Fifty endpoints across every league you follow
The Sports Data API returns live scores, fixtures and standings as clean JSON.
50 active endpoints, on 0, 1 and 2 credit tiers.
- POST/sports-data/v1/scores
- POST/sports-data/v1/fixtures
- POST/sports-data/v1/standings
- POST/sports-data/v1/team
- POST/sports-data/v1/roster
- POST/sports-data/v1/summary
- POST/sports-data/v1/odds
- +43 more
What Sports Data endpoints does ReefAPI ship?
50 live read endpoints. Read-only data API: no writes, no account actions, no dashboard access on the target site.
Sports Data API
3 of 50 endpoints, ready to run
Matches for a league with the state and clock, the venue, the broadcasters and both teams with their scores.
{ "ok": true, "meta": { "api": "sports-data", "endpoint": "scores", "mode": "live", "latency_ms": 1055.7, "record_count": 4, "cache_hit": false, "completeness_pct": 100 }, "data": { "league": "English Premier League", "abbreviation": "Premier League", "season": 2026, "count": 4, "events": [ { "event_id": "401879314", "date": "2026-08-29T11:30Z", "name": "Nottingham Forest at Liverpool", "short_name": "NFO @ LIV", "sport": "soccer", "league": "eng.1", "status": { "state": "post", "completed": true, "detail": "FT", "clock": "90'+6'", "period": 2 }, "venue": { "name": "Anfield", "city": "Liverpool", "state": null }, "broadcasts": [ "USA Net", "Universo" ], "home": { "team_id": "364", "name": "Liverpool", "abbreviation": "LIV", "short_name": "Liverpool", "location": "Liverpool", "color": "d11317", "logo": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/teamlogos/soccer/500/364.png", "home_away": "home", "score": "2", "winner": false, "records": [ { "type": "total", "summary": "0-2-0" } ], "statistics": { "appearances": "0", "foulsCommitted": "13", "wonCorners": "3", "goalAssists": "2", "possessionPct": "69.6", "shotAssists": "11", "shotsOnTarget": "4", "totalGoals": "2", "totalShots": "13" }, "form": "DDDLD" }, "away": { "team_id": "393", "name": "Nottingham Forest", "abbreviation": "NFO", "short_name": "Nottm Forest", "location": "Nottingham Forest", "color": "c8102e", "logo": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/teamlogos/soccer/500/393.png", "home_away": "away", "score": "2", "winner": false, "records": [ { "type": "total", "summary": "0-1-1" } ], "statistics": { "appearances": "0", "foulsCommitted": "10", "wonCorners": "5", "goalAssists": "1", "possessionPct": "30.4", "shotAssists": "9", "shotsOnTarget": "3", "totalGoals": "2", "totalShots": "12" }, "form": "DLLDL" }, "odds": null }, { "event_id": "401879296", "date": "2026-08-29T14:00Z", "name": "Everton at AFC Bournemouth", "short_name": "EVE @ BOU", "sport": "soccer", "league": "eng.1", "status": { "state": "in", "completed": false, "detail": "HT", "clock": "45'+2'", "period": 1 }, "venue": { "name": "Vitality Stadium", "city": "Bournemouth", "state": null }, "broadcasts": [ "Peacock" ], "home": { "team_id": "349", "name": "AFC Bournemouth", "abbreviation": "BOU", "short_name": "Bournemouth", "location": "AFC Bournemouth", "color": "f42727", "logo": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/teamlogos/soccer/500/349.png", "home_away": "home", "score": "1", "winner": false, "records": [ { "type": "total", "summary": "0-0-1" } ], "statistics": { "appearances": "0", "foulsCommitted": "6", "wonCorners": "3", "goalAssists": "1", "possessionPct": "55.9", "shotAssists": "7", "shotsOnTarget": "3", "totalGoals": "1", "totalShots": "7" }, "form": "LDDWW" }, "away": { "team_id": "368", "name": "Everton", "abbreviation": "EVE", "short_name": "Everton", "location": "Everton", "color": "0606fa", "logo": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/teamlogos/soccer/500/368.png", "home_away": "away", "score": "0", "winner": false, "records": [ { "type": "total", "summary": "1-0-0" } ], "statistics": { "appearances": "0", "foulsCommitted": "4", "wonCorners": "4", "goalAssists": "0", "possessionPct": "44.1", "shotAssists": "7", "shotsOnTarget": "5", "totalGoals": "0", "totalShots": "9" }, "form": "WWLLD" }, "odds": { "provider": "DraftKings", "details": "BOU +125", "over_under": 2.5 } }, { "event_id": "401879316", "date": "2026-08-29T14:00Z", "name": "Hull City at Coventry City", "short_name": "HUL @ COV", "sport": "soccer", "league": "eng.1", "status": { "state": "in", "completed": false, "detail": "HT", "clock": "45'+3'", "period": 1 }, "venue": { "name": "Coventry Building Society Arena", "city": "Coventry", "state": null }, "broadcasts": [ "USA Net", "Universo" ], "home": { "team_id": "388", "name": "Coventry City", "abbreviation": "COV", "short_name": "Coventry", "location": "Coventry City", "color": "87cced", "logo": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/teamlogos/soccer/500/388.png", "home_away": "home", "score": "0", "winner": false, "records": [ { "type": "total", "summary": "0-0-1" } ], "statistics": { "appearances": "0", "foulsCommitted": "5", "wonCorners": "2", "goalAssists": "0", "possessionPct": "64.7", "shotAssists": "7", "shotsOnTarget": "2", "totalGoals": "0", "totalShots": "8" }, "form": "WLWWW" }, "away": { "team_id": "306", "name": "Hull City", "abbreviation": "HUL", "short_name": "Hull", "location": "Hull City", "color": "f28800", "logo": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/teamlogos/soccer/500/306.png", "home_away": "away", "score": "0", "winner": false, "records": [ { "type": "total", "summary": "1-0-0" } ], "statistics": { "appearances": "0", "foulsCommitted": "4", "wonCorners": "2", "goalAssists": "0", "possessionPct": "35.3", "shotAssists": "1", "shotsOnTarget": "0", "totalGoals": "0", "totalShots": "1" }, "form": "WWWWD" }, "odds": { "provider": "DraftKings", "details": "COV -140", "over_under": 2.5 } } ] } }
How the Sports Data API works
Sports Data is a normal ReefAPI surface — the same four rules that hold for every other engine on the key.
