# TheSportsDB

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sportsdb/  
**Website:** https://www.thesportsdb.com  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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, schedules, and season standings across soccer, basketball, baseball, American football, hockey, tennis, and many other sports worldwide, with premium V2 livescores and video highlights for supporters.

## Kin Score — 35.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 47.6 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 22.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **TheSportsDB Events API** — The Events API from TheSportsDB — 5 operation(s) for events.
- **TheSportsDB Leagues API** — The Leagues API from TheSportsDB — 5 operation(s) for leagues.
- **TheSportsDB Livescores API** — The Livescores API from TheSportsDB — 1 operation(s) for livescores.
- **TheSportsDB Lookup API** — The Lookup API from TheSportsDB — 5 operation(s) for lookup.
- **TheSportsDB Players API** — The Players API from TheSportsDB — 1 operation(s) for players.
- **TheSportsDB Search API** — The Search API from TheSportsDB — 4 operation(s) for search.
- **TheSportsDB Teams API** — The Teams API from TheSportsDB — 1 operation(s) for teams.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Sportsdb Agentic Access** — 22 operations

## Security (2)

- **Sportsdb Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Sportsdb Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Sportsdb Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Sports, Sports Data, Team, Players, Event

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sportsdb/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.