Load free StatsBomb open event and match data from their public GitHub repository
domain: github.com/statsbomb/open-data · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Clone or fetch files from the statsbomb/open-data GitHub repo — no API key or authentication is required, only standard GitHub access
Read competitions.json at the repo root to find available competition_id/season_id pairs
Read data/matches/{competition_id}/{season_id}.json to list matches (and get match IDs) for a competition/season
Read data/events/{match_id}.json for detailed, nested event-level data (passes, shots, etc.) for a specific match
Read data/lineups/{match_id}.json if you need starting lineups/player info alongside the events
Consult the "Open Data Events" spec PDF in the repo's /doc folder for the event-type and attribute schema before parsing
Known gotchas
The data is static JSON snapshots, not a live queryable API — there's no server-side pagination or filtering, you fetch whole files and filter client-side
The schema is deeply nested and version-specific (e.g. Events v4.0.0) — confirm the /doc folder's schema version matches the data you're parsing
Usage is restricted to free/non-commercial use per StatsBomb's open data license — commercial use requires their paid API/product instead
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