This repository is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License
This repository contains some datasets around football (soccer). For now, it only contains results from ~1 million top-tier games, but more will be added in the future.
data/results
contains results of 1,078,214 football games in 207 top-tier domestic leagues and
20 international tournaments (UEFA EuroLeague/ChampionsLeague,etc.) from 1888-2019. The files are
split up by competition but all follow the same scheme.
variable | description |
---|---|
home | home team name (not necessarily unique) |
away | away team name (not necessarily unique) |
date | date of match |
gh | goals for home team (including extra time and penalties) |
ga | goals for away team (including extra time and penalties) |
full_time | "F"=game ended in 90', "E"=extra time, "P"=penalty shoot-out |
competition | country name of league or name of international competition |
home_ident | unique identifier of home team |
away_ident | unique identifier of away team |
home_country | country of home team |
away_country | country of away team |
home_code | country code of home team |
away_code | country code of away team |
home_continent | continent of home team |
away_continent | continent of away team |
continent | continent of competition |
level | "national"= domestic league, "international"= international cup |
The folder Rscripts
contains some R code with basic analyses which could get you going:
01_basic_stats.R
: very simple stats (number of games, goals, etc)02_soccerverse.R
: some code for figures on soccerverse.com
This dataset definitely contains errors, especially for older games, where sources are not as reliable. A big issue are teams that merge/split/dissolve over time, which (I think) I did not resolve consistently over time.
I have gathered this dataset over the course of 8 years and put a lot of effort in it (see soccerverse.com). If you use the data for any kind of project, please drop me a line or ping me on twitter. I hapilly include your results on soccerverse.com too.
Similar datasets:
- European Soccer Database (Kaggle)
- World Soccer (Kaggle)
- International Football Results (Kaggle)
- engsoccerdata (R package)
- football-data.co.uk