Summary
football-data.org API v4: football competitions, league tables, fixtures and results, head-to-head, teams, squads, players and top scorers. Free plan covers 12 major competitions with an API token.
Guided setup
Connect football-data.org to Microsoft Copilot in 2 minutes
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Example prompts for football-data.org
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
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football-data.org + Microsoft Copilot
football-data.org API v4: football competitions, league tables, fixtures and results, head-to-head, teams, squads, players and top scorers. Free plan covers 12 major competitions with an API token.
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:
FOOTBALL_DATA_API_TOKEN
Step 1 — Get credentials
- Register for free at https://www.football-data.org/client/register. The API token arrives by e-mail and is also shown on your account page after signing in.
- Put it in
FOOTBALL_DATA_API_TOKEN(32 lowercase letters and digits); it is sent as theX-Auth-Tokenheader. - Call
football_data_list_competitionsto see what the token covers, thenfootball_data_get_standingsorfootball_data_list_competition_matcheswith a competition code such asPL,BL1,SA,PDorCL.
The free plan covers 12 competitions (PL, ELC, BL1, SA, PD, FL1, DED, PPL, BSA, CL, EC, WC) with delayed scores and allows 10 requests per minute; live scores, lineups and match statistics need a paid plan. Anything outside the plan answers 403, which is the plan and not a broken token; an invalid token answers 400. season is the starting year (2025 means 2025/26) and all times are UTC. For a match preview, call football_data_get_head2head with the match id and football_data_list_team_matches for both teams.
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 Microsoft Copilot
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 showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Microsoft Copilot uses MCP servers through agents built in Copilot Studio: you add AnythingMCP to an agent as a tool, then publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud over Streamable HTTP, which AnythingMCP supports.
- In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
- Enter a Server name (for example
AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server. - Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to
X-API-Key, then select Create. - In Add tool, choose Create a new connection, paste an MCP API key from AnythingMCP (MCP Servers → your server → API keys) and select Add to agent.
- Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the
football-data.orgtools. - Select Publish, then Channels → Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, keep Make agent available in Microsoft Copilot selected and choose Add channel. See agent in Teams installs it for you; in Microsoft 365 Copilot, type @ and pick the agent.
Prefer per-user sign-in? Choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery instead of an API key: each user then signs in to AnythingMCP the first time the agent calls it.
Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud, so localhost does not work.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
football_data_list_competitions | List the competitions the token can access (with a token) with id, code, name, type (LEAGUE, CUP, LEAGUE_CUP, PLAYOFFS), area and current… |
football_data_get_competition | Get one competition with its area, type, current season and the list of past seasons (id, start and end date, winner) |
football_data_get_standings | Get the league table of a competition: position, points, played, won, draw, lost, goals for and against, goal difference and recent form… |
football_data_list_competition_matches | List the matches of a competition (fixtures and results) with date in UTC, status, matchday, stage, group, teams and score |
football_data_list_competition_teams | List the teams taking part in a competition's season, with id, name, short name, three-letter code, crest, venue and, depending on the… |
football_data_get_top_scorers | Get the top scorers of a competition's season: player, team, goals, assists, penalties and matches played, sorted by goals |
football_data_list_matches | List matches across all competitions the plan covers: today's matches by default, or a single date, a date range (max 10 days), a list of… |
football_data_get_match | Get one match in full: competition, season, kickoff in UTC, status, venue, referees, teams, score (half time, full time, extra time… |
football_data_get_head2head | Get the previous meetings of the two teams of a match, with an aggregate of wins, draws, losses and goals for each side |
football_data_list_teams | List all teams in the database page by page, with id, name, short name, three-letter code and crest |
football_data_get_team | Get one team: name, area, address, website, founding year, club colours, venue, running competitions, coach and squad with positions and… |
football_data_list_team_matches | List the matches of one team across competitions, with a summary of wins, draws and losses |
football_data_get_person | Get one person (player, coach or referee): name, date of birth, nationality, position, shirt number and current team with contract dates |
football_data_list_person_matches | List the matches of one player with an aggregate (matches, minutes, goals, assists, cards, subbed in and out) |
football_data_list_areas | List the areas (countries and continents) with id, name, country code, flag and parent area |
football_data_get_area | Get one area with its parent area and its child areas, e.g. a continent with its countries |
FAQ
Which Copilot is this for? Microsoft 365 Copilot at work, through agents built in Copilot Studio. The Microsoft Copilot app for personal accounts has no option to add your own MCP server.
What do I need? A work account with access to Copilot Studio (a license or a trial) to build the agent. People who use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams need access to the agent: share it with them, or ask an admin to publish it to the organization. If your organization applies data policies to Power Platform connectors, they cover MCP servers too.
The agent doesn't call the tools. Check that the header name is exactly X-API-Key and that the key belongs to the same MCP server as the URL, and make the server description specific: Copilot Studio uses it to decide when to call the server. Publish the agent again after each change; in an open chat, type "start over" to get the new version.
Next steps
- Connector landing page
- Connect to Claude
- Connect to ChatGPT
- Connect to Cursor
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
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