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football (soccer) datasets
This repository is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License
football-data
This repository contains some datasets around football (soccer). The main dataset contains results from ~1 million top-tier games.
Football Results Dataset
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.
Codebook
| 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 |
Rscipts
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
Disclaimer
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.
formations and lineups
The folder data/formations contains lineups and formations datasets
Links
soccerverse.com
Similar datasets:
- European Soccer Database (Kaggle)
- World Soccer (Kaggle)
- International Football Results (Kaggle)
- engsoccerdata (R package)
- football-data.co.uk
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