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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 (Eliasn97), operated by The Icon League GmbH of Cologne, Germany (Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 117138). Played indoors in a US-style 14-team franchise format with two 12-minute halves and "Rulebreaker" mechanics designed to maximize attacking play, the league blends professional and amateur players and is distributed primarily through livestreams and social platforms to a young German-speaking audience. Season one generated more than 1.3 billion social-media impressions, and the league raised a €15M Series A (backed by HV Capital) to professionalize operations and expand across Europe. This is a consumer sports-and-media property; it publishes a public content website (teams, players, standings, matchdays, news, tickets, shop) but exposes no public developer API surface.

The Icon League is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Sports, Football, and Soccer.

The Icon League’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 3 more developer resources.

5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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CompanyConsumerSportsFootballSoccerEntertainmentMediaLive StreamingLeague

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

The Icon League Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: the-icon-league
name: The Icon League
description: 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 (Eliasn97), operated by The Icon League GmbH of Cologne,
  Germany (Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 117138). Played indoors in a US-style 14-team franchise format with two 12-minute halves
  and "Rulebreaker" mechanics designed to maximize attacking play, the league blends professional and amateur players and
  is distributed primarily through livestreams and social platforms to a young German-speaking audience. Season one generated
  more than 1.3 billion social-media impressions, and the league raised a €15M Series A (backed by HV Capital) to professionalize
  operations and expand across Europe. This is a consumer sports-and-media property; it publishes a public content website
  (teams, players, standings, matchdays, news, tickets, shop) but exposes no public developer API surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-icon-league/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- hv-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://www.theiconleague.com/assets/favicon-196x196.png
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Sports
- Football
- Soccer
- Entertainment
- Media
- Live Streaming
- League
tags_raw:
- Company
- Consumer
- Sports
- Football
- Soccer
- Entertainment
- Media
- Livestreaming
- League
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/the-icon-league-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.theiconleague.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.theiconleague.com/news
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.theiconleague.com/datenschutz
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1

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