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transfermarkt-api

MIT-licensed FastAPI service that wraps Transfermarkt's internal endpoints to return club, player and competition data as JSON. Run it yourself; the public demo is rate limited and for testing only.

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Commercial use: not disclosedBetting use: not disclosedToo little discussion
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45

SportDex Score

#90 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity
21

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
65

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

Developer experience
66

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
179 repos

Best for

Developers comfortable self-hosting a Python service who want Transfermarkt club, player and competition data as JSON for personal or research projects.

Self-hosted football data servicePlayer and club lookupsResearch scripts in Python

Not ideal for

Commercial or production products that need guaranteed data rights or uptime; the MIT licence covers the code only and the data is Transfermarkt's.

Limitations to check

  • − Data is scraped from Transfermarkt and requests may be blocked
  • − MIT licence covers code, not the data
  • − Public demo is rate limited to 2 requests per 3 seconds per IP and for testing only
  • − Unofficial project with no support or SLA

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

Last checked 2026-11-03

transfermarkt-api at a glance

What is transfermarkt-api best for?
Developers comfortable self-hosting a Python service who want Transfermarkt club, player and competition data as JSON for personal or research projects. Not ideal for: Commercial or production products that need guaranteed data rights or uptime; the MIT licence covers the code only and the data is Transfermarkt's.
How much does transfermarkt-api cost?
transfermarkt-api does not publish prices on the pages we checked.
Does transfermarkt-api have a free tier?
Yes. transfermarkt-api lists a free plan called "Open source".
What does transfermarkt-api cover?
transfermarkt-api is a free / open data. Its sports: Football (soccer); data: Fixtures, Player stats, Team stats.
Does transfermarkt-api have a WebSocket or streaming API?
No streaming is listed. transfermarkt-api delivers data by REST, so you poll for updates.
What do developers say about transfermarkt-api?
Self-hosted open-source wrapper around Transfermarkt's unofficial endpoints, plus many similar clients, MCP servers and guides on GitHub. Adoption is visible through ~28 repos and a dataset pipeline, but there is no real user discussion about reliability, limits or legality, so the community picture is thin.
What are the alternatives to transfermarkt-api?
Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: Fantasy Premier League API, CollegeFootballData.com, NHL Web API (unofficial docs), CollegeBasketballData.com, nflverse.

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

PlanPriceRequestsWhat's included
Open sourceFree—MIT code; demo limited to 2 requests per 3 seconds per IPsource

Low certainty on 'provider' status: unofficial wrapper; data rights belong to Transfermarkt and the license covers code only. Data types inferred from project purpose.

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
FixturesPlayer statsTeam 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
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
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
none
SDKs
python
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: transfermarkt-api

Goal: build a feature on transfermarkt-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/felipeall/transfermarkt-api
- Docs: https://github.com/felipeall/transfermarkt-api
- Sports: Football (soccer)
- Data: Fixtures, Player stats, Team stats
- Protocols: REST; formats: json
- Auth: none
- Free plan: Open source
- Note: Low certainty on 'provider' status: unofficial wrapper; data rights belong to Transfermarkt and the license covers code only. Data types inferred from project purpose.

## 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
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 discussionlegaldocs

Self-hosted open-source wrapper around Transfermarkt's unofficial endpoints, plus many similar clients, MCP servers and guides on GitHub. Adoption is visible through ~28 repos and a dataset pipeline, but there is no real user discussion about reliability, limits or legality, so the community picture is thin.

Praised for

  • Many open-source wrappers and guides exist

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