpoints and Entities
    • Endpoints
      • 📡Livescores
        • GET Inplay Livescores
        • GET All Livescores
        • GET Latest Updated Livescores
      • 🥅Fixtures
        • GET All Fixtures
        • GET Fixture by ID
        • GET Fixtures by Multiple IDs
        • GET Fixtures by Date
        • GET Fixtures by Date Range
        • GET Fixtures by Date Range for Team
        • GET Fixtures by Head To Head
        • GET Fixtures by Search by Name
        • GET Upcoming Fixtures by Market ID
        • GET Upcoming Fixtures by TV Station ID
        • GET Past Fixtures by TV Station ID
        • GET Latest Updated Fixtures
      • 🛰️States
        • GET All States
        • GET State by ID
      • ⌨️Types
        • GET All Types
        • GET Type by ID
        • GET Type by Entity
      • 🏆Leagues
        • GET All Leagues
        • GET League by ID
        • GET Leagues by Live
        • GET Leagues by Fixture Date
        • GET Leagues by Country ID
        • GET Leagues Search by Name
        • GET All Leagues by Team ID
        • GET Current Leagues by Team ID
      • 🗓️Seasons
        • GET All Seasons
        • GET Seasons by ID
        • GET Seasons by Team ID
        • GET Seasons by Search by Name
      • 📊Statistics
        • GET Season Statistics by Participant
        • GET Stage Statistics by ID
        • GET Round Statistics by ID
      • 📅Schedules
        • GET Schedules by Season ID
        • GET Schedules by Team ID
        • GET Schedules by Season ID and Team ID
      • 🪜Stages
        • GET All Stages
        • GET Stage by ID
        • GET Stages by Season ID
        • GET Stages by Search by Name
      • 🔂Rounds
        • GET All Rounds
        • GET Round by ID
        • GET Rounds by Season ID
        • GET Rounds by Search by Name
      • 🔢Standings
        • GET All Standings
        • GET Standings by Season ID
        • GET Standings by Round ID
        • GET Standing Correction by Season ID
        • Get Live Standings by League ID
      • 🥇Topscorers
        • GET Topscorers by Season ID
        • GET Topscorers by Stage ID
      • 🏃Teams
        • GET All Teams
        • GET Team by ID
        • GET Teams by Country ID
        • GET Teams by Season ID
        • GET Teams by Search by Name
      • 🧑Players
        • GET All Players
        • GET Player by ID
        • GET Players by Country ID
        • GET Players by Search by Name
        • GET Last Updated Players
      • 🧑‍🦱Team Squads
        • GET Team Squad by Team ID
        • GET Extended Team Squad by Team ID
        • GET Team Squad by Team and Season ID
      • 👨‍🏫Coaches
        • GET All Coaches
        • GET Coach by ID
        • GET Coaches by Country ID
        • GET Coaches Search by Name
        • GET Last Updated Coaches
      • 🕴️Referees
        • GET All Referees
        • GET Referee by ID
        • GET Referees by Country ID
        • GET Referees by Season ID
        • GET Referees Search by Name
      • ↔️Transfers
        • GET All Transfers
        • GET Transfer by ID
        • GET Latest Transfers
        • GET Transfers Between Date Range
        • GET Transfers by Team ID
        • GET Transfers by Player ID
      • 🏟️Venues
        • GET All Venues
        • GET Venue by ID
        • GET Venues by Season ID
        • GET Venues by Search by Name
      • 📺TV Stations
        • GET All TV Stations
        • GET TV Station by ID
        • GET TV Stations by Fixture ID
      • 🔮Expected (xG)
        • GET Expected by Team
        • GET Expected by Player
      • 🔭Predictions
        • GET Probabilities
        • GET Predictability by League ID
        • GET Probabilities by Fixture ID
        • GET Value Bets
        • GET Value Bets by Fixture ID
      • 🧙Standard Odds Feed
        • 👓Pre-match Odds
          • GET All Odds
          • Get Odds by Fixture ID
          • GET Odds by Fixture ID and Bookmaker ID
          • GET Odds by Fixture ID and Market ID
          • GET Last Updated Odds
        • 🧠Inplay Odds
          • GET All Inplay Odds
          • GET Inplay Odds by Fixture ID
          • GET Inplay Odds by Fixture ID and Bookmaker ID
          • GET Inplay Odds by Fixture ID and Market ID
          • GET Last Updated Inplay Odds
      • 🧙‍♂️Premium Odds Feed
        • 🕶️Premium Pre-match Odds
          • GET All Premium Odds
          • Get Premium Odds by Fixture ID
          • GET Premium Odds by Fixture ID and Bookmaker ID
