Transfermarkt Scraper — Market Values, Transfers & Squads | $3/1K | No Login

For football analytics firms, fantasy sports platforms, sports betting models, and football journalists that need the world's most complete player valuation dataset.

$3.00 per 1,000 player records. Transfer history and market-value history are optional extras — pay only when you pull them. No login, no API key, no proxy required for standard volumes.

Pricing example: 500 players = $1.50. Full Premier League squad (500 players) + transfer history (avg 8 moves each = 4,000 entries) = $1.50 + $4.00 = $5.50 total. Rankings top-100 = $0.30.

Scraper	Price / 1k	League mode	Transfer history	MV history	parse_confidence
This actor	$3/1k	Yes (whole division)	Yes	Yes (opt-in)	Yes
apify transfermarkt-scraper (official)	~$3-5/1k	No (single player)	No	No	No
manual API/SDK solutions	Dev time	No	No	No	N/A

Scrape football player data from Transfermarkt — the world's reference for market values, squads, and transfers. This Transfermarkt Scraper returns 30+ fields per player: name, current club, league, position, age, nationality, current and peak market value, full market-value history, contract expiry, agent, shirt number, profile image, and full transfer history. Scrape a single player, a whole club squad, or an entire league in one run. No login, no API key, no proxy required for standard volumes. Pay per player record at $3.00 per 1,000 results — and no charge for the actor start, unlike most competitors.

Why this Transfermarkt Scraper

• Whole-league scraping — paste a competition code (GB1, ES1, IT1, L1, FR1, MLS1) and get every club's full squad in one call. Most scrapers stop at single players or single clubs.
• Self-healing market value (dual-source) — every current market value is taken from the page header and cross-checked against Transfermarkt's own ceapi valuation endpoint. If the website's HTML layout changes, the scraper automatically falls back to the JSON source and keeps working — the field market_value_source (html / ceapi / html+ceapi) tells you exactly where each value came from.
• Quality score on every record — parse_confidence (0–1.0) plus machine-readable warnings mean you (and your monitoring) instantly see if a page structure drifted, instead of silently getting blanks.
• No start fee — you pay only for player records actually returned. Runs that hit zero results cost you nothing.
• Peak value + full history + full transfers — current value, all-time peak (with date), the complete dated valuation history (opt-in), and the complete transfer history (clubs, fees, dates) — all in one record.

Why this beats the alternatives

The Apify Store has a mature field of Transfermarkt scrapers — automation-lab/transfermarkt-scraper (tiered $0.56–$2.30/1k), parseforge/transfermarkt-scraper (from $19/1k), solidcode, webdatalabs, curious_coder, data_xplorer, and more. They are uniformly strong on current player data and weak in the same four places — and this actor closes every one:

Capability	This actor	automation-lab	parseforge	Other incumbents
Market-value history (dated series)	Yes (opt-in)	No — "no market value history"	No — "join datasets over time" yourself	No
All-time peak value (+ date)	Yes	No	No	No
Whole-league squad scraping	Yes (leagueCodes, walks every club)	No (player search only)	League ranking only, 13 fields	Partial
Free-text player search	Yes (search)	Yes	No	Varies
Self-healing dual-source MV	Yes (market_value_source)	No (single HTML selector)	No	No
Full transfer history (+ fee_type)	Yes	Optional, no fee classification	No	Rare
parse_confidence on every record	Yes	No	No	No
No actor-start fee	Yes	No ($0.005/run)	Varies	Varies
Base price / 1k	$3	$0.56–$2.30	$19	$1–5

The one-sentence edge: the only Transfermarkt scraper that returns market-value history + peak, scrapes a whole league in one run, and self-heals its market value from Transfermarkt's own ceapi JSON when the page HTML drifts (market_value_source: html / ceapi / html+ceapi) — with a parse_confidence score none of them expose. The lean competitors make you chain two actors (one for ranking, one for profiles) and rebuild the time series yourself; this does both in one call. Full breakdown in ./COMPETITIVE_EDGE.md.

What the Transfermarkt Scraper returns

25+ fields per player record:

Field	Description
player_id	Transfermarkt numeric player ID
name	Player display name
full_name	Name in home country (full legal name)
shirt_number	Squad shirt number
current_club	Current club name
league	League / competition (club mode)
position	Playing position (e.g. "Attack - Right Winger")
age	Age in years
date_of_birth	Date of birth (DD/MM/YYYY)
place_of_birth	City of birth
nationality	List of citizenships
height	Height (e.g. "1,70 m")
foot	Preferred foot
market_value	Current market value, integer EUR
market_value_str	Current market value, display (e.g. "€15.00m")
market_value_currency	Currency symbol (€, £, $, US$)
market_value_source	Where the value came from: html, ceapi, or html+ceapi (both agree)
market_value_peak	All-time peak market value, integer EUR
market_value_peak_str	Peak value, display
market_value_peak_date	Date of the peak value
market_value_history	Full dated valuation history (opt-in: includeMarketValueHistory)
contract_until	Contract expiry date
agent	Player agent
outfitter	Boot/kit outfitter
profile_url	Canonical Transfermarkt profile URL
image_url	Player portrait image URL
transfers	Transfer history (from/to club, fee, fee_type, date)
parse_confidence	Data quality score (0–1.0)
warnings	List of quality warning codes
scraped_at	ISO-8601 scrape timestamp

Each transfers[] entry includes season, date, from_club, to_club, fee (int EUR), fee_str, fee_type (fee / free / loan / end_of_loan / unknown), and market_value_str. Each market_value_history[] point includes date, value (int EUR), value_str, and club.

