Api Sports API-Football v3

Name: API-Football v3 API
Brand: API-Sports Football v3
Availability: InStock

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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.

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.

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 | sh

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 instance

Jentic 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 STARTED

Start building with API-Football v3 API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

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 your Jentic One instance 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

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your x-apisports-key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected as the request header at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get football league standings' or 'get live football fixtures', and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

Time to first call

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 your Jentic One instance 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. Run it through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer 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.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the API-Sports Football v3 API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which API-Sports Football operations and credentials the agent may use, so you can allow it to read only what it needs, such as fixtures, standings, or injuries. API-Football selects data through query parameters rather than resource ids in the URL path, which lets you scope access at the operation level rather than per record. Operations like predictions or odds are reachable only if you add them to the allowed set, and your stored x-apisports-key is injected at call time without ever entering the agent's context.