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PlayerElo

Football API serving individual player and coach Elo ratings, rating history, estimated market values, club ratings and match predictions across 176 competitions, updated daily.

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Commercial use: Licence requiredBetting use: not disclosedToo little discussion
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SportDex Score

#107 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity
13

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
85

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

Developer experience
47

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
€19/mo
Free access
Free tier
Sports
1 (Football (soccer))
Live data
Not disclosed
Delivery
Polling only (REST)
Discussions
0 threads
GitHub adoption
5 repos

Best for

Football analysts, scouts and modellers who want player and coach Elo ratings, rating history and match predictions through a REST API with a free tier.

Player rating and scouting toolsFootball prediction modelsMarket value comparison

Not ideal for

Commercial products on the free or lower tiers, since a commercial licence and SLA come only with the top tier; also anyone needing sports other than football.

Limitations to check

  • − Football only
  • − Free plan is 500 requests per month at 10 per minute
  • − Commercial licence and SLA only on Business (199 EUR per month)
  • − Site says data is not meant for making money by betting
  • − Match data comes from API-Football

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

Last checked 2026-11-03

PlayerElo at a glance

What is PlayerElo best for?
Football analysts, scouts and modellers who want player and coach Elo ratings, rating history and match predictions through a REST API with a free tier. Not ideal for: Commercial products on the free or lower tiers, since a commercial licence and SLA come only with the top tier; also anyone needing sports other than football.
How much does PlayerElo cost?
The cheapest public paid plan of PlayerElo is €19/mo. Listed plans: Pro €19/mo; Ultra €49/mo; Business €199/mo.
Does PlayerElo have a free tier?
Yes. PlayerElo lists a free plan called "Free" (500 requests per month).
What does PlayerElo cover?
PlayerElo is a sports data api. Its sports: Football (soccer); data: Historical data, Player stats, Predictions, Team stats.
Does PlayerElo have a WebSocket or streaming API?
No streaming is listed. PlayerElo delivers data by REST, so you poll for updates.
Can I use PlayerElo data commercially or for betting?
According to the public terms of PlayerElo — commercial use: licence required.
What do developers say about PlayerElo?
New football API for player and coach Elo ratings and match predictions. Known only through directory submissions and a Python client and MCP server from the same author, plus a couple of unexplained small repos. No independent user opinions on accuracy, pricing or reliability exist yet.
What are the alternatives to PlayerElo?
Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: Sportmonks, Data Golf, KenPom API, API-Sports / API-Football, SportsDataIO.

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

PlanPriceRequestsWhat's included
FreeFree500 / month10 req/min, evaluation usesource
Pro€19/mo10,000 / month120 req/minsource
Ultra€49/mo50,000 / month300 req/min, daily full-dataset refreshsource
Business€199/mo300,000 / month600 req/min, commercial licence and SLAsource

All endpoints on every plan; plans differ by volume only. Underlying match data sourced from API-Football per support page.

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 dataPlayer statsPredictionsTeam 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
match-by-match rating history
Update frequency
daily
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
Licence requiredsource
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
bearer
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: PlayerElo

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

## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them)
- Website: https://playerelo.football/api-access
- Docs: https://playerelo.football/api-access
- Sports: Football (soccer)
- Data: Historical data, Player stats, Predictions, Team stats
- Protocols: REST; formats: json
- Auth: bearer
- Free plan: Free, 500 requests per month
- Cheapest paid plan: €19/mo
- Note: All endpoints on every plan; plans differ by volume only. Underlying match data sourced from API-Football per support page.

## Verify before writing code
- 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
card
Minimum contract
Not disclosed
Country
Not disclosed
Founded
Not disclosed

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What developers say

Too little discussion

New football API for player and coach Elo ratings and match predictions. Known only through directory submissions and a Python client and MCP server from the same author, plus a couple of unexplained small repos. No independent user opinions on accuracy, pricing or reliability exist yet.

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