Tech Magnetics' live score API delivers real-time sports data with sub-second latency — every goal, wicket, and buzzer-beater pushed straight to your platform the instant it happens. Built as a fast sports API for betting platforms, fantasy apps, media companies, and developers who can't afford to be a second behind the action, our feed covers scores, statistics, player actions, and match events across 30+ sports worldwide.
From the Premier League to regional cricket, our livescore API covers the events your users care about — with the depth they demand.
From the opening delivery to the final wicket, our feed captures every run, partnership, and milestone — giving cricket fans the depth of data they expect, ball by ball.
Lineups, substitutions, cards, corners, stats, and play-by-play events — our live data feed gives you the full context behind every scoreline.
Every action: goals, assists, cards, substitutions, penalties, reviews, and more. Timestamped and structured for easy integration.
GoalsAssistsCardsSubstitutionsPossession, shots on target, corners, fouls, free kicks, and more. Detailed stats updated in real time for every match.
PossessionShotsCornersFoulsStarting XI, substitutions, formations, and player-level statistics — including ratings, goals, assists, and more.
Starting XIFormationsPlayer RatingsSubsFull fixture lists across all leagues — past, present, and future. Perfect for building pre-match and live content experiences.
SchedulesFixturesResultsStandingsLeague tables, group standings, tournament brackets, and qualification status — updated with every match result.
StandingsTournamentsBracketsQualificationGoal alerts, match start/end notifications, red cards, and more. Push-ready payloads to keep your users engaged.
Goal AlertsRed CardsHalf-TimeFull-TimeFrom kickoff to the final whistle, our feed captures the full shape of the match — corners, cards, substitutions, and goals — so your platform never misses a beat.
Our data pipeline ingests, normalises, and delivers live scores with sub‑second latency. Here's how we do it.
130+ data sources fed into our ingestion layer in real time.
Data is cleaned, structured, and cross‑verified for accuracy.
Pushed via WebSocket or REST with sub‑second latency.
Ready to render in your app — scores, stats, and events.
From first serve to championship point, our engine tracks aces, breaks, and momentum swings — keeping your platform in step with the rhythm of the match.
From sign-up to live data in minutes. Our API is designed for developers who need speed, simplicity, and scale.
Sign up in 60 seconds. Receive your key instantly with full sandbox access — no credit card required.
Filter by sport, league, or event. The API returns only the data you need — with sub‑second response times.
REST pull for scheduled updates or WebSocket push for real‑time streaming — choose the delivery mode that fits.
Push to production with confidence. Our infrastructure auto‑scales to handle peak traffic — backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Every shift, every shot, every power play — our feed captures the speed of the rink in real time, so your platform delivers the moment before the crowd even reacts.
REST and WebSocket endpoints, full OpenAPI spec, SDK libraries for Python, Node, PHP and Go — and a free sandbox to test before you commit.
// Example: Fetch live scores for EPL
GET https://api.techmagnetics.io/v2/livescore/events
?sport=football
&league=en_premier_league
&status=live,finished,scheduled
&format=json
// Response (truncated)
{
"status": "ok",
"updated_at": "2026-06-21T14:32:18Z",
"events": [
{
"event_id": "epl_20260621_ars_che",
"home": "Arsenal",
"away": "Chelsea",
"status": "live",
"time": 67,
"score": { "home": 2, "away": 1 },
"stats": {
"possession": { "home": 58, "away": 42 },
"shots_on_target": { "home": 5, "away": 3 },
"corners": { "home": 4, "away": 2 }
},
"events": [
{ "type": "goal", "team": "home", "player": "Saka", "time": 34 },
{ "type": "goal", "team": "away", "player": "Palmer", "time": 52 }
]
}
]
}From sportsbooks to media platforms, our livescore API powers the apps that sports fans rely on every day.
Power your pre-match and live betting offer with verified scores, stats, and events — all in one feed.
Learn MoreAuto-populate live blogs, dynamic scoreboards, and match centers — keeping readers on-page without a live-blogging team.
Learn MoreSkip months of scraping and data-entry work. Integrate a clean REST or WebSocket feed in days with full docs and a free sandbox.
Learn MoreEmbed live scores and match previews on your site. Drive engagement with real‑time data that keeps users coming back.
Learn MoreMonitor live stats and scores alongside odds data — get the full context for every market movement.