No OAuth app, no request signing, no per-site account. One key covers all 184 engines.
Every route is a POST with a JSON body. Parameters are validated against the published schema before anything is charged.
Credits, not seats. Failed and blocked calls are never charged, and cache hits cost nothing.
One envelope everywhere. meta carries latency_ms, record_count and the endpoint that answered.
A live match card that updates itself
A scoreboard needs three things the same way for every sport: what the state is, how far through it is, and what the score is. Sports data is notorious for expressing those three differently per sport.
{"sport": "soccer", "league": "eng.1"}Each match carries a status block with the state, whether it is complete, the clock and the period — the same shape whichever sport you ask about.
{"sport": "soccer", "league": "eng.1"}And the table for context, since a result means something different at the top than in mid-table.
Matches carry the venue, the city and the broadcasters as well as the score, which is most of a match card without a second source.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/sports-data/v1/scores \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"sport":"soccer","league":"eng.1","dates":"20260301-20260331"}'{
"ok": true,
"data": { … },
"meta": {
"api": "sports-data",
"endpoint": "scores",
"mode": "live",
"latency_ms": …,
"record_count": …
},
"error": null
}Sports Data league keys by sport, and the sport value each one needs
Every league action takes two parameters together: sport and league. The leagues action returned exactly 30 league keys on 2026-08-27, listed below with the sport value they pair with. Passing a league on its own fails, even for an unambiguous key like mlb, so the pairing matters more than it looks.
| sport | League keys returned by the leagues action | Count |
|---|---|---|
| soccer | eng.1, eng.2, esp.1, ita.1, ger.1, fra.1, ned.1, por.1, usa.1, mex.1, bra.1, uefa.champions, uefa.europa, fifa.world | 14 |
| cricket | ipl, bbl, sheffield-shield, county-championship, cricket-world-cup | 5 |
| basketball | nba, wnba, ncaam, ncaaw | 4 |
| baseball | mlb, college-baseball | 2 |
| football | nfl, ncaaf | 2 |
| tennis | atp, wta | 2 |
| hockey | nhl | 1 |
Measured 2026-08-27. league also accepts a raw ESPN segment that is not in this list, in which case sport is what tells the API where to look. A soccer season year is the year the season starts: season=2025 returned the completed 2025-2026 Premier League table with 38 games played, while fixtures dated August 2026 came back under season 2026.
What is normalised across sports, and what you must supply
Measured across leagues and match states.
State, completed, a human detail string and the clock or period, identically structured whether you asked about football, basketball or hockey. Every sport counts time differently and this is the layer that lets one scoreboard render all of them.
There is no global 'today's matches' call. League codes are the addressing scheme and you pass them explicitly, which keeps responses bounded and makes it obvious what you asked for.
Rosters, injuries, odds, match summaries, team schedules, news and season structures. Injuries and odds in particular are the endpoints that are hard to get anywhere else without a commercial contract.
Which channels are showing a match, and where it is being played with the city. Both are on the score row, which is the part a listings or a betting-adjacent product would otherwise assemble by hand.
A match in progress changes every few seconds. The clock and score are current when read and stale immediately after, which is worth designing around rather than caching like a static record.
What people build with Sports Data
The jobs this data is most often used for.
endpoints
credits per call
Sports apps call scores and standings to show live results and league tables.
Betting tools use odds and fixtures to price and schedule markets.
Fan products use team and roster to build club and player pages.
What Sports Data data costs
The cheapest call here is 0 credits, so $15/mo (Pro) buys 10,000 of them — $1.50 per 1,000 credits. Credits roll over and never expire, and failed or blocked calls are not charged.
