Industry vertical

Sports

Organizations that govern and operate professional sports leagues, managing competitions, broadcasting rights, and fan engagement.

193 providers 781 APIs 6 enterprise adopters

Sports on the APIs.io network indexes 193 providers publishing 781 APIs across this industry vertical.

Notable providers include Sportmonks, ParlayAPI, Odds API, Lucra Sports, SponsorUnited, Strava, and 187 more — each profile links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.

Related industries: Entertainment, Event Management Software, Media, and Fitness & Wellness. Browse every industry vertical at industries.apis.io.

About this industry

Organizations that govern and operate professional sports leagues, managing competitions, broadcasting rights, and fan engagement. Membership is computed from every provider in the catalog whose tags match this vertical — 193 at the last build — rather than from a fixed list. API Evangelist research additionally tracks 1 sub-sector within it: Professional Leagues.

Market demand

Providers above are the supply side. This is the demand side — enterprises adopting API & AI technology in this vertical, drawn from API Evangelist Insights. Names and maturity are enterprise-scoped; they don't overlap with the provider catalog.

6enterprises adopting

#48 / 50adoption maturity rank

Statefulnessstrongest layer

Customization & Adaptationweakest layer

Leading adopters

Endeavor Group Holdings64National Basketball Association60National Football League54National Hockey League12Liberty Media12Major League Baseball11

AI & API adoption maturity

Mean adoption intensity across the enterprises above, by capability layer — how this vertical is maturing, from foundational models through governance and FinOps.

Statefulness

17.5

Economics & Sustainability

14.5

Productivity

11.7

Foundational Layer

11.6

Retrieval & Grounding

10.8

Governance & Risk

10.2

Efficiency & Specialization

10.1

Measurement & Accountability

7.8

Integration & Interoperability

7.5

Customization & Adaptation

2.9

Demand data: API Evangelist Insights — enterprise API & AI adoption signals.

Providers (193)

