SofaScore event best players API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/sofascore/event-best-players

Auth

apiKey

Credits

1 credit/request

Charged on

Successful 2xx responses only

Platform

SofaScore

Response schema

#/definitions/sofascore.eventBestPlayersResponseDoc

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

• id: required. Numeric SofaScore event (match) id of a football or ice hockey match, e.g. 16363867 (football) or 15950163 (ice hockey).

Notable response behavior:

• home_players and away_players are the best performers per side, top_players is the overall top list, and player_of_the_match is the single best player. Each entry has player, team, label (for example rating) and a numeric value.
• Returns 404 when SofaScore has no best-players summary for the match. This includes matches that have not started and fixtures without rated players.
• Football entries have label rating and a numeric value (the match rating). Ice hockey entries (checked on NHL matches 15950163 and 15950219) have label pts and a value that is the points scored (for example 2); a player with no points, typically a goalkeeper, has no numeric value and carries SofaScore's en dash in value_text instead. value_text is only present when value is absent. Hockey matches have no player_of_the_match.
• The basketball (NBA and NBL), baseball and tennis matches checked all returned 404.

Example response, ice hockey (shortened):

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "event_id": 15950163,
    "source_url": "https://api.sofascore.com/api/v1/event/15950163/best-players/summary",
    "fetched_at": "2026-10-07T17:00:00Z",
    "home_players": [
      {
        "player": {
          "id": 898264,
          "name": "Carter Hart",
          "short_name": "C. Hart",
          "slug": "hart-carter",
          "position": "G",
          "jersey_number": "79"
        },
        "team": {
          "id": 257523,
          "name": "Vegas Golden Knights",
          "short_name": "Golden Knights",
          "slug": "vegas-golden-knights"
        },
        "label": "pts",
        "value_text": "–"
      }
    ],
    "away_players": [
      {
        "player": {
          "id": 1458085,
          "name": "Jackson Blake",
          "short_name": "J. Blake",
          "slug": "jackson-blake",
          "position": "R",
          "jersey_number": "53"
        },
        "team": {
          "id": 3680,
          "name": "Carolina Hurricanes",
          "short_name": "Hurricanes",
          "slug": "carolina-hurricanes"
        },
        "label": "pts",
        "value": 2
      }
    ],
    "top_players": [
      {
        "player": {
          "id": 1458085,
          "name": "Jackson Blake",
          "short_name": "J. Blake",
          "slug": "jackson-blake",
          "position": "R",
          "jersey_number": "53"
        },
        "team": {
          "id": 3680,
          "name": "Carolina Hurricanes",
          "short_name": "Hurricanes",
          "slug": "carolina-hurricanes"
        },
        "label": "pts",
        "value": 2
      },
      {
        "player": {
          "id": 305218,
          "name": "Nikolaj Ehlers",
          "short_name": "N. Ehlers",
          "slug": "nikolaj-ehlers",
          "position": "L",
          "jersey_number": "27"
        },
        "team": {
          "id": 3680,
          "name": "Carolina Hurricanes",
          "short_name": "Hurricanes",
          "slug": "carolina-hurricanes"
        },
        "label": "pts",
        "value": 1
      }
    ]
  }
}

Live monitoring

Monitored request

GET /sofascore/event-best-players?id=16363867

Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026

99.7%

Median response time

1.01 s

Current status of every endpoint

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026

GET /sofascore/event-best-players?id=16363867

Items in top_players

10

Fields filled in every checked item

4

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