SofaScore Live Scraper: Live Scores, Goal Alerts & Match Stats

⚽ SofaScore Live Scraper: Live Scores, Goal Alerts & Match Stats

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Live scores, goal alerts and match stats from SofaScore, in runs that finish. Pull in-play matches and fixtures for 20+ sports, or schedule the live monitor and get a row only when a goal, red card, half time or full time happens. No login, no API key.

🔔 Goal and card alerts The live monitor saves only what changed since the last run, with the scorer when you ask for it.

✅ Runs that finish A busy or refusing site ends the run with a clear message and no charge, never a failed run.

📊 Deep match detail Statistics, incidents, lineups, odds, head-to-head, fan votes, best players and shots.

🌍 20+ sports Football, basketball, tennis, hockey, cricket, esports, table tennis, futsal, darts and more.

Looking for SofaScore live scores you can put in a spreadsheet, a bot or a model? This Actor reads the public pages of SofaScore and returns clean rows: live scores with the match minute, fixtures and results by date, deep detail for chosen matches, player and team cards, and a monitor that reports only changes.

🔍 What does this Actor do?

SofaScore shows live data on screen. This Actor turns it into rows you can schedule, filter and send anywhere.

• Live events: every match in play for one or many sports, with score, status, match minute, red cards and period scores.
• Live monitor: run it every minute or two. It remembers the previous run and saves one row per match that had a goal, a red card, a score correction, half time, a new kick-off or a final whistle.
• Scheduled events: fixtures and results for one day or up to seven days, for all competitions or only the ones you pick.
• Event detail: statistics, incidents, lineups, venue and referee, plus optional odds, head-to-head, fan votes, best players and a shot map.
• Team fixtures and profiles: last and next matches of any team, and cards for teams and players.
• Search: find players, teams, managers and referees by name.
• Filters: by competition, team, country or a word in the name, for live, scheduled and monitor runs.

🎯 What can I use it for?

• Alert builders: send goal, red card and full-time messages to Telegram, Slack or email through Apify integrations.
• Betting and trading analysts: feed live scores, cards and odds into a model.
• Fantasy and media teams: fill match pages, results tables and daily fixture lists.
• Sports data teams: build a history of fixtures, results and team form across many sports.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Pick a mode Choose live events, the live monitor, fixtures or match detail, then pick your sports and filters.

STEP 2 Run it The default run returns 25 live football matches in seconds. Raise the limit when you are ready.

STEP 3 Export or schedule Download CSV, Excel or JSON, or put the run on a schedule and connect it to your alerts.

📥 Input

Every field is optional. With nothing set you get 25 live football matches.

Field	Type	Required	Description
Scrape mode	enum	No	Live events, Scheduled events, Event detail, Search, Live monitor, Team fixtures or Profiles.
Sport	enum	No	One sport for live, scheduled, monitor and search runs. Football is the default.
Several sports (optional)	array of enum	No	Cover more than one sport in a single run. When set, it replaces the single Sport.
Date (Scheduled events mode)	date	No	Day to read. Empty means today (UTC). Only dates from 2026 on are read.
Last date (optional)	date	No	Read every day from Date up to this day, at most 7 days.
Status filter	enum	No	Keep all, live, upcoming or finished matches.
Competition IDs	array of text	No	Only these competitions, for example 17 for the Premier League. Scheduled runs for known competitions are faster.
Team IDs	array of text	No	Matches of these teams, their last and next matches (Team fixtures) or their cards (Profiles).
Countries	array of text	No	Only matches from these countries or regions.
Name contains	text	No	Only matches whose teams or competition contain this text.
Search query (Search mode)	text	No	Name of a player, team, manager or referee.
Player IDs (Profiles mode)	array of text	No	Players to return a profile card for.
Events (Event detail mode)	array of text	No	Event IDs or full match links to read in depth.
Include match statistics	boolean	No	Possession, shots, expected goals and more. On by default.
Include incidents	boolean	No	Goals, cards, substitutions, VAR and period markers. On by default.
Include lineups	boolean	No	Starting lineups, formations and ratings. Off by default.
Include odds	boolean	No	Betting markets with opening and current prices. Off by default.
Include head-to-head	boolean	No	Record of the two teams and their last meetings. Off by default.
Include fan votes	boolean	No	Who fans expect to win, both teams to score, first to score. Off by default.
Include best players	boolean	No	Best rated players of each side. Off by default.
Include shot map	boolean	No	Every shot with expected goals and pitch position. Off by default.
Monitor name (Live monitor mode)	text	No	Name of the feed. Runs with the same name share one memory.
Save only changes	boolean	No	On: only changed matches are saved. Off: unchanged live matches are saved too.
What to watch	array of enum	No	Goals, red cards, status changes, kick-offs, endings. Empty watches everything.
Add scorer and card details	boolean	No	For goal and red card rows, add who scored, the assist and the minute.
Max items	integer	No	Maximum number of records to save. 0 means no limit. Free plan runs are capped at 100.
Proxy configuration	object	No	The default works for most runs. Add your own proxy URLs only if you need a fixed exit.

📊 Data table

Fields SofaScore does not publish for a match are left out of the row. Nothing is filled with placeholders.