Full pricing →- 1,000 free credits on signup, no card
- One key, all 184 APIs, one credit pool
- Failed and blocked calls are never charged
- Credits roll over and never expire
Call it in two lines
Sign up, get 1,000 credits and one key that works on every engine. Then this is the whole protocol.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/sports-data/v1/scores \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"sport":"soccer","league":"eng.1","dates":"20260301-20260331"}'import requests
r = requests.post(
"https://api.reefapi.com/sports-data/v1/scores",
headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
json={
"sport": "soccer",
"league": "eng.1",
"dates": "20260301-20260331"
},
)
print(r.json()["data"])Have a question? We got answers.
The questions people actually ask before wiring up Sports Data.
Get a free key →Why does {"league": "mlb"} fail when mlb only exists in one sport?▾
Because sport is validated before any league lookup happens. Sending only {"league": "mlb"} returns MISSING_PARAM with the message "missing: sport"; sending {"sport": "baseball", "league": "mlb"} returns the scoreboard. This applies to every league-scoped action: scores, fixtures, standings, team, roster, odds, news, injuries, team_schedule and conferences. The leagues action is the exception, since it works with no parameters and tells you which sport goes with which key.
How do I tell whether a game has started? The score is already 0.▾
Read status.state, not the score. Before kickoff both teams come back with score "0" and winner false, not null. A Premier League fixture on 2026-08-29 returned exactly that hours before it started. The tells are status.state "pre", status.period null, and an empty statistics object. Once the game is live, state flips to "in" and statistics fills up; when it ends, state is "post" and completed is true.
What do status.detail, clock and period contain for each sport?▾
They are sport-shaped, not normalized. A finished Premier League game returned detail "FT", clock "90'+6'" and period 2, the half. A live MLB game returned detail "Top 8th", clock "0:00" and period 8, the inning, since baseball has no game clock and clock is a placeholder there. An unplayed game puts the human kickoff time in detail, for example "Sat, August 29th at 7:30 AM EDT". Treat detail as display text and state as the machine field.
Why is odds null on some events and populated on others?▾
Odds only exist while a line is open. On 2026-08-27 every completed Premier League game from the previous weekend returned odds: null, while an upcoming fixture returned {provider: "DraftKings", details: "LIV -195", over_under: 2.5} inside the same events[] shape. If you need odds across a slate, call the odds action without an event_id. It lists every scheduled game in the league that currently has a line, instead of making you filter nulls out of the scoreboard.
What season year do I pass for a soccer league?▾
The year the season starts. season=2025 on eng.1 returned the finished 2025-2026 Premier League table: 20 rows, group "English Premier League 2025-2026", every team on 38 games played, Arsenal first on 85 points. Fixtures played in August 2026 belong to the next season and come back with season 2026. Omit season and you get the current one. NBA standings ignore the field and returned 30 rows with no season in the payload.
Where do event_id and team_id come from, and are they stable?▾
They are ESPN numeric ids returned as strings, and they are stable identifiers you can store. Any scores, fixtures or team_schedule row carries an event_id, 401879322 for Man United at Hull City on 2026-08-22, and that feeds the summary and odds actions. teams[].team_id from the team action feeds roster and team_schedule: Hull City is 306, Manchester United 360, Liverpool 364 and Arsenal 359 in eng.1. Ids are scoped per sport, so a soccer team_id will not resolve under basketball.
How do I request a date range instead of today?▾
date takes ESPN's YYYYMMDD format, and a range is two of them joined by a hyphen: "20260822-20260826" returned the nine Premier League games played across that window. Omit date entirely and you get today plus anything in play. The parameter is aliased as dates, and an unparseable value is ignored rather than rejected, so a malformed date silently gives you today's card. Check meta.record_count if a range comes back smaller than you expected.
What is the Sports Data API?▾
Sports Data API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for scores, schedules, teams and standings. It returns live JSON through POST requests under /sports-data/v1.
Is the Sports Data API free to try?▾
Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. Sports Data calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.
Do I need a Sports Data login or account?▾
No login to Sports Data is needed for the API response. You call ReefAPI with your x-api-key header, and the playground can run live examples before you create a production key.
How fresh is the Sports Data data?▾
The page example is captured from a live scores call, and production requests fetch live data through ReefAPI rather than a static sample.
How many credits does the Sports Data API use?▾
Sports Data actions currently cost 1-2 credits per successful call. Failed or blocked calls are free, and all APIs draw from one credit pool.
Can I call Sports Data from an AI assistant or MCP client?▾
Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call sports-data actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.
Is the Sports Data API a Sports Data scraper?▾
It is the managed alternative to a DIY Sports Data scraper. Instead of building and maintaining your own scraper — proxies, headless browsers, captcha and constant breakage — you call one ReefAPI endpoint and get the same scores, schedules, teams and standings back as clean JSON.
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One key, one credit pool, one response envelope. If you are pulling Sports Data, you are one call away from the rest of the category — no second contract, no second integration.
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Try it on your own data before you pay anything
The call above is the real endpoint, not a recording. A free key gives you 1,000 credits, the other 183 APIs, and the same envelope everywhere.
Endpoints, parameters and credit costs on this page are read from the live catalog and cannot drift from what the API accepts. Field notes were captured on 2026-08-30.