Provider	Description	APIs	Rating
Sportmonks	Sportmonks is a Dutch sports data provider (Deventer, Netherlands) delivering developer-friendly REST APIs for football/soccer, cricket, and motorsport (Formula 1). The platform...	1	strong
ParlayAPI	Real-time sports odds aggregation API covering 30+ sportsbooks and sources — regulated US books, DFS apps, betting exchanges, and prediction markets (Kalshi, Polymarket) — acros...	2	strong
Odds API	OpenAPI-first sports betting odds API (odds-api.net) providing bookmaker odds, odds comparison, arbitrage, positive EV, line movement, and racing/sports coverage via REST plus S...	1	strong
Lucra Sports	Lucra (Lucra Sports, Inc.) is a competitive-loyalty and gamification platform that embeds real-money, free-to-play and peer-to-peer contests into third-party consumer apps and w...	1	developing
SponsorUnited	SponsorUnited is a sports and entertainment sponsorship intelligence platform, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Its B2B SaaS product gives brands, rig...	1	developing
Strava	Strava is a popular fitness tracking app and social network that allows athletes to track and analyze workouts including running, cycling, swimming, and 200+ other sport types. ...	1	developing
SkipOdds	SkipOdds is a sports-odds data API from SkipSeek Inc. that publishes de-vigged consensus win probabilities — the SkipOdds Index — across 13 sports: soccer, American football, ba...	2	developing
StubHub	StubHub is the world's largest secondary-market ticket marketplace, connecting buyers and sellers of tickets to sports, concerts, theater, and live events. Its official develope...	5	developing
WeatherAPI	WeatherAPI.com provides real-time, forecast, historical, marine, future, astronomy, air quality, pollen, sports, IP lookup, time zone, and geolocation data via a JSON/XML REST A...	1	developing
CricAPI	CricAPI (now operating as CricketData.org) is a cricket data API platform that has provided free, high-performance cricket data since September 2015. The API delivers live score...	1	developing
Chess.com	Chess.com is an online chess platform. Its public data API exposes player profiles and game archives, clubs, team matches, tournaments, leaderboards, titled players and country ...	1	developing
Gracenote	Gracenote, a Nielsen company, provides entertainment metadata, content recognition technology, and developer APIs for the TV, video, music, sports and automotive industries, pow...	5	developing
Active Network	ACTIVE Network provides intelligent activity and event management software for communities and organizations, powering registration, payments, marketing, and attendance for recr...	2	developing
Liesheng Group	Liesheng Group (猎声集团 / Liesheng Technology) is a Dongguan, Guangdong based consumer-electronics company founded on 25 May 2015 as one of Xiaomi's first ecosystem-chain suppliers...	2	developing
The New York Times Company	The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is the publisher of The New York Times and operator of a portfolio of news, product-review, sports, cooking, and games products including ...	11	developing
WSC Sports	WSC Sports Technologies is an Israeli sports-technology company whose AI platform automatically watches live sports broadcasts, identifies the moments that matter, and generates...	2	developing
TheSportsDB	TheSportsDB is an open, crowd-sourced database of sports artwork and metadata with a free REST API in JSON. It provides data on leagues, teams, players, events, venues, schedule...	3	developing
The Racing API	High performance API for horse racing statistical modelling, application development and web content. Complete coverage of UK, Irish and Hong Kong horse racing with real-time da...	1	developing
Pred	Pred (PRED) is a fully decentralized, peer-to-peer sports prediction exchange built on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network. Rather than a traditional sportsbook, Pred runs...	1	developing
VideoVerse	VideoVerse is an AI video technology company founded in 2016 with offices in the United States, Europe and India, whose flagship SaaS platform Magnifi automatically detects key ...	1	developing
The Rundown	The Rundown is a sports betting data API platform providing real-time odds, lines, scores, and results across 30+ sports leagues including NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, MLS, college...	1	developing
SeatGeek	SeatGeek is a live event ticketing and discovery platform that aggregates ticket inventory from multiple sources and provides a transparent, data-driven ticket buying experience...	1	developing
DiscGolfAPI	DiscGolfAPI is a free, read-only public API that publishes structured JSON data about disc golf courses for developers, clubs, publishers, apps, and AI systems. It provides mach...	1	developing
Sorare	Sorare is a global fantasy sports platform for football (soccer), NBA basketball and MLB baseball built on blockchain-based digital collectible player cards stored on Ethereum a...	1	developing
Narrative Sports	Narrative Sports (Narrative AI Inc., YC Fall 2025, listed by Y Combinator as "usenarrative") is an AI-powered sports content platform that automates the creation and distributio...	1	developing
Ticketmaster	Ticketmaster is the world's largest live entertainment ticketing company, providing access to tickets for concerts, sports, theater, and other live events globally. Their develo...	2	developing
The Odds API	The Odds API provides sports betting odds from over 40 major bookmakers worldwide. Access current and historical odds for head-to-head, spreads, totals, and outrights markets ac...	1	developing
API Football	API-Football is a RESTful API providing comprehensive football (soccer) data covering 1,200+ leagues and cups worldwide. Operated by API-Sports, the platform delivers live score...	1	developing
Unrivaled Basketball	Unrivaled is a U.S. professional women's 3x3 basketball league co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, playing a condensed winter season with six clubs and a midseas...	1	developing
RunSignup	RunSignup is an all-in-one race registration and event management platform serving running events, triathlons, cycling events, and obstacle courses. Their open REST API enables ...	1	thin
Under Armour	Under Armour is an American company that manufactures footwear, sports, and casual apparel known for its performance products designed for athletes. Under Armour operates a Conn...	1	thin
API-Sports	API-Sports is a sports-data provider selling twelve independent read-only REST APIs — one per sport — covering football, basketball, baseball, American football (NFL and NCAA), ...	12	thin