How to scrape Transfermarkt market values

The actor has five input modes — combine any of them in one run:

• playerUrls — paste profile URLs or bare IDs (e.g. 28003). Each player gets a full profile scrape with peak market value and complete transfer history.
• clubUrls — paste squad URLs or club IDs (e.g. 131). Every squad player becomes one record: name, position, market value, age, nationality.
• leagueCodes — paste a competition code or URL (e.g. GB1 for the Premier League, ES1 for LaLiga). The scraper walks every member club and returns their full squads, capped by Max Results across the league. Scrape a whole division in one run.
• search — free-text player search (e.g. Haaland). The top matches are looked up and their profiles scraped.
• rankings — scrape Transfermarkt's most-valuable-players ranking, paginated, up to Max Results.

Common competition codes: GB1 Premier League · ES1 LaLiga · IT1 Serie A · L1 Bundesliga · FR1 Ligue 1 · MLS1 Major League Soccer · PO1 Liga Portugal · NL1 Eredivisie.

Use cases for Transfermarkt football player data

• Market value tracking — monitor current and peak market values for any player or squad over time
• Squad analysis — pull a full club roster with positions, ages, and valuations in one call
• Transfer research — extract complete transfer history (fees, clubs, dates) for scouting and journalism
• Fantasy football & analytics — feed player valuations and positions into models and dashboards
• Talent scouting — rank the most valuable footballers and surface rising young players
• Betting & media — build datasets of player values, contracts, and nationalities for content and models

Input example

{
  "playerUrls": ["28003"],
  "clubUrls": ["131"],
  "leagueCodes": ["GB1"],
  "rankings": true,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includeMarketValueHistory": false
}

Pricing

Pay Per Event — three wired charge events:

Event	When charged	Rate
player-record (primary)	every player pushed	$3.00 / 1k
transfer-record	per transfer entry in profile mode	$1.00 / 1k
mv-history-point	per market-value history point (opt-in: includeMarketValueHistory)	$0.50 / 1k

You only pay for data you actually pull. Failed/blocked pages are never charged.

Technical notes

• Transport: server-rendered HTML plus two clean Transfermarkt ceapi JSON endpoints for market-value peak/history and transfer history. Works reliably from Apify cloud IPs for standard volumes.
• Resilient parsing: structural selectors (data-header__, info-table__content label/value alternation, table.items) — not brittle class names. parse_confidence flags silent structure drift.
• Self-healing dual-source market value (fallback plan): the current market value is read from the HTML header and cross-checked against the ceapi valuation JSON. If the HTML layout drifts, the scraper falls back to the JSON value automatically (market_value_source: "ceapi") so your data pipeline keeps flowing. Disagreements are flagged in warnings, never silently merged.
• Anti-bot wall detection: every HTML response is checked for consent/Cloudflare interstitials and truncated bodies. A blocked page is retried (with proxy rotation when enabled) and, if it can't be recovered, the record is dropped — you are never charged for an empty or garbage record.
• Rate limit: ~1.5s inter-request pacing + automatic backoff on 429/403/503 (3 retries: 10/20/40s).
• Proxy: optional Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy via proxyConfiguration for high-volume runs, billed to the run owner. No external proxy account needed.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Transfermarkt account or API key? No. The actor reads the same public pages and JSON endpoints the Transfermarkt website itself uses. No authentication is required.

Can I scrape a whole squad at once? Yes — pass a club URL or ID in clubUrls; every squad player becomes one record.

Can I scrape a whole league at once? Yes — pass a competition code (e.g. GB1) or league URL in leagueCodes. The scraper walks every club in the league and returns their full squads, capped by Max Results.

Am I charged if a run returns nothing? No. Pricing is per player record pushed, with no actor-start fee. Blocked or empty pages are dropped without billing.

What is market_value_source? It tells you whether each current market value came from the page HTML (html), Transfermarkt's valuation JSON (ceapi), or both in agreement (html+ceapi). It's how the scraper stays reliable when the website's HTML changes.

Does it return peak market value? Yes. Profile mode pulls the all-time peak value and its date from Transfermarkt's market-value development data.

What about transfer history? Profile mode returns the full transfer history list (from club, to club, fee, date) for each player.

Does it work without a proxy? Yes for standard volumes. For large runs, enable Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy to avoid 429 rate limits.

What does parse_confidence mean? 1.0 = all critical fields present. Below 0.5 means the page structure likely changed; check warnings for affected fields.

parse_confidence trust score

Dual-source market value — HTML header + ceapi JSON cross-check. The market_value_source field tells you exactly which path each value used (html, ceapi, or html+ceapi). Silent drift becomes loud. Use cases include fantasy football data pipelines, sports betting models, and club M&A research.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

AI agents (Claude, GPT-4o) can query Transfermarkt player values and transfer history directly via MCP.

Config: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/transfermarkt-scraper

Integrations

Built for football-analytics firms, fantasy-sports platforms, and betting modelers tracking player valuations and transfer history — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

• n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: n8n, Make, Zapier.
• Webhooks — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline (docs).
• MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation (guide).
• API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all Apify integrations.

Disclaimer

Transfermarkt is a public website. This Transfermarkt scraper accesses publicly available player, club, and market-value pages. No authentication is required and no private data is collected.