Football Referee Statistics API

Structured referee statistics and disciplinary data for football matches.

Career stats, season form, disciplinary records, and team-level discipline splits — the kind of data that's usually buried inside match trackers and never exposed as a clean API.

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Live Example

One request. Clean structured data.

Query career stats for any referee by ID. Every response follows a consistent schema — no scraping, no parsing, no surprises.

Request

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://whistleiq-football-referee-statistics.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/referees/47/career-stats?timeInterval=ALLTIME&offset=0&limit=20' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: whistleiq-football-referee-statistics.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

Response 200 OK

{
  "content": [
    {
      "officialId": 47,
      "tournamentName": "Premier League",
      "timeInterval": "Alltime",
      "overall": {
        "numGames": 184,
        "yellowCdsPerGame": 3.62,
        "redCdsPerGame": 0.14,
        "foulsPerGame": 22.4,
        "penaltiesAwardedAgainstPerGame": 0.21,
        "homeWinRatio": 0.46,
        "awayWinRatio": 0.27,
        "drawRatio": 0.27
      },
      "home": {
        "foulsPerGame": 11.1,
        "yellowCdsPerGame": 1.75
      },
      "away": {
        "foulsPerGame": 11.3,
        "yellowCdsPerGame": 1.87
      }
    }
  ],
  "page": 0,
  "size": 20,
  "totalElements": 6,
  "totalPages": 1
}

Coverage

Everything in one place.

Built for analysts, data providers, and betting-platform teams who need referee data without building their own scrapers.

Broad Competition Coverage

Leagues, cups, and international competitions across Europe, South America, and North America — from the Champions League to domestic lower divisions.

Historical Data from 2020/21

Multi-season archives back to the 2020/21 season, continuously extended as new seasons begin. Build trend models without gaps.

Career and Season Statistics

Aggregate career totals alongside season-by-season breakdowns, queryable per referee and per competition.

Disciplinary Records

Yellow cards, red cards, second yellows, penalties awarded, and average fouls per match — all at career, season, and per-match granularity.

Team Discipline — Home / Away Splits

How a team's disciplinary record changes depending on venue when a particular referee is in charge. Identify home-crowd influence patterns across seasons.

Referee Comparisons and Matchup Previews

Head-to-head comparisons between referees, and pre-match previews that contextualise an upcoming official's tendencies against the teams involved.