Polar	Polar Electro Oy (operating as Polar Global) is a Finnish sports and fitness technology company founded in 1977 and headquartered in Kempele, Finland. Polar invented the first w...	2	thin
Betfair	Betfair operates the world's largest online betting exchange, where customers back and lay outcomes against each other rather than against a bookmaker. The Betfair Exchange API ...	1	thin
Sportradar	Sportradar is the world's leading sports technology company, providing comprehensive sports data APIs delivering real-time scores, statistics, odds, and content for over 80 spor...	2	thin
TheSports	TheSports provides real-time sports data feeds, live trackers, and widgets covering football, basketball, tennis, esports, and other major sports worldwide. Their API delivers l...	1	thin
TrainingPeaks	TrainingPeaks is an endurance-athlete training platform for cyclists, runners, triathletes, and their coaches - used to plan structured workouts, track completed activities, ana...	1	thin
SportsDataIO	SportsDataIO is an award-winning sports data and content provider producing millions of data points across thousands of games annually. The platform offers robust REST APIs, res...	5	thin
Eversports	Eversports is a European sports and fitness platform that lets consumers discover and book classes, courts, and memberships across studios, gyms, and clubs, and gives those busi...	3	thin
Football Charts	Transparent football (soccer) statistics and model predictions across 90+ leagues: league tables (classic, luck-adjusted, goals-based), results, fixtures with model probabilitie...	2	thin
PlayerData	PlayerData provides GPS sports performance tracking technology for athletes and teams — FIFA Quality Certified EDGE wearable trackers, a GPS-enabled Connected Ball, and indoor I...	1	thin
Inthegame	Inthegame (Synced Apps Technologies Ltd.) is a viewer-interaction and CTV/OTT engagement platform. Its patented no-code layer injects interactive in-stream overlays — polls, tri...	1	thin
Stats Perform	Stats Perform is the world's leading sports data and AI-powered sports intelligence company. The STATS API provides access to a vast collection of sports data through a unified ...	1	thin
LiveLike	LiveLike is an AI-powered fan engagement platform used by sports teams, leagues, media companies, and venues to drive registration, retention, and monetization through interacti...	1	thin
Highlightly	Highlightly is a real-time sports data and highlights API covering football, basketball, American football, hockey, baseball, cricket, rugby, volleyball, and handball across 950...	1	thin
Tempus Ex	Tempus Ex is a sports data and media technology company (part of Infinite Athlete) whose FusionFeed API aggregates data and media from many on-site sources into a single API for...	1	thin
5DollarFootballAPI	A read-only REST football (soccer) data API covering live scores, fixtures, standings, league and team surfaces, match events, and corner and card statistics, plus a bookmakers ...	1	thin
Statorium	Statorium is a sports data API provider delivering live scores, statistics, schedules, standings, and news across 6+ sports including Soccer, American Football, Basketball, Hock...	3	thin
Tribune Media	Tribune Media was a diversified media and entertainment company with broadcasting, digital, and content businesses. Through Tribune Media Services (TMS), it provided comprehensi...	1	thin
Latiyal Infotech	Latiyal Infotech Private Limited (CIN U72200RJ2022PTC084893) is a software development company in Kuchera, Rajasthan, India that builds mobile and web applications and sells one...	1	thin
Keyper	keyper is an Austrian technology company providing connected ticketing and digital access solutions. Its developer platform lets ticketing systems, resellers and access control ...	1	thin
Fevo	FEVO is a New York social-commerce and group-ticketing platform, launched in 2016, that lets fans buy, split and share orders for live events together. Its Social Checkout drawe...	2	thin
AGL	AGL Inc. (에이지엘) is a Seoul-headquartered golf technology company, founded in 2019, that operates TIGER GDS — a global distribution system for golf. Its SaaS platform connects go...	3	thin
Sleeper	Sleeper is a fantasy sports platform — a mobile-first app for creating and managing fantasy football, basketball, and other sports leagues with chat, drafts, waivers, and real-t...	1	thin
NASCAR	NASCAR, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, is a professional auto racing organization that sanctions and governs multiple racing series, including the popular N...	12	thin
Fnatic	Fnatic is a London-headquartered global esports performance brand founded in 2004, fielding 20+ professional players across five game titles, operating four offices and faciliti...	2	thin
OddsJam	OddsJam's Sports Betting API offers real-time betting odds from 100+ sportsbooks including player props, alternate markets, injury data, schedules, rankings, and scores for spor...	1	thin
Genius Sports	Genius Sports provides APIs to query information regarding matches, players, statistics etc. both past and future across multiple sports including basketball, football (soccer),...	3	thin
The Picklr	The Picklr is the largest indoor pickleball club franchise in North America, founded in 2021 in Utah by Jorge Barragan and Austin Wood and franchising since March 2023. It opera...	1	thin
OpenF1	OpenF1 is a free and open-source API providing real-time and historical Formula 1 data including car telemetry, lap timings, race control messages, weather, pit stops, team radi...	1	emerging
Race Entry	This API was designed specifically for the Director software to allow certain timers and directors integration into our Race Entry data with the Director. It provides programmat...	1	emerging
Cloud9	Cloud9 Esports, Inc. is a North American professional esports organization founded in 2013 by Jack and Paullie Etienne and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. It fields c...	3	emerging
Infinite Athlete	Infinite Athlete is a sports technology company that brings together leading companies in performance biomechanics and real-time video to deliver data-driven, actionable insight...	1	emerging
DSG Sports Analytics	DSG Sports Analytics, operated by Data Sports Group, is a sports data provider offering live scores, statistics, historical data, fixtures, player and team information, and odds...	1	emerging
