# Thesportsdb (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-thesportsdb)

TheSportsDB MCP — sports catalog (teams, players, events)

- Trust score: 84/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-06

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 78/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-thesportsdb/thesportsdb-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-thesportsdb/thesportsdb-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-thesportsdb`: 84/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-thesportsdb/pipeworx-mcp-thesportsdb.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-thesportsdb/pipeworx-mcp-thesportsdb)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-thesportsdb`
- 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 2026-11-06.

- **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-thesportsdb).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 78/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1331 tokens (~88/item across 15 items; 15 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 89/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 68% 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 15 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 16 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 Thesportsdb MCP server?

Thesportsdb runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-thesportsdb. 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-thesportsdb -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-thesportsdb
```

### Cursor

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

### VS Code

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

### Codex

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

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

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

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

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

## 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)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Stability: 0.20 → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 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

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

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (15)

### `list_sports` (~37 tokens)

Return all sports tracked by TheSportsDB (e.g. Soccer, Ice Hockey, Basketball), each with id, name, and forum.

### `list_leagues` (~121 tokens)

List the sports leagues catalogued by TheSportsDB, optionally narrowed by sport name (Soccer, Ice Hockey, Basketball, American Football, Baseball) and by country name. Returns each league id, name, alternate name, sport, and country; the league id feeds league_teams and league_table in this pack. Answers which leagues exist for a sport or a country, and what league id to use next.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Country name
- `sport` (string): Sport name (e.g. "Soccer", "Ice Hockey")

### `search_teams` (~77 tokens)

Search TheSportsDB for sports teams by name — football/soccer clubs in any league worldwide including lower divisions, plus NBA, NFL, MLB and more. Returns team id (use with team_events_next / team_events_last for fixtures and results), sport, league, country, stadium, and description.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required)

### `get_team` (~53 tokens)

Full team profile from TheSportsDB by numeric team_id — returns name, sport, country, stadium, formed year, description, badge, and social links.

Input parameters:

- `team_id` (string, required): TheSportsDB team id

### `league_teams` (~42 tokens)

List all teams in a TheSportsDB league by league_id; returns each team's id, name, badge, and country.

Input parameters:

- `league_id` (string, required)

### `search_players` (~50 tokens)

Search TheSportsDB for players by name. Returns player id, current team, nationality, position, and description. Use search_teams first to find team IDs if needed.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required)

### `get_player` (~45 tokens)

Full player profile from TheSportsDB by numeric player_id — returns name, team, nationality, position, birth date, description, and thumbnail.

Input parameters:

- `player_id` (string, required)

### `team_events_last` (~67 tokens)

Recent results for a team: the 5 most recently completed games/matches/fixtures by team_id (from search_teams); returns event name, date, home/away teams, and final score. Works for any league worldwide including lower divisions.

Input parameters:

- `team_id` (string, required)

### `team_events_next` (~77 tokens)

Upcoming fixtures for a team: the next 5 scheduled games/matches by team_id (from search_teams); returns event name, kickoff date/time, home/away teams, league, and venue. Works for any league worldwide including lower divisions (e.g. Norwegian 1. Divisjon).

Input parameters:

- `team_id` (string, required)

### `events_by_day` (~148 tokens)

Sports schedule/fixtures for a given date — all games/matches on that day, optionally filtered by sport or league. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "what games are on today/tomorrow", "NHL ice hockey schedule", "NBA games tonight", "soccer fixtures". For "next 24h" pass today's and tomorrow's date. Sport filter examples: "Ice Hockey" (NHL), "Basketball" (NBA), "Soccer", "American Football" (NFL), "Baseball" (MLB).

Input parameters:

- `date` (string, required): YYYY-MM-DD
- `league` (string): League name filter
- `sport` (string): Sport name filter

### `league_table` (~48 tokens)

Standings table for a league/season.

Input parameters:

- `league_id` (string, required)
- `season` (string): Season string, e.g. "2024-2025" (default current)

### `event_detail` (~134 tokens)

One match by its TheSportsDB event id: final and half-time score, competition, season, round, venue, date and kickoff time, and the goal detail strings where the source carries them. Use for settling a match-level question (who won, what was the half-time score) after finding the event id with events_by_day, team_events_last or team_events_next.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): Optional TheSportsDB key. The free tier serves this tool; a supporter key raises the rate limit.
- `event_id` (string, required): TheSportsDB idEvent, e.g. "2594568".

### `event_timeline` (~136 tokens)

Minute-by-minute timeline for one match: goals with scorer and assist, cards, and substitutions, each with the minute and which side it belongs to. Use for settling scorer, first-goal and card questions. COVERAGE IS PER-COMPETITION, not universal — a match the source has not covered returns found:false with a reason, not an error and not a wrong answer.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): Optional TheSportsDB key. The free tier serves this tool; a supporter key raises the rate limit.
- `event_id` (string, required): TheSportsDB idEvent, e.g. "2594568".

### `event_stats` (~130 tokens)

Team-by-team match statistics for one event — shots on goal, corners, possession, fouls, passes and whatever else the source recorded, as home/away pairs. Use for settling shot-count, corner and possession questions. COVERAGE IS PER-COMPETITION: a match the source has not covered returns found:false with a reason, not an error.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): Optional TheSportsDB key. The free tier serves this tool; a supporter key raises the rate limit.
- `event_id` (string, required): TheSportsDB idEvent, e.g. "2594568".

### `event_lineup` (~111 tokens)

Starting eleven and substitutes for one match, per side, with each player's position, squad number and TheSportsDB player id. COVERAGE IS PER-COMPETITION: a match the source has not covered returns found:false with a reason, not an error.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): Optional TheSportsDB key. The free tier serves this tool; a supporter key raises the rate limit.
- `event_id` (string, required): TheSportsDB idEvent, e.g. "2594568".

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-06: 84
- 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 Thesportsdb MCP server?

Thesportsdb is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/thesportsdb. TheSportsDB MCP, sports catalog (teams, players, events). This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-thesportsdb).

### Is the Thesportsdb MCP server safe to use?

Thesportsdb scores 84 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 6 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 Thesportsdb MCP server expose?

Thesportsdb exposes 15 tools: list_sports, list_leagues, search_teams, get_team, league_teams, and 10 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,276 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Thesportsdb MCP server still maintained?

Thesportsdb is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 6 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 Thesportsdb MCP server under?

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

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Thesportsdb MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Thesportsdb, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

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