The State of Free Soccer Data 2026

Key findings

1. 0xG sources

   Liga MX Femenil has no verified xG source, free or paid.

   FotMob: “Basic leaderboards only, no xG (checked 2026-10-18).” FootyStats: “The Liga MX Femenil xG page exists but every value is 0.00.” (checked 2026-10-19). Liga MX, the men's league in the same country, has 3 free xG sources.

   Liga MX Femenil data · Liga MX Femenil sources

2. 5/7women's competitions

   5 of 7 women's competitions have no current free xG.

   Liga F, Frauen-Bundesliga, Women's World Cup and Women's Euro only have free xG through StatsBomb Open Data's selected past seasons; Liga MX Femenil has none at all. Only NWSL (4) and WSL (2) have free xG for current seasons.

   Women's xG sources · xG by league

3. 3.11 vs 0.86current free xG sources, men vs women

   Men's competitions average 3.74 free xG sources; women's average 1.71.

   Medians: 3 vs 1. Counting only current data (no historical-only open data), the averages are 3.11 for the 19 men's competitions and 0.86 for the 7 women's (medians 2 vs 0).

   Free xG by competition

4. 20/26competitions with current free xG

   Free xG sources: Premier League 7, MLS 6, Liga MX 3, Liga MX Femenil 0.

   25 of 26 competitions have at least one free xG source, 20 have one with current data. Euro, Liga F, Frauen-Bundesliga, Women's World Cup and Women's Euro rely only on historical open data.

   Premier League xG · MLS xG · Liga MX xG

5. 0/26competitions with current free event data

   No current free event data for any of the 26 competitions.

   Free event data covers 18 competitions, but all of it comes from 1 source, StatsBomb Open Data, which publishes selected, mostly historical seasons. 8 competitions have no event data source in our directory at all, free or paid: Championship, Eredivisie, Primeira Liga, USL Championship, Liga MX, Brasileirão, A-League and Liga MX Femenil. The only per-league paid listing is Dribble.

   Event data by league · Liga MX · Brasileirão · Championship

6. 1/26competitions with any free tracking data

   Free tracking data barely exists: 1 competition (A-League, 10 matches from 2024/25).

   SkillCorner Open Data (A-League) is the only free tracking cell. 5 paid vendors sell tracking data without a public league list. The 10 free tracking listings are 6 libraries (no data), 2 tools that work on your own video and 2 small samples.

   Tracking data by league · Tracking providers and samples

7. 7free xG sources with current data remain

   FBref lost its advanced data on 20 January 2026.

   Advanced Opta stats (xG, xA, PSxG, progressive actions) removed on 2026-01-20 per the official Sports Reference blog. FBref is no longer counted for xG. 8 sources in our map publish free xG for at least one competition, 7 with current data; FotMob covers the most (19 of 26 competitions).

   Sports Reference announcement · FBref alternatives

8. 113/234cells with a current free source

   154 of 234 competition × data-type cells have a verified source.

   144 cells have a free source, 113 with current data; 10 are paid only and 80 have nothing we could verify.

   Coverage map

Coverage heatmap: free sources by competition and data type

Each cell shows how many free sources we verified for that competition and data type. Yellow cells are free only through historical or sample data. Click a cell to compare the sources.

Download the heatmap as PNG (1200×1500) · Interactive coverage map with all sources

Free vs paid by data type

How many listings offer each data type, split by the listing's access model. A listing can offer several types. “Freemium” means a free tier plus paid plans. The last two columns count competitions with a free source in the map, and with a current free source.

Tracking looks well served by free listings (10 free vs 5 paid), but none of the free ones is current league data: 6 are libraries that read tracking data, 2 work on your own video and 2 are small samples.

Download this chart as PNG

Free xG by competition: men's vs women's

• 3.74average free xG sources, 19 men's competitions (median 3)
• 1.71average free xG sources, 7 women's competitions (median 1)
• 3.11 vs 0.86same, counting only current data (medians 2 vs 0)

Paid xG vendors (Dribble, football-data.org, Hudl StatsBomb, IMPECT (Catapult), KickoffAPI, Opta (Stats Perform), Sportmonks Football API and TheStatsAPI) do not publish per-league lists, so no competition has a counted paid xG source. Download this chart as PNG

Biggest gaps

Gaps in the four data types analysts ask about most (xG, event data, tracking data, player stats), worst first. Across all 9 types, 80 cells have no verified source, 10 are paid only and 31 are free only as historical, sample or paused data.