Premier Lacrosse League	The Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) is the professional field lacrosse league of North America, founded in 2018 by brothers Paul and Mike Rabil and headquartered in El Segundo, Ca...	2	emerging
18Birdies	18Birdies is a golf technology company behind the 18Birdies mobile app — a golf GPS rangefinder, digital scorecard, shot- and stat-tracking platform and social network for golfe...	0	emerging
Minute Media	Minute Media is a global technology, media, and advertising company that builds and operates digital sports and entertainment content brands while licensing publishing and monet...	2	emerging
SidelineSwap	SidelineSwap is an online marketplace where athletes buy and sell new and used sports equipment across hockey, baseball, softball, lacrosse, football, golf, soccer, skiing, snow...	1	emerging
Opendorse	Opendorse is an athlete marketplace and name, image and likeness (NIL) technology company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. Its platform lets brands, fans, schools, collective...	0	emerging
Satisfi Labs	Satisfi Labs is an agentic AI platform for the sports, entertainment, and tourism industries, delivering specialized conversational AI agents that are built and tuned by industr...	0	emerging
Preciser	Preciser is an AI and computer-vision sports analytics platform that automatically converts basketball and baseball game footage into statistics, trends, and player insights, re...	1	emerging
Major League Baseball	Major League Baseball (MLB) is the professional baseball organization of the United States and Canada, operating the National League and American League with 30 teams. MLB Advan...	1	emerging
Skydance Media	Skydance Media is a Santa Monica, California diversified entertainment company founded in 2010 by David Ellison, producing event-scale film, television, animation, sports and in...	1	emerging
Urban Sports Club	Urban Sports Club is a Berlin-based sports and wellness membership platform. One flexible subscription gives members access to more than 50 sports and wellness activities across...	0	emerging
Sportwey	Sportwey is a Mexican SaaS platform that digitizes and automates the operations of sports organizations across multiple segments — tournaments and leagues, training academies, a...	0	emerging
Swish Analytics	Swish Analytics is a machine-learning sports analytics company that prices and originates sportsbook markets. Its B2B API delivers hyper-accurate player-prop pricing, pre-match ...	1	emerging
4DReplay	4DReplay is a media technology company that builds multi-camera, time-slice ("bullet-time") video capture and replay systems for live sports, entertainment and events. Arrays of...	0	emerging
Endeavor	Endeavor was a global sports and entertainment company representing talent and owning and operating events, with subsidiaries including WME, IMG, and UFC. Following the 2024 tak...	1	emerging
Coachup	CoachUp is the nation's leading private sports coaching marketplace, founded in 2012 in Boston by Jordan Fliegel, Arian Radmand, and Gabe Durazo. It connects athletes of all lev...	0	emerging
MyFavorito	MyFavorito is a fan-empowered sports sponsorship platform that turns fan loyalty into revenue for sports clubs. Fans choose their favorite club, brands activate campaigns, and c...	0	emerging
OpenSponsorship	OpenSponsorship is a two-sided sports sponsorship and influencer marketing marketplace that connects brands with a network of more than 25,000 professional athletes, teams, spor...	0	emerging
National Hockey League	The National Hockey League (NHL) is the premier professional ice hockey league in North America, comprised of 32 franchises across the United States and Canada. The NHL produces...	1	emerging
SportsAPI	SportsAPI.com is a sports data API comparison and directory platform that helps developers find and evaluate sports data providers. It enables side-by-side comparison of live sc...	1	emerging
All Sports API	All Sports API is a fast, reliable, and comprehensive sports data API providing livescore feeds, fixtures, standings, and historical data for major sports worldwide. The platfor...	4	emerging
TicketRev	TicketRev (TICKR Holdings, Inc.) is a buyer-first ticketing platform for live sports and entertainment, founded in 2022. Its marketplace lets fans name their own price on ticket...	0	emerging
Goals	Goals (playgoals.com, formerly goals.co) is a free-to-play competitive football (soccer) video game studio backed by Northzone. It positions itself as a gameplay-first football ...	0	emerging
TransferRoom	TransferRoom is football's real-time transfer marketplace, connecting clubs, agents and players to buy, sell and loan players and to recruit head coaches. Its API delivers verif...	1	emerging
Eksab	Eksab is a Cairo-based daily fantasy sports and football-prediction platform for the MENA region. Founded in 2017 by Aly Mahmoud, it lets fans predict the scores and outcomes of...	0	emerging
Game Theory	Game Theory is a Bengaluru-based recreational sports and fitness membership platform operating 25+ centers across the city. Its consumer mobile app offers unlimited multi-sport ...	0	emerging
Betr	Betr (Betr Holdings, Inc.) is a Miami-based real-money gaming and sports media company founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul on a $50M Series A. Betr operates a consumer "r...	0	emerging
Cricket API	A cricket data API advertised at cricket-api.net -- live scores, fixtures, ball-by-ball events, player and team statistics, betting odds and win-probability predictions, over RE...	1	emerging
Hole19	Hole19 (Stat Track Technologies Lda) is a golf app for iOS, Android, and smartwatches used by 4.8M+ golfers across 42,000+ golf courses in 200+ countries. It provides GPS rangef...	0	emerging
Imperfect	Imperfect (Imperfect Wellness, Inc.) is a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed (Spring 2026) consumer startup building an adaptive AI training coach for endurance athletes a...	0	emerging
Arena Club	Arena Club is a technology-first trading-card and collectibles platform founded in 2022 by entrepreneur Brian Lee and baseball Hall-of-Famer Derek Jeter, operating as Arenaclub....	0	emerging
Gen.G	Gen.G is a global esports organization founded in 2017 (originally KSV eSports) that connects the United States and Asia, operating from Los Angeles, Seoul, and Shanghai. It fie...	0	emerging
TOCA Football	TOCA Football, Inc. is a technology-enabled soccer experience and entertainment company headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, founded on the training methodology of former US...	0	emerging
