Football Player Database Access: Transfermarkt, Fixtures & Sports Results Data

The most-searched actor on our platform is the Transfermarkt scraper, and what users type into it is player names — thousands of them. This guide covers how to query football player data in bulk, plus fixtures, results, and rankings across nine other sports sources.

Transfermarkt data: player profiles and market values in bulk

The Transfermarkt scraper takes player names or club queries and returns structured profiles: position, age, nationality, current club, contract expiry, market value history, and transfer records. Agents shortlist by position and contract year, analysts build valuation datasets, and fantasy tooling resolves squads — all the same underlying pull: names in, profiles out.

Premier League fixtures and results feed

The Premier League scraper exports fixtures, results, and match details from the league's own Pulselive data source — the cleanest structured feed for the most-analyzed league in the world.

South American football: Copa Libertadores

The CONMEBOL Libertadores scraper covers South America's top club competition with fixtures, results, and stages — a region where structured data access lags well behind Europe.

Multi-sport live scores from ESPN

The ESPN multi-sport scraper queries ESPN's underlying score APIs across leagues — one scraper for scoreboards spanning NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college sports, and soccer competitions.

Fantasy Premier League API export

The FPL scraper wraps the official Fantasy Premier League API: player prices, ownership, form, and gameweek stats — the dataset every FPL tool is built on, exported without rate-limit babysitting.

Formula 1 results: the Ergast successor

The Jolpica F1 scraper exports race results, qualifying, standings, and lap data from the community successor to the retired Ergast API — the continuity source for F1 analytics projects.

Cricket ball-by-ball data

The Cricsheet scraper exports ball-by-ball match data across formats and competitions — the granular dataset cricket analytics runs on.

Tennis rankings and horse racing entries

The ATP Tour scraper exports tennis rankings and player profiles. The Equibase scraper covers US horse racing — entries, results, and past performances by track and date.

Strength sports: OpenPowerlifting bulk results

The OpenPowerlifting scraper exports the full competition-results database — lifter records across federations, weight classes, and meets.

Sports data source summary

Sport	Source	Data
Football (global)	Transfermarkt	Player profiles, market values, transfers
Football (England)	Premier League Pulselive	Fixtures, results
Football (South America)	CONMEBOL Libertadores	Fixtures, stages
Multi-sport (US)	ESPN APIs	Live scores, scoreboards
Fantasy football	FPL official API	Prices, ownership, form
Formula 1	Jolpica	Results, standings, laps
Cricket	Cricsheet	Ball-by-ball
Tennis	ATP Tour	Rankings, profiles
Horse racing (US)	Equibase	Entries, results
Powerlifting	OpenPowerlifting	Full results database

From lookup to dataset

Sports data projects usually start as one lookup ("this player, this market value") and grow into a refresh pipeline. The pattern that scales: keep an input file of players, clubs, or competitions; rerun the export on a schedule; key on the source's stable IDs and diff for changes — transfer-window moves, price changes, and results land as new rows. Pay-per-record pricing means a 50-player watchlist costs a few lookups a week, not a sports-data license.

Browse the full Sports & Racing catalog for federations, race calendars, and esports rosters beyond the ten covered here.