Kickoff Data
Football data API for livescore apps and bots
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Details
- External ID
- 1266340
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kickoff Data
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252774120744781
- Tags
- API, Football, Data
- Fetched at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Kickoff Data is a REST API for live football scores, fixtures, standings, lineups, match stats, history, and odds. Built for developers shipping livescore widgets, tipster blogs, Discord/Telegram bots, and small football apps who want one feed instead of stitching vendors.
Enrichment
- Niche
- sports tracking and fan apps
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- football data api for livescore apps and bots
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Delivering an ultra-low-latency sports API with live scores, in-play statistics, and odds requires licensing expensive proprietary official data feeds and operating robust real-time infrastructure.
What it would actually take: Sports data platforms require expensive enterprise distribution licenses with official data providers (e.g., Sportradar, Opta, Genius Sports) or maintaining distributed stadium scout networks. The technical backend needs distributed, redundant WebSocket/message broker systems (e.g., Kafka, Redis Pub/Sub) capable of ingesting high-frequency live events, reconciling live match state machines, and handling failovers with millisecond latencies.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #21 of 50 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 166 days after the earliest competitor.
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