Football match results and goal timing — an open dataset of 92 leagues

Load it in one line

import pandas as pd

url = "https://zenodo.org/records/23348754/files/football_charts_matches.csv?download=1"
df = pd.read_csv(url)

# goals per match by league, lowest first
df.groupby("league_name")["total_goals"].mean().sort_values()

url <- "https://zenodo.org/records/23348754/files/football_charts_matches.csv?download=1"
df <- read.csv(url)

# goals per match by league
aggregate(total_goals ~ league_name, data = df, FUN = mean)

The Zenodo notebook fits a Dixon–Coles baseline to this file; more worked examples (a 3. Liga Dixon–Coles model, an HT/FT heatmap in R) are in football-charts-examples, and When are goals scored? is an analysis built on the same data.

Columns

Leagues in the file (92)

207,950 goals in all; at least 98.9% of each league's goals have a recorded minute.

Known issues in version 2026.10

• 57 matches with goals have no goal minutes, and 86 list a number of minutes that does not match the score — 0.2% of rows together.
• Bourg en Bresse v Le Puy-en-Velay (National, France, 2026-02-06) appears 2 times.
• Werder Bremen II v Hamburger SV II (Regionalliga North, Germany, 2026-04-26) appears 2 times, with different scores (1:1 and 2:1).
• 9 Primavera 1 (Italy) rows have decimal minute values instead of whole minutes.
• Added-time goals are whole minutes (45+2 is recorded as 47), so minutes 46–48 also hold a few early second-half goals.

The next version fixes the rows above. Results and goal minutes are compiled by football-charts.com from public sources and provided as is.

Credit and citation

CC BY 4.0 asks for credit. Please write “Data: Football Charts (football-charts.com), CC BY 4.0” and link this page or the DOI. To cite a fixed version:

Football Charts (2026). Football Match Results and Goal Timing, 92 Leagues (2023–2026) (Version 2026.10) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23348754

@dataset{football_charts_2026_10,
  author    = {{Football Charts}},
  title     = {Football Match Results and Goal Timing, 92 Leagues (2023--2026)},
  version   = {2026.10},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23348754},
  url       = {https://www.football-charts.com/dataset}
}

Need newer data or more seasons?

The file is a frozen version. The free API and MCP server serve the current and previous season of all 98 leagues, updated daily: free to start, with 100 requests/day without a key and 200/day with a free key. Paid API plans add every season back to 2020. Universities and research institutes can ask for 12 months of full-history access at no cost. Historical bookmaker odds are not part of this dataset; they are sold separately as the odds archive.