The World Cup,
on the wire.

Everything you need for a World Cup app

Live match scores with sub-second cached reads, full group and knockout schedules, results and head-to-head history, lineups, formations, and player and team statistics. The same API covers 1,245 leagues in 171 countries — so your app keeps working long after the final.

World Cup 2026 live scores API

One request returns every in-play World Cup 2026 match with current score, status and elapsed time — cached globally so it stays fast when the whole world refreshes at once.

curl "https://api.kickoffapi.com/api/v1/fixtures?live=all" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

{
  "get": "fixtures", "results": 1,
  "response": [
    {
      "id": 12534, "statusShort": "1H", "elapsed": 27,
      "leagueId": 1, "seasonYear": 2026,
      "round": "Group Stage",
      "homeTeam": { "id": 460, "name": "Mexico" },
      "awayTeam": { "id": 461, "name": "South Africa" },
      "goalsHome": 1, "goalsAway": 0
    }
  ]
}

One flat row per match inside the { get, results, response } envelope is v1's default shape; add ?format=nested if your client expects the { fixture, teams, goals } form instead — the v1 response format.

Swap live=all for a date or round to pull the full fixtures, results and standings. See the full documentation, our live scores API and Nations League API, or compare us vs football-data.org and vs SportMonks.

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