API Football
API-Football is a RESTful API providing comprehensive football (soccer) data covering 1,200+ leagues and cups worldwide. Operated by API-Sports, the platform delivers live scores, fixtures, standings, events, line-ups, player statistics, pre-match odds, and historical data. The API supports 9+ sports total including soccer, Formula 1, basketball, baseball, hockey, rugby, volleyball, and handball. Data is returned in JSON format and updates every 15 seconds during live matches.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles API Football the way a machine reads it — 20 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — API Football scores 17.5/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 3/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile API Football
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for API Football. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
API-Football
API-Football provides comprehensive football data including leagues, fixtures, standings, events, line-ups, players, pre-match odds, live odds, and historical statistics for 1,2...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Api Football Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Api Football Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
1200+ Leagues and Cups
Comprehensive coverage of over 1,200 football leagues and cups worldwide including major leagues, cups, and international competitions.
Live Scores
Real-time match data updated every 15 seconds during live matches, including scores, events, and match statistics.
Fixtures and Results
Complete fixture schedules and match results including past, present, and upcoming matches with full event details.
Standings
League standings and tables for all supported competitions with points, wins, draws, losses, and goal difference.
Player Statistics
Individual player statistics including goals, assists, cards, appearances, and detailed performance metrics.
Pre-Match and Live Odds
Pre-match betting odds and live odds from major bookmakers available in all pricing tiers.
Historical Data
Multiple years of historical match data available for statistical analysis, fantasy football, and predictive modeling.
Multi-Sport Coverage
Beyond football/soccer, API-Sports covers Formula 1, basketball, baseball, hockey, rugby, volleyball, and handball.
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Sports Applications
Build mobile and web apps displaying live scores, fixtures, standings, and player statistics for football fans.
Fantasy Football Platforms
Power fantasy football platforms with player statistics, injury updates, match results, and historical performance data.
Sports Betting
Integrate pre-match odds, live odds, and real-time match events into sports betting and prediction platforms.
Sports Analytics
Analyze historical match data, player performance, and team statistics for sports analytics and scouting platforms.
Widgets and Embeds
Embed live score widgets and statistics panels into websites using API-Football's data and widget integrations.
Integrations 2
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
RapidAPI
API-Football is available on the RapidAPI hub enabling discovery and access through the RapidAPI marketplace.
Stripe and PayPal
Subscriptions managed via Stripe or PayPal with no auto-renewal and prepaid plan options.
Resources
Every other property we hold for API Football — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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