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There is already a question about soccer statistics, which summarises many data sources for team listings, game results, and many more fields for national and international teams.

What I am now looking for is a dataset (no API needed, a historical/static file is sufficient) that contains betting odds (e.g. 0: 1.7, 1: 3.6, 2: 6.0) before a football game and the game's result (e.g. 3:1).

Purpose: I want to write a small function that emits "realistic" game results when handed the odds, so I would like some historic data for estimating the results' probability distribution.

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This might be exactly what you need:

oddsportal historical odds

  1. It gives you the odds and result for each game for multiple leagues
  2. ... multiple years
  3. ... and odds from multiple betting agencies.

This is a very neat data source.

You can easily scrape the data with beautifulsoup (and you might have to work with a webdriver like selenium to control the page loading).

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    Wow, extremely extensive coverage - and I just checked their soccer section. Unfortunately, it is not strictly open data. But yeah, with beautifulsoup, some carefully selected queries (fortunately, they display a many games per page) and I should have all I need. – ojdo Jun 15 '16 at 22:00
  • There is only main problem - gathering/scrapy content from this site is prohibited by OddsPortal. – SpanishBoy Nov 29 '16 at 9:10
  • You can find a lot of soccer datasets and already prepared crawlers also at kaggle.com/hugomathien/soccer – SpanishBoy Nov 29 '16 at 9:10

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