StatsBomb Open Data

Free, publicly released sample of StatsBomb event data (and selected 360 data) distributed via GitHub for academic and community research. JSON files keyed by competition, season, and match.

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aid: statsbomb:open-data
name: StatsBomb Open Data
description: Free, publicly released sample of StatsBomb event data (and selected 360 data) distributed
  via GitHub for academic and community research. JSON files keyed by competition, season, and match.
humanURL: https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data
baseURL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/statsbomb/open-data
tags:
- Open Data
- Research
- Event Data
- GitHub
properties:
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data/blob/master/LICENSE.pdf
  title: StatsBomb Open Data User Agreement