Coverage
Coverage by provider, country and competition.
This page reports the current public release stamp, provider bridge posture, aggregate provider findings, and the country or region coverage exposed by the register dashboard: competitions, teams, seasons, stages, matches and public person counts.
Entity totals
What the current register contains.
Hover an entity type to see a real example record and what the public release carries for it.
| entity type | active | redirected | retired |
|---|---|---|---|
| match | 1,354,238 | 0 | 5 |
| player | 427,202 | 3,329 | 5,903 |
| referee | 32,122 | 36 | 0 |
| team | 27,433 | 276 | 0 |
| stage | 25,380 | 0 | 78 |
| coach | 22,233 | 389 | 0 |
| season | 7,762 | 0 | 44 |
| competition | 1,421 | 0 | 9 |
- Api Football
competition:39 - ESPN
league:eng.1 - Opta (Stats Perform)
competition:2kwbbcootiqqgmrzs6o5inle5 - Opta (Stats Perform)
competition_numeric:8
Also public: the country it belongs to, its seasons and stages beneath it, and every name variant.
2025/2026rs550f146453b9d8 · active- Api Football
season:39:2025 - ESPN
season:eng.1:2025 - Opta (Stats Perform)
season:51r6ph2woavlbbpk8f29nynf8 - SkillCorner
competition_edition:1198
Also public: which competition it is an edition of, and the stages and matches inside it.
Regular Seasonrg144d4d8870e578 · active- Opta (Stats Perform)
stage:52mas07a9lsy28lwm6egrtqfo - Wyscout (Hudl)
round:4435316
Also public: its parent season and the match schedule it contains. Groups, splits and knockout rounds keep their structure.
Man City v Liverpool, 2025-11-09rm8dc561a9e35ec4 · active- ESPN
match:740702 - Opta (Stats Perform)
match:266x8afjnwzm848lkn11qjmdw - Second Spectrum
match:9cdeecde-902f-4c61-bae1-6cced01984e4 - SkillCorner
match:2041020
Also public: the date, home and away sides, the stage and season it sits in, and each provider’s ID for the same fixture.
Manchester Cityrt37c836a696a159 · active- Capology
team:manchester-city - ClubElo
team:ManCity - ESPN
team:382 - FIFA
team:1956198
Also public: country, the competitions it participates in season by season, and former/short names as ranked aliases.
Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghalyrp63946fbf1893de · active- Api Football
player:306 - Besoccer
player:139027 - Capology
player:mohamed-salah-33770 - EA Sports FC
player:209331
Also public: name variants and transliterations as ranked aliases, plus every provider’s ID. Dates of birth are not in the open release.
Josep Guardiola i Salarc957d61d7a00baf · active- Opta (Stats Perform)
person:3r7wi8r14k888ip3y2bzbacid - Transfermarkt
trainer:5672 - Wyscout (Hudl)
coach:267136
Also public: name variants and provider IDs. Coach records are type-aware and kept distinct from any playing career.
Michael Oliverro6eecd253828228 · active- Opta (Stats Perform)
person:4n2p6ko6550c8z2qa4yfdjn4l - Transfermarkt
schiedsrichter:902
Also public: name variants and provider IDs. Referee coverage leans on fewer sources than player coverage. Where a second provider carries an official, the record is corroborated; the rest are graded honestly as single-source.
Provider roles
Which providers are linked, and how much to trust each link.
Independent sources
The register admits an entity only when independent sources agree. These are those sources: each is its own line of evidence, and their agreement is what lets a player, team or match into the register. If you hold an ID from one of these, it is a first-class join key.
- Opta (Stats Perform)opta1,797,384 rowsshares this line of evidence:ESPNFIFAFBrefSecond SpectrumSofascoreKicker
- Wyscout (Hudl)wyscout1,354,515 rows
- Transfermarkttransfermarkt1,294,682 rowsshares this line of evidence:Soccerdonna
- FBref (DSG era)fbref_dsg70,952 rows
- J.League (official)jleague18,151 rows
- RSSSFrsssf652 rows
- Worldfootballworldfootballprovisionalno bridges in this release · 63,694 overlay rows
Bridge-only sources
Their IDs are linked and just as usable for joining data across systems, but they don’t count as an independent line of evidence when the register decides whether two records are the same real-world thing. They add reach and cross-references, not corroboration.
- Api Footballapi_football315,658 rows
- SkillCornerdata partnerskillcorner245,916 rows
- Besoccerbesoccer180,086 rows
- Sportmonkssportmonks144,705 rows
- Football Managerfm141,901 rows
- Scisportsscisports86,406 rows
- EA Sports FCeafc79,791 rows
- UEFAuefa49,552 rows
- Capologycapology47,329 rows
- StatsBomb (Hudl)statsbomb26,919 rows
- National Football Teamsnational_football_teams9,752 rows
- Understatunderstat5,286 rows
- ClubEloclubelo630 rows
Overlay providers
A convenience layer only: extra names and identifiers carried alongside an entity, not evidence that it exists or can be mapped across providers. Most arrive through Wikidata, and each row says so. They are kept clearly separate from the linked sources above.
