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Livescore API – Real-Time Football Scores & Match Data

Fast, accurate, and reliable live scores for your football application

Looking for a developer-friendly Livescore API that delivers real-time match updates, team statistics, and player data with seamless integration? Sportmonks’ Livescore API provides fast, accurate, and reliable football data, ensuring your platform stays up to date with every goal, card, and substitution as it happens.

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Affordable, High-Quality Football Data for Developers

Building a football application shouldn’t break the bank. With Sportmonks, you get fast, accurate, and developer-friendly live score football data at an unbeatable price.

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Easy for developers
Designed by developers for developers, with a well-documented API, Postman collection, and built-in testing tools.
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High-quality data
Access real-time scores, player stats, xG data, and historical insights—trusted by 30,000+ developers worldwide.
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Engaged users
Boost user engagement with accurate and reliable live football data that keeps your audience coming back for more.

Once you start utilising it, you realise that its excellence isn’t just superficial, the quality of the data itself stands out.

 

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CEO & Lead Developer of ShiftOneZero

Finding high-quality football and betting data is challenging. When available, it is often either too expensive or difficult to integrate. This is where Sportmonks has proven to be a great partner.

Pasquale
Co-founder of FantaMaster

Finding a provider with great quality and an affordable price was tough until we found Sportmonks. The balance between cost and coverage makes them the most valuable data partner we’ve worked with.

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Founding member of Elevenstats

Premium Livescore Data You Can Trust

Whether you’re building a fan-focused mobile app, a live match dashboard, or a second-screen experience, Sportmonks powers platforms that keep fans informed and engaged — globally and in real time

Unmatched data quality and reliability
Our data is powered by a team of industry experts and trusted data partners, ensuring high accuracy, real-time updates, and consistency. We deliver precise football data so your application remains reliable at all times.
Livescores & detailed data
Get more than just live scores—access goals, assists, cards, substitutions, match statistics, lineups, formations, and in-play events. Stay updated with real-time data from over 2,300 leagues and competitions worldwide.
Expand your application beyond livescores
Enhance your platform with xG (Expected Goals) data, historical statistics, head-to-head comparisons, team and player insights, betting odds, and more. Create a complete football data experience that keeps users engaged.
var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");
myHeaders.append("Accept", "application/json");
myHeaders.append("Authorization", "YOURTOKEN");

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: myHeaders,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.json()) // Parse JSON directly
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.error('Error fetching live scores:', error));

     
import requests
import json

url = "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores"

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'YOURTOKEN'
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print(json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4))  # Pretty print JSON response
else:
    print(f"Error {response.status_code}: {response.text}")

import requests
import json

url = "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/leagues"

payload = {}
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Accept': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'YOURTOKEN'
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)
require "http/client"
require "json"

API_URL = "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores"
API_TOKEN = ENV["SPORTMONKS_API_TOKEN"]? || "YOURTOKEN"

# Make the HTTP GET request
response = HTTP::Client.get(API_URL, headers: {
  "Content-Type" => "application/json",
  "Accept" => "application/json",
  "Authorization" => API_TOKEN
})

if response.status_code == 200
  parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
  puts parsed_response.to_pretty_json # Pretty print JSON
else
  puts "Error: #{response.status_code} - #{response.body}"
end

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {
    url := "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores"
    method := "GET"

    client := &http.Client{}
    req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Request error:", err)
        return
    }
    
    req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
    req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
    req.Header.Add("Authorization", "YOURTOKEN")

    res, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Response error:", err)
        return
    }
    defer res.Body.Close()

    body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Read error:", err)
        return
    }
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

     
import kong.unirest.*;

public class LiveScores {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        HttpResponse response = Unirest.get("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores")
            .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
            .header("Accept", "application/json")
            .header("Authorization", "YOURTOKEN")
            .asString();

        if (response.getStatus() == 200) {
            System.out.println(response.getBody());
        } else {
            System.out.println("Error: " + response.getStatus() + " - " + response.getBody());
        }
    }
}

Build a Cutting-Edge Livescore App with Sportmonks’ Football API

Want to create a real-time football scores application, betting platform, or fantasy sports tool? With Sportmonks’ Livescore API, you get instant match updates, team stats, and player data from over 2,300 competitions worldwide.

Choosing the right football data provider is key to keeping your users engaged. Slow or unreliable data leads to frustration and lost users. Our high-quality, real-time football data ensures your platform stays ahead of the competition.

