Sports & Fitness APIs
Free sports APIs: live scores and fixtures, league tables, player and team statistics across football, cricket, basketball and more, plus fitness and activity tracking.
15 tested APIs with full docs · 15 need no key · 62 more listed
Tested, with full documentation
We called each of these before publishing. Every page carries a working curl command, the real JSON response it returned, parameters and common errors.
DiscGolfAPI
Free disc golf course API with no key: mapped courses by country with coordinates, region codes, operator details and explicit licence metadata. Tested example included.
F1API.dev
Free Formula 1 API with no key: current season calendar, race results, driver and constructor standings, circuits and historical champions. Tested example included.
Fantasy Premier League
Free Fantasy Premier League API with no key: the whole game state in one call — players, teams, gameweeks, prices, chips and scoring rules. Tested example included.
NBA API (nbaapi.com)
Free NBA statistics API with no key: per-season player totals and advanced metrics with full shooting splits, paginated and filterable. Tested example included.
NHL Web API
Free NHL API with no key: live scores, standings, team rosters, player statistics and schedules from the official NHL data service. Tested curl example.
NHL Records
Free NHL Records API with no key: every franchise since 1917 including defunct teams, plus records, milestones and historical statistics. Tested example included.
OpenF1
Free Formula 1 API with no key: live and historical timing, car telemetry, radio messages, pit stops and driver positions at sub-second resolution. Tested example included.
OpenLigaDB
Free OpenLigaDB API with no key: Bundesliga fixtures, results, tables and goalscorers, plus other leagues. Community-maintained open data. Tested example.
Padel Snipe
Free padel club API with no key: 4,000+ mapped clubs across 30+ countries with coordinates, booking platform, city and postcode, under CC BY 4.0. Tested example included.
RacingHub
Free F1 data API with no key: driver, constructor and race records back to 1950, with career totals precomputed. Open source and OpenAPI-documented. Tested example included.
Squiggle (AFL)
Free Australian Football League API with no key: teams, fixtures, results, ladder standings and computer model predictions. Community-run. Tested example.
Sumo API
Free sumo API with no key: rikishi profiles with ranks, stables, birthplaces and physical stats, plus tournament and bout results. Tested example included.
TheSportsDB
Free sports database API with a public test key: teams, players, leagues, fixtures and results across football, basketball, cricket and more, with images. Tested.
TourneyRadar
Free chess tournament API with no key: upcoming events aggregated from 140+ national federations, plus a country index and keyword search. Tested example included.
wger Workout Manager
Free wger fitness API with no key for public data: exercise database with muscles worked, equipment, categories, images and nutrition information. Tested.
Choosing between these Sports & Fitness APIs
Sports data is commercially valuable, so genuinely free tiers are tight — typically a limited number of calls per day and often delayed rather than live scores. Read the limits before designing anything real-time.
Community-run APIs covering a single sport are frequently more generous than the large multi-sport providers, and often better documented.
More Sports & Fitness APIs in the directory
62 further APIs in this category, of which 22 need no API key. These are catalogued from the public-API lists and link straight to each provider's own documentation — we have not tested them yet, so treat the auth and CORS flags as the upstream list's claim rather than ours. They are promoted to a full tested page as we work through them.
| API | What it does | Auth |
|---|---|---|
| American Football Highlights API | Real time American Football (NFL/NCAA) highlights | Key |
| API-FOOTBALL | Get information about Football Leagues & Cups | KeyCORS |
| ApiMedic | ApiMedic offers a medical symptom checker API primarily for patients | Key |
| balldontlie | Balldontlie provides access to stats data from the NBA | NoneCORS |
| Basketball Highlights API | Real time basketball video highlights | Key |
| Bet Better | Sports model win probabilities and fair odds across 13 leagues | NoneCORS |
| Blacktop Motorsport API | Motorsport results, standings and schedules, with live timing for F1, NASCAR, IndyCar and WRC | KeyCORS |
| Canadian Football League (CFL) | Official JSON API providing real-time league, team and player statistics about the CFL | Key |
| City Bikes | City Bikes around the world | None |
| Cloudbet | Official Cloudbet API provides real-time sports odds and betting API to place bets programmatically | KeyCORS |
| CollegeFootballData.com | Unofficial detailed American college football statistics, records, and results API | Key |
| Cricket API | Comprehensive Cricket API for live scores, fixtures, results, player stats, match data, and smarter digital cricket experiences | KeyCORS |
