Sports Odds API: SofaScore, FlashScore, and Multi-Book Football Odds

If you need football odds as JSON — live 1X2 plus a multi-book pre-match board — that is the Sports Odds API. The listing combines SofaScore live prices, FlashScore match context, and a BetExplorer comparator (fixtures, lookup by team names, history, market signal). Coverage is football. This is not the Live Scores API (scores and incidents, no prices).

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Use cases

Live 1X2 board. Poll SofaScore live events, then load match odds for that event. Official odds sample: Real Oviedo vs Osasuna, best home 3.75 / draw 3.1 / away 3, two bookmaker rows, cached at 2026-09-23T14:57:11+00:00.
Prematch widget. Featured EPL official sample: Arsenal vs Leeds, match_id xtmHKGT0, kickoff 2026-10-10T12:30:00+00:00.
One call by team names. Unified odds for Arsenal–Leeds returns fixture + prematch best (home 1.37 versus.es, draw 5.05 retabet, away 8.75 sportium.es) plus a market-signal block. Live SofaScore is unmatched on that prematch fixture (matched: false).
FlashScore context, not prices. Live FlashScore IDs are alphanumeric. Do not pass a SofaScore event into a FlashScore path.

1. Live events — SofaScore

SofaScore Live Football Events official Hub sample (first event, selected fields). Event id 17157205.

API request

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://zylalabs.com/api/13931/sports+odds+api/32119/sofascore+live+football+events"

JSON response

{
"source": "sofascore",
"sport": "football",
"count": 330,
"events": [
{
"id": 17157205,
"slug": "finland-u17-france-u17",
"status": { "code": 31, "description": "Halftime", "type": "inprogress" },
"homeTeam": { "name": "Finland U17", "id": 22602 },
"awayTeam": { "name": "France U17", "id": 22474 },
"homeScore": { "current": 2, "display": 2, "period1": 2 },
"awayScore": { "current": 1, "display": 1, "period1": 1 },
"startTimestamp": 1790172000,
"tournament": { "name": "U17 Friendly Games" }
}
]
}

2. Match odds 1X2 — SofaScore

Official Hub sample uses event 14083104 (Real Oviedo–Osasuna). The generated Hub curl sometimes omits the query; pass event_id.

API request

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://zylalabs.com/api/13931/sports+odds+api/32120/sofascore+match+odds+1x2?event_id=14083104"

SofaScore Match Odds 1X2 official sample (bookmakers trimmed to best):

JSON response

{
"source": "sofascore",
"match_id": "14083104",
"market": "1x2",
"bookmaker_count": 2,
"home": "Real Oviedo",
"away": "Osasuna",
"best": {
"home": { "odds": 3.75, "bookmaker": "sofascore_fid_182658084", "implied_pct": 26.67 },
"draw": { "odds": 3.1, "bookmaker": "sofascore_fid_182658084", "implied_pct": 32.26 },
"away": { "odds": 3, "bookmaker": "sofascore_fid_182658084", "implied_pct": 33.33 }
},
"cache": {
"ttl_seconds": 120,
"cached_at": "2026-09-23T14:57:11+00:00",
"from_cache": false
}
}

3. Featured EPL + unified by team names

Comparator Featured EPL official sample:

API request

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://zylalabs.com/api/13931/sports+odds+api/32126/comparator+featured+epl?limit=1"

JSON response

{
"source": "betexplorer",
"competition": "epl",
"count": 1,
"fixtures": [
{
"match_id": "xtmHKGT0",
"path": "/football/england/premier-league/arsenal-leeds/xtmHKGT0/",
"slug": "arsenal-leeds",
"home": "Arsenal",
"away": "Leeds",
"kickoff_unix": 1791635400,
"kickoff_iso": "2026-10-10T12:30:00+00:00"
}
]
}

Then Unified Odds by Team Names:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://zylalabs.com/api/13931/sports+odds+api/32131/unified+odds+by+team+names?home=Arsenal&away=Leeds"

{
"source": "sports-odds-api",
"competition": "epl",
"fixture": {
"match_id": "xtmHKGT0",
"home": "Arsenal",
"away": "Leeds",
"kickoff_iso": "2026-10-10T12:30:00+00:00"
},
"prematch": {
"market": "1x2",
"bookmaker_count": 9,
"best": {
"home": { "odds": 1.37, "bookmaker": "versus.es", "implied_pct": 72.99 },
"draw": { "odds": 5.05, "bookmaker": "retabet", "implied_pct": 19.8 },
"away": { "odds": 8.75, "bookmaker": "sportium.es", "implied_pct": 11.43 }
}
},
"live_sofascore": { "matched": false, "event_id": null, "best": null, "bookmaker_count": 0 }
}

market_signal is an odds-movement proxy, not betting volume. Markets on the comparator: 1x2, ou25, btts.

PHP: read best 1X2

$ch = curl_init("https://zylalabs.com/api/13931/sports+odds+api/32120/sofascore+match+odds+1x2?event_id=14083104");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ["Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"],
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
curl_close($ch);
$home = $data["best"]["home"]["odds"] ?? null;

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