- Wikidatawikidata148,496 overlay rows
- Footballdatabase Eufootballdatabase_euvia Wikidata127,373 overlay rows
- Soccerwaysoccerwayvia Wikidata93,543 overlay rows
- Bdfabdfavia Wikidata25,871 overlay rows
- Playmakerstatsplaymakerstatsvia Wikidata25,568 overlay rows
- Soccerbasesoccerbasevia Wikidata19,211 overlay rows
- Eu Football Infoeu_football_infovia Wikidata16,409 overlay rows
- As Comas_comvia Wikidata15,637 overlay rows
- Bdfutbolbdfutbolvia Wikidata13,818 overlay rows
- Mackolikmackolikvia Wikidata8,425 overlay rows
- Hugmanhugmanvia Wikidata8,302 overlay rows
- Fussballdatenfussballdatenvia Wikidata7,270 overlay rows
- Footballfaktsfootballfaktsvia Wikidata6,996 overlay rows
- Lequipelequipevia Wikidata6,361 overlay rows
- Fotbolltransfersfotbolltransfersvia Wikidata5,414 overlay rows
- Kooorakoooravia Wikidata5,120 overlay rows
- German Fagerman_favia Wikidata4,793 overlay rows
- 11v1111v11via Wikidata4,773 overlay rows
- Premier Leaguepremier_leaguevia Wikidata4,713 overlay rows
- Statmuse Plstatmuse_plvia Wikidata4,620 overlay rows
- Flashscoreflashscorevia Wikidata4,181 overlay rows
- Ninetyminutninetyminutvia Wikidata3,681 overlay rows
- Fff Frfff_frvia Wikidata1,875 overlay rows
- Lapreferentelapreferentevia Wikidata1,870 overlay rows
- Global Sports Archiveglobal_sports_archivevia Wikidata1,734 overlay rows
- Dongqiudidongqiudivia Wikidata1,328 overlay rows
- Opta Numericopta_numericvia Wikidata633 overlay rows
- Serie Aserie_avia Wikidata622 overlay rows
- Foot Resultatsfoot_resultatsvia Wikidata3 overlay rows
“Same line of evidence” means two providers ultimately draw on the same collection, so they agree by construction. The register counts them once. Roles are derived from the register’s own independence doctrine, not set by hand.
Country and region coverage
1,421 competitions across 184 countries or regions.
Two views of the same register: cross-border competitions grouped by scope, and country-by-country coverage. Click a marker or a country for its competitions, rows with no person counts are structural coverage, not a claim that person coverage is absent upstream.
Regional and international competitions
World Cups, continental championships and cross-border club cups, grouped by the confederation or scope that runs them. Click a marker for its competitions.
Country coverage
Darker green means more competitions covered. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are mapped as their own football nations.
Too small for the map, also covered:
Provider findings
What we find in our sources, and report back.
A provider finding is something a source got wrong at scale, such as a recurring pattern, a wrong result, a duplicated ID. Each one is verified against independent evidence, corrected in the register, and offered back to the provider. Public surfaces show only these aggregate counts. Provider names, examples and payloads stay in private packets.
Separately, the pipeline has logged 1,435,980 internal data-operations events (freshness re-fetches, name and ID-link review holds). Those are housekeeping on our side, not provider findings.
Counts are cumulative since the notice ledger opened, and are a snapshot rather than a live figure — this summary was generated at7 Sept 2026.
provider findings recorded4,928
quirk patterns documented100
resolved findings459
bridge dissent1,680
Provider findings of this kind.
Wrong or divergent scorelines1,534
A source’s final score disagreed with the independent majority for the same match. The register records the majority and keeps each dissent for that provider’s correction feed.
upstream duplicate1,404
Provider findings of this kind.
upstream error210
Provider findings of this kind.
Recurring source patterns100
Systematic oddities we have documented at a source include calendar conventions that shift dates, gender routing mistakes, snapshot scope and conflated records. They are written down as rules and reportable as a pattern, not a one-off.
Boundary
Known public-surface caveats.
Coverage is added competition by competition, each under its own stamped release. We don’t claim blanket coverage of everything a provider carries.
A provider’s role here describes what appears in the public files. It says nothing about what we hold privately, and it isn’t a claim about the provider’s own product.
Wikidata-derived identifiers are provided as a convenience only, not as automatic evidence that an entity exists or can be mapped across providers.
Bridge-only sources make the register more useful for joining data, but they don’t count towards the independent-evidence bar an entity must clear to be admitted.