# Api Football (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-api-football)

API-Football MCP — comprehensive soccer/football data

- Trust score: 84/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-api-football/api-football-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-api-football/api-football-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-api-football`: 84/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-api-football/pipeworx-mcp-api-football.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-api-football/pipeworx-mcp-api-football)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-api-football`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, 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.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-api-football).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 5 days ago).
  - Security-disclosure policy not yet verified: we couldn't inspect the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 76/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 977 tokens (~108/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 94/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 83% 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 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 10 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Api Football MCP server?

Api Football runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-api-football. 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 pipeworx-io-api-football -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-api-football
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-api-football": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-api-football"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-api-football": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-api-football"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-api-football -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-api-football
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-api-football": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-api-football"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-api-football --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-api-football
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-api-football:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-api-football"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-api-football": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-api-football"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-api-football -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-api-football
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-api-football": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-api-football"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 84, +1)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

### 2026-11-03 (score 83, +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.

### 2026-10-31 (score 82, +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.

### 2026-10-30 (score 81, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-10-29 (score 81)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `fixtures` (~201 tokens)

Get match fixtures (upcoming + recent) by league, team, or date. Use league=1 for FIFA World Cup, league=39 for EPL, league=140 for La Liga. Returns kickoff, teams, score (if played), venue, status.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): BYO API-Football key (https://dashboard.api-football.com/register)
- `date` (string): YYYY-MM-DD — single-day fixtures
- `last` (number): Last N played matches for the team/league
- `league` (number): League ID (1 = FIFA World Cup, 39 = EPL, 140 = La Liga, 2 = Champions League — use league_search to find others)
- `next` (number): Next N upcoming matches for the team/league
- `season` (number): Season year (e.g. 2026)
- `team` (number): Team ID — use team_search to find

### `standings` (~72 tokens)

Current standings table for a league. Returns rank, team, points, goal difference, form. Use league=1 for World Cup.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string)
- `league` (number, required): League ID (required)
- `season` (number, required): Season year (required, e.g. 2026)

### `team_search` (~68 tokens)

Look up a team by name + country to get its team_id for use in other tools.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string)
- `country` (string): Country name to disambiguate
- `name` (string, required): Team name (e.g. "France", "Real Madrid")

### `league_search` (~69 tokens)

Look up a league/tournament/competition by name to get its league_id.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string)
- `country` (string): Country name to filter
- `name` (string, required): Competition name (e.g. "World Cup", "Champions League", "Premier League")

### `predictions` (~72 tokens)

API-Football's own match-outcome predictions. Returns home/draw/away win probabilities, advice, h2h context, form. Use for "who will win" research on specific fixtures.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string)
- `fixture` (number, required): Fixture ID — get from fixtures() output

### `football_injuries` (~174 tokens)

Currently injured and unavailable football players for a club or a league — who is out, the injury or reason, and whether they are ruled out or merely doubtful. Covers Serie A, the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and other competitions worldwide. Use for questions about which players are injured, unavailable, or missing from a squad.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): BYO API-Football key (https://dashboard.api-football.com/register)
- `league` (number): League id instead of a team — use league_search to find one.
- `season` (number): Season start year, e.g. 2025. Defaults to the current season.
- `team` (string): Club name, e.g. "AC Milan". Resolved to its team id for you.

### `football_squad` (~89 tokens)

The current player squad for a football club — every player with shirt number, position, age and nationality. Use for questions about who plays for a club, squad lists, and a team roster.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): BYO API-Football key.
- `team` (string, required): Club name, e.g. "AC Milan". Resolved to its team id for you.

### `h2h` (~72 tokens)

Head-to-head record between two teams. Returns last N matches with scores.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string)
- `last` (number): Last N H2H matches (default 5)
- `team1` (number, required): First team ID
- `team2` (number, required): Second team ID

### `api_football_status` (~106 tokens)

API-Football account status for the key in use: subscription plan name, whether it is active and when it ends, requests used today against the daily limit, and the per-minute limit the vendor reports in its rate-limit headers. The vendor does not count this call against the quota. Use it to tell a rate-limit answer from an exhausted plan. Account name and email are deliberately not returned.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): BYO API-Football key.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-api-football/pipeworx-mcp-api-football#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 84
- 2026-11-04: 83
- 2026-11-03: 83
- 2026-11-02: 82
- 2026-11-01: 82
- 2026-10-31: 82
- 2026-10-30: 81
- 2026-10-29: 81

## Common questions

### What is the Api Football MCP server?

Api Football is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/api-football. API-Football MCP, comprehensive soccer/football data. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-api-football).

### Is the Api Football MCP server safe to use?

Api Football scores 84 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Api Football MCP server expose?

Api Football exposes 9 tools: fixtures, standings, team_search, league_search, predictions, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 923 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Api Football MCP server still maintained?

Api Football 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.

### What licence is the Api Football MCP server under?

Api Football declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-api-football
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-api-football
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-api-football
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/api-football
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-api-football/pipeworx-mcp-api-football.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-api-football/pipeworx-mcp-api-football.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-api-football/pipeworx-mcp-api-football