Candy Fanatics (fka Candy Digital)	Candy Digital (branded simply as "Candy") is a digital collectibles platform operating at candy.io under the tagline "Crave. Collect. Connect." It is best known for officially l...	0	emerging
DubClub	DubClub is an all-in-one platform to create and join sports betting communities. It is a marketplace connecting sports betting content creators known as cappers or handicappers ...	0	emerging
Teamworks	Teamworks is a sports technology company that builds "The Operating System for Sports" — an integrated software platform used by elite collegiate, professional, and national-tea...	0	emerging
str8bat	str8bat is a Bangalore, India based sports-technology company that builds a pocket-sized IoT sensor which attaches to a cricket bat and captures batting metrics in real time — b...	0	emerging
Autograph	Autograph is a fan engagement and digital collectibles platform co-founded by Tom Brady and operated by LFG NFTs Corp. It recognizes and rewards fans by turning their passion fo...	0	emerging
Myclubs	Myclubs is a Vienna- and Zurich-based digital sports membership company, founded in 2014 by Tobias Homberger, that gives members flexible access to a network of more than 1,200 ...	0	emerging
Cosm	Cosm is a Los Angeles-based immersive technology, media and entertainment company formed in 2020 from the merger of LiveLike VR (now Cosm Immersive) and C360, followed by the ac...	0	emerging
Amer Sports	Amer Sports is a global group of premium sports and outdoor brands with Nordic roots and more than 75 years of history, employing roughly 15,400 people and selling products in o...	0	emerging
Icon Source	Icon Source is a Denver, Colorado marketplace that connects brands, marketing agencies and universities with professional and college athletes for endorsement, appearance, speak...	0	emerging
Nix	Nix (Nix Biosensors) develops wearable biosensor technology that analyzes sweat to deliver real-time hydration and electrolyte data. Its lightweight single-use biosensor patch c...	0	emerging
StatusPRO	StatusPRO is a sports technology and gaming company founded by former professional athletes, building extended reality (XR) products that pair competitive training tools for eli...	0	emerging
WOO Sports	WOO Sports makes a sensor-based performance-tracking system for kitesurfing, wingfoiling, and windsurfing. The WOO 4.0 device mounts to a board and measures jump height, airtime...	0	emerging
Gametime	Gametime is a mobile-first ticket marketplace for last-minute tickets to live sports, concerts, comedy, and theater across the United States and Canada. Founded in 2012 by Brad ...	0	emerging
TrackMan	TrackMan A/S is a Danish sports-technology company (headquartered in Vedbaek, Denmark) that builds Doppler radar and optically tracked launch monitors, simulator software, and d...	0	emerging
Underdog Fantasy	Underdog (Underdog Sports, formerly Underdog Fantasy) is a Brooklyn, New York based sports gaming company founded in 2020 by Jeremy Levine that operates daily fantasy sports, pi...	0	emerging
World Golf Tour	World Golf Tour (WGT Golf), operated by World Golf Tour, LLC out of San Francisco, is a free-to-play online golf simulation launched in 2008 that recreates more than twenty real...	0	minimal
RACE RESULT	The RACE RESULT REST interface allows retrieval of data from systems uploading to RACE RESULT servers, including RACE RESULT decoders that upload via TCP and Track Boxes, and su...	1	minimal
Draftea	Draftea is a Mexico-based daily fantasy sports and real-money sports gaming platform, billed as the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) product for the Spanish-speaking world. Fans...	0	minimal
StatMuse	StatMuse is a natural-language search engine that answers sports and financial questions in plain English, returning instant stats, tables, and visual answers. It covers MLB, NB...	0	minimal
All City Network	ALLCITY Network (All City Network) is a sports media and podcasting company built on the tagline "Sports Over Everything." It operates a set of city-based sports networks — DNVR...	0	minimal
Blue Wire	Blue Wire is a podcast network and monetization platform built for independent sports content creators, positioning itself as "The Monetization Engine for Sports Creators." The ...	0	minimal
Fitetv	FITE (fite.tv) is a live sports and entertainment streaming platform that now operates as TrillerTV, run by Flipps Media Inc., a Triller Group Inc company. The service specializ...	0	minimal
Forged Sports	Forged Sports, Inc. is a Palo Alto, California software company (founded May 2024) building a Venue Management System (VMS) for commercial indoor golf and golf-simulator venues....	0	minimal
Mars Reel	Mars Reel (Mars Reel Media Corp) is a Los Angeles-based youth sports media and streaming company producing original basketball and soccer documentary series, athlete training co...	0	minimal
Onefootball	Onefootball is a Berlin-based digital football (soccer) media platform that aggregates news, live scores, match coverage, video highlights, and streaming (OneFootball TV) for a ...	0	minimal
i-Brain Tech	i-Brain Tech is a neuroscience company building a brain-controlled training platform for sports performance. Its core product is a video game driven exclusively by an athlete's ...	0	minimal
Religion of Sports	Religion of Sports is an Emmy Award-winning sports media and entertainment production studio founded in 2017 by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Gotham Chopra, headquartered in Sa...	0	minimal
Player's Health	Player's Health is an insurance and athlete-safety technology company founded in 2016 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving youth sports organizations, fitness facilities...	0	minimal
ATC (Alquila tu cancha)	ATC (Alquila Tu Cancha) is an Argentine sports-technology company, founded in 2020, that operates LATAM's leading platform for booking amateur sports venues — courts for footbal...	0	minimal
Gym Class VR	Gym Class VR (operating as "Gym Class" by IRL Studios) is a social virtual reality sports gaming platform for Meta Quest headsets and mobile devices, offering multiplayer basket...	0	minimal
Overtime	Overtime is a sports media and entertainment company building disruptive, digital-first sports leagues and intellectual property aimed at the next generation of fans and athlete...	0	minimal
FanCraze	FanCraze is an International Cricket Council (ICC) officially licensed platform for cricket collectibles, trading, and fantasy gaming, serving more than 500,000 cricket fans wor...	0	minimal
