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Free open public domain football data for England (and Wales) incl. English Premier League (EPL) etc.

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England (and Wales) - English Premier League

What's football.db?

A free open public domain football database & schema for use in any (programming) language (e.g. uses plain text data sets). More football.db Project Site »

Intro

Free open public domain football data for England (and Wales). National football club leagues include:

Level
I English Premier League 20 Clubs
II English Championship 24 Clubs
III English League One 24 Clubs
IV English League Two 24 Clubs

Example:

### English Premier League

chelsea,     Chelsea|Chelsea FC|FC Chelsea,             CHE, 1905 
manunited,   Manchester United|Man Utd|Manchester U.,   MUN, 1878
...
### English Premier League

Matchday 1

[Sat Aug/16]
  Manchester United    1-2  Swansea City
  Leicester City       2-2  Everton FC
  Queens Park Rangers  0-1  Hull City
  Stoke City           0-1  Aston Villa
  West Bromwich Albion 2-2  Sunderland AFC
  West Ham United      0-1  Tottenham Hotspur
  Arsenal FC           2-1  Crystal Palace
[Sun Aug/17]
  Liverpool FC         2-1  Southampton FC
  Newcastle United     0-2  Manchester City
[Mon Aug/18]
  Burnley FC           1-3  Chelsea FC

...
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# Arsenal

 1  Wojciech Szczęsny (POL)      GK  2007-
13  David Ospina (COL)           GK  2014-
26  Damián Martinez (ARG)        GK  2010-

 2  Mathieu Debuchy (FRA)        DF  2014-
 3  Kieran Gibbs                 DF  2007-
 4 (vc) Per Mertesacker (GER)    DF  2011-
 6  Laurent Koscielny (FRA)      DF  2010-
18  Nacho Monreal (ESP)          DF  2013-
21  Calum Chambers               DF  2014-

 7  Tomáš Rosický (CZE)          MF  2006-
 8 (c) Mikel Arteta (ESP)        MF  2011-
10  Jack Wilshere                MF  2008-
11  Mesut Özil (GER)             MF  2013-
15  Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain      MF  2011-
16  Aaron Ramsey (WAL)           MF  2008-
19  Santi Cazorla (ESP)          MF  2012-
20  Mathieu Flamini (FRA)        MF  2013-
24  Abou Diaby (FRA)             MF  2006-
34  Francis Coquelin (FRA)       MF  2008-
35  Gedion Zelalem (GER)         MF  2013-

 9  Lukas Podolski (GER)         FW   2012-
12  Olivier Giroud (FRA)         FW   2012-
14  Theo Walcott                 FW   2006-
17  Alexis Sánchez (CHI)         FW   2014-
22  Yaya Sanogo (FRA)            FW   2013-
23  Danny Welbeck                FW   2014-
27  Serge Gnabry (GER)           FW   2012-
28  Joel Campbell (CRC)          FW   2011-

Build Your Own england.db Copy

Use the sportdb command line tool to build your own england.db copy from the plain text data sets. More »

Note: The English Premier League includes teams from Wales (e.g. Swansea City or Cardiff City).

Examples

Build the database for all English (incl. Welsh) clubs, leagues and seasons:

$ sportdb new en

Build the database for the 2017/18 season:

$ sportdb new en2017-18

License

The football.db schema, data and scripts are dedicated to the public domain. Use it as you please with no restrictions whatsoever.

Questions? Comments?

Send them along to the Open Sports & Friends Forum/Mailing List. Thanks!