football-api-mcp

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the 5DollarFootballAPI — gives Claude, Cursor and any MCP-capable AI assistant live football (soccer) data: fixtures, live scores, standings, statistics, betting odds and the full odds movement history, including corner and card lines.

Ask your assistant things like:

• "What Premier League matches are on today, and what are the current scores?"

• "Show the corner standings for league 39 this season."

• "How did the 1x2 odds move for fixture 1234567 before kickoff?"

Setup

You need an API key from 5dollarfootballapi.com — the free tier (no card) covers fixtures, live scores and standings; odds tools need a paid plan (from $5/mo).

Claude Code

claude mcp add football-api -e FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY=fb_live_your_key -- npx -y football-api-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "football-api": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "football-api-mcp"],
      "env": { "FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY": "fb_live_your_key" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "football-api": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "football-api-mcp"],
      "env": { "FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY": "fb_live_your_key" }
    }
  }
}

Related MCP server: football-scraper-mcp

Tools

All tools are read-only. Errors come back as tool errors with the API's error code and request id, so the assistant can explain what went wrong.

Development

npm install
npm test          # in-memory MCP client/server tests, no network
FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY=... npm start   # run over stdio

The underlying HTTP client is the official fivedollarfootball package. Endpoint reference: 5dollarfootballapi.com/docs.

License

MIT