Bleacher Report	Bleacher Report is a digital sports media company headquartered in San Francisco and owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (Turner Sports). Founded in 2007, it delivers sports news, l...	0	minimal
DAZN	DAZN is a global over-the-top live sports streaming service headquartered in London and owned by Access Industries. Launched in 2015 out of the former Perform Group, it streams ...	0	minimal
Season Share	Season Share (SeasonShare) is a ticketing technology platform for sports and entertainment venues. Its subscription-pass, last-minute, student, and credit-based products — Pass,...	0	minimal
SuperQuickQuestion	SuperQuickQuestion (SQQ) is a fan-engagement platform that hosts brief, 60-second one-on-one live video interactions between fans and celebrities, athletes, and musicians. It is...	0	minimal
FanDuel	FanDuel is a major US sports betting and daily fantasy sports operator (FanDuel Sportsbook, FanDuel Casino, FanDuel Fantasy, FanDuel TV). FanDuel does not publish a public devel...	0	minimal
Jump	Jump is a unified fan experience and ticketing platform built exclusively for professional sports teams. It combines primary and resale ticketing, team-branded mobile apps and w...	0	minimal
Supponor	Supponor is a virtual advertising technology company for live sports broadcasting, now part of TGI Sport. Its software digitally replaces and inserts in-venue brand placements w...	0	minimal
Audacy	Audacy, Inc. is a U.S. multi-platform audio and entertainment company that operates the country's second-largest radio group alongside the Audacy streaming app, a major podcast ...	0	minimal
AlmostApps	AlmostApps is a Sacramento, California sports-gaming studio founded in 2022 that builds free-to-play mobile entertainment experiences for sports fans, blending casual gameplay w...	0	minimal
Hudl	Hudl is a Lincoln, Nebraska sports performance and analytics technology company founded in 2007. The company started as a video sharing and review platform for high school, coll...	0	minimal
Instacoach	Instacoach is an AI-powered baseball training app that generates personalized, on-demand workout programs for athletes across hitting, pitching, arm care, fielding, catching, li...	0	minimal
SwingVision	SwingVision is an AI-powered tennis and pickleball platform built by a team of A.I. experts from Tesla and Apple, venture-backed by Tennis Australia, Sony, and Techstars. Its mo...	0	minimal
TMRW Sports	TMRW Sports is a sports, media, and entertainment company founded by professional golfers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, with Mike McCarley as Founder and CEO, focused on buildin...	0	minimal
Arc Simulations	Arc Simulations is a London-based sports technology company, founded in 2022 by Henry Smith and Michael Armenakis and part of the Techstars London Spring 2024 accelerator cohort...	0	minimal
Drone Racing League	The Drone Racing League (DRL) is a New York-based professional drone racing property founded in 2015 by Nicholas Horbaczewski, staging first-person-view (FPV) races in which pil...	0	minimal
Project Admission	Project Admission is a ticketing technology company serving the live event industry — professional sports teams, leagues, artists, theaters, and venues. It layers on top of exis...	0	minimal
BallerTV	BallerTV (Baller, Inc.) is a Pasadena, California sports media company that live streams and provides on-demand replays and highlights of youth and amateur sports, including bas...	0	minimal
Unrivaled Sports	Unrivaled Sports is a youth sports platform and experience operator founded in March 2024 by Josh Harris and David Blitzer (Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment) with a strateg...	0	minimal
DraftKings	DraftKings is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company that operates a leading daily fantasy sports platform, an online sportsbook, and an iGaming casino across regulat...	0	minimal
Football-Data	Football data with matches info, players, teams, and competitions	1	minimal
FTN Network	FTN Network is a New York-based sports data, analytics, and content company founded in 2020 that helps fans, fantasy players, and sports bettors make smarter decisions. FTN oper...	1	minimal
balldontlie	Balldontlie provides access to stats data from the NBA	1	minimal
Matchday	Matchday is a consumer mobile platform for collecting officially licensed digital football (soccer) player cards and building a squad, surfaced in the API Evangelist network as ...	0	minimal
gameSense Sports	gameSense Sports is a Denver, Colorado sports-technology company that builds interactive, HD video-based cognitive training tools for baseball and softball. Its core Skill Recog...	0	minimal
Duane Morris	Duane Morris LLP is a Philadelphia-headquartered, full-service U.S. and international law firm founded in 1904 by Russell Duane, Steven Heckscher, and Roland S. Morris. Chaired ...	0	minimal
fuboTV	Fubo (fuboTV) is a live TV streaming service focused on sports, offering more than 100 live channels covering the NFL, NBA, MLB, soccer, Formula 1, NASCAR and major broadcast ne...	0	minimal
Ring Radar	Ring Radar is horse show management software for the equestrian industry, operating at ringradar.com. The web-based platform helps horse show organizers, managers, and exhibitor...	0	minimal
Sportlogiq	Sportlogiq is a Montreal, Quebec-based sports analytics company that applies patented computer vision and machine learning to broadcast video to generate high-resolution player ...	0	minimal
FloSports	FloSports is an Austin, Texas-based direct-to-consumer sports media and live-streaming company founded in 2006 by brothers Martin and Mark Floreani. It operates a network of ver...	0	minimal
Dream11	Dream11 is India's largest fantasy sports platform, operated by Sporta Technologies Private Limited and part of the Dream Sports group founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit S...	0	minimal
UberSense	UberSense was a Boston, Massachusetts sports-technology startup whose mobile app provided slow-motion video capture and analysis for coaching athletes, from recreational to Olym...	0	minimal
Crossfit	CrossFit is a fitness brand and training methodology built around constantly varied, high-intensity functional movements that combine strength, conditioning, gymnastics, and wei...	0	minimal
Liberty Media	Liberty Media Corporation is a media and entertainment holding company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, owning interests in a portfolio of assets across media, entertainmen...	0	minimal