          • GET Premium Odds by Fixture ID and Market ID
          • GET Updated Premium Odds Between Time Range
          • GET Updated Historical Odds Between Time Range
          • GET All Historical Odds
      • 🛒Markets
        • GET All Markets
        • GET All Premium Markets
        • GET Market by ID
        • GET Market by Search
      • 📑Bookmakers
        • GET All Bookmakers
        • GET All Premium Bookmakers
        • GET Bookmaker by ID
        • GET Bookmaker by Search
        • GET Bookmaker by Fixture ID
      • 📰News
        • GET Pre-Match News
        • GET Pre-Match News by Season ID
        • GET Pre-Match News for Upcoming Fixtures
        • GET Post-Match News
        • GET Post-Match News by Season ID
      • ⚔️Rivals
        • GET All Rivals
        • GET Rivals by Team ID
      • 🎙️Commentaries
        • GET All Commentaries
        • GET Commentaries by Fixture ID
    • Entities
      • 🥅Fixture
      • 🏆League, Season, Schedule, Stage and Round
      • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Team, Player, Squad, Coach and Referee
      • 🔢Statistic
      • 🔮Expected
      • 🥇Standing and Topscorer
      • 🔭Odd and Prediction
      • Other
  • Tutorials and Guides
    • Tutorials
      • Introduction
        • Make your first request
        • Set your time zone
        • Pagination
      • Enrich your response
        • Nested includes
          • Syntax and relations
      • Includes
        • Events
        • States
        • Periods
        • Scores
        • Participants
        • Lineups
        • ballCoordinates
        • Pressure Index
        • Tips and tricks
      • Filter and select fields
        • Selecting fields
        • Filtering
        • Selecting and filtering
      • Leagues and seasons
        • Leagues
        • Seasons
      • Season schedule
        • Schedules
        • Stages
        • Rounds
      • Livescores and fixtures
        • Livescores
        • Fixtures
      • Lineups and formations
      • Statistics
        • Statistics types
        • Season statistics
        • Fixture statistics
        • Team statistics
        • Players statistics
      • Teams, players, coaches and referees
        • Teams
        • Players
        • Coaches
        • Referees
      • Standings
        • Season standings
        • Topscorer standings
      • Odds and predictions
        • Bookmakers
        • Markets
        • Pre-match odds
        • Live(Inplay) odds
        • hasOdds
        • Predictions
          • Probabilities
          • Value Bet
      • Expected
        • Endpoints
        • Includes
        • Coverage
      • News
        • Pre-match News
        • Post-match News
      • Placeholders
      • Timezone parameters on different endpoints
    • Guides
      • How-to use components
      • How-to use the Football API with Postman
      • How-to use the Football API tester
      • How-to use the Football API ID finder
      • How-to build a livescore website
      • How-to use the Predictions API
      • How-to build a match page
      • How-to build a custom plan
      • How-to build a match page with odds
      • How-to use xG data
      • How-to build a news website
      • How-to build a fantasy game guide
      • How-to use the new Champions League data
      • How-to build your World Cup application
      • How-to build a team page
      • How-to keep your database in SYNC
      • How-to use team mode in MySportmonks
    • Programming languages
      • A developers guide: Unleashing the power of the football API with JSON
      • A developers guide: Unleashing the power of the football API with PHP
      • A developers guide: Unleashing the power of the football API with Python
  • Definitions
    • 📔Response Codes
    • 🛰️States
    • ⌨️Types
      • Lineups, positions and formations
      • Events
      • Statistics
        • Coach statistics
        • Referee statistics
        • Stage statistics
        • Season statistics
        • Fixture statistics
        • Team statistics
        • Player statistics
      • Expected
      • Leagues and stages
      • Standings
      • Transfers
      • Highlights
      • Weather and pitch
  • FAQ
    • API 3.0
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  • Requesting livescores
  • GET All Inplay Livescores
  • GET All Livescores
  • GET Last Updated Livescores
  • Adding useful information
  • Selecting and filtering

