API-Football MCP Server
Click on "Install Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type
@followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@API-Football MCP Servershow me the Premier League standings"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
mcp-api-football
API-Football MCP — comprehensive soccer/football data
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.
Tools
Tool | Description |
| Get match fixtures (upcoming + recent) by league, team, or date. Use league=1 for FIFA World Cup, league=39 for EPL, league=140 for La Liga. Returns kickoff, teams, score (if played), venue, status. |
| Current standings table for a league. Returns rank, team, points, goal difference, form. Use league=1 for World Cup. |
| Look up a team by name + country to get its team_id for use in other tools. |
| Look up a league/tournament/competition by name to get its league_id. |
| API-Football's own match-outcome predictions. Returns home/draw/away win probabilities, advice, h2h context, form. Use for "who will win" research on specific fixtures. |
| Currently injured and unavailable football players for a club or a league — who is out, the injury or reason, and whether they are ruled out or merely doubtful. Covers Serie A, the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and other competitions worldwide. Use for questions about which players are injured, unavailable, or missing from a squad. |
| The current player squad for a football club — every player with shirt number, position, age and nationality. Use for questions about who plays for a club, squad lists, and a team roster. |
| Head-to-head record between two teams. Returns last N matches with scores. |
Related MCP server: football-scraper-mcp
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"api-football": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/api-football/mcp"
}
}
}What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/api-football/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Api Football data" })The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
More
License
MIT
Tool Schema Changelog
Recent tool additions, removals, and schema changes observed during successful MCP inspections. Dates show when Glama detected each change.
No tool schema history has been recorded yet.
This server cannot be installed
Maintenance
Resources
Unclaimed servers have limited discoverability.
Looking for Admin?
If you are the server author, to access and configure the admin panel.
Related MCP Connectors
Football fixtures, standings, and odds intelligence for AI agents.
Historical football results, teams, competitions and draw/streak statistics via 10 read-only tools.
Provides access to live sports data and analytics from BALLDONTLIE: The Sports API
Sports MCP — wraps TheSportsDB API (free tier, test key 3, no auth required)
Related MCP Servers
- FlicenseNot gradedqualityDmaintenanceProvides programmatic access to comprehensive football statistics and live match data via API-Football, enabling applications to retrieve league standings, team fixtures, player statistics, and real-time match events.6-
- FlicenseNot gradedqualityDmaintenanceProvides tools to query football match data, odds, standings, and team statistics via natural language, integrating with the football-scraper-api.-
- FlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceEnables access to live FotMob football data for fixture lookup, team and player research, match details, lineups, league discovery, and search-based entity lookup.78-
- FlicenseNot gradedqualityDmaintenanceEnables natural language querying of football/soccer data via the API-Football service, providing access to leagues, teams, players, fixtures, standings, and statistics.3-
Latest Blog Posts
- Who's Calling? MCP Hosts Are an Identity Blind Spot (And the Spec Knows It)By Om-Shree-0709 on .mcpAgent IdentityOAuth 2.1
- Your AI Chatbot Just Exposed Your CEO's Salary to an InternBy Om-Shree-0709 on .Agent IdentityMCP SecurityOAuth Delegation
- Why MCP Servers Need Execution Sandboxing (And Why Your Current Stack Isn't Enough)By Om-Shree-0709 on .Agentic AiPrompt InjectionWebAssembly
MCP directory API
We provide all the information about MCP servers via our MCP API.
curl -X GET 'https://glama.ai/api/mcp/v1/servers/pipeworx-io/mcp-api-football'
If you have feedback or need assistance with the MCP directory API, please join our Discord server