# Sports

> Skill `sports` on Faro. 5 sub-skills.

Retrieves sports scores, schedules, standings, and team or player information across major sports leagues worldwide. Get live in-progress scores, upcoming fixtures, recent results, full season calendars, or detailed profiles for teams, leagues, players, and events.

**Category:** Knowledge & Reference  
**Tags:** sports, scores, livescores, fixtures, teams, leagues  
**Use when:** You need current sports scores, upcoming fixtures, recent results, or real team and player facts instead of stale training data.  
**Not for:** Betting odds, predictions, win probabilities, statistics tables, injury news, standings tables, or play-by-play commentary.  
**Returns:** information — Returns clean sports records (scores, match status, dates, kickoff times, teams, venues, badges, and team, league, or player details). Not a downloadable file.

## How to run
Skills run through one gateway with your Faro token. Hand it an `intent` in plain language; Faro routes to the right sub-skill, runs it, and bills per call. Raw tools are internal plumbing and are not directly callable.

```
POST https://skill.askfaro.com/skills/sports/run
Authorization: Bearer faro_<your_key>
Content-Type: application/json

{"intent":{"prompt":"What soccer games are live right now?"}}
```

Or from the CLI:

```bash
pip install askfaro-cli && askfaro auth login
askfaro run sports "What soccer games are live right now?"
```

Full run reference: https://askfaro.com/llms/run.md — Agent recipe: https://askfaro.com/llms/skill.md

## Example requests

- What soccer games are live right now?
- When are the next Premier League matches?
- Show me the full 2025-2026 Premier League season schedule.
- Find the team Arsenal.

## Sub-skills

### Live scores

Returns in-progress games with current scores, match status, and the competing teams.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / call

**Use when:** You want the score of games happening right now, for a sport, a league, or everything live.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/sports/livescore.md

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### Fixtures and results

Returns the upcoming fixtures or the most recent results for a league.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / call

**Use when:** You want the next games or the latest results for a league, not a full-season calendar.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/sports/schedule.md

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### Season schedule

Returns the full schedule of events for a league across an entire season.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / call

**Use when:** You want the complete season calendar of every fixture or result for a competition.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/sports/season_schedule.md

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### Find by name

Finds a team, league, player, event, or venue by name and returns the matches.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / search

**Use when:** You have a name and want to find the matching team, league, player, event, or venue.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/sports/search.md

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### Entity details

Returns the full record for a team, league, player, or event.

**Cost:** 0.1 credits / lookup

**Use when:** You have identified one team, league, player, or event and want its full details.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/sports/lookup.md

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On the web: https://askfaro.com/search/sports