⚽ World Football Results Scraper

🚀 Export historical football match results for 50+ competitions in seconds. No login, no API key, just instant access to match data worldwide.

This actor scrapes historical football match results from worldfootball.net - one of the most comprehensive football statistics databases on the internet. Get structured match data including scores, dates, teams, and direct links to match reports for any major league or competition.

The data comes directly from worldfootball.net's public database, covering decades of football history across all major competitions.

Coverage

• 8 major competitions including Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Champions League, Europa League, and FIFA World Cup
• 380+ matches per top-flight league season
• Full season history - scrape any season by changing the season parameter
• 11 structured fields per match record including scores, dates, team names, and match report URLs

Target Audience / Use Cases

Audience	Use Case
Sports analysts	Build performance databases and trend analysis
Betting researchers	Historical results for model training and verification
Journalists / bloggers	Quick access to verified historical match data
Data scientists	Football datasets for ML/AI research
Fantasy football managers	Historical team and match context
Developers	Populate apps with real football data

📋 What the World Football Scraper does

• Fetches all match results for a selected competition and season in one run
• Extracts home team, away team, final score, and match date
• Provides direct links to full match report pages on worldfootball.net
• Supports 8 major competitions across Europe and the world
• Handles redirects and modern HTML structure automatically
• Respects free/paid user limits with clear messaging

💡 Why it matters: worldfootball.net is one of the few sites with consistent historical coverage across all major leagues. This actor makes that data available in clean, structured JSON, CSV, or Excel format in seconds.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: awayScore, awayTeam, competition, date, homeScore, homeTeam, result, scrapedAt, season, url. All 10 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Season format must match the worldfootball.net convention (e.g. 2023-2024 not 23/24). Free users are limited to 10 results per run. Create a free account w/ $5 credit to unlock full datasets.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account
2. Go to the actor page and click Try for free
3. Select your competition (e.g. Premier League)
4. Enter the season (e.g. 2023-2024)
5. Set maxItems if you want a partial dataset
6. Click Start and wait for results
7. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by worldfootball.net. It accesses only publicly available data for informational and research purposes. Users are responsible for complying with worldfootball.net's terms of service and applicable laws.

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