Football Datasets: Match Records for the Big Five European Leagues

This CSV collection provides data for the major professional football leagues in England, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France. Maintained by the 'datasets' organization on GitHub, the repository was last updated in March 2026. It focuses specifically on the 'Big Five' European domestic competitions.

Use Cases

• Comparative analysis of scoring trends across the English, Spanish, and Italian top-flight leagues
• Benchmarking league parity using match outcomes from the German Bundesliga
• Historical performance tracking of clubs within the French Ligue 1

Strengths

• Covers all 'Big Five' European leagues
• Available in CSV format
• Openly hosted on GitHub

Limitations

• Schema and column definitions are undocumented
• Temporal range of the match data is unspecified
• Missing data for secondary divisions or non-European leagues

Provenance

Source

datasets (GitHub)

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France