Is there a Transfermarkt API?
Short answer: no — Transfermarkt has no official API, and its famous market values are editorial data nobody can lawfully resell. Here is what is realistic, and what a licensed API can cover.
curl https://api.5dollarfootballapi.com/v1/fixtures?start_time=1783814400
-H "Authorization: Bearer fb_live_your_key"{
"success": 1,
"data": [
{
"id": 197590528,
"league": { "id": 43659, "name": "USA USL Cup" },
"teams": { "home": { "name": "Forward Madison FC" }, "away": { "name": "Union Omaha" } },
"kickoff_utc": "2026-07-12T00:00:00+00:00",
"status": "finished",
"goals": { "home": 4, "away": 3 }
}
],
"pagination": { "page": 1, "per_page": 50, "has_more": true }
}The short answer
Transfermarkt offers no public API or developer program. The community projects that expose "Transfermarkt APIs" are scrapers of its website, which its terms prohibit. The market values people usually want are Transfermarkt's own crowd-curated editorial product — they exist nowhere else, so no legitimate API (ours included) can sell them to you.
Why the unofficial route fails
- No official API exists; GitHub "transfermarkt-api" projects are scrapers with no license or stability guarantee
- Transfermarkt's terms prohibit automated access, and the site employs bot protection
- Market values and transfer-fee editorial data are Transfermarkt originals — if a service claims to sell them via API, it is reselling scraped data
- For the structured football data around it — fixtures, results, standings, stats, odds — licensed APIs are the durable route
The same data, the legitimate way
If what you actually need is the football data around the transfer gossip — schedules, results, tables, match stats, odds — that is fully served by a licensed API:
| What you want | Our endpoint |
|---|---|
| Fixtures & results for any club | GET /v1/fixtures?team= |
| League standings by season | GET /v1/standings?league=&season= |
| Match statistics (corners, cards, shots) | GET /v1/fixtures/{id}/statistics |
| Odds incl. Asian handicap & corners | GET /v1/fixtures/{id}/odds |
What you can build on instead
Frequently asked questions
No. Transfermarkt has no public API or developer program. The projects on GitHub that call themselves Transfermarkt APIs are website scrapers, which Transfermarkt's terms prohibit.
Not legitimately. Market values are Transfermarkt's own editorial product and are not licensed to anyone. Any service claiming to sell them via API is reselling scraped data with the legal and stability risk that implies.
Fixtures, results, live scores, league standings, match statistics and odds — the structured data around the transfer talk. Ours covers all of that with a free tier and full coverage from $5/mo.
Skip the scraper. Ship the product.
A licensed football API with live scores, stats and odds — free tier, no card, live in under a minute.