How to get football data with code examples for python and R.

Football data has exploded in the past ten years and the availability of packages for popular programming languages such as Python and R make getting data easier than ever before.

In this article I will showcase the best websites and coded examples of how to get the data you need.

Python

Football-data.co.uk has been a mainstay for betting articles and data for years. Ran by the successful author Joeseph Buchdahl who has penned several very strong books on…