# Football Standings API

> Community-built open source REST API for football league standings, leagues and seasons (EPL, La Liga, Serie A and more), built on data scraped from ESPN and hosted on Vercel.

Canonical page: https://sportdex.net/providers/football-standings/  
Last checked: 2026-11-03  
SportDex Score: 30/100 (rank 144; popularity 19, community n/a, transparency 30, developer experience 49)

## Facts
- Type: Free / open data
- Website: https://github.com/azharimm/football-standings-api
- Documentation: https://github.com/azharimm/football-standings-api
- Pricing page: unknown
- Sports: Football (soccer)
- Data types: Standings
- Protocols: REST
- Delivery: Polling only (REST)
- Live / in-play: not disclosed
- Free tier: yes
- Cheapest public paid plan: not public
- Authentication: none

## Plans
No public price list.

## Who it is for

Best for: Hobby projects that need free football league standings JSON with no key.

Not ideal for: Production apps; this is a hobby project with scraped ESPN-based data, unclear licensing and a hosted instance that may be unreliable.

Use cases: Standings widgets; Learning projects

Limitations:
- Standings only, not fixtures or live scores
- Data derived from ESPN; licence unclear
- Hosted instance may be unreliable
- No SLA or support

## Quick answers

**What is Football Standings API best for?** Hobby projects that need free football league standings JSON with no key. Not ideal for: Production apps; this is a hobby project with scraped ESPN-based data, unclear licensing and a hosted instance that may be unreliable.

**How much does Football Standings API cost?** Football Standings API does not publish prices on the pages we checked.

**Does Football Standings API have a free tier?** Yes. Football Standings API lists a free plan.

**What does Football Standings API cover?** Football Standings API is a free / open data. Its sports: Football (soccer); data: Standings.

**Does Football Standings API have a WebSocket or streaming API?** No streaming is listed. Football Standings API delivers data by REST, so you poll for updates.

**What do developers say about Football Standings API?** Free community-built REST API for league tables, scraped from ESPN. Only learner projects use it: React capstones, a SwiftUI app and a tutorial video. No discussion of accuracy, uptime or limits, and scraped sourcing suggests reliability and licensing are open questions.

**What are the alternatives to Football Standings API?** Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: Football Charts, openfootball, OpenF1, Squiggle, NBA Stats (stats.nba.com).

## What developers say

Free community-built REST API for league tables, scraped from ESPN. Only learner projects use it: React capstones, a SwiftUI app and a tutorial video. No discussion of accuracy, uptime or limits, and scraped sourcing suggests reliability and licensing are open questions.

Praised for: Free and simple for learning projects

## Method
Facts were read from the provider's own pages on 2026-11-03. Empty fields mean the provider does not say, not that a feature is missing. Method: https://sportdex.net/methodology/