Signify Group	Signify Group is a London, United Kingdom-based ethical data science firm founded in 2017 by co-founder and CEO Jonathan Hirshler, applying machine learning, natural language un...	0	minimal
ARG	GoodPeople (ARG) is a boardriding community platform and e-commerce brand for skiers and snowboarders, operating under the tagline "Where the boardriding family meets." It publi...	0	minimal
Alltricks	Alltricks is a French online retailer specializing in cycling, running, and outdoor / mountain-sports equipment. Founded in 2008 and headquartered near Paris in Saint-Cyr-l'Ecol...	0	minimal
Athletes First	Athletes First is a full-service sports representation and management agency founded in 2001 and headquartered in Southern California, with additional offices in New York City, ...	0	minimal
DeporPrivé	DeporPrivé is a Mexico-based sports e-commerce platform operating as a members-oriented "Sport Experience & Outlet" that runs flash sales and private, time-limited shopping even...	0	minimal
Fanatics	Fanatics is a company surfaced as a portfolio company of softbank-vision-fund, thrive-capital and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichment. Sector: consumer....	0	minimal
Malaeb	Malaeb (ملاعب) is the #1 sports pitch and facility booking application in the MENA region, letting players discover and reserve stadiums, courts, and pitches around them across ...	0	minimal
MoreTickets	MoreTickets (摩天轮票务), operated by Shanghai Juqitech, is a next-generation internet performance ticketing marketplace founded in 2015. The platform lets consumers buy and sell tic...	0	minimal
Rei do Pitaco	Rei do Pitaco is a Brazilian online sports betting, daily fantasy sports, and casino platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brazil. The service offers competitive sports ...	0	minimal
SIQ Basketball	SIQ Basketball is a Techstars-backed sports-technology company that builds a FIBA-approved, sensor-embedded smart basketball and companion mobile app that automatically tracks s...	0	minimal
Tennis Channel	Tennis Channel is a United States-based cable television network and direct-to-consumer streaming service dedicated to tennis and racquet sports, including live coverage and hig...	0	minimal
The Icon League	The Icon League is a five-a-side (small-sided) football entertainment league co-founded by former Real Madrid and Germany midfielder Toni Kroos and German streamer Elias Nerlich...	0	minimal
The Players' Tribune	The Players' Tribune is a sports-media company that gives athletes a platform to connect directly with fans in their own words, publishing first-person stories, essays, letters,...	0	minimal
VICI Sports	VICI Sports operates FanFest, a white-labeled fan engagement platform for the sports industry that "turns fan engagement into revenue" by recognizing every fan action across sta...	0	minimal
fanZ	TeamUp Inc. operates fanZ (fanzapp.io), a gamified football (soccer) fan-engagement mobile app for iOS and Android. fanZ combines fantasy football (fantaZ), social following of ...	0	minimal
National Football League	The National Football League (NFL) is the premier professional American football league, comprised of 32 franchises divided between the AFC and NFC conferences. The NFL produces...	0	minimal
Fantasy Akhada	Fantasy Akhada is an Indian daily-fantasy-sports platform operated by Super Six Sports Gaming Private Limited (CIN U72900HR2019PTC083570) of Gurugram, Haryana, founded in 2020 b...	0	minimal
Hinsta	Hintsa Performance is a Finnish performance-coaching company founded by Dr. Aki Hintsa, applying methods developed over 30+ years working with Formula 1 drivers and elite athlet...	0	minimal
WePlayed	WePlayed builds AI-powered short-form video for college athletics, automatically turning full game and event footage into shareable highlight clips that athletic departments, sp...	0	minimal
National Basketball Association	The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the premier men's professional basketball league in North America, comprised of 30 franchises (29 in the United States and 1 in Cana...	0	minimal
The Athletic	The Athletic is a subscription-based digital sports media company founded in 2016 by Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, offering in-depth, ad-light coverage of national and local pr...	0	minimal
Fan Controlled Football	Fan Controlled Football (FCF) was a professional indoor American football league in which fans voted on play calls in real time through a mobile app, playing a fast, 7-on-7 form...	0	minimal
Kairos Sports Tech	Kairos Sports Tech was a Belfast and Dublin based sports technology startup that built a team operations and communication platform for professional sports, integrating team pla...	0	minimal
Super Sports Media	Super Sports Media Group is an IDG Capital-backed Chinese sports-media company best known for holding the English Premier League broadcast rights in mainland China and operating...	0	minimal
YouStake	YouStake is a peer-to-peer sports staking and sponsorship marketplace, founded in 2013, that lets fans invest in skilled poker and esports players in exchange for a share of the...	0	minimal
Beryllium	Beryllium was a Singapore- and Delhi-based sports and trading game development platform founded in 2018/2019 by Amay Makhija, best known for its consumer product Sixer — a fanta...	0	minimal
Betty Labs	Betty Labs was the startup behind Locker Room, a live-audio app that launched focused on live sports conversations before broadening into general social audio. Backed by Lightsp...	0
Buzzer	Buzzer was a mobile live-sports streaming startup founded in 2020 by Bo Han, formerly director of live content at Twitter. Its consumer app, launched in 2021, sold micropayment ...	0	minimal
Caffeine	Caffeine was a social broadcasting and live-streaming platform founded in 2016 by former Apple designers Ben Keighran and Sam Roberts, and backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) a...	0	minimal
Locker Room *	Locker Room was a live-audio social app for sports fans built by Betty Labs, a seed-stage startup backed by GV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Precursor Ventures. Launched in ...	0
ThriveFantasy	ThriveFantasy was a New York City daily fantasy sports platform focused on player-prop pick'em contests across NFL, NBA, MLB, esports, and other leagues, backed by Bullpen Capit...	0	minimal
edisn.ai	edisn.ai was an AI-powered fan engagement platform for sports and media, surfaced as a Techstars portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichme...	0	minimal

