Has anyone here used football-api.com before? I’m trying to get fixtures for FINLAND: Suomen Cup matches scheduled for tomorrow. I’m using 2025 as the season and sending the following request
Any idea when newer seasons like 2024 or 2025 will become available on the free tier? Weirdly enough, it worked just yesterday for the 2024 English Premier League — now both 2024 and 2025 seem blocked?
"get": "fixtures", "parameters": {
"league": "135", "season": "2025",
"from": "2025-05-27", "to": "2025-05-29" }, "errors": {
"plan": "Free plans do not have access to this season, try from 2021 to 2023."
},
"results": 0, "paging": {
"current": 1,
"total": 1
},
"response": []
Yeah, football-api.com (also known as API-Football) has pretty strict season access limits on the free tier. What you’re seeing isn’t a bug — it’s by design.
Here’s what’s happening:
You’re trying to access the 2025 season of the Finland Suomen Cup (league ID 135).
But the API responds with:
"Free plans do not have access to this season, try from 2021 to 2023."
That means seasons after 2023 are locked behind a paid plan.
Why it worked yesterday for EPL 2024:
Sometimes the API briefly exposes newer seasons (like 2024 EPL) during updates or data syncs — but then locks them back down once things are finalized.
You probably hit a short window where it was accidentally available on free.
To directly answer your question:
No, 2024 or 2025 data is not reliably available on the free tier right now.
You’ll need to upgrade to a paid plan to access anything past 2023, even for current competitions.
What you can do:
Check which seasons are actually available using the leagues endpoint — it shows valid season ranges for each league.
Or, if you’re just testing and don’t need live data, use older seasons from 2021–2023.