Is there a Soccerway API?
No public API, and the reason is more interesting than usual: Soccerway is not really trying to sell you data. It belongs to a company that sells data to broadcasters, at broadcaster prices.
curl https://api.5dollarfootballapi.com/v1/leagues/1/fixtures?season=2026
-H "Authorization: Bearer fb_live_your_key"{
"success": 1,
"data": [
{
"id": 197601001,
"league": { "id": 1, "name": "England Premier League" },
"teams": { "home": { "name": "Arsenal" }, "away": { "name": "Everton" } },
"kickoff_utc": "2026-08-15T14:00:00+00:00",
"status": "finished",
"goals": { "home": 2, "away": 0 }
}
],
"pagination": { "page": 1, "per_page": 50, "count": 50, "has_more": true }
}The short answer
Soccerway is part of Stats Perform, the group behind Opta. The data is genuinely deep — full league pyramids, historical tables, squad records — and it is not sold to individual developers because that is not the business. Enterprise feeds are contracted, priced for media and betting operators, and start well above what an indie project or a small product can carry. The site stays free to read because it is a shop window, not a product.
Why the unofficial route fails
- No public API and no self-serve plan — the group sells enterprise feeds under contract
- Coverage really is exceptional, especially in lower divisions and older seasons
- Enterprise pricing is quoted, not listed, and is aimed at media and betting operators
- Scraping a Stats Perform property is the worst possible target: they have the resources and the motive
The same data, the legitimate way
Most people searching for a Soccerway API want its tables and fixture archive rather than its enterprise depth. That part is ordinary:
| What you want | Our endpoint |
|---|---|
| League tables by season | GET /v1/standings?league=&season= |
| A whole season of fixtures | GET /v1/leagues/{id}/fixtures |
| One club's results and upcoming games | GET /v1/teams/{id}/fixtures |
| Which competitions and seasons exist | GET /v1/leagues |
| Match events — goals, cards, subs | GET /v1/fixtures/{id}/events |
What you can build on instead
Frequently asked questions
Not a public one. Soccerway belongs to Stats Perform, which sells enterprise data feeds under contract to media and betting companies rather than self-serve API plans to developers.
Pricing is quoted rather than published, and it is scaled for broadcasters and operators. If you are asking the question as an individual developer or a small product, it is almost certainly the wrong tier for you.
For tables, fixtures, results and match events across 1,600+ competitions back to 2014, a self-serve API covers it from $5/month. For deep lower-league archives going back decades, nothing cheap is a real substitute.
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