Powering the Future of Live Sports Data

Sportmonks is more than just an API provider. We offer developer-first solutions, ensuring you have everything needed to build a high-performance sports application. Our API is designed for iGaming, media platforms, fantasy sports, and betting applications that demand real-time, reliable football data.

Fotboll.com: Powering live matchday coverage at scale

Fotboll.com is one of Sweden’s most visited football websites, offering match previews, live scores, and league stats. By integrating Sportmonks’ Live Score API, they enhanced their platform with real-time match data and automated content delivery.

How Fotboll.com uses Sportmonks:
– Live score updates and match events
– League standings and upcoming fixtures
– Reliable data sync across Swedish and international leagues

The result:
Fotboll.com now provides instant, data-rich updates to thousands of users, reducing manual updates and keeping fans engaged from kickoff to full time.

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Your dream app in three steps

1. Sign-up

Create a Sportmonks account and choose the Livescore API plan that fits your needs.

2. Integrate the API

Use our well-documented API to integrate real-time football data into your platform seamlessly.

3. Deliver live scores

Provide your users with fast, accurate, and real-time match updates without delays.

Live Score API Pricing

Choose the plan that suits your needs. For example, experience live score data for the European Top leagues in our European Plan. Or discover all top Leagues worldwide in our World Plan. Do you want all leagues that are available in our Live Score API? Then your best bet would be to score the Enterprise Plan.

You can find more information about the data features on our coverage page. Start with a 14-day free trial to test the data. We cover over 2,200 football leagues and football tournaments.

Start with a 14-day free trial to test the data.

Monthly
Yearly
European

A great place to start for comprehensive access to all major European leagues.

Starting at
€ 29
€ 25
paid monthly per month paid yearly
Register now
  • Instant access to the fastest Livescores
  • 25+ European leagues
  • 3000 API calls per hour/entity
  • Option to get Livescores every second or even more
  • Standard or advanced data features
  • 14-day free trial
World

Designed for the real football data experts as it includes all major worldwide leagues.

Starting at
€ 99
€ 89
paid monthly per month paid yearly
Register now
  • Instant access to the fastest Livescores
  • 110+ Worldwide leagues
  • 3000 API calls per hour/entity
  • Option to get Livescores every second or even more
  • Standard or advanced data features
  • 14-day free trial
Enterprise

Only for the real pros, this grants access to all 2200+ available leagues.

 

The Enterprise Plan contains all leagues Sportmonks covers. Therefore, the Enterprise Plan will automatically update when new leagues are added to our API.

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  • Instant access to the fastest Livescores
  • 2200+ leagues
  • 3000 to 250,000 API calls per hour/entity
  • Option to get Livescores every second or even more
  • Standard or advanced data features
  • Contact us for a free trial
* All prices are exclusive of VAT and, where applicable, VAT will be applied at the standard rate.

Whether you're building a livescore app, launching a betting platform, or creating a fantasy game, our football API solutions are tailored to meet your business goals.

Need more than a Livescore API?

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Sports Betting: Boost betting engagement with predictive Football Data

Equip your sportsbook or tips platform with match predictions, value bet indicators, team form, and player performance: all updated daily.

 

Tags: Odds | Bookmakers & Markets | Predictions | Odds Comparison | Probabilities

Fantasy Games: Build engaging games for your visitors

Create immersive experiences with real-time stats, player ratings and player images. Sportmonks helps you power smart picks, live updates, and team management acrossthe most popular football leagues.

 

Tags: Player stats | Player ratings | Games | Livescores

 

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Sports Media: Enrich your content with real-time football data

Deliver compelling match previews, live blogs, and post-match insights using detailed data and predictive metrics. Keep your readers engaged with fast, accurate, and visual football storytelling.

 

Tags: Live commentary | Standings | Statistics | Predictions | Match schedules

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Scouting & Clubs: Scouting tools for data driven football decisions

Use advanced metrics like xG, player ratings, and historical stats to track talent, monitor form, and optimise recruitment or match planning. Or, create your official Football Club app with the Sportmonks’ Football API.

 

Tags: xG | Player ratings | Season stats | Team trends | Scouting | Football clubs

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Other industries: Explore more uses cases with Sportmonks

From loyalty apps to fan engagement platforms, explore how our clients are using Sportmonks data to create impactful football products.

 

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