football-docs

Searchable football data provider documentation for AI coding agents. Like Context7 for football data.

Who it's for: Developers and analysts who use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Windsurf) to work with football data. Works with any tool that supports MCP.

What it does: Gives your AI agent a searchable index of documentation for 16 football data providers — event types, qualifier IDs, coordinate systems, API endpoints, data models, and cross-provider comparisons. Your agent looks up the real docs instead of guessing from training data.

Why not just let the AI figure it out? LLMs get football data specifics wrong constantly — Opta qualifier IDs, StatsBomb coordinate ranges, API endpoint URLs, library method signatures. These are mutable facts that change across versions. football-docs gives the agent verified, sourced documentation with provenance tracking so you know where every answer came from.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard for connecting AI coding tools to external data sources.

Quick start

Claude Code

claude mcp add football-docs -- npx -y football-docs

Cursor

Settings → MCP → Add server. Use this config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "football-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "football-docs"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code / Copilot

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "football-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "football-docs"]
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "football-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "football-docs"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "football-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "football-docs"]
    }
  }
}

Tools

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | search_docs | Full-text search across all provider docs. Filter by provider. Results include provenance (source URL, version). | | list_providers | List all indexed providers and their doc coverage. | | compare_providers | Compare how different providers handle the same concept. | | request_update | Request a new provider, flag outdated docs, or suggest a better doc source. Queued for maintainer review. |

Example queries

• "What is Opta qualifier 76?" (big chance)
• "How does StatsBomb represent shot events?"
• "Compare Opta and Wyscout coordinate systems"
• "Does SportMonks have xG data?"
• "What event types does kloppy map to GenericEvent?"
• "How does SPADL represent a tackle?"

Indexed providers

| Provider | Chunks | Categories | |----------|--------|------------| | StatsBomb | 143 | event-types, data-model, coordinate-system, api-access, xg-model | | kloppy | 100 | data-model, usage, provider-mapping | | SportMonks | 71 | event-types, data-model, api-access | | databallpy | 63 | data-model, overview, usage | | mplsoccer | 62 | overview, pitch-types, visualizations | | Wyscout | 61 | event-types, data-model, coordinate-system, api-access | | Free sources | 45 | overview, fbref, understat | | soccerdata | 40 | overview, data-sources, usage | | Opta | 29 | event-types, qualifiers, coordinate-system, api-access | | socceraction | 26 | SPADL format, VAEP, Expected Threat |

640 searchable chunks across 10 providers.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome from everyone. There are three ways to help:

1. Open an issue — request a new provider, flag outdated docs, or suggest a better doc source
2. Use the request_update tool — AI agents can flag outdated or missing docs directly via the MCP server, which queues requests for maintainer review
3. Open a PR — fix errors, add new providers, or improve existing docs

You don't need to be an expert. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide.

What we especially need

| Provider | Priority | Source material to start from | |----------|----------|-------------------------------| | FPL (Fantasy Premier League) | High | FPL APIs Explained | | API-Football (RapidAPI) | High | API-Football docs | | Football-data.org | Medium | Football-data.org docs | | TheSportsDB | Medium | TheSportsDB API | | WhoScored | Medium | Based on Opta F24, community-documented | | Sofascore | Medium | Unofficial API, community-documented |

For maintainers

Crawl pipeline

Provider doc sources are tracked in providers.json. The crawl pipeline discovers the best doc source (llms.txt > ReadTheDocs > GitHub README) and writes markdown with provenance frontmatter.

npm run discover                        # probe sources without crawling
npm run crawl                           # crawl all providers with sources
npm run crawl -- --provider kloppy      # crawl one provider
npm run ingest                          # rebuild search index from docs/
npm run ingest -- --provider kloppy     # re-ingest one provider (incremental)

Each crawled doc carries provenance metadata (source URL, source type, upstream version, crawl timestamp) that is surfaced in search results, so agents can distinguish between curated content and upstream documentation.

License

MIT