How to get football data for FREE - worldfootballR

In this video, I show how you can get current and historical football / soccer data from the worldfootballR package in R covering seasons, leagues, teams, players and staff, whenever you need it, and for free, so you don’t have to use out-of-date datasets or wait for them to be updated by someone.

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The data gives you access to match results, summaries, lineups, stats, player stats, positions, shots, passes, transfer history, contracts, injury history, and club staff history, from websites FBref, Transfermarkt, Understat and FotMob

All this covers mainly the top 5 leagues, Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga, but some of the data also covers lower leagues, international and women's leagues too.

This means you can get data for all matches from teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Napoli, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, PSG, Mens, Bayern Munich and Dortmund, to name a few of each league and players like Messi, Ronaldo, Haaland, Kane, Son, Lewandowski, Mbappe, Osimhen, Fullkug and Nkunku.


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🔗 Link to worldfootballR GitHub
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🔗 Link to worldfootballR index of all commands with examples
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🔗 Link to ggshakeR GitHub
https://abhiamishra.github.io/ggshakeR/


🔖c h a p t e r s 🔖

00:00 - Intro
01:16 - Install R and R Studio
02:50 - Open / create an r script file
03:14 - Install and load packages
06:38 - How to find examples to get data
07:45 - Get player mapping table
09:26 - Use urls to get other urls
12:11 - Get all match results for a season
13:58 - Export match data table to CSV
16:19 - Get match summary data from a url
18:03 - Get match lineups data from a url
19:48 - Get all match summary data - all urls
22:22 - Filter to get current season summaries
24:32 - Get team shooting stats
27:58 - Example of data from Transfermarkt
28:37 - Get all team urls for the EPL 22/23
29:37 - Get transfer data for all teams
30:17 - Filter out loans in transfer data
31:39 - Get current injured player data
32:49 - Get a player's injury history data
33:56 - Get a team's injury history by season
37:45 - Get EPL player shots data for 22/23
41:32 - Filter shots by only one player
42:26 - Create a shot plot using ggshakeR
47:07 - Get all team match stats for a season
48:09 - Get match stats for one game


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