Learn MoreHistorical scores, player stats, and match events — the training data you need to build smarter models.
Learn MorePower your fantasy sports app with real‑time player stats, scores, and performance data.
Learn MoreMatch and round-level event data across 20+ titles — built for the pace of competitive gaming audiences.
Learn MoreThe feed is only as good as the infrastructure behind it. Here's what's actually running under the hood.
Events reach your endpoint in under a second from the moment they happen on the field, court, or pitch.
Auto-scaling infrastructure tested against real peak-traffic events — Champions League finals, Grand Slams, World Cups.
Optimised REST endpoints and WebSocket streaming keep response times low even under heavy concurrent load.
Distributed ingestion from 130+ sources means no single regional outage takes your live feed down.
Every data point is cross‑verified from 130+ sources, with integrity monitoring and regulatory‑compliant handling — protecting your platform and your users.
Full information security certification. Your data pipeline meets enterprise security standards from day one.
Data feeds tested and certified under GLI-19 — the global standard for sports wagering systems used by regulators worldwide.
EU and UK data residency options available. Jurisdiction‑specific data controls to help you meet local licensing requirements.
Suspicious score and event alerts built in. Our system flags anomalous patterns that may indicate match manipulation in real time.
Jurisdictions Covered
Uptime SLA
Live Data Sources
Fixtures On‑Demand
For any platform built around sport — a sportsbook, a fantasy app, a media site, or an analytics dashboard — the difference between a live score API that updates in under a second and one that lags by thirty seconds is the difference between a product people trust and one they abandon. Speed isn't a nice-to-have in real-time sports data; it's the entire value proposition. A goal that's three seconds old on your platform but already trending on social media is a goal your users found out about somewhere else first.
This guide walks through what a sports data API actually does, the technical features that separate a production-grade feed from a hobby project, and how different types of businesses — from sportsbook operators to solo developers — put live score data to work. Whether you're evaluating your first API for betting platforms or migrating away from a feed that can't keep up with peak traffic, this page covers the ground you need.
A live score API is a data service that streams match scores, in-game events, and statistics directly into your software the moment they happen on the field, court, pitch, or track. Instead of building scrapers, hiring a team to manually input results, or relying on slow, unreliable public feeds, developers connect to a structured endpoint — usually REST or WebSocket — and receive clean, consistent data they can render immediately.
At its simplest, a live score API answers one question: what is the score right now? But a production-grade real-time sports data feed goes far beyond the final number. It captures the sequence of events that produced that score — every goal, card, substitution, wicket, ace, or power play — timestamped and structured so your application can reconstruct the full story of a match, not just its current state.
This matters because modern sports platforms aren't just displaying a number. A sportsbook needs live event data to settle in-play markets accurately. A fantasy app needs player-level stats to update scoring in real time. A media company needs match timelines to auto-generate live blogs. None of that is possible with a basic score-only feed — it requires a fast sports API built to deliver structured, granular data at low latency, sport after sport, match after match, without gaps.
In short: a live score API is the infrastructure layer that lets you build real-time sports features without operating your own data collection pipeline — covering everything from raw scores to full play-by-play event streams.
Not every sports data API is built the same way, and the differences show up exactly when you need reliability most — during the biggest matches, the highest traffic spikes, and the moments your users are paying closest attention. Here's what separates a feed you can build a business on from one that will eventually let you down.
The headline metric for any low latency sports API is the gap between an event occurring and your application receiving it. Tech Magnetics targets sub-second delivery from the moment of the event, achieved by ingesting from 130+ independent data sources simultaneously and cross-verifying before publishing. For in-play betting markets in particular, even a two- or three-second delay can be the difference between a correctly priced market and a costly trading error.
Speed without accuracy is worthless — and arguably worse than no data at all, since incorrect live scores erode user trust instantly. Every event passed through our pipeline is cross-checked against multiple independent sources before it's published. Discrepancies are flagged and resolved automatically wherever possible, with anomalies routed for manual review when confidence thresholds aren't met.
Coverage isn't just about how many sports are listed — it's about how deep the data goes within each one. A genuinely useful real-time football API doesn't stop at the scoreline; it includes lineups, formations, substitutions, cards, corners, shots on target, and possession statistics. A cricket live score API worth using tracks the match ball by ball, not just at the end of each over. Depth of data is what separates a scoreboard from a platform people actually rely on.