| DiscGolf | Structured disc golf course data | NoneCORS |
| Ergast F1 | F1 data from the beginning of the world championships in 1950 | None |
| F1 API | Open F1 API with realtime data | None |
| Fitbit | Fitbit Information | OAuth |
| Football | A simple Open Source Football API to get squads’ stats, best scorers and more | Key |
| Football (Soccer) Videos | Embed codes for goals and highlights from Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A and many more | NoneCORS |
| Football Highlights | Real time football (soccer) highlights from over +950 leagues | Key |
| Football Standings | Display football standings e.g epl, la liga, serie a etc. The data is based on espn site | NoneCORS |
| Football-Data | Football data with matches info, players, teams, and competitions | Key |
| Hockey Highlights | Real time hockey highlights | Key |
| iSports API | Provide live and historical sports data of global competitions, like live score, fixtures, player & match stats, database etc. | KeyCORS |
| JCDecaux Bike | JCDecaux's self-service bicycles | Key |
| Live Tennis API | Live tennis scores, historical results, market odds and AI win-probability for ATP, WTA, Challenger and ITF | KeyCORS |
| Lumify | Real-time sports intelligence: scores, odds, betting splits & AI bet analysis across 8 sports | Key |
| MLB Records and Stats | Current and historical MLB statistics | None |
| NBA Data | All NBA Stats DATA, Games, Livescore, Standings, Statistics | Key |
| NBA Stats | Current and historical NBA Statistics | None |
| NBA Stats | NBA player statistics, season totals, advanced metrics, game data, and shot chart data | NoneCORS |
| NBA Stats | Postman docs for comprehensive NBA player statistics, advanced metrics, and detailed shot chart data | NoneCORS |
| NegativeEV | Grades a sports bet against thousands of play-by-play game simulations and returns the win probability and the edge at the quoted price | None |
| NHL Records and Stats | NHL historical data and statistics | None |
| Odds-API | Real-time sports betting odds from 265+ bookmakers across 34 sports via REST and WebSocket | KeyCORS |
| Oddsmagnet | Odds history from multiple UK bookmakers | NoneCORS |
| Oddsmagnet | Odds history from multiple UK bookmakers | NoneCORS |
| Parlay | Real-time sports betting odds from 21+ sportsbooks across 38+ sports with free tier (1K req/month) | Key |
| PlayerElo | Player-level Elo ratings, predictions and history for 176 football leagues | Key |
| Premier League Standings | All Current Premier League Standings and Statistics | Key |
| PropLine | Real-time player-props betting odds with graded prop resolution across 13 books | Key |
| Racing Alpha | AI win-probability scores, fair prices and draw-bias stats for UK & Irish horse racing | NoneCORS |
| SkipOdds | De-vigged fair win probabilities across 13 sports, averaged from 69+ bookmakers | KeyCORS |
| Soccer / Football API | Reliable Soccer API for live scores (websocket), fixtures, results, standings, player stats, match events, and smarter football data experiences | KeyCORS |
| Sport Data | Get sports data from all over the world | Key |
| Sport Highlights | Real time Sport Highlights | Key |
| Sport List & Data | List of and resources related to sports | NoneCORS |
| Sport Places | Crowd-source sports places around the world | None |
| Sport Vision | Identify sport, brands and gear in an image. Also does image sports captioning | KeyCORS |
| Sportmonks Cricket | Live cricket score, player statistics and fantasy API | Key |
| Sportmonks Football | Football score/schedule, news api, tv channels, stats, history, display standing e.g. epl, la liga | Key |
| Sports API (Tennis / Cricket / Soccer) | The best sports API for tennis, cricket and soccer live scores, fixtures, results, stats, match data, odds and predictions | KeyCORS |
| SportScore | Live scores, fixtures, standings, and top scorers for football, basketball, cricket, and tennis | NoneCORS |
| SportsDataIO | Get sports data from all over the world | Key |
| Squiggle | Fixtures, results and predictions for Australian Football League matches | NoneCORS |
| Strava | Connect with athletes, activities and more | OAuth |
| SuredBits | Query sports data, including teams, players, games, scores and statistics | None |
| Table Tennis API | The best table tennis API, including stats, predictions, rankings (also ELO), odds, live scores, point by point. Table Tennis websocket also available | KeyCORS |
| Tennis API | Premium tennis API with free plan also available. Tennis stats, predictions, odds, live scores, point by point. Tennis websocket also available. | KeyCORS |
| TheRundown | Real-time sports data: odds, scores, stats & prediction markets, 30+ leagues, 18+ sportsbooks | KeyCORS |
| Tredict | Get and set activities, health data and more | OAuth |
| Wger | Workout manager data as exercises, muscles or equipment | Key |
| Your Move - Exercise API | The complete exercise library and fitness API for your app. 698+ professional HD exercise videos with workout generation and program builder. | KeyCORS |