Field	Type	Description
rowType	text	event, change, eventDetail, searchResult, team or player.
id	number	SofaScore ID of the match, team or player.
matchName	text	Home team and away team.
sport	text	Sport of the match.
tournament	text	Competition name.
uniqueTournamentId	number	Competition ID, usable in Competition IDs.
country	text	Country or region of the competition.
season	text	Season label.
round	number	Round number when the competition has rounds.
statusType	text	notstarted, inprogress or finished, plus cancelled and postponed states.
statusDescription	text	For example 1st half, Halftime, Ended.
startTime	text	Kick-off time (ISO 8601, UTC).
liveMinute	number	Football only: current match minute while the clock runs.
homeTeam / awayTeam	text	Team names. IDs, short codes and countries come with them.
homeScore / awayScore	number	Current score.
homeScoreHalftime / awayScoreHalftime	number	Football half-time score.
periodScores	array	Score of every period, set, quarter, extra time and penalties.
homeRedCards / awayRedCards	number	Red cards shown so far, when there are any.
winnerCode	number	1 home, 2 away, 3 draw, once finished.
venue, venueCity, venueCapacity	text / number	Stadium details (Event detail).
referee, attendance	text / number	Referee name and crowd (Event detail, when published).
eventUrl	text	Link to the match on sofascore.com.
statistics	array	Match statistics by period (Event detail).
incidents	array	Goals, cards, substitutions and more (Event detail).
lineups	object	Lineups, formations and ratings (Event detail).
odds	array	Markets with fractional and decimal prices (Event detail).
headToHead	object	Win, draw and loss record plus last meetings (Event detail).
votes, bestPlayers, shotmap	object / array	Optional detail blocks (Event detail).
missingSections	array	Requested detail blocks SofaScore did not answer, so a gap is never mistaken for no data.
changeType	text	Monitor only: GOAL, RED_CARD, FINISHED, SCORE_CORRECTED, STATUS_CHANGE, KICKOFF, NEW or UNCHANGED.
changes	array	Monitor only: every change found for the match in this poll.
changeSummary	text	Monitor only: one readable line, for example Goal (home): Team A - Team B 1-0.
previousHomeScore / previousAwayScore	number	Monitor only: the score before the change.
goal, card	object	Monitor only, with scorer details: minute, player, assist and side.
detectedAt	text	Monitor only: when the change was found.
scrapedAt	text	Time the row was collected (ISO 8601).

Example change row:

{
  "rowType": "change",
  "id": 17096423,
  "matchName": "FC Cincinnati - DC United",
  "tournament": "MLS",
  "statusDescription": "2nd half",
  "liveMinute": 88,
  "homeScore": 2,
  "awayScore": 1,
  "homeRedCards": 0,
  "changeType": "GOAL",
  "changes": ["GOAL"],
  "changeSummary": "Goal (home): FC Cincinnati - DC United 2-1",
  "scoringSide": "home",
  "previousHomeScore": 1,
  "previousAwayScore": 1,
  "goal": { "minute": 88, "player": "Kevin Denkey", "assist": "Evander", "isHome": true },
  "eventUrl": "https://www.sofascore.com/fc-cincinnati-dc-united/cabsrdLb",
  "detectedAt": "2026-10-22T01:14:03.512Z"
}

🔔 Live monitor

Set the mode to Live monitor, choose your sports and filters, give the feed a name and schedule the Actor every minute or two. The first run saves a baseline and returns no rows. Every later run saves one row per match that changed. A run that cannot reach SofaScore leaves the memory untouched, so a match is never reported as finished by mistake. A match that leaves the live list is checked on its own page before it is reported as finished.

💰 Pricing

You pay per record saved. Match detail rows carry one small extra charge for the statistics, incidents and lineup blocks. A run that finds nothing, or that SofaScore refuses, costs next to nothing. There are no subscriptions. The default run of 25 matches is a quick, cheap test. Free plan runs are limited to 100 records per run and 24 runs per day.

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❓ FAQ

How do I get goal alerts from SofaScore?

Set the mode to Live monitor, pick your sports and filters, type a monitor name and schedule the Actor every minute or two. Each run saves one row per match with a goal, red card, half time or full time. Connect the dataset to Telegram, Slack, email or a webhook with Apify integrations.

Do I need a SofaScore account or API key?

No. The Actor reads only public data that anyone can open without logging in. It never asks for a password, cookie or key.

Why does my monitor return no rows on the first run?

The first run saves a baseline of the live matches in scope. From the second run on, only changes are saved. Switch off "Save only changes" if you also want the unchanged live matches in every run.

How do I get statistics, lineups or odds for a match?

Run Live events or Scheduled events to collect match IDs, then run Event detail with those IDs and tick the sections you need. Some lower-league matches do not publish statistics or lineups, and the row simply leaves them out.

Which sports and dates are covered?

Football, basketball, tennis, ice hockey, baseball, handball, volleyball, snooker, rugby, MMA, cricket, American football, esports, table tennis, futsal, darts, badminton, motorsport, Aussie rules, beach volleyball, floorball, bandy, minifootball, padel and cycling. Fixtures are read for dates from 2026 on.

🛟 Support

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