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OpenLigaDB

Free, community-maintained JSON API for league fixtures and results, centred on German football (Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal) plus European cups, some ice hockey and user-created leagues. No key required.

Facts verified against the provider's site on

Commercial use: not disclosedBetting use: not disclosedMostly positive
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59

SportDex Score

#21 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity
47

Brand demand, developer discussions, GitHub repos and videos

Community & reliability
70

Tone of public discussions, liked vs criticised points, reliability complaints; based on only a few discussions, pulled towards neutral.

Transparency
75

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

Developer experience
51

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
2 (Football (soccer), Ice hockey)
Live data
Not disclosed
Delivery
Polling only (REST)
Discussions
5 threads
GitHub adoption
166 repos

Best for

Hobby projects such as prediction games, stats apps and Bundesliga widgets that need free German football fixtures and results without an API key.

Prediction gamesBundesliga widgetsResults tickers

Not ideal for

Production products needing guaranteed service, deep stats or odds; it is a community-maintained fixtures and results database.

Limitations to check

  • − Data limited to fixtures, results and scores
  • − Focus on German football; other leagues are user-created
  • − Site language is German
  • − Terms and pricing pages were empty when saved

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

Last checked 2026-11-03

OpenLigaDB at a glance

What is OpenLigaDB best for?
Hobby projects such as prediction games, stats apps and Bundesliga widgets that need free German football fixtures and results without an API key. Not ideal for: Production products needing guaranteed service, deep stats or odds; it is a community-maintained fixtures and results database.
How much does OpenLigaDB cost?
OpenLigaDB does not publish prices on the pages we checked.
Does OpenLigaDB have a free tier?
Yes. OpenLigaDB lists a free plan called "Free".
What does OpenLigaDB cover?
OpenLigaDB is a free / open data. Its sports: Football (soccer), Ice hockey; data: Fixtures, Results, Live scores.
Does OpenLigaDB have a WebSocket or streaming API?
No streaming is listed. OpenLigaDB delivers data by REST, so you poll for updates.
What do developers say about OpenLigaDB?
Free, keyless community JSON API focused on German football, used in prediction models, bots, a home-automation adapter and results videos. A user praises the simple matchday endpoint and the last-change-date call that avoids refetching. Coverage beyond German leagues is thin, and it is community-maintained so errors are possible. ODbL licence applies.
What are the alternatives to OpenLigaDB?
Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: OddsMatrix, Enetpulse, SportsGameOdds, Entity Sport, snooker.org API.

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

PlanPriceRequestsWhat's included
FreeFree—Open community API, no authentication to readsource

Registration only needed to create/edit leagues. License ODbL per catalog notes (not on crawled pages).

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)Ice hockey
Data types
FixturesResultsLive scores
Key competitions
1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, 3. Liga, DFB-Pokal, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Conference League, FIFA World Cup 2026source
Competitions
Not disclosed
Live / in-play
Not disclosed
Women's competitions
Yes
Betting markets
Not disclosed
Bookmaker regions
Not disclosed
Bookmakers
Not disclosed
History depth
Not disclosed
Update frequency
Not disclosed
Name languages
de
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
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: OpenLigaDB

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

## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them)
- Website: https://www.openligadb.de
- Docs: https://api.openligadb.de/index.html
- Sports: Football (soccer), Ice hockey
- Data: Fixtures, Results, Live scores
- Protocols: REST; formats: json
- Auth: none
- Free plan: Free
- Note: Registration only needed to create/edit leagues. License ODbL per catalog notes (not on crawled pages).

## 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
community
Certifications
Not disclosed
Payment methods
Not disclosed
Minimum contract
Not disclosed
Country
Germany
Founded
Not disclosed

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What developers say

Mostly positivefree tiercoveragedata qualitylegal

Free, keyless community JSON API focused on German football, used in prediction models, bots, a home-automation adapter and results videos. A user praises the simple matchday endpoint and the last-change-date call that avoids refetching. Coverage beyond German leagues is thin, and it is community-maintained so errors are possible. ODbL licence applies.

Praised for

  • No key required
  • Simple matchday endpoints
  • Last-change-date call saves requests
  • Many small open-source integrations

Complaints

  • Mostly German competitions
  • Community-maintained, errors possible

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

Discussions

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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