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About

Built by football fans, for football fans. Most websites deal in users and visitors but yours is very different, yours attracts fans – real, passionate, opinionated football fans. We design every feature of MatchChat with this in mind to give your website and your fans more than just a commenting system. MatchChat is installed on websites all over the world, reaching millions of football fans and powering thousands of conversations.

About

Provide a comprehensive, cost-effective data API to help you realize your sports dreams. The universal data format is all well structured and easy to implement. Compared with the official website, we have the same accuracy and latency of fewer than 10 seconds. Get up and running with iSports API in just a couple of minutes. iSports API has 16-year experience in sports data industries. iSports API is a tier-1 sports data provider in Asia. iSports has 100+ software engineers and a maintenance team to support our services. Our data covers 1600+ football leagues & cups, and 300+ basketball leagues & cups. Register and then log in. Submit the sport you want to try, then the free trial begins. Please log in and create a ticket, our engineer will reply to you in one business working day. Accuracy is what we strive for, but with thousands of data listed at any given time, sometimes it's inevitable that some errors slip through. If you find any errors, let us know and we'll try to correct it.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Football websites looking for a commenting plug-in

Audience

Indiviuals searching for a solution to visualize sports data, scores, schedules, results, and events

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$49 per month
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 1.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 1.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 1.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Nothing at all, free speech should be allowed as long as it it in good taste. Banning anyone for having a different opinion should never be allowed, maybe on one forum but not across the complete MatchChat platform.

Cons

  • MatchChat do not like free speech, I commented on an article and got a ban for having an opinion, that platform then banned me from ever using MatchChat on ANY forum. Nobody should have that power, my opinion was polite and to the point, right or wrong it should never have been censored in this way.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • iSports API has been a solid backbone for our football data service since we started using it two years ago. We run a small sports news site and needed an API that could deliver live scores without breaking the budget. The data coverage is impressive. It includes major leagues like the Premier League and Champions League but also obscure lower divisions that other providers often skip. We have never had a data outage during major events, and updates typically come through in under 10 seconds even when traffic spikes. The API itself is straightforward to work with. The endpoints are logical, the JSON payloads are clean, and we got our first integration working the same day we signed up. Their documentation covered all the basics without making us dig through obscure forums. When we had a question about a specific data field, support replied within a day with an answer that actually addressed our technical concern.
  • We’re a tiny three-person team building a football stats site. Tried a couple of other APIs first — data felt sluggish, or pricing stayed hidden behind a “book a call” wall. With iSports, things just worked right away. Live scores are quick — like a few seconds behind — so it genuinely feels real-time to users. Even on big match days, the API held up without us needing any panicked late-night fixes. As the only backend dev, that’s a very big deal for me. Football coverage is deep. Top leagues, obviously, but also a load of lower divisions we didn’t expect to find easily. Integration was straightforward: REST, clean JSON, decent docs. We had live data showing up in staging within an hour. The 20-year historical database has been a quiet win too. We’re tinkering with some prediction ideas, and not having to scrape or clean that data ourselves saves months. Support is responsive and actually helpful. And they keep adding useful things — xG, deeper player stats — without any hype.
  • iSports API is the most reliable and cost-effective sports data solution for any football or basketball-focused platform. We have been using iSports API for over two years to power our live scores app and analytics dashboard. The coverage is exceptional — spanning 2,000+ football leagues and 800+ basketball leagues across 140+ countries, from the English Premier League and UEFA Champions League down to regional divisions we never expected to find. The real-time data latency is consistently under 10 seconds, and even during peak tournament periods like the World Cup or Champions League knockouts, the live scores and match events (goals, cards, substitutions, corners) update smoothly without drops. The API structure is clean, RESTful, and genuinely developer-friendly. We had our first endpoint integrated within a single afternoon thanks to the well-structured JSON responses and clear documentation. Whenever we hit a technical question or needed clarification on data fields, their support team responded within one business day via ticket, and the engineers actually understood the API internals rather than just sending canned replies.

Cons

  • Some league data varies by region and licensing, so availability can differ depending on your location. This is common in the sports data industry but something to keep in mind when planning your data coverage.
  • The free trial is fine for testing, but live data has a ~2-minute delay and a daily call cap, so you can’t really demo real-time features on it. Paid plans remove the delay — just something to keep in mind. We also bumped into a few per-endpoint rate limits early on (e.g. schedule/results locked to one call per 60 seconds). The docs do spell that out — we’d just skimmed straight past it in the chaos of getting started. Totally on us.
  • The platform is laser-focused on football and basketball, which is perfect for our use case but means you'll need a separate provider if you require deep coverage of tennis, cricket.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

MatchChat
Founded: 2012
London
matchchat.co.uk

Company Information

iSports API
United States
www.isportsapi.com

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Categories

Categories

Community Features

Content Management
Content Moderation
Discussions / Forums
Event Management
Group Management
Ideation / Crowdsourcing
Member Directory
Membership Management
Social Media Management
Website Management
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Integrations

C#
Go
Java
PHP
Python
WordPress

Integrations

C#
Go
Java
PHP
Python
WordPress
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