# SportAPI Football Data (remote · sportapi.ai)

Football fixtures, live scores, standings, lineups, teams and players for 117 leagues and cups

- Trust score: 74/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `sportapi.ai`: 74/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-sportapi-football/sportapi.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-sportapi-football/sportapi)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://sportapi.ai/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 914 tokens (~70/item across 13 items; 13 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 47/100
  - Stability observed for 14 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 88/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 64% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 13 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 14 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the SportAPI Football Data MCP server?

SportAPI Football Data is a hosted endpoint at https://sportapi.ai/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ai-sportapi-football 'https://sportapi.ai/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-sportapi-football": {
      "url": "https://sportapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-sportapi-football": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sportapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-sportapi-football]
url = "https://sportapi.ai/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-sportapi-football": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://sportapi.ai/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-sportapi-football --url 'https://sportapi.ai/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-sportapi-football:
    url: "https://sportapi.ai/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-sportapi-football": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://sportapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-sportapi-football -t streamable-http -u 'https://sportapi.ai/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-sportapi-football": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sportapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 73, 0)

- [security] Tool “get_standings” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-11-02 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-23 (score 68, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

## MCP tools (13)

### `find_leagues` (~70 tokens)

Find leagues

List covered leagues and cups with their ids. Optionally filter by a name or country fragment (e.g. "premier", "spain", "champions"). Use the id with the other tools.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string): Part of a league or country name; omit to list all

### `find_teams` (~67 tokens)

Find teams

Search teams by name (e.g. "arsenal", "real madrid"). Returns team ids, country and main league id for the other tools.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Default 10
- `query` (string, required): Part of the team name, at least 2 characters

### `find_players` (~68 tokens)

Find players

Search players by name (e.g. "saka", "haaland"). Returns player ids, position, team id and the slug used by get_player.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Default 10
- `query` (string, required): Part of the player name, at least 2 characters

### `get_matches` (~110 tokens)

Matches on a date

Fixtures and results for one day, optionally for one league or only live/finished/upcoming matches. Status is one of Scheduled, LIVE, HT, FT, AET, PENS, Postponed, Cancelled, Suspended.

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): YYYY-MM-DD, or today / yesterday / tomorrow (default today, Central European time)
- `league_id` (integer): Only this league (id from find_leagues)
- `status` (string): Filter by state (default all)

### `get_live_matches` (~37 tokens)

Live matches

Matches being played right now with the current score and minute. Scores refresh every minute.

Input parameters:

- `league_id` (integer): Only this league

### `get_match` (~75 tokens)

Match details

One match: teams, score, venue, coaches and events (goals, cards, substitutions). Optionally team statistics and lineups (each adds one request). Lineups and stats exist only for competitions covered in detail.

Input parameters:

- `include` (array): Extra sections
- `match_id` (integer, required): Match id from get_matches

### `get_head_to_head` (~34 tokens)

Head to head

Past matches between two teams.

Input parameters:

- `team1_id` (integer, required)
- `team2_id` (integer, required)

### `get_standings` (~64 tokens)

League table

Current table with season, points, goals and form (last 6 matches, oldest first). Leagues split into conferences or zones mark each row with its group; cups return their group tables. Knockout-only cups return nothing.

Input parameters:

- `league_id` (integer, required)

### `get_league` (~31 tokens)

League overview

A league with its teams (ids), upcoming fixtures and recent results.

Input parameters:

- `league_id` (integer, required)

### `get_top_players` (~54 tokens)

League leaders

Top scorers, assist leaders or most-carded players of a league this season.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Default scorers
- `league_id` (integer, required)
- `limit` (integer): Default 10

### `get_team` (~85 tokens)

Team

A team by id or slug (e.g. "arsenal") with recent and upcoming matches. Optionally the squad (player slugs) and trophies (each adds one request; the slug form already includes the squad).

Input parameters:

- `include` (array)
- `slug` (string): Team slug, used when team_id is not given
- `team_id` (integer)

### `get_player` (~42 tokens)

Player

Player profile by slug (e.g. "bukayo-saka"): position, nationality, season stats, recent matches and next match.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_player_match_stats` (~65 tokens)

Player match stats

Per-match statistics and totals for a player, found by name and team id.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string, required): Player name as shown in squads or lineups
- `shirt_number` (integer): Helps when two players share a name
- `team_id` (integer, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-sportapi-football/sportapi#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 74
- 2026-11-04: 74
- 2026-11-03: 73
- 2026-11-02: 73
- 2026-11-01: 72
- 2026-10-31: 72
- 2026-10-30: 71
- 2026-10-29: 71
- 2026-10-28: 70
- 2026-10-27: 70
- 2026-10-26: 69
- 2026-10-25: 69
- 2026-10-24: 69
- 2026-10-23: 68
- 2026-10-22: 68

## Common questions

### What is the SportAPI Football Data MCP server?

SportAPI Football Data is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.sportapi/football. Football fixtures, live scores, standings, lineups, teams and players for 117 leagues and cups. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://sportapi.ai/mcp).

### Is the SportAPI Football Data MCP server safe to use?

SportAPI Football Data scores 74 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the SportAPI Football Data MCP server expose?

SportAPI Football Data exposes 13 tools: find_leagues, find_teams, find_players, get_matches, get_live_matches, and 8 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 802 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the SportAPI Football Data MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to SportAPI Football Data without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the SportAPI Football Data MCP server still maintained?

SportAPI Football Data is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://sportapi.ai/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://sportapi.ai/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
- Website: https://sportapi.ai/mcp-server
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-sportapi-football/sportapi.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-sportapi-football/sportapi.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-sportapi-football/sportapi