England API
Sportmonks’ England API is covering a couple of significant leagues. One of which is the biggest domestic league globally, namely the Premier League.
Sportmonks’ England API is covering a couple of significant leagues. One of which is the biggest domestic league globally, namely the Premier League.
Some of the most prominent players in the world play here. Think about Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane, Mo Salah, Sadio Mane and N’Golo Kanté. Respectively, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham are fighting for the title.
The England API covers over 100+ leagues. Besides the Premier League, it covers the Championship, League One, League Two, Community Shield, FA Cup, Carabao Cup, FA Trophy, Premier League Cup, EFL Trophy, Premier League International Cup, National League, Vanarama National League, all kinds of youth leagues and women leagues, and many more.
England is seen as the home of football. The first official rules were created in 1863. However, the University of Cambridge organized matches with their own rules (the Cambridge rules) in 1848. The English national team won the first-ever international football game against Scotland (4-2) in 1873.
The oldest Football team in the world is located in England. This is Sheffield FC, the oldest professional team, Notts County FC. There are over 40.000 clubs in England. Therefore it has the most football clubs in the world.
Great players came from England. You can think of David Beckham, Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes, Stanley Matthews and Bobby Charlton.
In 2021 Gareth Southgate led his men of the national team of England to the final of the EURO 2020. Players like Kyle Walker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Harry Maguire, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Marcus Rashford, Mason Mount, Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane were part of the squad. We cover all the data for the England squad, also known as the Three Lions.
The English national team is one of the eight teams to have won the World Cup. England won the title in 1966. The song “It is coming home” is going viral during big tournaments because the English team has a couple of excellent players at their disposal. England lost when facing Italy in the 2020 final. The song was sung by supporters all over Europe. However, Italy was too strong in the penalty series. Belotti missed the second penalty for Italy, and Maguire scored his penalty, which set the score to 1-2 in favor of England. However, Rashford, Sancho and Saka missed the three penalties in a row, even though Jorginho missed the fifth penalty for Italy and allowed England to score 3-3.
"player": {
"data": {
"player_id": 997,
"team_id": 6,
"country_id": 462,
"position_id": 4,
"common_name": "H. Kane",
"display_name": "Harry Kane",
"fullname": "Harry Kane",
"firstname": "Harry",
"lastname": "Kane",
"nationality": "England",
"birthdate": "28/07/1993",
"birthcountry": "England",
"birthplace": "London",
"height": "188 cm",
"weight": "86 kg",
Why should you choose Sportmonks’ England API?