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probberechts/soccerdata has 2,134 GitHub stars and 332 forks. GitHot measured +1 stars in 24 hours. Last checked 2026-11-07 22:54 UTC. Last push 2026-10-29.

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⛏⚽ Scrape soccer data from Club Elo, ESPN, FBref, Football-Data.co.uk, Sofascore, SoFIFA, Understat and WhoScored.

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SoccerData is a collection of scrapers to gather soccer data from popular websites, including Club Elo, ESPN, FBref, Football-Data.co.uk, Sofascore, SoFIFA, Understat_ and WhoScored_. You get Pandas DataFrames with sensible, matching column names and identifiers across datasets. Data is downloaded when needed and cached locally.

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import soccerdata as sd

Create a scraper class instance for the 2020/21 Premier League

fbref = sd.FBref('ENG-Premier League', '2021')

Fetch data

games = fbref.read_schedule() team_season_stats = fbref.read_team_season_stats(stat_type="passing") player_season_stats = fbref.read_player_season_stats(stat_type="standard")

To learn how to install, configure and use SoccerData, see the Quickstart guide <https://soccerdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html>. For documentation on each of the supported data sources, see the example notebooks <https://soccerdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/datasources/> and API reference <https://soccerdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/>__.

.. _Club Elo: https://www.clubelo.com/ .. _ESPN: https://www.espn.com/soccer/ .. _FBref: https://www.fbref.com/en/ .. _FiveThirtyEight: https://fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/ .. _Football-Data.co.uk: https://www.football-data.co.uk/ .. _Sofascore: https://www.sofascore.com/ .. _SoFIFA: https://sofifa.com/ .. _Understat: https://understat.com/ .. _WhoScored: https://www.whoscored.com/

Usage Notice: Please use this web scraping tool responsibly and in compliance with the terms of service of the websites you intend to scrape. The software is provided as-is, without any warranty or guarantees of any kind. The developers disclaim any responsibility for misuse, legal consequences, or damages resulting from its use. It is your responsibility to use the software in accordance with the laws and regulations of your jurisdiction.

Contribution and Issues: As SoccerData relies on web scraping, any changes to the scraped websites will break the package. Hence, do not expect that all code will work all the time. If you spot any bugs, then please fork it and start a pull request <https://github.com/probberechts/soccerdata/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst>__.

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