API-Sports provides comprehensive sports data APIs covering over 2,000 competitions with more than 15 years of historical data, offering real-time updates and easy integration for developers.
Tools
Get Coaches
Tool to fetch coaches and their career history. Use when you need coach info by ID, team filter, or name search.
Get Countries
Tool to fetch available countries for league queries. Use when filtering by name, code, or search string before retrieving leagues.
Get Fixtures
Tool to retrieve football fixtures/matches. Use when filtering fixtures by id, date, league, season, team, or date ranges to get upcoming or past matches.
Get Fixtures Events
Tool to get events (goals, cards, substitutions, VAR, etc.) from a fixture. Use when you need detailed event data after confirming the fixture ID.
Get Head-to-head Fixtures
Tool to get head-to-head fixtures between two teams. Use after determining team IDs to compare their direct match history.
Get Fixture Lineups
Tool to retrieve starting XI and substitutes for a fixture. Use after confirming fixture ID; optionally filter by team, player, or section (startXI/substitutes). Lineups appear ~20-40 minutes before kickoff for supported competitions.