APIs in this industry (781)

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Sports by region (9)

Each region is a page of its own, holding only the sports providers headquartered there. Greyed pills are below the 5-provider floor — published as a roster, without generated statistics.

Sports by country (14)

Country membership is matched on an exact country tag only — no headquarters signal — so these cells understate by construction and read lower than the region cuts above.

Related industries

Sub-sectors tracked in this industry: Professional Leagues.

Cohort brief

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The 177 providers in the APIs.io catalog classified under Sports, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

177

all scored

Mean Kin Score

-3 vs catalog 23

Mean Agent Readiness

10.7

-1.5 vs catalog 12.2

Spread

0–58.5

median 13.5 · σ 15.2

How the 177 split by band

Exemplar 0Strong 3Developing 26Thin 30Emerging 50Minimal 68

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Contract Governance	5.5	6.3	-0.8	177
Discoverability	56.9	58	-1.1	177
Contract Quality	16.3	17.8	-1.5	177
Access Clarity	23.9	26.5	-2.6	177
Developer Ergonomics	18.5	23.3	-4.8	177
Operational Transparency	8.9	13.8	-4.9	177

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes

Artifact	This cohort	Catalog	Difference
MCP server (any)	12%	15%	-3
MCP server (first-party)	7%	13%	-6
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	8%	12%	-4
Security	98%	98%	0
Arazzo workflows	1%	2%	-1
Governance rules	13%	13%	0

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score

1 Sportmonks 58.5
2 ParlayAPI 57.8
3 Odds API 57.4
4 Lucra Sports 53.5
5 SponsorUnited 52.5
6 Strava 49.9
7 SkipOdds 49.5
8 StubHub 49.2
9 WeatherAPI 45.9
10 CricAPI 45.6

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Providers (193)

APIs in this industry (781)

Sportmonks Cricket API

Sportmonks Fixtures API

Sportmonks Football Widgets

Sportmonks Leagues API

Sportmonks Livescores API

Sportmonks Motorsport API

Sportmonks Odds API

Sportmonks Players API

Sportmonks Predictions API

Sportmonks Schedules API

Sportmonks Seasons API

Sportmonks Standings API

Sportmonks Teams API

ParlayAPI Acceptable Use API

ParlayAPI Account API

ParlayAPI Affiliates API

ParlayAPI Agent API

ParlayAPI Alerts API

ParlayAPI Auth API

ParlayAPI Badge API

ParlayAPI Billing API

ParlayAPI Calculators API

ParlayAPI Changelog.json API

ParlayAPI Clv API

ParlayAPI Collections API

ParlayAPI Dashboard API

ParlayAPI Datasets API

ParlayAPI Discovery API

ParlayAPI Divergence.json API

ParlayAPI Dmca API

ParlayAPI Event Markets API

ParlayAPI Exchange API

ParlayAPI Exchanges API

ParlayAPI Go API

ParlayAPI Health API

ParlayAPI Historical API

ParlayAPI Key API

ParlayAPI Keys API

ParlayAPI Legal API

ParlayAPI Live & In-Play API

ParlayAPI Live API

ParlayAPI Metadata API

ParlayAPI Metrics API

ParlayAPI Moves.json API

ParlayAPI Odds Drop API

ParlayAPI Parlay API

ParlayAPI Partners API

ParlayAPI Prediction Markets API

ParlayAPI Pricing API

ParlayAPI Privacy API

ParlayAPI Public Support API

ParlayAPI Sandbox API

ParlayAPI Sgp API

ParlayAPI Specification API

ParlayAPI Sports & Odds API

ParlayAPI Sse API

ParlayAPI Stats API

ParlayAPI Terms API

ParlayAPI Try API

ParlayAPI Verdict API

ParlayAPI Webhooks API

ParlayAPI Widget API

Odds API REST

Lucra Sports Health API

Lucra Sports Locations API

Lucra Sports Recreational Games API

Lucra Sports States API

Lucra Sports Tenant Tag Groups API

Lucra Sports Tournaments (Legacy) API

Lucra Sports Tournaments API

Lucra Sports User Score API

Lucra Sports Webhooks API

SponsorUnited Admin Surface Context API