Sportmonks

aid: sportmonks
name: Sportmonks
description: >-
  Sportmonks is a Dutch sports data provider (Deventer, Netherlands) delivering developer-friendly REST APIs for
  football/soccer, cricket, and motorsport (Formula 1). The platform serves 30,000+ active users and 20,000+ developers
  building livescore portals, fantasy games, betting platforms, sports media products, and analytics tools. Sportmonks
  emphasizes fast real-time updates (<15 seconds), 99.9% uptime, transparent per-league pricing, and a forever-free tier
  covering selected leagues. APIs use JSON over REST with API token authentication via either an Authorization header or
  an `api_token` query parameter, and support fine-grained response shaping through filters, includes, and field
  selection.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sportmonks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
  - Cricket
  - Data
  - Developer-Friendly
  - Football
  - Formula 1
  - Livescores
  - Motorsport
  - Real-Time
  - Soccer
  - Sports
  - Sports Data
  - Statistics
apis:
  - aid: sportmonks:football-api
    name: Sportmonks Football API
    description: >-
      REST API for soccer/football data covering 2,500+ leagues worldwide. Provides fixtures, livescores, schedules,
      standings, statistics, predictions, odds, teams, players, coaches, referees, venues, transfers, topscorers, and
      news. Supports request optimization via filters, includes, and field selection. Pricing tiers gate the number of
      leagues accessible, with a forever-free plan covering the Danish Superliga and Scottish Premiership.
    humanURL: https://docs.sportmonks.com/football
    baseURL: https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football
    tags:
      - Football
      - Livescores
      - Odds
      - Predictions
      - Real-Time
      - Soccer
      - Statistics
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/football
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/football/welcome/introduction
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/football/welcome/authentication
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/football/endpoints-and-entities
      - type: ChangeLog
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/football/changelog
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/sportmonks-football-openapi.yml
      - type: Example
        url: examples/sportmonks-fixture-example.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/sportmonks-livescore-example.json
  - aid: sportmonks:cricket-api
    name: Sportmonks Cricket API
    description: >-
      REST API for cricket data covering 130+ leagues including IPL, international fixtures, and T20 competitions.
      Provides ball-by-ball commentary, live scoreboards, fixtures, teams, players, venues, officials, seasons, leagues,
      and detailed player statistics. A Postman collection is published at cricket-postman.sportmonks.com.
    humanURL: https://docs.sportmonks.com/cricket
    baseURL: https://cricket.sportmonks.com/api/v2.0
    tags:
      - Ball-By-Ball
      - Cricket
      - Livescores
      - Real-Time
      - Sports Data
      - Statistics
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/cricket
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/cricket/welcome/introduction
      - type: PostmanCollection
        url: https://cricket-postman.sportmonks.com/
  - aid: sportmonks:motorsport-api
    name: Sportmonks Motorsport API
    description: >-
      REST API for motorsport data including Formula 1 race results, qualifying, driver and constructor standings, lap
      times, season schedules, and circuit information. Replaces the deprecated Formula One v1 API with a v3
      motorsport-wide surface area.
    humanURL: https://docs.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport-api/
    baseURL: https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport
    tags:
      - Drivers
      - Formula 1
      - Motorsport
      - Race Results
      - Real-Time
      - Standings
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport-api/
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport-api/welcome/introduction
  - aid: sportmonks:football-widgets
    name: Sportmonks Football Widgets
    description: >-
      Embeddable JavaScript widgets that render Sportmonks football data as ready-to-use UI components for livescores,
      league tables, fixtures, and match details. Designed for media sites and football publishers who want to drop in
      branded visualizations without building front-end components.
    humanURL: https://www.sportmonks.com/football-widgets/
    tags:
      - Embeddable
      - Football
      - Widgets
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/football/widgets
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.sportmonks.com/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://my.sportmonks.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.sportmonks.com/football/welcome/introduction
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://my.sportmonks.com/register
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.sportmonks.com/football-api/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.sportmonks.com/blogs/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://www.sportmonks.com/api-status/
  - type: Support
    url: mailto:support@sportmonks.com
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.sportmonks.com/terms-of-service/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.sportmonks.com/privacy-policy/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sportmonks/
  - type: XTwitter
    url: https://twitter.com/Sportmonks
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/sportmonks
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: https://cricket-postman.sportmonks.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sportmonks-fixture-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sportmonks-team-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sportmonks-player-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sportmonks-livescore-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sportmonks-league-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/sportmonks-fixture-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/sportmonks-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/sportmonks-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/sportmonks-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/sportmonks-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/sportmonks-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/sportmonks-finops.yml
  - type: Features
    data:
      - name: Real-Time Livescores
        description: Sub-15-second push of score and match-event updates across covered competitions.
      - name: Filters, Includes, Field Selection
        description: >-
          Per-request response shaping to keep payloads small and queries expressive without server-side bespoke
          endpoints.
      - name: Forever-Free Tier
        description: >-
          Permanent free access to selected leagues (Danish Superliga, Scottish Premiership) for evaluation and hobby
          use.
      - name: Per-League Pricing
        description: >-
          Plans gate the number of leagues a customer can pick rather than charging per-call, making cost predictable
          for niche regional products.
      - name: 99.9% Uptime SLA
        description: Published reliability target backed by a public status page.
      - name: Human Data Verification
        description: 24/7 human-in-the-loop data processing layered on top of automated feeds.
      - name: Postman & Widgets
        description: First-party Postman collections and embeddable football widgets reduce time-to-first-render.
  - type: UseCases
    data:
      - name: Livescore Portals
        description: Public livescore sites consuming fixtures, livescores, and event feeds.
      - name: Fantasy Football
        description: Fantasy game backends consuming player stats, lineups, and event data.
      - name: Sports Betting
        description: Sportsbook and trading platforms consuming pre-match and in-play odds.
      - name: Sports Media
        description: Editorial sites embedding widgets and pulling structured match data.
      - name: Football Clubs & Scouting
        description: Clubs and analysts pulling player and team statistics for performance review.
      - name: iGaming
        description: Fantasy, prediction, and casual gaming products powered by live sports state.
  - type: Integrations
    data:
      - name: Postman
        description: Official Sportmonks Cricket Postman collection at cricket-postman.sportmonks.com.
      - name: Community SDKs
        description: >-
          20+ community-maintained client libraries on GitHub across Python, PHP/Laravel, TypeScript, Go, Java, R, and
          Ruby.
  - type: Solutions
    data:
      - name: Football API
        description: Core soccer data API covering 2,300+ leagues with tiered league-count pricing.
      - name: Cricket API
        description: Cricket data API with ball-by-ball detail across 130+ leagues.
      - name: Motorsport API
        description: F1 and broader motorsport data API (v3 successor to the deprecated Formula One v1 API).
      - name: Football Widgets
        description: Drop-in embeddable widgets for media and publisher sites.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com