AltSportsData

Get League

Retrieve detailed information about a specific league

Get League

Get comprehensive information about a single sports league by its ID.

Endpoint

GET /v1/leagues/{league_id}

Authentication

Required. Use Bearer token or X-API-Key header.

Path Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
league_idstringYesUnique league identifier (e.g., "nfl", "nba", "premier-league")

Example Request

import { AltSportsData } from 'altsportsdata';

const client = new AltSportsData({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' });

const league = await client.leagues.get('nfl');

console.log(league.data);
from altsportsdata import AltSportsData

client = AltSportsData(api_key='YOUR_API_KEY')

league = client.leagues.get('nfl')

print(league.data)
curl -X GET "https://api.altsportsdata.com/v1/leagues/nfl" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
const response = await fetch("https://api.altsportsdata.com/v1/leagues/nfl", {
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});

const league = await response.json();
console.log(league.data);
require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://api.altsportsdata.com/v1/leagues/nfl')

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'

response = http.request(request)
data = JSON.parse(response.body)
<?php
$url = 'https://api.altsportsdata.com/v1/leagues/nfl';

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
curl_close($ch);
?>
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY");

var url = "https://api.altsportsdata.com/v1/leagues/nfl";
var response = await client.GetStringAsync(url);
Console.WriteLine(response);
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    client := &http.Client{}
    url := "https://api.altsportsdata.com/v1/leagues/nfl"
    
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY")

    resp, _ := client.Do(req)
    defer resp.Body.Close()
    
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class GetLeague {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String urlString = "https://api.altsportsdata.com/v1/leagues/nfl";
        URL url = new URL(urlString);
        
        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
        conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY");

        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
            new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())
        );
        
        String line;
        StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
        while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
            response.append(line);
        }
        in.close();
        
        System.out.println(response.toString());
    }
}

Example Response

{
  "data": {
    "id": "nfl",
    "name": "National Football League",
    "sport": "American Football",
    "sport_bucket": "football",
    "archetype": "professional",
    "category": "team_sport",
    "country": "US",
    "region": "North America",
    "tier": "T1",
    "founded": 1920,
    "active": true,
    "teams_count": 32,
    "avg_attendance": 67254,
    "social_media": {
      "twitter": "@NFL",
      "instagram": "@nfl",
      "followers_total": 45000000
    },
    "website": "https://www.nfl.com",
    "description": "The premier professional American football league",
    "logo_url": "https://cdn.altsportsdata.com/leagues/nfl.png"
  },
  "meta": {
    "total": 1,
    "page": 1,
    "limit": 1,
    "has_more": false,
    "api_version": "v1",
    "timestamp": "2026-03-07T06:36:00Z"
  }
}

Response Fields

FieldTypeDescription
idstringUnique league identifier
namestringFull league name
sportstringSport name
sport_bucketstringSport category bucket
archetypestringLeague archetype (professional, amateur, etc.)
categorystringSport category (team_sport, individual_sport, etc.)
countrystringPrimary country code (ISO 3166-1)
regionstringGeographic region
tierstringTier classification (T1-T4)
foundedintegerYear founded
activebooleanWhether league is currently active
teams_countintegerNumber of teams in league
avg_attendanceintegerAverage attendance per event
social_mediaobjectSocial media handles and follower counts
websitestringOfficial website URL
descriptionstringLeague description
logo_urlstringLeague logo image URL

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