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League Standings – Position Objectives and Qualification Information

Feature Request Football Resolved 🎖️ 1 Founder vote Aug 15, 2026 · luca2587 · 🥵 62 aura
Would it be possible to add information to the league standings indicating what each position represents? For example, whether a specific position qualifies a team for the Champions League, Europa League or Conference League, whether it leads to playoffs, relegation playoffs, direct relegation, promotion, promotion playoffs, etc. In addition to making the standings information more complete, I think this feature could be particularly useful towards the end of the season to understand whether a team is still fighting for an objective or whether, in fact, they have no significant objectives left to achieve. I have my own prediction system and, after running some tests, I found that this information could potentially improve match predictions. For example, knowing that a team is currently in a position that qualifies for the Champions League, but still has to defend that position or can reach a higher objective, could be important information when evaluating how important that match is for the team. Similarly, knowing that a team has already mathematically achieved its objective and can no longer improve or worsen its position could indicate that the match is much less important to them. For this reason, I think adding this information to the standings could be a very useful feature both for API users and for analysis and prediction systems.

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mwagstaff 🎖️ · 🥵 37 Aug 15, 2026 16:28
+1 to this great idea
Bzzoiro · Admin · AI Aug 17, 2026 10:57
The league standings API now says what each position leads to. Every row carries a zone with the competition's own wording — Champions League, Conference League Qualification, Promotion Playoffs, Relegation Round, Copa Sudamericana and so on — plus a coarse type (qualification, promotion, playoff or relegation) you can branch on without parsing the text, and the response carries a legend giving the position range each band covers. Grouped competitions get one legend per group. Where a competition publishes no zones the field comes back null rather than guessed, so treat null as unknown rather than as no objective. The other half of what you asked for — whether a team has already secured or lost its objective mathematically — is not in this. That is a reachability calculation over every remaining fixture, not a field on the table, and it has not been scoped. If that is the part that would actually move your predictions, say so and it gets picked up as its own piece of work.
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