LeaguesEndpoint 69 of 116
Players of the season
https://api.datasportsapi.com/
- Plan
- Pro + Business
- Auth
Bearer dsa_live_…- Parameters
- 1 required · 0 optional
- Returns
PlayerOfTheSeasonWinner[]
A season-by-season record of the league’s player of the season — an award our data source bases on match ratings — giving the winner, his club, his average rating and his number of appearances. Available since 2026-11-04.
Plan access
Requires a Pro or Business plan; every other plan receives 403 endpoint_not_in_plan.
Worth knowing
Sorted most recent first. The season in progress has no winner yet; follow its contest at /v2/leagues/{id}/player-of-the-season/race.
01Parameters
idpathRequiredleague id issued by DataSportsAPI, a positive integer
02Request
The same call from the command line and each SDK. The SDK lines assume a client created with your key; left out, it is read from DATASPORTSAPI_API_KEY. Installing a client: SDKs & CLI.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer dsa_live_…" \
"https://api.datasportsapi.com/v2/leagues/{id}/player-of-the-season/history"03Response
The top-level keys of the JSON body. Each object links to its full shape in the data reference.
dataPlayerOfTheSeasonWinner[]meta- count, plus historyFrom if your plan’s history window removed older seasons
{ "data": [ { "season": { "id": 200302, "name": "Premier League 25/26", … }, "player": { "id": 200811, "name": "Bruno Fernandes", … },
"team": { "id": 200014, "name": "Manchester United", … }, "rating": 7.61, "appearances": 35 }, … ], "meta": { "count": 11 } }04Errors
- 403
endpoint_not_in_planreturned on the Free and Starter plans
- 404
not_foundDataSportsAPI never issued this id
unauthorized429rate_limited429quota_exceeded500internal_errorEvery error code