The Football (soccer) package offers multiple modules which can be used to retrieve information and statistics for thousands of football teams around the world, such as team names, season stats, game schedules, and competition results.
The Team module is used to grab high-level stats and information for a specific team. Information ranges from the team's primary competition, their position and point value in the league, plus goals scored, and much more. The easiest way to instantiate a team object is to pass a squad's 8-digit ID number to the class. Squad IDs can either be found in the sportsreference.fb.squad_ids dictionary, or by using one of the utility functions listed below.
Alternatively, the team name can be used while calling the class and the corresponding squad ID will be retrieved if possible. The following is an example of pulling information on Tottenham Hotspur.
from sportsreference.fb.team import Team
tottenham = Team('Tottenham Hotspur') # Equivalent to Team('361ca564')
print(tottenham.league) # Prints 'Premier League'
print(tottenham.goals_scored) # Prints 47
print(tottenham.home_record) # Prints 8-2-4sportsreference.fb.team
The Schedule module can be used to iterate over all games in a team's schedule to get high-level game information such as the date, score, result, and more. Either the full team name or, preferably, the team's 8-digit squad ID can be used to pull a specific team's schedule. The following is an example of pulling the schedule and iterating over the games for Tottenham Hotspur.
from sportsreference.fb.schedule import Schedule
tottenham_schedule = Schedule('Tottenham Hotspur')
print(len(tottenham_schedule)) # Prints 52 for the total number of games
for game in tottenham_schedule:
print(game.datetime) # Prints the datetime for each game
print(game.goals_scored) # Prints the number of goals the team scored
print(game.captain) # Prints the primary captain's name for the gameThe Schedule module can also be accessed from the Team class.
from sportsreference.fb.team import Team
tottenham = Schedule('Tottenham Hotspur')
for game in tottenham.schedule:
print(game.datetime) # Prints the datetime for each gamesportsreference.fb.schedule
The Roster module contains detailed player information for every player on a team's roster, allowing each player to be queried by either their name or their unique player ID. Every player instantiates the SquadPlayer class which includes further individual statistics, such as goals, shots, assists, playtime, and much more. The following is an example on pulling the roster for Tottenham Hotspur and querying stats:
from sportsreference.fb.roster import Roster
tottenham = Roster('Tottenham Hotspur')
for player in tottenham:
print(player.name) # Prints the name of each player on the roster
print(player.goals) # Prints the number of goals the player scored
print(player.assists) # Prints the number of assists for the playerA specific player can also be called from a Roster instance instead of iterating through every member of the team by using either the player's name or unique player ID:
from sportsreference.fb.roster import Roster
tottenham = Roster('Tottenham Hotspur')
harry_kane = tottenham('Harry Kane') # Pulls Harry Kane's stats
print(harry_kane.goals) # Prints Harry's goals
print(harry_kane.assists) # Prints Harry's assistssportsreference.fb.roster