GET Players by Country ID

This endpoint returns player information from your requested country ID.

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

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 1595,
      "sport_id": 1,
      "country_id": 462,
      "nationality_id": 462,
      "city_id": null,
      "position_id": 25,
      "detailed_position_id": null,
      "type_id": 25,
      "common_name": "I. Iriekpen",
      "firstname": "Izzy",
      "lastname": "Iriekpen",
      "name": "Izzy Iriekpen",
      "display_name": "Izzy Iriekpen",
      "image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images/soccer/placeholder.png",
      "height": 185,
      "weight": 77,
      "date_of_birth": "1982-05-14",
      "gender": "male"
    },
    {
      "id": 10399,
      "sport_id": 1,
      "country_id": 462,
      "nationality_id": 462,
      "city_id": null,
      "position_id": 27,
      "detailed_position_id": 151,
      "type_id": 27,
      "common_name": "J. Morias",
      "firstname": "Junior",
      "lastname": "Morias",
      "name": "Junior Morias",
      "display_name": "Junior Morias",
      "image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images/soccer/players/31/10399.png",
      "height": 173,
      "weight": 68,
      "date_of_birth": "1995-07-04",
      "gender": "male"
    },

Field

Description

Type

Refers to the unique id of the player

integer

sport_id

Refers to the sport of the player

integer

country_id

Refers to the country of birth of the player

integer

nationality_id

Refers to the national team that the player has opted to represent

integer

city_id

Refers to the city of birth of the player

string

position_id

Refers to the position of the player

integer

detailed_position_id

Refers to the detailed position of the player

integer

type_id

Refers to the type of the player

integer

common_name

Refers to the name the player is known for

string

firstname

Refers to the first name of the player

string

lastname

Refers to the last name of the player

string

name

Refers to the name of the player

string

display_name

Refers to the name that is often used to display in applications

string

image_path

Image path to player headshot

string

height

Refers to the height of the player

integer

weight

Refers to the weight of the player

integer

date_of_birth

Refers to the date of birth of the player

string

gender

Refers to the gender of the player

string

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

Enrich the API response with more data by using includes. Ex. &include=participants;events

select

Select specific fields on the base entity. Read how to select fields in our tutorial.

filters

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

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 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

Not available on this endpoint.

N/A

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

detailTypes

Statistics Check this endpoint for all possibilities.

Filter the statistics (detailTypes) on a selection of type ids separated by a comma.

&include=statistics.details.type&filters=playerstatisticdetailTypes:typeIDS &include=statistics.details.type&filters=playerstatisticdetailTypes:59

seasons

Statistics (players, team, coaches, referees), Standings, and way more. Check this endpoint for all possibilities.

Filter player statistics based on seasons.

&include=statistics.details.type&filters=playerstatisticSeasons:seasonIDS

&include=statistics.details.type&filters=playerstatisticSeasons:19735

lineups

Players

Filter the player lineups on types

&include=lineups.type&filters=lineupTypes:typeIDS

&include=lineups.type&filters=lineupTypes:12

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

Returns players ordered by id (asc or desc). Defaults to asc

&order=desc

per_page

The amount of results to return per page (max 50.). Defaults to 25.

&per_page=30

page

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 country city nationality transfers pendingTransfers teams.team statistics latest position detailedPosition lineups trophies metadata

The latest include on Player returns their lineup records for appearances in fixtures played in the last 6 months.

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

Player

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

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/api/football/players/countries/{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

import http.client

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

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.sportmonks.co/v3/football/players/countries/{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

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

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

package main

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

func main() {

  url := "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/players/countries/{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))
}

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