Free / open data
ClubElo
Club football Elo ratings and fixture probabilities, with history reaching back to 1939 and a free CSV interface.
Facts verified against the provider's site on
Tone of public discussions, liked vs criticised points, reliability complaints; not enough public discussion to judge.
Computed from public data only; uptime and latency are not measured yet. Enterprise feeds that sell by contract score lower on transparency by design. How the score works
- Starting price
- Not public
- Free access
- Free tier
- Sports
- 1 (Football (soccer))
- Live data
- No
- Delivery
- CSV download
- Discussions
- 0 threads
- GitHub adoption
- 153 repos
Best for
Researchers and modellers wanting free club football Elo ratings and fixture probabilities as CSV.
Not ideal for
Projects needing live scores, player data or detailed match stats; it offers ratings and probabilities only.
Limitations to check
- − CSV interface only
- − Details partly from catalog notes, saved pages showed only the home page
- − No terms page saved
Written from the provider's own pages (source).
Last checked 2026-11-03
ClubElo at a glance
- What is ClubElo best for?
- Researchers and modellers wanting free club football Elo ratings and fixture probabilities as CSV. Not ideal for: Projects needing live scores, player data or detailed match stats; it offers ratings and probabilities only.
- How much does ClubElo cost?
- ClubElo does not publish prices on the pages we checked.
- Does ClubElo have a free tier?
- Yes. ClubElo lists a free plan called "Free".
- What does ClubElo cover?
- ClubElo is a free / open data. Its sports: Football (soccer); data: Historical data, Predictions, Team stats.
- Does ClubElo have a WebSocket or streaming API?
- No streaming is listed. ClubElo delivers data by CSV download, so you poll for updates.
- What do developers say about ClubElo?
- Free CSV interface for club football Elo ratings and fixture probabilities, used in prediction models, FPL tools and tutorials. Recent GitHub issues show serious reliability trouble: 502 errors on the API since September 2026, a claim it moved behind authentication, then Cloudflare 403 challenges. Projects are adding fallbacks or HTML scraping.
- What are the alternatives to ClubElo?
- Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: Football Charts, SportsDataverse, Sportmonks, Stats Perform / Opta, Timeform.
Commercial decision
Pricing & plan limits
| Plan | Price | Requests | What's included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | — | Free CSV API per catalog notessource |
Crawled pages and API page fetch returned only the site homepage, so CSV/free/1939 details come from catalog notes. Medium certainty.
Before choosing a paid plan, confirm
• What counts as one request (per call, per market, per region?)
• What happens when you exceed the quota: blocked or billed
• Whether live and historical data are on your plan
• Whether your use (public app, betting, resale) is licensed
The critical question
Data coverage
- Sports
- Football (soccer)
- Data types
- Historical dataPredictionsTeam stats
- Key competitions
- UEFA Champions League, Allsvenskan, Serie A (Brazil)source
- Competitions
- Not disclosed
- Live / in-play
- No
- Women's competitions
- Not disclosed
- Betting markets
- Not disclosed
- Bookmaker regions
- Not disclosed
- Bookmakers
- Not disclosed
- History depth
- since 1939 (per catalog notes)
- Update frequency
- Not disclosed
- Name languages
- Not disclosed
- ID mapping
- Not disclosed
Coverage often depends on the plan; confirm the exact league and season on your plan.
Before you build
Usage rights & access
- Commercial use
- Not disclosed
- Betting products
- Not disclosed
- Redistribution
- Not disclosed
- Storing data
- Not disclosed
- Attribution
- Not disclosed
- Logos & photos
- Not disclosed
- Who can buy
- Not disclosed
- Verification (KYC)
- Not disclosed
- Not available in
- Not disclosed
- Only available in
- Not disclosed
Developer-ready evaluation
Integration & documentation
- Protocols
- CSV download
- Formats
- CSV
- Authentication
- none
- SDKs
- Not disclosed
- OpenAPI spec
- Not disclosed
- Claimed latency
- Not disclosed
- Status page
- Not disclosed
- Sandbox / test keys
- Not disclosed
- Support
- Not disclosed
- SLA uptime
- Not disclosed
Preview brief
# Integration brief: ClubElo Goal: build a feature on ClubElo data. Use only the official documentation below as the source of truth. ## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them) - Website: http://clubelo.com - Docs: http://clubelo.com/API - Sports: Football (soccer) - Data: Historical data, Predictions, Team stats - Protocols: CSV download; formats: csv - Auth: none - Free plan: Free - Note: Crawled pages and API page fetch returned only the site homepage, so CSV/free/1939 details come from catalog notes. Medium certainty. ## Verify before writing code - live update frequency - whether commercial use is allowed on the plan you pick - exact endpoint paths, parameters and response fields (read the official docs, do not guess) ## Implementation rules - Keep the API key on the server (environment variable, backend route or edge function); never ship it to the browser. - Cache responses and respect rate limits; count how many requests each screen triggers. - Handle errors explicitly: invalid key, quota exceeded (429), missing fields, empty fixtures, timeouts. - Start with one demo request and log the raw response before building UI on assumed field names.
Data quality signals
Data source & company
- Official partners
- Not disclosed
- How data is collected
- Not disclosed
- Certifications
- Not disclosed
- Payment methods
- Not disclosed
- Minimum contract
- Not disclosed
- Country
- Not disclosed
- Founded
- Not disclosed
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What developers say
Free CSV interface for club football Elo ratings and fixture probabilities, used in prediction models, FPL tools and tutorials. Recent GitHub issues show serious reliability trouble: 502 errors on the API since September 2026, a claim it moved behind authentication, then Cloudflare 403 challenges. Projects are adding fallbacks or HTML scraping.
Praised for
- Long Elo history and free CSV access
- Popular input for prediction models
Complaints
- API returning 502 since Sept 2026
- Cloudflare 403 challenges block scrapers
- Reported move behind authentication
- Pipelines need fallbacks
Our summary of public discussions, not a rating. Vendor posts are not counted as user opinion.
Open-source projects using it
Videos
- Desvendando o Futuro: Previsões de Futebol com a API do ClubeLoRuiTrader · 2024-01
- EASIEST Model to Forecast Football Matches With ELO | Excel Beginner TutorialExcel LADZ · 2023-01
- Sportwetten: Football Elo Ratings [3/3] - Tauglich für Sportwetten?Stefan Sopala · 2019-07
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Evidence & transparency
Official sources
Facts were extracted from the provider's own pages on 2026-11-03. Empty fields mean the provider does not say, not that the feature is missing. How we know