A free football API plan for students, researchers and builders on a budget
Football data shouldn't be gated by what you earn.
$5 a month is cheap in London and a real decision in Lagos. If you are a student, a researcher, early in your career — or if that $5 is a real decision for you — you can have more than the free plan gives, switched on in a minute. No card, no catch.
Who it is for
Any one of these is enough. We take your word for it.
- ✓ Students, at any level
- ✓ Academic or non-profit research — a thesis, a paper, a course, a public dataset
- ✓ Developers in the first years of their career
- ✓ Anyone for whom US$5 a month is money that matters — no income figure, no proof
What you get
Everything on the free plan, plus room to build a real project around one country's football.
- ✓ The top-5 leagues plus one country pack of your choice — its top flight and, where we price it, the second division
- ✓ Every Bet365 odds market — opening, closing and in-play
- ✓ 300 requests an hour (up to 20 a minute), five times the free allowance
- ✓ The last 12 months of results and odds — a full season to build on
- ✓ 12 months at a time — renew with one click when the term is ending
Switch it on
Pick the line that describes you and the country you are building for. That is the whole application — it is on the moment you press the button, and stays on for 12 months. Renewal is the same form in the last 30 days of a term.
Community Access is the free plan with a wider door, not a discount on Pro. Batch odds on fixture lists and the full 130+ league list stay with the $5 plan — that is the plan that keeps this one free.
Why we do this
Useful football data is too often locked behind plans costing tens or hundreds of dollars a month. Those prices do not filter for better ideas — they filter for better-funded teams, leaving out students, independent researchers, and builders working on leagues the market already overlooks.
We believe a bigger budget should buy scale, not the right to participate. Community Access provides the same data quality as our paid plans and draws the line where pricing should: at coverage and throughput.
That is what 5DollarFootballAPI is about: making useful football data affordable enough for more people to build with it.
Community Access questions
Yes. Community Access is a second $0 plan beside Free: the same Bet365 odds markets, the top-5 leagues plus one country pack of your choice, the last 12 months of history and 300 requests / hour. It runs for 12 months at a time and renews with one click. No card is asked for.
Students at any level, academic or non-profit researchers, developers in the first years of their career, and anyone for whom US$5 a month is money that matters. Any one of those is enough — pick the line that describes you and it is on. We take your word for it: there is no income figure to enter and nothing to upload.
Three things: one country pack of your choice on top of the top-5 leagues, 300 requests / hour instead of 60 requests / hour (both capped at 20 a minute), and the last 12 months of results and odds instead of the last 3. The odds markets are the same on both.
Odds for a whole fixture list in one call (include=odds) and the full list of 130+ competitions. Those are the two things that turn evaluating the data into running on it, and Pro at $5 a month is the plan that keeps Community free.
Compare every planYes. Community Access is about who you are, not what you build: use the data in commercial websites, apps, models and internal tools, display it to your end users and cache responses. Attribution is not required. The one hard line, on every plan, is reselling or redistributing the raw data as a competing feed.
The full usage terms, in plain EnglishRenewal opens in the last 30 days of a term — the same form, one click, and you can keep your country pack or pick another. If you let it lapse, the account simply returns to Free; nothing is deleted, and Community Access can be switched on again later.
Start with a free key
Sign up, make your first call, and switch Community on whenever you are ready.