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  1. Tutorials and Guides
  2. Tutorials
  3. Livescores and fixtures

Livescores

Display all livescores of your favourite leagues and teams. The livescore endpoints allow you to retrieve up-to-date livescores that interest you quickly.

You can choose a variety of endpoints to retrieve the livescores of that particular moment.

This section will briefly discuss all the options available to request livescores.

An overview of all available options:

  • GET All Inplay Livescores: returns all the inplay fixtures.

  • GET All Livescores: Returns the fixtures 15 minutes before the game starts. It will also disappear 15 minutes after the game is finished.

  • GET Latest Updated Livescores: returns all livescores that have received updates within 10 seconds.

For the Livescore endpoints this is the base URL:

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

Per endpoint the rest of the URL requires additional information. We will explain this per endpoint.

Requesting livescores

GET All Inplay Livescores

Returns all the live fixtures. For example, if you want all leagues' matches within your subscription that will start within 15 minutes or are already live or have finished in the past 15 minutes. This comes in handy when you want all the actual games that are inplay or will be soon. Also, the matches that just ended

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores/inplay

This response is different for any plan. If you are subscribed to the free plan, you will receive matches of the Danish Superliga and the Scottish Premiership.

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores/inplay?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN
Response
{
  "data": {
    "id": 18535517,
    "sport_id": 1,
    "league_id": 501,
    "season_id": 19735,
    "stage_id": 77457866,
    "group_id": null,
    "aggregate_id": null,
    "round_id": 274719,
    "state_id": 5,
    "venue_id": 8909,
    "name": "Celtic vs Rangers",
    "starting_at": "2022-09-03 11:30:00",
    "result_info": "Celtic won after full-time.",
    "leg": "1/1",
    "details": null,
    "length": 90,
    "placeholder": false,
    "last_processed_at": "2023-03-02 17:47:38",
    "has_odds": true,
    "starting_at_timestamp": 1662204600
  },
//And more!  

Let’s evaluate the response:

  • id: the unique fixture id

  • sport_id: the sport related to the fixture

  • league_id: the league the fixture belongs to

  • season_id: refers to the season the fixture belongs to

  • stage_id: refers to the stage the fixture is played in

  • group_id: refers to the group the fixture is played in

  • aggregate_id: refers to the aggregate the fixture is played at

  • round_id: refers to the round the fixture is played at

  • state_id: refers to the state the fixture is played at

  • venue_id: refers to the venue the fixture is played at

  • name: represents the name of the fixture

  • starting_at: datetime object representing the start time

  • result_info: textual representation of the final result info

  • leg: represents the leg of the fixture

  • details: represents details about the fixture

  • length: length of the fixture (minutes)

  • placeholder: indicates if the fixture is a placeholder

  • last_processed_at: the date and time the fixture was last processed

  • has_odds: indicates if the fixture has odds available

  • starting_at_timestamp: the starting timestamp

Please be aware that in the livescores endpoint, the fixtures will be available 15 minutes before the match has started and 15 mins after it has ended.

GET All Livescores

Returns all the fixtures of the current day. This will give an overview of all the matches that will be played on the current day. The number of matches will be higher than the previous endpoint which only gives live matches and matches that will start in 15 minutes or have ended in the past 15 minutes. Therefore, this is the best endpoint to use if you want to show all matches that will happen today.

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN
Response
{
  "data": {
    "id": 18535517,
    "sport_id": 1,
    "league_id": 501,
    "season_id": 19735,
    "stage_id": 77457866,
    "group_id": null,
    "aggregate_id": null,
    "round_id": 274719,
    "state_id": 5,
    "venue_id": 8909,
    "name": "Celtic vs Rangers",
    "starting_at": "2022-09-03 11:30:00",
    "result_info": "Celtic won after full-time.",
    "leg": "1/1",
    "details": null,
    "length": 90,
    "placeholder": false,
    "last_processed_at": "2023-03-02 17:47:38",
    "has_odds": true,
    "starting_at_timestamp": 1662204600
  },
//And more!  

GET Last Updated Livescores

Your response will be smaller than the “all livescores” response and only returns you all livescores that have received updates within 10 seconds. This way, you will see the most important changes very quickly.

All you have to do is add the latest characteristic to the base URL:

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores/latest

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores/latest?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN
Response
{
  "data": {
    "id": 18535517,
    "sport_id": 1,
    "league_id": 501,
    "season_id": 19735,
    "stage_id": 77457866,
    "group_id": null,
    "aggregate_id": null,
    "round_id": 274719,
    "state_id": 5,
    "venue_id": 8909,
    "name": "Celtic vs Rangers",
    "starting_at": "2022-09-03 11:30:00",
    "result_info": "Celtic won after full-time.",
    "leg": "1/1",
    "details": null,
    "length": 90,
    "placeholder": false,
    "last_processed_at": "2023-03-02 17:47:38",
    "has_odds": true,
    "starting_at_timestamp": 1662204600
  },
//And more!  

Adding useful information

  • scores

  • participants

  • statistics.type

  • events

  • lineups

This results in the below request:

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores/inplay?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN&include=scores;participants;statistics.type;events;lineups

Selecting and filtering

Let’s say you’re only interested in the fixtures of the Danish Superliga (league id: 172).

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores/inplay?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN&filters=fixtureLeagues:172&include=league
PreviousLivescores and fixturesNextFixtures

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The URL to request all the fixtures of the current day is the same as the base URL All you have to do is authorize the request with your API token. Check our for more info.

Please note that the response is based on the leagues in your plan. Therefore, if you’re missing a specific one, it’s possible that you don’t have access to it. Check our for more info.

As you’ve learnt in the you can enrich your request with includes. This section will discuss some of the most common requests used on the livescores endpoints.

First of all, you can find a list of all available includes on the The most common includes are:

In our you’ve learnt how to select specific fields or filter only on the data you’re interested in. Our API returns a set of data related to the fixtures by default. We can imagine you’re not interested in all the data the API returns.

Check our for more tips and tricks.

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celtic_rangers_scores_stats_participants_events_lineups.json
Download the stats, events and lineups for Celtic - Rangers