⚽ FBref Soccer Statistics Scraper

🚀 Export complete soccer player statistics in seconds. Scrape goals, assists, xG, progressive passes, and 20+ fields for any league and season - Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Champions League, and Europa League. No API key needed.

The FBref Soccer Statistics Scraper extracts player standard statistics from FBref.com - the industry-standard football analytics reference maintained by Sports Reference. Each run returns a complete dataset of player performance metrics including goals, assists, cards, expected goals (xG), expected assists (xA), progressive passes, and progressive carries.

Coverage spans the top seven European competitions: Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, UEFA Champions League, and Europa League. Choose any season in YYYY-YY format and the Actor downloads the full squad list with per-player stats in under 30 seconds.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Football analysts, sports journalists, fantasy football managers, betting researchers, academic researchers, data scientists	League tables, player performance comparison, transfer value research, xG analysis, fantasy football optimization, betting models

📋 What the FBref Soccer Statistics Scraper does

• ⚽ Full squad export. Every player who appeared in the league that season - 500+ per competition.
• 🏆 Multi-league support. Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Champions League, Europa League.
• 📅 Any season. Specify 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, or any historical season available on FBref.
• 📊 Advanced metrics. Goals, assists, xG, xA, progressive carries, progressive passes, cards, and more.
• 🔗 Player profile URLs. Direct links to each player's FBref page for further drill-down.
• 🌍 Nationality data. 3-letter nationality code for every player.

💡 Why it matters: FBref is the reference standard for football analytics. Building your own scraper means fighting Cloudflare on every request, writing HTML parsers, handling mid-table header rows, and refreshing data manually. This Actor handles all of it and delivers clean JSON, CSV, or Excel on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: age, assists, gamesPlayed, gamesStarted, goals, league, minutesPlayed, nationality, playerName, playerUrl, position, progressiveCarries, progressivePasses, redCards, scrapedAt, season, team, xA, xG, yellowCards. All 20 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account - includes $5 credit
2. Open the FBref Soccer Statistics Scraper page on the Apify Store
3. Click Try for free
4. Set your league (e.g. premier-league) and season (e.g. 2024-25)
5. Set maxItems (10 for a preview, 500+ for a full league dataset)
6. Click Start and wait 30 seconds
7. Download your data as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor retrieves publicly available statistics from FBref.com. It is an independent tool, not affiliated with Sports Reference LLC. All data is sourced from the public FBref website and is subject to Sports Reference's terms of use. Use responsibly and in accordance with applicable terms.

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