AlmanacStats publishes football statistics. Much of this data relates to people in their professional sporting role: players, coaches and referees. This page explains how we collect and publish that data and how the people concerned can ask for corrections or object. It is the information we give under Article 14 of the GDPR for personal data that we do not obtain from the people themselves.
For data about visitors of the site, see the Privacy Policy.
1. Who is responsible
AlmanacStats is operated by a private individual, Alex Semensky (the operator).
Contact: info@almanacstats.com
Data protection requests: privacy@almanacstats.com
No data protection officer is required, and none has been appointed.
2. How the data is collected
AlmanacStats is a statistics database, not a news outlet: we do not publish articles or interviews. Our software collects sports data automatically from the sources listed in section 4, matches it into one database and publishes it on the site and through the public API. Records are not checked by hand one by one, so errors are possible.
3. What data we publish
- Profile: name, photo, date of birth (for coaches sometimes also the place of birth), nationality, position, height and preferred foot.
- Career: clubs and national teams, transfers with reported fees, estimated market values and trophies.
- Match data: appearances, line-ups, goals, assists, cards, substitutions and other match statistics; for referees, the matches they officiated and the cards they showed.
- Absence history: for some players, periods in which they were unavailable through injury or suspension, with the dates. An injury is shown only as "Injury", without a diagnosis.
Health-related data
Information about a player's health is a special category of personal data under Article 9 of the GDPR. We therefore publish no diagnoses or other medical details, neither on the site nor through the API: an injury appears only as "Injury" with its dates. Absences of professional players are usually announced by their clubs and reported in the media. If you are the player concerned and object to an entry, write to privacy@almanacstats.com; we will review your objection and remove the entry where your interests prevail.
We do not publish any other special categories of data, such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs or sexual orientation, and we do not publish private contact details or information about family members.
4. Where the data comes from
- API-Football (api-sports.io): fixtures, results, line-ups, match events, standings and odds, as well as player and coach details such as photos, career, trophies and absence history.
- Public datasets derived from Transfermarkt, published on Kaggle: player and club profiles, transfers and market values, including the image links used for some player photos and club crests.
- TheSportsDB: some club artwork.
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons: a few photos of referees and stadiums, used under their Creative Commons licences.
All of these sources are publicly accessible.
5. Purpose and legal basis
We publish this data to provide a free, publicly accessible reference work about professional football. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR: our legitimate interest, and that of the public, in accessible information about professional football. We consider that the interests of the people concerned do not override this interest, because the data relates to their public professional activity, comes from publicly accessible sources and is limited to sporting information.
6. Who can see the data
The data is published on the site and through the public API, so anyone in the world can access it. Our hosting provider Aeza (Netherlands) and Cloudflare, Inc. (USA, certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework) process it on our behalf to deliver the service. The operator administers the server remotely from outside the European Economic Area.
7. How long we keep it
We keep a record for as long as it is relevant to the statistics we publish. Results, line-ups and career histories form part of the historical record of the sport, so they generally remain relevant after a career has ended. We correct or delete data when it turns out to be wrong or when an objection succeeds.
8. Corrections, objections and other rights
If you are a player, coach or referee whose data appears on AlmanacStats, or you represent one:
- Wrong or outdated data, such as a wrong date of birth, club or match record (right to rectification, Art. 16 GDPR): write to editorial@almanacstats.com with a link to the page and, if possible, a source. We correct confirmed errors as soon as possible.
- Objection to the publication of data about you, for example a photo or an absence entry (Art. 21 GDPR), and requests for access, erasure or restriction (Art. 15, 17 and 18 GDPR): write to privacy@almanacstats.com. We assess each objection individually and stop publishing the data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds to continue.
We may ask you to confirm your identity or your authority to act for someone else. We answer within one month. Data we take from third-party sources may also appear there; to have it changed at the source, please contact that source as well.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular the one in the country where you live (list of EU and EEA authorities).
9. Automated processing
The data is collected and published automatically, but we do not use it to make decisions about people. There is no automated decision-making within the meaning of Article 22 of the GDPR.
10. Changes
We update this page when the data we publish or the way we collect it changes. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.