Api Sports API-Football v3
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For Agents
Pull live scores, standings, fixtures, player and team statistics, transfers, injuries, predictions, and odds from api-sports.io's football v3 surface.
Use for: I need to check my api-sports.io account quota with /status, Get all fixtures for La Liga in the current season, Find the live in-play matches across all supported leagues, Retrieve the top scorers for the Premier League this season
Not supported: Does not handle ticketing, fantasy league management, or non-football sports — use for football fixtures, standings, statistics, transfers, injuries, predictions, and odds only.
API-Football v3 from api-sports.io provides programmatic access to football (soccer) data covering 900+ leagues and cups, including fixtures, standings, players, coaches, transfers, injuries, predictions, and odds. Coverage includes real-time scores, pre-match and in-play odds, and team and player statistics. The 18 endpoints in this spec deliver the core surface for live scores, standings, player profiles, and predictions. Authentication is via the x-apisports-key header.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the API-Football v3 to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the API-Football v3, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with API-Football v3 API.
Check the current account status and subscription tier with /status
List supported countries, seasons, and leagues for query-building
Retrieve fixtures filtered by league and season including live in-play matches
Get current and historical league standings with points, wins, draws, and losses
Look up team and player profiles, top scorers, transfers, injuries, predictions, and odds
Use Cases
Patterns agents use API-Football v3 API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Live Scores Service
Build a live football scoreboard by polling /fixtures with the live filter to surface in-progress matches with their period, score, and elapsed time. Pair the returned fixture id with /predictions and /odds for richer context. The api-sports.io listing is suited to direct subscribers who want to call the v3 host without going through RapidAPI.
Call /fixtures with live=all and read the score, period, and elapsed time for each returned match
Season Standings and Top Scorers
Surface league tables and top scorer lists for editorial widgets, fantasy reminders, or analyst notebooks by calling /standings and /players together with consistent league and season parameters. The data feeds weekly recaps, season previews, and value-tracking tools across the 900+ supported leagues.
Call /standings with league=39 season=2024 and /players with league=39 season=2024 type=topscorers and merge into a single team-and-player snapshot
Transfer and Injury Watch
Track squad changes by combining /transfers with /injuries for a tracked team. The pair gives an up-to-date view of incoming and outgoing players plus availability for the next fixture, which is core data for fantasy app reminders and editorial coverage of a club's selection problems.
Call /transfers with team=541 and /injuries with team=541 to build a single availability report for Real Madrid's next fixture
Agent Integration via Jentic
An AI agent built on Jentic can search for the api-sports.io football operations by intent and execute them without holding the x-apisports-key in agent context. Jentic's MAXsystem holds the credential and returns scoped access at call time, which matters when the same agent needs to call both api-sports.io and other sports providers in the same workflow.
Use Jentic search for 'get live football fixtures from api-sports', load the /fixtures operation, execute it with live=all, and return the in-progress matches
Key Endpoints
18 endpoints — api-football v3 from api-sports.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/status
Check account status and quota
GET
/fixtures
List fixtures filtered by league, season, team, or live status
GET
/standings
Get league or cup standings for a season
GET
/leagues
List supported leagues and cups
GET
/teams
Look up team profiles and team statistics
GET
/predictions
Get match predictions for a fixture
GET
/transfers
List transfers by team or player
GET
/injuries
List player injuries by team or fixture
GET
/status
Check account status and quota
GET
/fixtures
List fixtures filtered by league, season, team, or live status
GET
/standings
Get league or cup standings for a season
GET
/leagues
List supported leagues and cups
GET
/teams
Look up team profiles and team statistics
GET
/predictions
Get match predictions for a fixture
GET
/transfers
List transfers by team or player
GET
/injuries
List player injuries by team or fixture
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
The x-apisports-key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive scoped execution tokens at call time and never hold the raw key.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search by intent such as 'get football league standings' or 'get live football fixtures from api-sports' and Jentic returns the matching operation with its full input schema, so the agent can call the right endpoint without reading the docs.
Time to first call
Direct integration: 1 day to wire auth, status checks, and a few endpoints. Through Jentic: under 1 hour from search to first executed call.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using API-Football v3 API through Jentic.
What authentication does API-Football v3 on api-sports.io use?
Authentication is via the x-apisports-key header. When called through Jentic the key is held in the Jentic vault and a scoped execution token is granted to the agent at call time, never the raw key.
Can I get live in-play scores from api-sports.io?
Yes. Call GET /fixtures with the live=all filter to receive only currently in-progress matches with their period, score, and elapsed time. Pair the returned fixture id with /predictions and /odds for richer context.
What are the rate limits for api-sports.io football?
Rate limits depend on your subscription tier on api-sports.io: free plans permit 100 requests per day, paid plans raise the daily ceiling and per-minute caps. Call GET /status to inspect your current quota and respect any 429 responses with exponential backoff.
How do I get league standings through Jentic?
Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, search for 'get football league standings', load the GET /standings operation, and execute it with league and season parameters. Sign up at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up to get a Jentic agent key.
Does this API include predictions and odds?
Yes. GET /predictions returns model-driven match probabilities for a fixture and the wider api-sports.io football surface includes pre-match and in-play odds for the same fixtures. Combine the two to compare model output with the bookmaker market.
What's the difference between this and the api-football.com listing?
Both expose the same v3 football data hosted at v3.football.api-sports.io. The api-sports.io listing is for direct api-sports.io subscribers using x-apisports-key, while the api-football.com listing is the RapidAPI surface using x-rapidapi-key. Pick whichever matches your subscription channel.
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