US Football APIs – Deleted Games

We've added support for deleted games in the latest versions of our US football APIs (NFL, NCAA Football, UFL).

Previously, deleted games were fully removed from the API. Now, when a game is removed from our coverage (for example, a duplicate or erroneously created game), it will remain available with:

• "deleted": true at the game level
• A "deleted_games" array within Schedule endpoints
• A deleted_games node added to the Daily Change Log feed

⭐ Benefit

Track and store deleted game IDs within your system to prevent mis-categorization or unintended downstream processing.

📋 Recommended Actions

• Update your Schedule and Daily Change Log ingestion to read the new deleted flag and deleted_games array/node.
• Store deleted game IDs so your system can suppress or reconcile them, rather than treating a previously-valid game as still active.
• Confirm your downstream processing (stats, standings, displays) excludes games flagged as deleted.

☑️ Sample Requests:

Season Schedule (NCAA Football)

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/ncaafb/trial/v7/en/games/2026/REG/schedule.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

🔢 Products

🔁 Endpoints Affected

• Daily Change Log
• Game Boxscore, Game Play-by-Play, Game Roster, Game Statistics
• Season Schedule, Weekly Schedule

⚙️ Return Samples

Click here to download a zip file including several sample feeds of deleted games.