Cookbook·Sports and outdoor·sofascore.com

Scrape product pages on sofascore.com

The call that returns product pages from sofascore.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.

96.2% success · Aug 2026No browser neededStandard price · 1 credit

About sofascore.com

sofascore.com describes itself as “Football live scores on Sofascore live score from 600+ football leagues. Follow live results, detailed statistics, league tables, fixtures and videos from Champions League, Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga and many more”.

Its home page declares 12 languages: en, hr, it, es, es-la, pt-br, de, fr, pl, hu, da, tr.

Its robots.txt names 155 sitemaps and disallows 12 paths, among them /standings/.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 96.2%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.0% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 987ms.

Among the 20 sports and outdoor sites in the Cookbook, sofascore.com ranks 15 of 20 by success rate; the category median is 99.2%. Its median answer of 987ms is faster than the category median of 7.1s. 12 of the 20 accept the plain token, this one among them.

The call

Product pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real product URL from the site.

Run in Playground

curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sofascore.com%2Fapi%2Fexample-section%2Fexample-page"

from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI
api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'})

r = api.get('https://www.sofascore.com/api/example-section/example-page')
html = r['body']

const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const r = await api.get('https://www.sofascore.com/api/example-section/example-page');

Parameters that matter

Parameter	Set it to	Why
`country`	leave unset	Most successful calls set no country (100%) and succeed at 96.5%.
`javascript`	leave unset	Plain-token calls succeed at 96.5% and make up 100% of the traffic. A browser costs more and, on this site, buys nothing.

URL patterns accounts fetch

Pattern	Share of successes	JavaScript token	Country	Query parameters
`/api/{slug}/{slug}`	99.8%	0.0%	none	none

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on sofascore.com, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:

Home: Organization, WebSite
Article: WebSite, Organization, BreadcrumbList
Other: BreadcrumbList, WebPage

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

403: 58.1% of failures A 403 is the site refusing the exit. Set the country the successful calls use and retry once; a second 403 means the URL itself is protected.

400: 15.2% of failures 400 means the site refused the fetch. Treat it like a block: retry once with the JavaScript token and the country the successful calls use, then stop.

0: 9.7% of failures A status of 0 is a request that never got an answer inside the timeout. Retry once with the JavaScript token if the pattern needs a browser.

515: 15.2% of failures A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.

Run it on a schedule

A catalogue refresh is a list of product URLs. Push it to the Crawler with a callback, let it pace the calls and retry what the site refuses, and read the results from Cloud Storage. The median answer on this site is 987ms.

Questions

Do I need a browser to scrape sofascore.com?

No. 96.5% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 100% of their traffic without a browser.

How much does a sofascore.com page cost on Crawlbase?

1 credit without a browser. sofascore.com is in the standard tier.

Which country should I set for sofascore.com?

None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.

Other pages on sofascore.com

Pages sofascore.com lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.

Page	Example	Token	Country	Median
Home `/` Structured data: Organization, WebSite	sofascore.com/	Plain	none	2.1s
Article `/news` Structured data: WebSite, Organization, BreadcrumbList	sofascore.com/news	Plain	none	4.1s
Other `/{slug}/{slug}/{slug}` Structured data: BreadcrumbList, WebPage	none	Plain	none	15.6s

Measured on CrawlbaseAUGUST 2026

Success rate96.2%

Needs browserNo

Price tierStandard · 1 credit

Last retest6 Sep 2026

How we count: every request from every account in the calendar month; success means Crawlbase answered with cb_status 200 and the site answered with a normal status. No sampling, no exclusions. Method

Try it

Run this recipe in the Playground with your token. Up to 5,000 free requests, no card.

Open in Playground

Run it at scale

A page of sofascore.com costs 1 credit. Pay as you go needs no plan: 1,000,000 pages come to about $528, on a ladder that falls from $3 to $0.02 per 1,000 requests as volume grows, and you start with up to 5,000 free requests. Starter covers 200,000 pages a month for $99.

Starter · $99/mo All plans

Keep it fresh

Push your URL list to the Crawler with a cadence and a callback. It paces the requests, retries what the site refuses, and delivers every page to your endpoint or Cloud Storage.

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