What is Impect best for?

Football clubs and analysts who want event and packing metrics through authenticated Python and R clients, plus an open Bundesliga sample. Not ideal for: Projects needing public pricing, odds or sports other than football; access is by customer agreement.

How much does Impect cost?

Impect has no public price list: pricing is quoted by sales on request.

Does Impect have a free tier?

Impect does not say whether a free tier exists. Check https://www.impect.com.

What does Impect cover?

Impect is a sports data api. Its sports: Football (soccer); data: Lineups, Player stats, Results, Team stats.

Does Impect have a WebSocket or streaming API?

No streaming is listed. Impect delivers data by REST, so you poll for updates.

What are the alternatives to Impect?

Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: iSports API, TheStatsAPI, QiuXiaoCe Football, PitchAPI, API-Sports / API-Football.

Sports data API

Impect

Football event and packing data accessed through an authenticated API with Python and R clients. Includes competition, match, event and player scoring data; an open Bundesliga 2023/24 sample is public.

Facts verified against the provider's site on 2026-11-03

Commercial use: not disclosedBetting use: not disclosedToo little discussion

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SportDex Score

#173 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity

Brand demand, developer discussions, GitHub repos and videos

Community & reliability

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

Transparency

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

Developer experience

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: Contact sales
Free access: Not disclosed
Sports: 1 (Football (soccer))
Live data: Not disclosed
Delivery: Polling only (REST)
Discussions: 0 threads
GitHub adoption: 4 repos

Best for

Football clubs and analysts who want event and packing metrics through authenticated Python and R clients, plus an open Bundesliga sample.

Player and team performance analysisScouting models using packing and xGOpen-data experiments with the Bundesliga sample

Not ideal for

Projects needing public pricing, odds or sports other than football; access is by customer agreement.

Limitations to check

− Access by agreement; pricing by request
− Open sample covers Bundesliga 2023/24 only
− Site now redirects to Catapult
− Auth uses a token from username and password

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

Last checked 2026-11-03

Impect at a glance

What is Impect best for?: Football clubs and analysts who want event and packing metrics through authenticated Python and R clients, plus an open Bundesliga sample. Not ideal for: Projects needing public pricing, odds or sports other than football; access is by customer agreement.
How much does Impect cost?: Impect has no public price list: pricing is quoted by sales on request.
Does Impect have a free tier?: Impect does not say whether a free tier exists. Check https://www.impect.com.
What does Impect cover?: Impect is a sports data api. Its sports: Football (soccer); data: Lineups, Player stats, Results, Team stats.
Does Impect have a WebSocket or streaming API?: No streaming is listed. Impect delivers data by REST, so you poll for updates.
What do developers say about Impect?: Football event and packing data via an authenticated API with Python and R clients. Almost no community material: two small repos that may use it, such as a recruitment board, and unrelated Genshin videos. No opinions on price, quality or coverage are available.
What are the alternatives to Impect?: Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: iSports API, TheStatsAPI, QiuXiaoCe Football, PitchAPI, API-Sports / API-Football.

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

Plan	Price	Requests	What's included
Customer licence	Contact sales	—	Access by agreement; iterations enabled per accountsource

impect.com now redirects to catapult.com/solutions/impect (Catapult ownership); crawled pricing page was Catapult's generic one. Token obtained via username/password flow per impectPy docs. Open data via kloppy. Protocol/format assumed REST/JSON.

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: LineupsPlayer statsResultsTeam stats
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: Bundesliga 2023/24 open data sample
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

Rights are set in an individual contract; the public terms only cover the website.

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

Read the terms

Developer-ready evaluation

Integration & documentation

Protocols: REST
Formats: JSON
Authentication: bearer
SDKs: python, r
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: Impect

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

## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them)
- Website: https://www.impect.com
- Docs: https://github.com/ImpectAPI/impectPy
- Sports: Football (soccer)
- Data: Lineups, Player stats, Results, Team stats
- Protocols: REST; formats: json
- Auth: bearer
- Free plan: none listed
- Note: impect.com now redirects to catapult.com/solutions/impect (Catapult ownership); crawled pricing page was Catapult's generic one. Token obtained via username/password flow per impectPy docs. Open data via kloppy. Protocol/format assumed REST/JSON.

## 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

Too little discussion

Football event and packing data via an authenticated API with Python and R clients. Almost no community material: two small repos that may use it, such as a recruitment board, and unrelated Genshin videos. No opinions on price, quality or coverage are available.

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

Open-source projects using it

Vinicius-hub8/Previsor_esportivo★ 1
ahanjain97-prog/pine★ 0

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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