Backspace-me/sportscore-mcp

MCP server for SportScore — live scores, match details, standings, top scorers, brackets and player stats across **football**, **basketball**, **cricket** and **tennis**. Free public API, CORS-open, no API key.
Works in any Model Context Protocol host: Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Zed, and custom MCP clients.
What it gives your AI assistant
- Live + recent matches by sport
- Single match detail (score, status, timeline, lineups)
- Team schedules
- League / competition standings
- Top scorers / top assisters
- Player statistics and metadata
- Knockout tournament brackets
- Live match tracker data
Install in Claude Desktop
Add this to claude_desktop_config.json:
**macOS** — ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
**Windows** — %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Restart Claude Desktop. You should see the SportScore tools in the tools menu. Ask things like:
- *"What Premier League matches are live right now?"*
- *"Show me the NBA standings."*
- *"Who are the top scorers in La Liga?"*
- *"What's Barcelona's next fixture?"*
Install in Cursor / Continue / Zed
Any MCP host that accepts a stdio command works. The npx -y sportscore-mcp invocation is the same — consult your host's MCP docs for the exact config file.
Configuration
Environment variables (optional):
| Variable | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| SPORTSCORE_API_BASE | https://sportscore.com | Override the API base URL (useful for staging / self-hosted) |
| SPORTSCORE_UA | sportscore-mcp/0.3 (+https://sportscore.com/developers/) | Override the User-Agent string |
| SPORTSCORE_HTTP_PORT | *(unset)* | If set, run as a Streamable HTTP server on this port instead of stdio |
| SPORTSCORE_HTTP_HOST | 127.0.0.1 | Bind address when running in HTTP mode |
| SPORTSCORE_NO_TELEMETRY | *(unset)* | Set to 1 to disable the opt-out install-ping (see below) |
Anonymous install-ping (opt-out)
On startup the server fires one fire-and-forget POST to https://sportscore.com/api/mcp/ping/ with this payload:
That's the whole payload — no user id, no IP, no cookies, no fingerprint. We use it to see rough weekly-active-installs and Node/OS spread so we know what to support. Opt out with SPORTSCORE_NO_TELEMETRY=1.
Tools
| Tool | Purpose | Required args |
|---|---|---|
| get_matches | Live + recent matches | sport |
| get_match_detail | Single match by slug | sport, slug |
| get_team_schedule | Team fixtures | sport, slug |
| get_standings | League table | sport, slug |
| get_top_scorers | Top scorers / assisters | sport, slug |
| get_player | Player stats | sport, slug |
| get_bracket | Knockout bracket | sport, slug |
| get_tracker | Live tracker data | sport, id |