Case Study Botbrains | Football API

Sportmonks became the data backbone that allowed us to scale faster, automate smarter, and deliver a human-like commentary experience to fans worldwide.

Meet Botbrains.io and Liveticker.AI

At Botbrains, innovation starts with understanding how fans want to connect with their favorite teams. Based in Germany, Botbrains specializes in AI-driven chatbot solutions for major companies — but their passion project, Liveticker.AI, takes football engagement to a whole new level.

Liveticker.AI isn’t just another event feed. It’s an AI-powered real-time commentary platform that generates rich, natural match reports across over 2,200 football leagues — in 12+ languages. It combines structured API data, fan radio streams, television broadcasts, and proprietary sources to create live commentary that feels like it’s written by a human journalist.

Today, Liveticker.AI powers fan engagement for leading German clubs and major media outlets, bringing live match stories to thousands of fans every week.

Mission: Redefining Live Fan Experiences

Botbrains had a clear ambition:
Make live football commentary feel personal, emotional, and complete — without needing a reporter at every match.

Where traditional tickers simply announce events (goals, cards, substitutions), Liveticker.AI tells a dynamic story:

📌 Stadium atmosphere
📌 Tactical shifts
📌 Emotional turning points
📌 Minor moments (near chances, build-ups) that keep fans connected

Our goal is to make fans feel like they’re following the match through the eyes of a dedicated reporter.

By combining Sportmonks’ structured match data with AI-driven Natural Language Generation (NLG), Liveticker.AI creates commentary tailored to fans’ favorite teams, players, and leagues — with hyper-personalized updates delivered in real time.

Why Botbrains Needed a Football Data Provider

Creating an AI engine for live commentary required more than language models. It needed instant access to accurate, structured football data, including:

📌 Fixtures
📌 Goals, cards, and substitutions
📌 Lineups and player stats
📌 Historical head-to-head records
📌 League standings

Initially, Botbrains faced the classic build-versus-buy dilemma.
Building their own data infrastructure would have been slow, expensive, and error-prone — especially at a global scale.

Instead, they needed a trusted data partner who could:

✔ Provide real-time, structured football data
✔ Cover thousands of competitions worldwide
✔ Offer a developer-friendly, consistent API
✔ Allow affordable scaling without vendor lock-in

Without it, Liveticker.AI’s vision of human-like, real-time commentary would not be possible.

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Why Sportmonks?

After evaluating multiple providers, Botbrains realized many offered painful trade-offs:

❌ Cheaper APIs lacked depth, speed, or coverage.
❌ Premium providers were too expensive and complex for a scalable AI project.
❌ Open-source options were unreliable and inconsistent.

Sportmonks stood out immediately.

Sportmonks offers the sweet spot between high-quality data and startup-friendly pricing.

Key reasons Botbrains chose Sportmonks:

Chech our coverage

Global coverage

across 2,200+ leagues, not just top-tier competitions

Real-time updates

even for smaller leagues and tournaments

Unified data model

simple, logical, developer-friendly

Affordable scaling

to support global expansion

Transparent communication

and rapid support response times

Integration: Fast, smooth, and scalable

The integration with Sportmonks’ API was refreshingly easy.
Within days, Botbrains had a working prototype pulling live data into their system.

Key integration highlights:

✅ RESTful API structure with consistent naming conventions
✅ Comprehensive documentation with Postman collections and real examples
✅ Embedded includes to optimize data requests
✅ Webhook support for real-time updates without excessive polling

By adopting Sportmonks’ uniform match and player models, Botbrains could build AI commentary templates that worked across every league without additional custom code.

The clean data structure meant we could focus 100% on improving AI generation, not waste time on endless mapping scripts.

Impact: Faster Development, Better Fan Experiences

Thanks to Sportmonks, Botbrains achieved:

⏩ 60% faster development time by avoiding building a custom data layer
🌍 Global expansion across 12 languages and 2,200+ leagues
🧑‍💻 Reduced operational complexity with minimal manual updates
🗺️ Instant scalability when onboarding new clubs, leagues, or regions
❤️ Increased fan engagement through human-like, real-time match commentary

Working with Sportmonks

Botbrains rates Sportmonks’ support as 10/10:

✅ Fast, helpful, technically accurate responses
✅ Willingness to act on feedback
✅ Community resources like knowledge bases and developer forums
✅ No hidden costs or usage surprises — scaling was smooth and predictable

It’s rare to find a provider who feels like an extension of your own dev team. Sportmonks truly supports your growth.

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It’s rare to find a provider who feels like an extension of your own dev team. Sportmonks truly supports your growth.

Liam | Co-founder of Botbrains

Built for the Future

Sportmonks didn’t just enable Liveticker.AI to launch — it enabled it to grow.
With Sportmonks’ Football API at its core, Botbrains continues to push the boundaries of automated, personalized football storytelling.

Sportmonks lets us innovate. Instead of fighting the data, we build with it.

Real-time football engagement isn’t just for billion-dollar clubs anymore.

With Sportmonks, innovative platforms like Liveticker.AI show that great data makes great experiences possible — fast, scalable, and affordable.

Ready to build your own next-generation football platform?

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