1. No verified source at all (free or paid)

   • xG (1): Liga MX Femenil
   • Events (8): Championship, Eredivisie, Primeira Liga, USL Championship, Liga MX, Brasileirão, A-League, Liga MX Femenil
   • Tracking (25): Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Championship, Eredivisie, Primeira Liga, Champions League, Europa League, MLS, USL Championship, Liga MX, Brasileirão, Argentine Primera, World Cup, Euro, Copa América, NWSL, WSL, Liga F, Frauen-Bundesliga, Liga MX Femenil, Women's World Cup, Women's Euro
   • Player stats (1): Women's Euro

2. Paid sources only

   • Player stats (1): Euro · Sportmonks Football API

3. Free only as historical, sample or paused data

   • xG (5): Euro, Liga F, Frauen-Bundesliga, Women's World Cup, Women's Euro · only StatsBomb Open Data
   • Events (18): Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Champions League, Europa League, MLS, Argentine Primera, World Cup, Euro, Copa América, NWSL, WSL, Liga F, Frauen-Bundesliga, Women's World Cup, Women's Euro · only StatsBomb Open Data
   • Tracking (1): A-League · only SkillCorner Open Data

Competitions with the fewest current free options

Competitions without a current free source for at least three of the four key types:

• Women's Euro: 4/4
• Euro: 4/4
• Liga MX Femenil: 3/4
• Liga F: 3/4
• Frauen-Bundesliga: 3/4
• Women's World Cup: 3/4

Best free source per need

Picked by rule, not by taste: the free source with the most current free competition × data-type cells for the need, ties broken by verification status and API/dataset format. Where nothing current is free, we say so and show the closest option.

Caveats show the license, commercial-use and plan notes recorded on each listing, where we have them. Always check the source's own terms before you build on it.

Methodology

• Listings. 85 soccer data sites, APIs, datasets, libraries and tools, each checked on its official site, pricing page or repository (listing status: 83 verified, 2 partial). Read how we verify listings.
• What a cell is. A cell is one competition × data type (26 competitions × 9 types = 234 cells). A source counts in a cell only if we saw that competition and that data type together on the source's own site, docs, API response or repository. A source is counted once per cell; if it has both free and paid coverage there, it counts as free.
• Primary vs via. Libraries, scrapers and MCP servers that re-fetch another source's data (6 listings: Football Data MCP, itscalledsoccer, soccerdata, statsbombpy, StatsBombR and understatAPI) are shown on our pages but not counted as separate sources. 32 listings are mapped per league.
• What “free” means. A free cell is free coverage: fully free sources plus the free tier of freemium sources (for example a free API plan). Coverage that needs a paid plan counts as paid.
• Current vs historical or sample. Free cells whose note says the data is selected past seasons, a closed range of past years, a fixed set of matches, or paused are counted as free but not as current. Rule, applied to every cell note in the data:
  • selected seasons|historical → historical: Selected past seasons only
  • \b(?:19|20)\d\d-(?:19|20)\d\d\b → historical: Closed range of past years (ends before the latest edition)
  • \b\d+ matches\b → sample: A fixed sample of matches
  • updates paused → paused: Updates paused; not ongoing
  Notes that matched: sample: SkillCorner Open Data; historical: Fjelstul World Cup Database; historical: StatsBomb Open Data, statsbombpy (via) and StatsBombR (via); paused: transfermarkt-datasets. The FootyStats Liga MX Femenil note (“0.00”) refers to its xG page; that cell only claims match results, so it stays current and no xG is counted. API-Football's free plan note says “limited seasons” without naming them, so it stays current.
• Not counted. 9 paid vendors that publish no league list (Hudl StatsBomb, Hudl Wyscout, IMPECT (Catapult), Metrica Sports, Opta (Stats Perform), Second Spectrum (Genius Sports), SkillCorner, TheStatsAPI and TransferRoom); 19 other listings with data types but no per-league list (mostly libraries, samples and tools); 17 listings outside the map's data types (visualisation libraries, learning resources, identity registers, Elo ratings); and 2 unverified listings (MarkStats: JavaScript-only site; coverage could not be read; SofaScore: Site returned bot protection (403) on 2026-10-18 and 2026-10-19; coverage not verified).
• Dates. Coverage was checked on 2026-10-19 for 66 listings; 13 on 2026-10-18, 6 on 2026-10-26. Sites change; a cell can be out of date.
• Limitations. The map covers 26 competitions, not every league. Some sites block automated checks (8 listings are partially verified). A missing cell means we could not verify it, not that the data does not exist. Source counts measure availability, not data quality.
• Corrections. Found an error or a missing source? Submit it and we will verify it.
• Reproduce it. The directory is public as listings.json and listings.csv. Every number on this page is computed by report_stats.py into report-stats.json (standard-library Python, no network).

How to cite

SportsDataStack. (2026, October 27). The state of free soccer data 2026. https://sportsdatastack.com/report/state-of-free-soccer-data-2026/

“The State of Free Soccer Data 2026”, SportsDataStack, published 2026-10-27, data checked 2026-10-19. https://sportsdatastack.com/report/state-of-free-soccer-data-2026/

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