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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.

Facts verified against the provider's site on

Commercial use: not disclosedBetting use: not disclosedToo little discussion
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30

SportDex Score

#144 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity
19

Brand demand, developer discussions, GitHub repos and videos

Community & reliability
—

Tone of public discussions, liked vs criticised points, reliability complaints; not enough public discussion to judge.

Transparency
30

Public prices, docs, terms and coverage you can check before calling sales

Developer experience
49

Free access, docs, SDKs, OpenAPI, sandbox, realtime delivery, ecosystem

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
Not disclosed
Delivery
Polling only (REST)
Discussions
0 threads
GitHub adoption
55 repos

Best for

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

Standings widgetsLearning projects

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.

Limitations to check

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

Written from the provider's own pages (source).

Last checked 2026-11-03

Football Standings API at a glance

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).

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

No public price list. Check the provider site.

Hobby project on GitHub; derived from ESPN data so licensing is unclear and the hosted instance may be unreliable.

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
Standings
Key competitions
Not disclosed
Competitions
Not disclosed
Live / in-play
Not disclosed
Women's competitions
Not disclosed
Betting markets
Not disclosed
Bookmaker regions
Not disclosed
Bookmakers
Not disclosed
History depth
Not disclosed
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
Individualssource
Verification (KYC)
Not required
Not available in
Not disclosed
Only available in
Not disclosed

Developer-ready evaluation

Integration & documentation

Protocols
REST
Formats
JSON
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: Football Standings API

Goal: build a feature on Football Standings API data. Use only the official documentation below as the source of truth.

## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them)
- Website: https://github.com/azharimm/football-standings-api
- Docs: https://github.com/azharimm/football-standings-api
- Sports: Football (soccer)
- Data: Standings
- Protocols: REST; formats: json
- Auth: none
- Free plan: none listed
- Note: Hobby project on GitHub; derived from ESPN data so licensing is unclear and the hosted instance may be unreliable.

## Verify before writing code
- pricing and request limits
- 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
scraped
Certifications
Not disclosed
Payment methods
Not disclosed
Minimum contract
Not disclosed
Country
Not disclosed
Founded
Not disclosed

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What developers say

Too little discussionfree tierreliability

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

Complaints

    Nothing specific.

    Our summary of public discussions, not a rating. Vendor posts are not counted as user opinion.

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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