football-api-mcp

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the 5DollarFootballAPI — gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP-capable AI assistant live football (soccer) data: fixtures, live scores, standings, statistics, betting odds and the full odds movement history, including corner and card lines.

Ask your assistant things like:

• *"What Premier League matches are on today, and what are the current scores?"*
• *"Show the corner standings for league 39 this season."*
• *"How did the 1x2 odds move for fixture 1234567 before kickoff?"*

Setup

You need an API key from 5dollarfootballapi.com — the free tier (no card) covers fixtures, live scores and standings; odds tools need a paid plan (from $5/mo).

Claude Code

claude mcp add football-api -e FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY=fb_live_your_key -- npx -y football-api-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add to `claude_desktop_config.json`:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "football-api": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "football-api-mcp"],
      "env": { "FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY": "fb_live_your_key" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add to `.cursor/mcp.json` (project) or `~/.cursor/mcp.json` (global):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "football-api": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "football-api-mcp"],
      "env": { "FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY": "fb_live_your_key" }
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT (Developer mode)

ChatGPT only connects to remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP over HTTPS), not local

stdio commands, and needs a Plus/Pro/Business plan with Developer mode enabled. Run the

server in HTTP mode and expose it with a tunnel:

FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY=fb_live_your_key npx -y football-api-mcp --http --token pick-a-secret
# in another terminal — any tunnel works, e.g. cloudflared or ngrok
cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:3333

Then in ChatGPT (verified 2026-08): Settings → Security and login → Developer mode (toggle

on), open Plugins in the sidebar, click the + (Create app), and in the *New Plugin*

form set Connection to *Server URL*, paste `https:///mcp/pick-a-secret`,

set Authentication to *No Auth*, tick the acknowledgement and *Create*, then *Connect*. `--token` matters here: ChatGPT cannot send custom headers, so the secret in the

path is what keeps a leaked tunnel URL from spending your API key.

Options: `--host` (default `127.0.0.1`), `--port` (default `3333`), or the equivalent

`MCP_HTTP_HOST` / `MCP_HTTP_PORT` / `MCP_HTTP_TOKEN` environment variables. The same HTTP

mode works for any other remote-only MCP client.

Tools

Prompts

One-shot analysis templates you can invoke from any prompt-aware client:

Resources

Attachable context data: `football://leagues/popular` (popular league ids) and `football://bookmakers` (bookmaker slugs for the odds tools).

All tools are read-only. Errors come back as tool errors with the API's error code and request id, so the assistant can explain what went wrong.

Development

npm install
npm test          # in-memory MCP client/server tests, no network
FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY=... npm start          # run over stdio
FIVEDOLLARFOOTBALL_API_KEY=... npm start -- --http # run over Streamable HTTP

The underlying HTTP client is the official `fivedollarfootball` package. Endpoint reference: 5dollarfootballapi.com/docs.

License

MIT