Calendar fixtures

In this reference page, we show you how you can the list of fixtures that we have for all competitions and how to interpret the data that our football API provides you.

This football API endpoint supports filtering by league, but they are now deprecated to get optimal results, please switch to using competitions instead. You can find more about competitions on the football competitions documentation page.

The fixtures football API endpoint supports teams names in various languages to find out more about this. Read through our documentation on language support.

On this page, we are explaining how you can get the list with currently available fixtures. Also, the possibilities that you have to filter and traverse the football fixtures data.

NOTE: The id of the fixture will not be the id of the match when the match starts or finishes, but there is a filed in the data provided by the live scores api endpoint that is called fixture_id, which indicates to which fixture the match is related to. The same thing applies for the football history matches api endpoint. There you can also find the data field fixture_id and the id of the live-score match ID and the history match ID is always the same.

ENDPOINT

In order, to get the list of all fixtures that our football API feed supports the only thing you need to do is the call the URL below. We are supporting fixtures for 400+ national and international competitions all over the globe. In this example, we have used your api key and secret pair. If you copy the URL it will work straight away.

GET:

PARAMETERS

The fixtures API endpoint supports several parameters that you can use to filter data and traverse through it at your convenience. The parameters are listed in the table below. You can use the parameters together as well as separately.

Name	Type	Example	Description
competition_id	number	16	the id of the competition in which the match will take place
date	date/string	2018-05-15/today	Results in showing only fixtures on that date. If you provide `today` as a value, our football API will return only the fixtures for today.
lang	string	fa	2 letter ISO 639-1 language code
page	number	2	Results in sowing only fixtures on that page with results
round	number/string	19/R16	Filters the fixtures by the a specific round if the league supports one. It could be a number like 1, 5 or 10, and if could also be R16, QF, SF and similar
team	number	19	Filters the fixtures by the a specific team

Our football API now transitioned to using competitions and leagues are deprecated. If your code uses leagues it will continue to work but for new users, only the competition filtering will be functioning.

RESPONSE

A response to a request will contain in total maximum of 30 fixtures for the provided parameters in the query URL. If you would like to go further in the future you can use the next page as provided by the response. If you would like to go back then you can use the previous page link provided by the response.

Name	Type	Example	Description
away_id	number	2090	the team id of the visiting team
away_name	string	SSC Napoli	the name of the away team in the match.
competition	object		Contains information about the football competition to which the fixture belongs so you do not need to make a separate request to get the name of the competition
competition_id	number	16	the id of the competition in which the match takes place
date	date	2018-05-15	the data when the football match is going to be played.
home_Id	number	2089	the team id of the home team
home_name	string	Juventus FC	the name of the home team in the match.
league_id	integer	5	the id of the league to which the match belongs to.
location	string	Torino	the place or stadium where the match is going to be played or empty if we do not have enough data.
next_page	url		if there are more than 30 matches that satisfy your filtering request you will be able to go to the next page with results following this link. If there is no next page this field will contain `false`.
prev_page	url		if there are more than 30 matches that satisfy your filtering request and you have traversed into further pages, you will be able to go to the previous page with results following this link. If there is no previous page this field will contain `false`.
round	integer/string	25/QF	the round of the match (a.k.a matchday) of the football game. If we do not have accurate data you will see 999 as a round number. It could also contain a string representation of the round if it is a direct elimination cup. For example, QF for Quarter-Finals.
time	time	12:00	the kick-off time of the football match. If we do not have accurate data you will see only zeros. For example `00:00`. All start dates and times are in the UTC timezone.

{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "fixtures": [
            {
                "id": "1313770",
                "date": "2019-10-30",
                "time": "17:00:00",
                "round": "R16",
                "home_name": "Paide Linnameeskond",
                "away_name": "Flora Tallinn",
                "location": "",
                "league_id": "512",
                "competition_id": "157",
                "home_id": "1830",
                "away_id": "1826",
                "competition": {
                    "id": "157",
                    "name": "Cup"
                },
                "league": {
                    "id": "512",
                    "name": "Cup",
                    "country_id": "25"
                }
            },
            {
                "id": "1277436",
                "date": "2019-10-30",
                "time": "17:00:00",
                "round": "34",
                "home_name": "Riga FC",
                "away_name": "RFS",
                "location": "",
                "league_id": "37",
                "competition_id": "20",
                "home_id": "1910",
                "away_id": "1911",
                "competition": {
                    "id": "20",
                    "name": "Virsliga"
                },
                "league": {
                    "id": "37",
                    "name": "Virsliga",
                    "country_id": "24"
                }
            },
            {
                "id": "1302807",
                "date": "2019-10-30",
                "time": "17:30:00",
                "round": "2R",
                "home_name": "Wolfsburg",
                "away_name": "RasenBallsport Leipzig",
                "location": "VOLKSWAGEN ARENA",
                "league_id": "69",
                "competition_id": "167",
                "home_id": "52",
                "away_id": "44",
                "competition": {
                    "id": "167",
                    "name": "DFB Cup"
                },
                "league": {
                    "id": "69",
                    "name": "DFB Cup",
                    "country_id": "1"
                }
            }
        ],
        "next_page": "https:\/\/livescore-api.com\/api-client\/fixtures\/matches.json?key=demo_key&secret=demo_secret&v=&page=2",
        "prev_page": false
    }
}

EXAMPLES

The following examples show you how to use this endpoint in various programming languages without any filters provided in order to get all the fixtures. In this example, we have used your api key and secret pair. If you copy the URL it will work straight away. cUrl:

curl -XGET https://livescore-api.com/api-client/fixtures/matches.json?key=demo_key\\&secret=demo_secret

PHP:

file_get_contents('https://livescore-api.com/api-client/fixtures/matches.json?key=demo_key\&secret=demo_secret');

Python:

import urllib2
req = urllib2.Request('https://livescore-api.com/api-client/fixtures/matches.json?key=demo_key\&secret=demo_secret')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
print response.read()

In the examples below we show how you can get all the fixtures for today using our fixtures football API date filter. cUrl:

curl -XGET https://livescore-api.com/api-client/fixtures/matches.json?date=today&key=demo_key\\&secret=demo_secret