What it does

Live scores, fixtures and results, league standings, lineups, match statistics and events, team squads, player profiles, top scorers and head-to-head records across more than 1,000 competitions in 184 countries — over a plain REST API, plus a WebSocket for live updates. Instead of polling, you subscribe to a match and goals, cards and substitutions arrive as they happen.

Built for developers

• Five official SDKs — JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Dart/Flutter and PHP, released in lockstep, each with retries, pagination, typed errors and the live WebSocket built in.
• A public OpenAPI spec, so you can generate a client for any other language.
• An MCP server, so you can wire live football data into Claude, Cursor or any AI agent.
• Bearer-token auth with per-key metering and rate-limit headers on every response.
• A free plan — no credit card. Generate a key and make your first call in a couple of minutes.

A quick example

const res = await fetch("https://api.goal-api.com/v1/fixtures/live", {
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});
const { data } = await res.json(); // every live match, with score + clock

What you can build

A live-score app, a fantasy tool, a Discord goal-alert bot, a stats dashboard, a match-centre — the data model (fixtures to standings to lineups to events) maps cleanly onto all of them.

It's early and bootstrapped, and coverage grows weekly. If you're building anything with football data, I'd genuinely value feedback on the docs and data depth. You can grab a free key and read the docs at goal-api.com.