Grassroots Football League Tracker (FA Full-Time)

FA Full-Time (fulltime.thefa.com) is the league-management system behind 800+ English grassroots and youth football leagues — but it has no public API, and the two previous Apify Actors that scraped it are both now marked deprecated. This one tracks league tables, results, and fixtures directly from a league's own FA Full-Time page.

Built for club webmasters who want to auto-populate their own site, local league newsletters, parents/players who want a results feed without checking a clunky admin system, and anyone building a grassroots-football app or bot.

How it works

Give it the FA Full-Time page URL for your league (find it by visiting fulltime.thefa.com, searching for your league, and copying the URL). The Actor fetches that page and extracts:

• League table — position, played, won, drawn, lost, goal difference, points (and goals for/against, on leagues that show them).
• Recent results — date, teams, score.
• Upcoming fixtures — date, teams (optional).

Turn on monitoring mode to schedule this weekly and get only the results that are new since your last run — a genuine "new result posted" feed rather than re-downloading the whole table every time.

Why text-pattern matching, not fixed CSS selectors

FA Full-Time is an older system, and its exact page markup has varied across different leagues and over the years. Rather than hard-code one specific set of CSS class names (which breaks the moment a page differs even slightly), this Actor identifies the league table by its column headers ("Pos", "Team", "Pts") and identifies results/fixtures by their content pattern (a date, plus either a score or "vs") wherever they appear on the page. This is more resilient to the inconsistencies across different league templates than a brittle selector would be — though see Limitations below for what that trade-off means in practice.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
leagues	array	1 example league	Each entry: name, url (the FA Full-Time page for that league).
onlyNewResultsSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Monitoring mode: only return (and charge for) new results.
includeFixtures	boolean	true	Also extract upcoming fixtures.
requestTimeoutMs	integer	20000	Page fetch timeout.

Output

{
  "leagueName": "South London Grassroots Football League - Premiership",
  "sourceUrl": "https://fulltime.thefa.com/index.html?league=934030649",
  "table": [
    { "position": 1, "team": "Croydon Eagles", "played": 8, "won": 6, "drawn": 2, "lost": 0, "goalsFor": null, "goalsAgainst": null, "goalDifference": 31, "points": 20 }
  ],
  "results": [
    { "date": "21/07/23", "homeTeam": "Peckham Dragons", "homeScore": 0, "awayTeam": "Warriors", "awayScore": 8 }
  ],
  "fixtures": [
    { "date": "01/07/23", "homeTeam": "Brixton Pumas", "awayTeam": "Peckham Dragons" }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-18T10:00:00.000Z"
}

goalsFor/goalsAgainst are null on leagues whose table doesn't display them — this varies by league, not by a setting.

Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• A small flat fee per run.
• Per league checked — reflects that this does real HTML parsing against a legacy site, not a simple API call.
• Per new result found — only charged in monitoring mode, when a result wasn't seen on a previous run. This is the ongoing "results feed" value.

Limitations

• FA Full-Time only. Doesn't cover other grassroots league platforms, or professional/semi-professional leagues (see any of the many Flashscore/SofaScore-style Actors on the Store for those).
• Results/fixtures parsing is best-effort. The league table is well-structured and reliably parsed. The results/fixtures list format has shown more variation across different league pages historically — if a specific league's results don't come through, please report the league URL so the pattern can be extended.
• No historical seasons or cup competitions in this version — this tracks whatever the given URL currently shows.
• You provide the URL. This Actor doesn't search FA Full-Time's league directory for you; you'll need to find your league's URL once, the same way you'd bookmark it in a browser.

API usage example

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/grassroots-football-tracker").call(run_input={
    "leagues": [{"name": "My League", "url": "https://fulltime.thefa.com/index.html?league=123456"}],
    "onlyNewResultsSinceLastRun": True,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["leagueName"], "-", len(item["results"]), "new result(s)")