Endpoint Playground
Returns a referee's profile: name, country, sport, career matches officiated and career yellow, red and yellow-red card totals, plus date of birth and first league debut when SofaScore records them. Get the referee id from the `referee.id` of the sofascore-event endpoint or from a sofascore-search result of type referee. Returns 404 for an unknown id.
14 Oct 2026: Single record response; 9 fields had a value in every checked item.
Sample value profiles: referee.games: 321; referee.name: “Robert Jones”; referee.country: “England”.
curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sofascore/referee?id=74264' \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"| Parameter | Type | Required | Prefilled value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | Yes | 74264 | Numeric SofaScore referee id |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"source_url": "https://api.sofascore.com/api/v1/referee/69853",
"fetched_at": "2026-10-07T00:00:00Z",
"referee": {
"id": 69853,
"name": "Anthony Taylor",
"slug": "taylor-anthony",
"country": "England",
"sport": "football",
"games": 658,
"yellow_cards": 2490,
"red_cards": 68,
"yellow_red_cards": 49,
"date_of_birth": "1978-10-20",
"first_league_debut": "2010-02-03"
}
}
}The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.