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SofaScore trending players API

Returns a sport's trending top players: standout performers from recent matches with the player, team, the match and that match's numbers as a snake_case metric map (`rating`, `minutes_played`, `goals` and more; the metric set depends on the sport and position). The `sport` enum accepts `football` and `basketball`, the sports for which SofaScore publishes this list. Returns 404 when SofaScore has no trending players for the sport right now.

GETapiKey1 credit/requestSofaScoresofascore.trendingPlayersResponseDoc/sofascore/trending-players

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /sofascore/trending-players
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 1 credit/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: SofaScore
Response schema: #/definitions/sofascore.trendingPlayersResponseDoc

SofaScore API Try SofaScore trending players API in Playground SofaScore API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

sport: required enum. Allowed values: football, basketball.

Notable response behavior:

Each entry has the player, team, the event (match) summary and statistics, that match's numbers as a snake_case metric map. The metric set depends on the sport and position, a metric SofaScore did not record is omitted rather than returned as 0, and nested values are flattened (rating_versions_original).
Only football and basketball publish this list: tennis, ice-hockey, baseball, american-football, esports, volleyball, handball and cricket answered 404 when checked (2026-10-07), so other sports return 400.
Returns 404 when SofaScore has no trending players for the sport right now.

Live monitoring

Monitored request: GET /sofascore/trending-players?sport=football
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%
Median response time: 1.98 s

Current status of every endpoint

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /sofascore/trending-players?sport=football
Items in players: 20
Fields filled in every checked item: 4

Field	Filled in, of 20 checked
player	20
team	20
event	20
statistics	20

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
sport	string	Yes		Sport key Allowed values: football, basketball.	football
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes		API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sofascore/trending-players?sport=football" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "sport": "football",
    "source_url": "https://api.sofascore.com/api/v1/sport/football/trending-top-players",
    "fetched_at": "2026-07-08T00:00:00Z",
    "count": 2,
    "players": [
      {
        "player": {
          "id": 996820,
          "name": "Kristjan Asllani",
          "short_name": "K. Asllani",
          "slug": "kristjan-asllani",
          "position": "M",
          "jersey_number": "23"
        },
        "team": {
          "id": 4690,
          "name": "Albania",
          "short_name": "Albania",
          "slug": "albania",
          "national": true
        },
        "event": {
          "id": 15534144,
          "slug": "san-marino-albania",
          "start_timestamp": 1791312300,
          "start_time": "2026-10-06T18:45:00Z",
          "status": {
            "code": 100,
            "description": "Ended",
            "type": "finished"
          },
          "winner_code": 1,
          "tournament": {
            "id": 64384,
            "name": "UEFA Nations League, League C, Gr. 1",
            "slug": "uefa-nations-league-league-c-gr-1",
            "category": "Europe",
            "unique_tournament_id": 10783,
            "unique_tournament_name": "UEFA Nations League"
          },
          "home_team": {
            "id": 4690,
            "name": "Albania",
            "short_name": "Albania",
            "slug": "albania",
            "national": true
          },
          "away_team": {
            "id": 4833,
            "name": "San Marino",
            "short_name": "San Marino",
            "slug": "san-marino",
            "national": true
          },
          "home_score": {
            "current": 2,
            "period1": 1,
            "period2": 1
          },
          "away_score": {
            "current": 1,
            "period2": 1
          }
        },
        "statistics": {
          "accurate_pass": 67,
          "duel_won": 5,
          "expected_goals": 1.056,
          "goals": 2,
          "minutes_played": 90,
          "rating": 10,
          "total_pass": 73,
          "touches": 105
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/sofascore.trendingPlayersResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example	Description
code	integer	No	200
data	sofascore.TrendingPlayersResponse	No
data.count	integer	No
data.fetched_at	string	No
data.players	array	No
data.players[].event	sofascore.EventSummary	No		EventSummary record, 38 fields: away_score, away_team, home_score, home_team, id, slug, start_time, start_timestamp, status, tournament, winner_code. Described under SofaScore live events API.
data.players[].player	sofascore.PlayerBrief	No		PlayerBrief record, 6 fields: id, jersey_number, name, position, short_name, slug. Described under SofaScore event at-bat pitches API.
data.players[].statistics	object	No
data.players[].team	sofascore.TeamRef	No		TeamRef record, 6 fields: country, id, name, national, short_name, slug. Described under SofaScore venue API.
data.source_url	string	No
data.sport	string	No	football
msg	string	No	OK

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Bad Request	#/definitions/app.Response
404	Not Found	#/definitions/app.Response
429	Too Many Requests	#/definitions/app.Response
503	Service Unavailable	#/definitions/app.Response

Code examples

Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sofascore/trending-players?sport=football" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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SofaScore trending players API

GETapiKey1 credit/requestSofaScoresofascore.trendingPlayersResponseDoc/sofascore/trending-players

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /sofascore/trending-players
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 1 credit/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: SofaScore
Response schema: #/definitions/sofascore.trendingPlayersResponseDoc

SofaScore API Try SofaScore trending players API in Playground SofaScore API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

sport: required enum. Allowed values: football, basketball.

