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MinifootballSmall-sided, fully scored.

Small-sided football leagues and tournaments with live scores and results.

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Minifootball10 endpoints · fixtures

Scouting report

What you get for Minifootball

Minifootball covers small-sided leagues and tournaments with live scores, results and standings.

It answers through the same shared endpoints as football, so one schedule page and one table component cover both.

First request

Every minifootball match in play, one call.

The live board filtered to minifootball: each match with its score, status and clock. The same request in four forms; pick yours.

  1. 1Create a key in the dashboard. Free gives you 1,000 requests a day during the beta.
  2. 2Put it in DATASPORTSAPI_API_KEY so the SDKs and the dsa command find it.
  3. 3Call /v2/livescores?sport=minifootball.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer dsa_live_…" \
  "https://api.datasportsapi.com/v2/livescores?sport=minifootball"

The catalog

Minifootball, endpoint by endpoint

Its own detail first, then the shared spine every fixture sport answers on. Each row opens the endpoint’s reference page.

All 116 endpoints

Where minifootball goes deeper

1 endpoint with detail specific to the sport.

  1. GETStandings/v2/leagues/{id}/standingsLeague tables for a single season.All plans

The shared spine

9 endpoints that behave the same for every fixture sport.

  1. GETLive scores/v2/livescoresReturns every live fixture across all sports, or a single sport’s in-play board when ?sport= is given.All plans
  2. GETFixtures by date/v2/fixturesLists the fixtures that start on a given UTC date.All plans
  3. GETFixture/v2/fixtures/{id}Everything we hold on one fixture.All plans
  4. GETEvents/v2/fixtures/{id}/eventsThe match’s incidents in chronological order, oldest first: goals, cards, substitutions, period markers and added-time announcements.All plans
  5. GETStatistics/v2/fixtures/{id}/statisticsTeam statistics for the match, organised by period and by category.All plans
  6. GETHead to head/v2/fixtures/{id}/h2hThe two teams’ head-to-head record as tallied by the source, seen from this fixture’s home / away point of view.All plans
  7. GETTeam/v2/teams/{id}Returns a team’s profile — sport, country, venue, colours, logo, gender, whether it is a club or a national team, kind (team / individual / pair), manager and founding date (foundedOn, pres…All plans
  8. GETLeague/v2/leagues/{id}Returns a league’s profile: its tier (where it sits in the national pyramid), gender, the reigning champion with its title count, the clubs holding the most titles, the divisions directly a…All plans
  9. GETSearch/v2/searchA single search over teams (individual competitors included), players, managers, referees, leagues, fixtures, venues, racing series and races.All plans

What comes back

Standings, as served

The documented sample is a football table. Minifootball standings come back in exactly these rows.

GET/v2/leagues/{id}/standingsAll plans

Sample from the docs, trimmed with …

GET /v2/leagues/{id}/standings
{ "data": [ { "position": 1, "team": { "id": 4438, "name": "Manchester City", … },
    "played": 7, "wins": 7, "draws": 0, "losses": 0, "overtimeWins": null, "overtimeLosses": null,
    "scoresFor": 19, "scoresAgainst": 7, "scoreDifference": 12, "points": 21,
    "winPercentage": null, "gamesBehind": null, "zone": "Champions League", "form": ["win", "win", "win", "win", "win"] }, … ],
  "meta": { "season": 200386, "type": "overall", "source": "upstream", "group": "Premier League 26/27", "groupCount": 1,
            "count": 20, "overall": true, "tieBreakRule": null, "scoreUnit": "goals" } }

Switch sport

Coverage across all 24

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The rest of the table

Minifootball is one query string away.

Swap ?sport=minifootball for any other fixture sport and the same code keeps working. Free key, no card.

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