Connect Football Charts to Cursor via MCP

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Football Charts, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

Football Charts + Cursor

Football Charts API v1: football league tables, match results, upcoming fixtures with calibrated Dixon-Coles probabilities, 10,000-run Monte Carlo season projections, 15-minute goal-timing distributions and public model calibration records across 98 leagues in 44 countries. Read-only; works without a key, a free key raises the daily quota.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

(none — public API)

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setting up takes about a minute. You do not need an API key: every tool works without one.

1. Leave FOOTBALL_CHARTS_API_KEY empty to use the keyless tier: 100 requests per day per IP address, 20 per minute.
2. Optional: register a free key for personal use at https://www.football-charts.com/developers and paste it into FOOTBALL_CHARTS_API_KEY. It starts with fc_, is sent as the X-API-Key header and raises the quota to 200 requests per day per email address (60 per minute).
3. Install the connector and run football_charts_list_leagues: it lists the 98 leagues with their competition key (such as premier, spain1 or germany1) and season strings, which the other tools need.

What it reads: league tables (ordered by points, by points minus expected points, or by goals); finished results with half-time scores and first-goal minute; upcoming fixtures with calibrated Dixon-Coles (dc_v2) probabilities for home win, away win, goal lines and both teams to score (the draw is 1 minus home minus away); one match in full by its slug; daily 10,000-run Monte Carlo season projections for title, top four and relegation; goals per 15-minute interval for every team; team profiles; and the model's public calibration record (hit rate, Brier score, reliability buckets). Every answer includes source_url, the football-charts.com page with the same data. All tools only read.

Seasons: winter-calendar leagues use YYYY-YYYY (such as 2026-2027), summer-calendar leagues use YYYY (such as 2026). Leave the season out for the current one. Without a key, and with the free key, you get the current and previous season of each league. Paid API plans add historical seasons back to 2020 and per-match statistics on results. All dates and times are UTC.

Common errors: 401 means the key was not recognised: paste a key starting with fc_, or leave the field empty. 403 (season_gated) means the season is outside the free window, or the key has been disabled. 429 means you hit the rate limit: wait a minute or add a free key.

Football Charts publishes statistical probabilities and a settled calibration record, not betting advice or bookmaker odds.

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Cursor

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "url": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

1. Create an MCP API key in AnythingMCP under MCP Servers → your server → API keys, and paste it in place of YOUR_MCP_API_KEY.
2. Save the file and restart Cursor.
3. Open Cursor → Settings → MCP and check that anythingmcp is listed and connected.
4. Start chatting — the agent can now call the Football Charts tools.

Available tools

FAQ

Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT