A solution for sharing sports data - developed by the world's leading news publishers

SportsML is the only open, global XML standard for the interchange of sports data. Designed to be as easy to understand and implement as possible, SportsML allows for the exchange of sports scores, schedules, standings, and statistics for a wide variety of sports competitions.

SportsML Features

Covers scores, schedules, standings, statistics, and more
Global in scope and design
Common framework for all sports
Plug-in modules for specific sports
Well documented and easy to use
Open and non-proprietary: Your feedback is welcome!

In Brief

Its extensibility allows for the easy accommodation of many sports from around the globe. SportsML cooperates with current IPTC standards NewsML and NITF to enable publishers to package sports statistics alongside edited coverage of sports.

SportsML uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of sports data, which means that developers of interactive or printed sports data services will have a far easier time integrating sports feeds that adhere to SportsML than if they rely on other proprietary formats.

LATEST SPORTSML NEWS

SportsML 2.1 Released

Includes major core enhancements. Tournament model is improved to better capture non-North-American competitions. Scoring properties improved to provide "one-to-one" alignment with Olympics Data Format (ODF). Play coding for baseball, basketball and ice hockey harmonized and simplified. Significant additions to the ice hockey and tennis plugins.

The XML Schemas have been revised on 2 November 2009 to fix a wrong XML namespace .

See the Specification and Documentation tabs in the navigation bar on the top of this page to download the latest files.

NEW G2-Guidelines

A 170 page "G2 Guidelines for Implementers" document is available for download - see Documentation page.

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