Manager

GET

https://api.datasportsapi.com/v2/managers/{id}

Plan: All plans
Auth: Bearer dsa_live_…
Parameters: 1 required · 0 optional
Returns: ManagerProfile

Profile of a manager or head coach: country, date of birth, favoured formation, present team, career totals (games, wins, draws, losses, goals, points) and each job held with its own record, most recent first.

Worth knowing

For the job currently held, to is the contract expiry and therefore lies in the future. scoresFor / scoresAgainst may be null on a job for which the source reports results only.

01Parameters

Name	In	Required	Description
`id`	path	Required	DataSportsAPI manager id, a positive integer

idpathRequired
DataSportsAPI manager id, 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/managers/{id}"

03Response

The top-level keys of the JSON body. Each object links to its full shape in the data reference.

data: ManagerProfile
meta: stintCount

ObjectsManagerProfile

Example response

8 lines

{ "data": { "id": 794950, "name": "José Mourinho", "slug": "jose-mourinho", "shortName": "J. Mourinho",
    "image": "https://cdn.datasportsapi.com/v2/managers/794950/photo", "sport": "football",
    "country": { "code": "PT", "name": "Portugal" }, "dateOfBirth": "1963-01-26", "preferredFormation": "4-2-3-1",
    "team": { "id": 2829, "name": "Real Madrid", … },
    "career": { "games": 1255, "wins": 778, "draws": 252, "losses": 225, "scoresFor": 2461, "scoresAgainst": 1171, "points": 2586 },
    "stints": [ { "team": { "id": 2829, "name": "Real Madrid", … }, "from": "2026-07-01", "to": "2029-06-30",
                  "record": { "games": 12, "wins": 10, "draws": 0, "losses": 2, "scoresFor": null, "scoresAgainst": null, "points": 30 } }, … ] },
  "meta": { "stintCount": 13 } }

04Errors

404not_found
DataSportsAPI has never assigned this id

Any key can also meet401unauthorized429rate_limited429quota_exceeded500internal_errorEvery error code