Sports Scraper (TheSportsDB) – Teams, Players & Leagues

Get clean sports data: teams, players and whole leagues with stadium, capacity, founded year, country, league, player position, nationality, badge/photo and bio. As JSON, CSV or Excel. Free, no key, no proxy.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — ~$0.40 per 1,000 items. No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the data you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

• Teams — name, sport, league, country, stadium, stadium location, capacity, founded year, website, badge, description
• Players — name, sport, team, nationality, position, date of birth, photo, biography
• Whole leagues — every team in a league in one run
• Covers football/soccer, basketball, baseball, American football, motorsport and more

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set the input (see example below).
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "teams",
  "query": "Arsenal",
  "maxItems": 50
}

• mode: teams, players, or leagueTeams
• query: team name, player name, or league name
• maxItems: cap on returned items (1–500)

📦 Output example

{
  "type": "team",
  "id": "133604",
  "name": "Arsenal",
  "sport": "Soccer",
  "league": "English Premier League",
  "country": "England",
  "stadium": "Emirates Stadium",
  "stadium_location": "London, England",
  "stadium_capacity": 60361,
  "formed_year": 1886,
  "website": "www.arsenal.com",
  "image": "https://www.thesportsdb.com/images/media/team/badge/uyhbfe1612467038.png",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00"
}

Players come back with type: "player", plus team, nationality, position and date_born.

🎯 Use cases

• Sports apps, fantasy leagues & prediction tools
• Team/player databases and knowledge graphs
• Stadium & venue datasets
• AI sports assistants and chatbots

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.04 · 1,000 → ~$0.40 · 10,000 → ~$4

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Teams, players AND leagues	✅	usually one
Stadium + capacity + founded	✅	partial
No key / no proxy	✅	sometimes

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• TVmaze TV Scraper — TV shows & episodes
• Steam Games Scraper — game catalog
• Wikipedia Scraper — knowledge
• Google News Scraper — news headlines

❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No. Which sports? Football/soccer, basketball, baseball, NFL, motorsport and more. Bulk? Use leagueTeams to pull a whole league at once.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data via the TheSportsDB public API.

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