Press Association

Football data

Market-leading football data services provide an unrivalled level of football in-running coverage.

Our fast, accurate and flexible football data services are trusted by some of the biggest names in the sports industry across the betting, online, broadcast, print and mobile industries.

Our network of expert football correspondents deliver live football data from matches all over the world. This high quality data can be delivered via an API or as an XML feed.

Football API Services:

• Essential football API - Fast access to must-have football statistics
• Custom football API - Richer data access and consultancy to deliver highly targeted statistics
• Tailor-made football solutions - bespoke digital data solutions created for you.

Football XML feeds - three levels of coverage:

• Basic football XML - fixtures results and tables, delivered as a post-match update
• Standard football XML - rich match data and results, delivered as a live football data feed or post-match update
• Premium football XML - our most comprehensive coverage with detailed match data, delivered as a live football data feed or post-match update

Product links:

• Football match centre
• Football stats

Football editorial

Our football editorial delivers breaking news, match reports and previews for a number of football leagues and competitions around the world, including:

• Barclays Premier League
• Champions League
• Europa League
• Scottish Premier & Football League
• NPower Championship & Football League
• Europe’s major league & cup competitions

Our football news coverage also stretches to international fixtures.

Product links:

• Premier football
• Managed football news coverage
• Football wire
• Barclays Statement

Football text commentary

The automated text commentaries are produced using our renowned Football Live system, which enables us to supply an action-by-action account of the major incidents – directly from the ground.

Our commentaries use a wide selection of randomly generated phrases for all of the key match incidents to ensure that each feed is unique to every client – regardless of how many times it is produced.

Commentaries are currently available in the following languages:*

• English
• Spanish (European)
• South American Spanish
• North American Spanish
• Portuguese

*Selected leagues only. Please ask us about other language options

Press Association Sport football credentials

• We are the official data partner of the UK professional football leagues
• In 2009, Press Association Sport won the contract to continue its eight year data partnership with English and Scottish football after being awarded exclusive worldwide football data collection, management and supply rights for the top professional leagues
• We cover more than 250 league and cup competitions worldwide

Contact us now for more information on our football content.