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 - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/football-livescores.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/football-fixtures.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/football-standings.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/football-predictions.yaml - 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/ - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/cricket-livescores.yaml - 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 - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/motorsport-races.yaml - 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