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Football Team Details API: Turn a Team ID into a Full Club Profile with Open Data
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One team ID in, one structured club profile out, with stadium coordinates included.
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INTRODUCTION
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Football is among the most data-hungry sports. Supporter sites, newsletters, fantasy tools and match-day apps all need dependable club metadata before they can show a fixture or a standings table. Teams are the anchor entity in any football data model. Without a stable team ID, clean identity and a clear league link, the rest of the data does not line up.
This is where a football data API and open data feeds help. You skip scraping and hand-maintained spreadsheets and call one endpoint.
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FEATURED API
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The Get Football Team Details API is part of the Football Data API collection on Global API Gateway. It is a sports (football) data endpoint:
GET /api/project/football/get-team-detail-by-team-id
It takes one required parameter, teamid. The page's example is 8633, which resolves to Real Madrid.
A successful call returns status "success" and a response.details object with these fields:
id, type, name, shortName
country, gender
latestSeason
primaryLeagueId, primaryLeagueName
teamColor
The sample also includes a sportsTeamJSONLD.location record with stadium name, address and coordinates. A faqJSONLD block holds dated next-match and stadium answers.
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WHAT CAN BE INTEGRATED
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Club identity resolution: the sampled ID returns Real Madrid with type "team" and country "ESP".
Competition linkage: primaryLeagueId and primaryLeagueName tie a club to league-oriented requests.
Home-ground cards: the location object gives stadium name, city, country and geographic coordinates.
Season context: latestSeason shows which season the profile refers to.
FAQ snapshots: the dated next-match and stadium answers are usable context, but they are snapshots, not a live fixture feed. Check them against fixtures before display.
Squad handoff: the athlete array was empty in the sample, so pair this endpoint with the separate squad operation for players.
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USE CASES
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[1] Club landing pages
Build a Real Madrid page from the verified identity and primary-league fields.
Use teamColor and shortName for headers and labels.
[2] Stadium information cards
Read the structured location object instead of parsing FAQ text for coordinates.
[3] Supporter newsletters
Compare a club's dated next-match FAQ with selected fixtures before you publish it.
[4] Favourite-club features
Confirm that a team search result resolves to the same country and team ID before saving a user's favourite club.
[5] Football data pipelines
Use this endpoint as the team-identity step, then call the related squad, badge and player operations.
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PRICING & GETTING STARTED
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One API Key for every interface, with pay-per-credit billing. Interfaces can consume different numbers of credits.
Registration gives 100 free credits, with no credit card required.
Payments go through Stripe, and unused credits can be refunded.
The documentation page has an interactive test tool. Log in, enter a teamid and click Query to see the JSON response in your browser.
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CONCLUSION
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The Get Football Team Details API turns a team ID into a club profile with identity, league, season and stadium data. It is a good base for sports sites, newsletters and fan apps. Open the documentation and try it free:
https://opendata-api.com/en/football/get-team-detail-by-team-id.html