Expected Lineups API

Football fans, bettors, and fantasy players want to know one thing before kickoff: who is starting?

The Sportmonks Expected Lineups API provides predicted starting lineups for upcoming matches, helping you power pre-match insights, predictions, and engagement features inside your product.

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Power pre-match insights with expected lineups

Expected lineups are one of the most important signals before a match starts. They influence:

Betting decisions
Fantasy football choices
Fan discussions

The Sportmonks API provides predicted lineups connected directly to players, teams, competitions and fixtures, making them easy to integrate with the rest of your football data. Sportmonks helps developers build professional sports applications with reliable, accessible sports data and developer-friendly APIs.

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What you can build with expected lineups

Match previews
Show predicted starting XIs before kickoff. Perfect for: Football news platforms, Match preview pages & Fan apps
Fantasy football insights
Show incoming and outgoing rumours for every team. Great for: Fantasy football apps, Lineup prediction tools & Player availability insights
Betting insights
Expected lineups are crucial for betting analysis. Use them to power: Pre-match analytics, Betting dashboards & Odds explanation tools
Tactical analysis tools
Show formation predictions and starting XIs before matches. Ideal for: Analytics platforms, Scouting dashboards & Football research tools

Built for developers

The Sportmonks API is designed so developers can go from idea to working integration quickly.

Instant API access
Sign up and receive your API token immediately.

Developer-friendly documentation
Consistent structure across all endpoints.

Works with any stack
Integrate with JavaScript, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, or any backend framework.

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Reliable sports data infrastructure

Sports applications depend on reliable pre-match data.

The Expected Lineups API runs on the same production-grade infrastructure powering thousands of sports applications.

Built for production
Stable APIs capable of handling large volumes of requests.

Continues improvements
Expected lineups updated as match information evolves.

Global football coverage
Predictions across thousands of teams and competitions.

Expected Lineups add-on pricing

Choose the add-on that works for you

Monthly
Yearly
Growth

Expected lineups for our Growth plan

Starting at
€ 199
€ 159
paid monthly per month paid yearly
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Pro

Expected lineups for our Pro plan

Starting at
€ 199
€ 159
paid monthly per month paid yearly
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* All prices are exclusive of VAT and, where applicable, VAT will be applied at the standard rate.

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Professional football data at your fingertips

Developers building sports applications often face two options:

– expensive enterprise sports data provider
– unreliable low-cost APIs

At Sportmonks, you get professional football data at pricing designed for builders, so you can start small and scale without switching providers.

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Add predicted football lineups to your application with the most approachable sports data API.

– Instant API access
– Reliable football data
– Developer-friendly documentation
– Flexible pricing

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