Live Football Scores: Bundesliga, Champions League & More

Live and final scores, goal-by-goal timelines and half-time results for German and European football, plus German ice hockey. Run it on demand for a scoreboard, or schedule it in monitor mode to get only the matches where something just happened: a goal, kickoff, or full time.

Competition	Status
1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, 3. Liga, DFB-Pokal, Frauen-Bundesliga	Complete and current
UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League	Complete and current
DEL (German ice hockey), Champions Hockey League	Complete and current
Premier League, LaLiga	Community-maintained: recent results are often entered days late

The data comes from OpenLigaDB, a community-run open sports database that publishes its data under the Open Database License. It is read over a documented public API: no scraping, no proxies, no login.

Here's a real match it returns

{
  "matchId": 87388,
  "league": "ucl",
  "leagueName": "Champions League 2026/2027",
  "sport": "football",
  "round": "1.Spieltag",
  "kickoffUtc": "2026-09-08T16:45:00.000Z",
  "status": "finished",
  "minutesSinceKickoff": null,
  "homeTeam": "FC Brügge",
  "homeTeamShort": "Brügge",
  "awayTeam": "Aston Villa",
  "awayTeamShort": "Villa",
  "homeScore": 2,
  "awayScore": 3,
  "halfTimeHomeScore": 1,
  "halfTimeAwayScore": 3,
  "periodScores": [
    { "period": "Half-time", "home": 1, "away": 3 },
    { "period": "Full-time", "home": 2, "away": 3 }
  ],
  "goals": [
    { "minute": 11, "scorer": "John McGinn", "team": "away", "homeScore": 0, "awayScore": 1, "isPenalty": false, "isOwnGoal": false, "isOvertime": false },
    { "minute": 19, "scorer": "Hugo Vetlesen", "team": "home", "homeScore": 1, "awayScore": 1, "isPenalty": false, "isOwnGoal": false, "isOvertime": false },
    { "minute": 22, "scorer": "Emiliano Buendía", "team": "away", "homeScore": 1, "awayScore": 2, "isPenalty": false, "isOwnGoal": false, "isOvertime": false }
  ],
  "dataCompleteness": "complete",
  "source": "Data from OpenLigaDB (www.openligadb.de), licensed under ODbL 1.0"
}

(Goal list shortened here; the real row lists all five goals.)

Match status

status	Meaning
scheduled	Not started. Score is null.
live	Kicked off and not yet marked finished. The score follows the goal list as it's entered.
finished	Final result recorded.
result_pending	Kickoff was hours ago but no result has been entered yet. The score is null, never a made-up 0-0.

minutesSinceKickoff is plain elapsed time for live matches. OpenLigaDB has no official match clock, so it includes half-time and stoppages.

Hockey matches report periodScores as Period 1, 2 and 3, plus overtime or shootout when played.

Input

Field	What it does
leagues	bl1, bl2, bl3, dfb, ucl, uel, epl, laliga, frauen-bl, del, chl. Default bl1, bl2, ucl.
range	current_round (default), live, today, yesterday, tomorrow, last_7_days, next_7_days, or custom. Dates are UTC.
dateFrom, dateTo	For custom, YYYY-MM-DD.
statuses	Keep only scheduled, live, finished and/or result_pending.
team	Only matches involving a team whose name contains this text, e.g. Bayern.
mode	snapshot (default) or monitor.
monitorStoreName	Where monitor mode keeps the previous scores.
maxMatches	Cap, earliest kickoff first. Default 500.

Everything happening in the Bundesliga right now:

{ "leagues": ["bl1"], "range": "live" }

Bayern Munich's results over the last week, in every competition:

{ "leagues": ["bl1", "dfb", "ucl"], "range": "last_7_days", "team": "Bayern" }

Monitor mode: goal alerts

Set mode to monitor with range: "live" or "today", and schedule it during match days. Each run returns only matches whose score or status changed since the previous run:

{
  "matchId": 83190,
  "status": "live",
  "homeScore": 2,
  "awayScore": 1,
  "changeType": "score_changed",
  "previousStatus": "live",
  "previousHomeScore": 1,
  "previousAwayScore": 1
}

(Illustrative.) changeType is score_changed, status_changed (kickoff, full time), or new. The first run saves a baseline and reports every match as new.

Please schedule sensibly. OpenLigaDB is a free, privately funded service, and its fair-use terms ask for at most one request per league every 30 to 60 seconds during live matches, and far fewer otherwise. A schedule of every minute or two on match days, and a few times a day otherwise, is plenty. The actor also spaces out its own requests and backs off if the service is busy.

Pricing

Charged per match returned. In monitor mode only changed matches are returned, so quiet minutes cost nothing.

Good to know

• Community data. Results are entered by OpenLigaDB volunteers without editorial review. Live goals can lag, and occasionally contain errors that are corrected later. Don't use this where a wrong score would cause harm.
• German spellings. Team and round names are as entered in OpenLigaDB, often in German: "FC Brügge", "1.Spieltag" (matchday 1).
• No US leagues. MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL score data is licensed commercially by the leagues, and there's no open source this actor could use for them.
• Team logos are not included. OpenLigaDB links to logos hosted by third parties without granting rights to them, and asks apps not to hotlink them.
• Availability. OpenLigaDB is run by one volunteer operator with no uptime guarantee. If a competition can't be fetched, the run carries on with the others and says which one failed.

Data licence and attribution

Match data is from OpenLigaDB and licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Every row carries the attribution in its source field. If you publish the data, credit it as "Data from OpenLigaDB (www.openligadb.de), licensed under ODbL 1.0". If you publicly share a modified copy of the database itself, it must stay under the ODbL; displaying scores in an app or on a page only needs the credit.

This actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with OpenLigaDB, any league, club or governing body.