Categories

Coverage
Sport Event Statuses
Probabilities
Standings / Tournaments

Integration
Past Season Data
Pagination

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Coverage

What leagues do you cover, and at what level?

Coverage information can be found at our Coverage Matrix.

How will a sport event behave when it is not covered with live scores?

When a sport_event is not covered live, the status and match_status will remain as not_started until results are entered post-match.

Integration

How can I find the values for various enum data points within the API?

Many enum values are listed in the FAQ below. For the most up-to-date values, please see the Schema section of the OpenAPI specification here.

What format are date fields presented in?

Date values are presented in the ISO 8601 standard format.

Timestamp fields are in UTC. These could include scheduled start times or play-by-play event timestamps. Examples: scheduled="2024-02-11T23:30:00+00:00", created_at="2024-02-11T23:43:20+00:00"

Date-only fields reflect local league convention and are not UTC-adjusted. These could include season start dates and birth dates. Examples: start_date="2024-08-16", date_of_birth="1984-09-22"

How do I locate the TTL (Time to Live)/cache on an API endpoint?

The cache (in seconds) can be accessed in the returned header information on each RESTful API call, under cache-control.

ex. cache-control: max-age=1, public, s-maxage=1 or cache-control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=120

Sport Event Statuses

What are the valid `sport_event_status` – `status` values?

not_started – The match is scheduled to be played
started – The match has begun
postponed – The match has been postponed to a future date
suspended – The match has been suspended
cancelled – The match has been cancelled and will not be played
delayed – The match has been temporarily delayed and will be continued
live – The match is currently in progress
interrupted - The match began, but coverage has stopped for a short time. Note that match scores may not be updated during this period, the last recorded match score will be displayed instead
ended – The match is over
closed – The match results have been confirmed

What are the valid `sport_event_status` – `match_status` values?

not_started
1st_period
2nd_period
aet
ended
postponed
cancelled
started

Past Season Data

How do I access past results and stats?

Use the Competition Seasons endpoint to locate the season_id for the season you want to access. Use that season_id to interrogate the various seasons endpoints.

Probabilities

What are the valid outcomes for probabilities?

home_team_winner
away_team_winner
draw

Pagination

How can I tell if an endpoint is paginated?

To determine if a RESTful API endpoint uses pagination, visit the endpoint's page on our developer portal, its OpenAPI specification, or check the X-Result and X-Max-Results headers in the API response.

X-Result: This header indicates the number of items returned for this request.
X-Max-Results: This header specifies the total number of items available for a specified request.

If both headers are present and the response data is truncated (i.e., X-Result value is less than X-Max-Results), you can infer that pagination is in use. To fetch the remaining data, make use of the limit and start (or offset) query string parameters.

In the below Season Summary response, the header specifies 100 sports events are returned (x-result), but 381 sport events are available (x-max-results). Make an additional API request – such as appending &start=100 to the end of your call – to obtain additional events.

Response Header Sample
< HTTP/2 200 
< content-type: application/json
< content-length: 1725369
< date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:06:18 GMT
< x-amzn-requestid: c10fe405-ce81-46fb-a3db-38d153dd2a6c
< x-offset: 0
< x-amz-apigw-id: BNAvVGCUliAEKJA=
< cache-control: max-age=300, public, s-maxage=300
< x-result: 100
< etag: "341dc78002bc578c62a6878519ba0404"
< x-max-results: 381
< link: <https://schemas.sportradar.com/sportsapi/soccer/v4/schemas/season_summaries.json#>; rel="describedBy"
< x-amzn-trace-id: Root=1-673514c8-7a887f81636af0110ecce2d3
< x-amzn-remapped-date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:06:17 GMT
< vary: Accept-Encoding
< x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
< via: 1.1 f2f0cb8191da3bf07a9ca31ece94ab68.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
< x-amz-cf-pop: IAD61-P4
< x-amz-cf-id: 1cyji-XQZuBlAUsR8QoHdNLWD-jn1HvBC-ShaCMhXl5mMDiFTDRVyQ==
< age: 16

Why can't I find a particular match in the Daily Summaries, Season Summaries or Sport Events Updated endpoints?

These endpoints support pagination and return 200 entries by default. To return more matches, include an additional query string parameter. For example, appending &start=200 will return the next 200 entries per page, &start=400 will return the next 200, and so on.

Standings / Tournaments

What are the possible values for `cup_round` – `state` in the Season Links endpoint?

Listed below are the values and definitions for cup_round - state. These can be leveraged to determine the status of a cup round.

empty - A matchup has been created but neither the match details nor the competitors are known.
unseeded_fixture - Match details are known but competitors are unknown.
partial_seeded - One competitor is known.
partial_seeded_fixture - Match details and one competitor are known.
seeded - Both competitors are known.
seeded_fixture - Match details and both competitors are known.
unstarted - Match(es) have been added.
on_going - The first match has started.
decided - The last match has ended.
winner - The winner is known.
cancelled – The matchup has been cancelled.