Match events
This live-score api endpoint allows you to get goal times, goal scorers as well as yellow and red cards information for live football matches as well as finished ones.
ENDPOINT
In order, to get the events of live football matches or finished games from our history database (if we provide such for this game), the only thing you need to do is call the URL bellow. At the beginning of the match, the data array will be empty as there will be no events that have happened. As the football match progresses, the events will appear in the result from the football API endpoint. To make this API call you will need the id of the football match.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | Number | 1 | 129180 | The id of the match for which we want the events |
| lang | String | ar | The 2 letter code of one of the supported languages. This is only available for selected packages. |
RESPONSE
The response contains the following information, for every event element in the list. In addition to the list with the events, this football API endpoint also provides general match information.
| Name | Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| event | String | YELLOW_CARD | The type of the event. Check the reference table below. |
| info.id | Number | 2961 | The ID of the second player who is connected to the event (substitution). The value could be null |
| info.name | String | Marcus Thuram | The name of the second player who is connected to the event (assist). The value could be null |
| is_away | Boolean | false | Indicator whether the player or event is related to the away team |
| is_home | Boolean | true | Indicator whether the player or event is related to the home team |
| label | String | Goal | The human readable label of the event |
| player.id | Number | 2170 | The ID of the player who is connected to the event. The value could be null |
| player.name | String | Paul Pogba | The name of the player who is connected to the event. |
| sort | Number | 8 | The order in which the events occurred starting from 0 and growing in positive numbers direction. Meaning the event number 2 happened before number 3. This will be helpful when 2 events in our real time match events data feed happen in the same minute. |
| time | Number | 38 | The minute since the kick-off when the event occurred. |
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"match": {
"id": "385735",
"date": "2022-12-18",
"time": "AP",
"status": "FINISHED",
"added": "2022-12-18 14:45:12",
"last_changed": "2022-12-18 18:54:06",
"location": "Lusail Stadium, Lusail",
"fixture_id": "1581460",
"scheduled": "15:00",
"odds": {
"pre": {
"1": 2.7,
"2": 2.88,
"X": 3.1
},
"live": {
"1": 26,
"2": 26,
"X": 1.01
}
},
"outcomes": {
"half_time": "1",
"full_time": "X",
"extra_time": "X",
"penalty_shootout": "1"
},
"scores": {
"score": "3 - 3",
"ht_score": "2 - 0",
"ft_score": "2 - 2",
"et_score": "3 - 3",
"ps_score": "4 - 2"
},
"home": {
"id": 1443,
"name": "Argentina",
"stadium": "Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti",
"country_id": 117,
"logo": "https:\/\/cdn.live-score-api.com\/teams\/5362652dcc4f7738ae87703f69a2fa42.png"
},
"away": {
"id": 1439,
"name": "France",
"stadium": "Stade de France",
"country_id": 115,
"logo": "https:\/\/cdn.live-score-api.com\/teams\/53e68d80e106b1910b234291b1fa8eca.png"
},
"competition": {
"id": 362,
"name": "FIFA World Cup",
"is_league": false,
"is_cup": true,
"tier": 0,
"has_groups": true,
"active": true,
"national_teams_only": true
},
"country": null,
"federation": {
"id": 1,
"name": "FIFA"
}
},
"event": [
{
"id": 310426483,
"player": {
"id": 2170,
"name": "Lionel Messi"
},
"time": 23,
"event": "GOAL",
"sort": 0,
"info": null,
"is_home": true,
"is_away": false,
"label": "Goal"
},
{
"id": 310426484,
"player": {
"id": 13884,
"name": "Angel Di Maria"
},
"time": 36,
"event": "GOAL",
"sort": 1,
"info": {
"id": 3257,
"name": "Alexis MacAllister"
},
"is_home": true,
"is_away": false,
"label": "Goal"
},
{
"id": 310426485,
"player": {
"id": 2961,
"name": "Marcus Thuram"
},
"time": 41,
"event": "SUBSTITUTION",
"sort": 2,
"info": {
"id": 4336,
"name": "Olivier Giroud"
},
"is_home": false,
"is_away": true,
"label": "Substitution"
},
{
"id": 310426487,
"player": {
"id": 86149,
"name": "Enzo Fernandez"
},
"time": 45,
"event": "YELLOW_CARD",
"sort": 4,
"info": null,
"is_home": true,
"is_away": false,
"label": "Yellow card"
}
]
}
}Type Meaing GOAL A goal was scored GOAL_PENALTY A goal was scored from a penalty OWN_GOAL An own goal was scored YELLOW_CARD A player has been cautioned by the referee RED_CARD A player was sent off by the referee YELLOW_RED_CARD A player has received their second yellow card and they have been sent off. SUBSTITUTION A player coming on the pitch instead of someone of his teammates MISSED_PENALTY When a player misses a penalty
CODE EXAMPLES
To get the events from any match that has events: cUrl:
curl -XGET "https://livescore-api.com/api-client/matches/events.json?key=demo_key&secret=demo_secret&id=385735"file_get_contents('https://livescore-api.com/api-client/matches/events.json?key=demo_key\&secret=demo_secret\&id=385735');import urllib2
req = urllib2.Request('https://livescore-api.com/api-client/matches/events.json?key=demo_key\&secret=demo_secret\&id=385735')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
print response.read()To get the events with translations, you need to have the correct package purchased. Otherwise, the player names will be listed in English. Calling the URL with the additional lang parameter will also translate the labels of the event as well as other match information in the respective language.
cUrl:
curl -XGET "https://livescore-api.com/api-client/matches/events.json?key=demo_key&secret=demo_secret&id=385735&lang=ar"file_get_contents('https://livescore-api.com/api-client/matches/events.json?key=demo_key\&secret=demo_secret\id=385735\&lang=ar');import urllib2
req = urllib2.Request('https://livescore-api.com/api-client/matches/events.json?key=demo_key\&secret=demo_secret\&id=385735&lang=ar')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
print response.read()