Performance under normal conditions tells you little — the real test is what happens during a Champions League final, a Grand Slam tiebreak, or a World Cup penalty shootout, when concurrent request volume spikes by orders of magnitude. Our infrastructure is built with auto-scaling capacity and a 99.9% uptime SLA, so the moments that matter most to your users are exactly when the feed performs at its best, not when it buckles.
A sports API for developers should grow with you — from a side project pulling a handful of fixtures, to an enterprise platform processing millions of requests across dozens of leagues simultaneously. Rate limits, request quotas, and infrastructure capacity should scale predictably as your usage grows, without requiring a migration to a different product tier or, worse, a different provider altogether.
Real-time sports data isn't a single-industry product — it's foundational infrastructure for any platform where sport, timing, and user engagement intersect. Here's how different businesses put a live score API to work.
For betting operators, live data isn't a feature — it's the mechanism that makes in-play markets possible at all. Every market movement, every settlement, every cash-out calculation depends on accurate, low-latency event data. An API for betting platforms needs to deliver not just scores but the granular events — goals, cards, sets won, wickets — that trading desks use to price and adjust markets in real time as the action unfolds.
Fantasy platforms live and die by how quickly player performance translates into scoring updates. A goal scored in the 89th minute needs to update a user's fantasy points before they've finished refreshing the app. This requires a feed with deep player-level statistics — not just team scores — covering everything from goals and assists to tackles, saves, and disciplinary actions, depending on the sport.
Sports media sites use live data to auto-populate live blogs, build dynamic scoreboards, and keep readers on-page longer with real-time match centers. Rather than employing a live-blogging team for every fixture across every league, publishers integrate a structured event feed and let the API do the heavy lifting — freeing editorial teams to focus on analysis and storytelling instead of manually tracking the scoreline.
For independent developers, a well-documented sports API for developers is often the single biggest accelerator between an idea and a shipped product. Instead of spending months building scrapers and dealing with inconsistent public data, developers can integrate a clean REST or WebSocket feed in days and focus their effort on the actual product experience.
Analytics platforms need historical depth alongside live data — both to build predictive models and to validate them against real outcomes as matches unfold. A consistent schema across live and historical data means models trained on past events can be deployed against live feeds without reformatting, which matters enormously when speed-to-market determines whether a model is still relevant by the time it ships.
Integrating a reliable live score API isn't just a technical decision — it has direct, measurable business impact across engagement, retention, and revenue.
Breadth of coverage determines whether a single API integration can serve your entire platform, or whether you'll need to stitch together multiple providers — adding complexity, cost, and points of failure. Our feed spans the major global sports and the long tail of regional competitions that matter to specific audiences:
For a full breakdown of leagues and competitions by sport, see our complete sports coverage page. If you need pre-match or in-play pricing data alongside live scores, our prematch odds API and in-play odds API are built to integrate seamlessly with this feed using the same authentication and account.
There are several factors teams weigh when selecting infrastructure this critical to their product — and we've built our platform specifically around the ones that matter most in practice, not just in a feature comparison chart.
Explore our player & team stats API and historical data API if your platform needs depth beyond live scores, or visit our developer documentation to see the full endpoint reference before you start building.
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A live score API is a data service that delivers real-time match scores, events, and statistics directly into your application via REST or WebSocket endpoints, removing the need to scrape or manually track results.
Our live score API delivers updates with sub-second latency from the moment an event occurs on the field. Data is ingested from 130+ sources, normalised, and pushed to your endpoint typically in under one second.
Sportsbook platforms, fantasy sports apps, media companies, app developers, and sports analytics companies all use our live score API to power real-time features without building their own data infrastructure.
Sign up for a free sandbox API key, then call our REST endpoints or subscribe via WebSocket for push updates. Full OpenAPI documentation and SDKs for Python, Node.js, PHP, and Go are available to speed up integration.
Yes — possession, shots, run rate, lineups, and other live match stats are included alongside scores and events, giving you the full context behind every result.
30+ sports including football, cricket, tennis, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, American football, and esports — spanning over 15,000 leagues. See our full sports coverage page for details.
Pricing is based on request volume and the sports or leagues required. A free sandbox tier is available for testing, with paid plans scaling from startups to high-volume enterprise platforms. See our pricing page for full plan details.
Yes — the feed is commonly used to power live score boards, match centers, and notification systems. See our widgets & embeds page for ready-made components.
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