Spanish Football League Match Results from 1970-71 to 2016 -17 Seasons

Football-Matches-of-Spanish-League contains match data for Spain's first and second divisions scraped from BDFutbol and Resultados-Futbol. The dataset spans the 1970-71 to 2016-17 seasons and is intended for machine learning research on match outcome prediction. It is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.

Use Cases

• Predicting match results (1X2) based on historical team performance and season data.
• Analyzing team performance trends over time using the season and division features.
• Modeling goal-scoring behavior based on localGoals and visitorGoals columns.
• Studying league structure and scheduling patterns using division and round features.

Strengths

• Covers a long time range of 47 seasons from 1970-71 to 2016-17.
• Includes data for both the first and second divisions of Spanish football.
• Each match has a unique identifier and features for teams, goals, and dates.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Scraped from http://www.bdfutbol.com and http://www.resultados-futbol.com.

Collection Method

Web scraping.

Time Range

1970-71 to 2016-17 seasons.

Freshness

null

Geography

Spain.