Notable response behavior:

Each entry has the player, team, the event (match) summary and statistics, that match's numbers as a snake_case metric map. The metric set depends on the sport and position, a metric SofaScore did not record is omitted rather than returned as 0, and nested values are flattened (rating_versions_original).
Only football and basketball publish this list: tennis, ice-hockey, baseball, american-football, esports, volleyball, handball and cricket answered 404 when checked (2026-10-07), so other sports return 400.
Returns 404 when SofaScore has no trending players for the sport right now.

Live monitoring

Monitored request: GET /sofascore/trending-players?sport=football
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%
Median response time: 1.98 s

Current status of every endpoint

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /sofascore/trending-players?sport=football
Items in players: 20
Fields filled in every checked item: 4

Field	Filled in, of 20 checked
player	20
team	20
event	20
statistics	20

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
sport	string	Yes		Sport key Allowed values: football, basketball.	football
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes		API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sofascore/trending-players?sport=football" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "sport": "football",
    "source_url": "https://api.sofascore.com/api/v1/sport/football/trending-top-players",
    "fetched_at": "2026-07-08T00:00:00Z",
    "count": 2,
    "players": [
      {
        "player": {
          "id": 996820,
          "name": "Kristjan Asllani",
          "short_name": "K. Asllani",
          "slug": "kristjan-asllani",
          "position": "M",
          "jersey_number": "23"
        },
        "team": {
          "id": 4690,
          "name": "Albania",
          "short_name": "Albania",
          "slug": "albania",
          "national": true
        },
        "event": {
          "id": 15534144,
          "slug": "san-marino-albania",
          "start_timestamp": 1791312300,
          "start_time": "2026-10-06T18:45:00Z",
          "status": {
            "code": 100,
            "description": "Ended",
            "type": "finished"
          },
          "winner_code": 1,
          "tournament": {
            "id": 64384,
            "name": "UEFA Nations League, League C, Gr. 1",
            "slug": "uefa-nations-league-league-c-gr-1",
            "category": "Europe",
            "unique_tournament_id": 10783,
            "unique_tournament_name": "UEFA Nations League"
          },
          "home_team": {
            "id": 4690,
            "name": "Albania",
            "short_name": "Albania",
            "slug": "albania",
            "national": true
          },
          "away_team": {
            "id": 4833,
            "name": "San Marino",
            "short_name": "San Marino",
            "slug": "san-marino",
            "national": true
          },
          "home_score": {
            "current": 2,
            "period1": 1,
            "period2": 1
          },
          "away_score": {
            "current": 1,
            "period2": 1
          }
        },
        "statistics": {
          "accurate_pass": 67,
          "duel_won": 5,
          "expected_goals": 1.056,
          "goals": 2,
          "minutes_played": 90,
          "rating": 10,
          "total_pass": 73,
          "touches": 105
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/sofascore.trendingPlayersResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example	Description
code	integer	No	200
data	sofascore.TrendingPlayersResponse	No
data.count	integer	No
data.fetched_at	string	No
data.players	array	No
data.players[].event	sofascore.EventSummary	No		EventSummary record, 38 fields: away_score, away_team, home_score, home_team, id, slug, start_time, start_timestamp, status, tournament, winner_code. Described under SofaScore live events API.
data.players[].player	sofascore.PlayerBrief	No		PlayerBrief record, 6 fields: id, jersey_number, name, position, short_name, slug. Described under SofaScore event at-bat pitches API.
data.players[].statistics	object	No
data.players[].team	sofascore.TeamRef	No		TeamRef record, 6 fields: country, id, name, national, short_name, slug. Described under SofaScore venue API.
data.source_url	string	No
data.sport	string	No	football
msg	string	No	OK

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Bad Request	#/definitions/app.Response
404	Not Found	#/definitions/app.Response
429	Too Many Requests	#/definitions/app.Response
503	Service Unavailable	#/definitions/app.Response

Code examples

Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sofascore/trending-players?sport=football" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

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SofaScore trending players API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Live monitoring

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

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SofaScore trending players API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Live monitoring

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

Related