Football Database

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Tobedotty
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Hi all, I have finally got a few weeks of free time and I'm looking to put together a database for football. I am looking for fairly comprehensive stuff so I need descriptions of every match, the line-up that played, the time of the goals, the time of yellow cards, the time of red cards, times of penalties and anything I think might be useful. Unfortunately, most of the sites I've seen on the net only seem to offer full time results or ft/ht results which isn't really enough, so I'm turning to the wisdom of the BA community to help me. Does anyone here know where I might find the information in the level of detail I'm searching for?
haichless
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you might find that certain sites can supply certain bits of info historically.
But this will be in differing formats and a nightmare to co-ordinate into your chosen desired input requirements and excel format.
tbh if you want a very comprehensive all encompassing database, including lineups, time of penalties and red cards, etc, I seriously would advise you start from now and record them yourself ongoing.
Hopefully you will get more replies, I hope so because I would like the same info as yourself.

Good luck
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Euler
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BBC web site offers similar, but I think the original quesions was more geared to whether this sort of information exists in a database somewhere. Nobody really seems to expose this is a downloadable format. Plenty of services use this information but nobody seems to expose it.
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LeTiss
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Soccerway is a superb site, I use it all the time. They give amazing in depth data on really obscure leagues and teams
Tobedotty
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Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Euler, as long as I can web scrape the information, I have no issue with it not being in database form ;) .
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