FIBA GAMEPAGE: lineup

Lineup card (the players who were registered for the game) of both teams of one FIBA game.

Endpoint: GET https://www.fiba.basketball/en/games/{game_id}

Usage

fiba_gamepage_lineup(game_id, comp, return_parsed = TRUE)

Arguments

game_id

(integer, required) FIBA game id (global): gameId of a gdap schedule row, e.g. 100720 = the World Cup 2023 final.

comp

(integer, required) Required. FIBA competition id (GDAP key space), one per edition: competition.competitionId of any game row (208182 = World Cup 2023, 208722 = Paris 2024 men, 208850 = BCL 2024-25). The game must belong to it. Find it with fiba_gdap_editions or fiba_gdap_games_between.

return_parsed

Parse the payload into a tibble (default TRUE); FALSE returns the raw JSON list (the game-page objects game, playByPlay, gameDetails, playersTeamA, playersTeamB).

Value

A wehoop_data tibble (the raw JSON list when return_parsed = FALSE) with the following columns:

col_name	type	description
game_id	integer	FIBA game id (Int64), global across competitions: gdapGameId, the <gameId> of a game-page URL.
competition_id	integer	FIBA competition id (Int64) of the game's edition; the comp argument.
team_side	character	A or B: whether the row is the schedule's team A or team B (null when the page does not say).
organisation_id	integer	Stable federation or club id (Int64) of the team, the same in every competition (64 = Germany); the page's T_<id> and the play-by-play oId. NOT the per-competition team_id.
player_id	integer	FIBA person id (Int64), global across competitions and roles: the page's P_<id>, play-by-play pId, roster personId and fiba_gdap_roster.player_id.
first_name	character	Given name(s) as registered with FIBA.
last_name	character	Last name as registered with FIBA.
jersey	character	Jersey number as a string.
position	character	Playing position code from the lineup card (PG, SG, SF, PF, C).
is_captain	logical	True for the team captain.

Details

FIBA's terms restrict this source. The GDAP developer-portal terms limit API use to 'Authorized Users' (federations, organisers, FIBA partners) and say any broader use 'is not authorised'; the fiba.basketball terms say no portion of the site may be duplicated, redistributed or manipulated. The package owner reviewed both clauses on 2026-10-12, accepted them and approved the full intake, published data releases included. Users who are not themselves authorised by FIBA should check the terms before using the wrappers.

The GDAP subscription key is public (fiba.basketball ships it in every page); the runtime reads it from the live page at run time and never logs it. Officials' contact details and coaches' and officials' dates of birth are dropped from every body.

Id key spaces: competition_id is one per edition (2023 World Cup = 208182) and game_id is global across competitions (the <gameId> of a game-page URL). team_id is per team per competition (Germany is 279569 at the 2023 World Cup and 281545 at Paris 2024), while organisation_id is the stable federation or club (64 = Germany, every year); the game page's T_<id> and the play-by-play oId are organisation ids, not team ids.

The wrapper takes the game id and its competition (comp) and builds the real page URL from GDAP (the competition's marketing name gives the history slug, its schedule gives the two team codes; a competition with an event page is tried at its event URL when the archive URL answers the not-found shell, and the Champions League host last).

Box scores start about 2006; play-by-play with shot x/y about 2012 (OVR events) and 2017-18 (FLS club competitions). A game with no box score raises wehoop_no_data; a game still live raises wehoop_asset_fetch. The page request sends a browser User-Agent (sdv-py answers fiba.basketball's HTTP 403 to plain clients with Chrome TLS; libcurl with a browser User-Agent was served on 2026-10-18). Shot x/y are image pixels with an unverified scale.

Errors are classed conditions (all inherit wehoop_error): wehoop_no_data when FIBA has nothing (HTTP 404, or GDAP answers {} / [] for an unknown id, a game page with no box score, a listed game whose teams are not drawn yet); wehoop_bad_request for HTTP 400 / 422 or a malformed id, season or date; wehoop_asset_fetch for any other failed fetch or an answer that is not about the request (an error envelope, HTTP 401 after a key refresh, HTTP 500, a body for another game, competition, team, player, federation, family or season, a game of another competition than comp, the HTTP 200 not-found shell of a wrong game page, a live game). Seasons are FIBA's own key, which equals the sdv key: the END year for club competitions, the event year for national-team events, the target tournament year for qualifiers.

 fiba_gamepage_lineup(game_id = 100720, comp = 208182)

See also

Other FIBA Functions: fiba_gamepage_box_players(), fiba_gamepage_box_teams(), fiba_gamepage_pbp(), fiba_gamepage_period_scores(), fiba_gamepage_shots(), fiba_gdap_awards(), fiba_gdap_competition(), fiba_gdap_editions(), fiba_gdap_federation_games(), fiba_gdap_federation_ranking(), fiba_gdap_final_standings(), fiba_gdap_game(), fiba_gdap_game_officials(), fiba_gdap_game_periods(), fiba_gdap_games_between(), fiba_gdap_gateway_competition_ids(), fiba_gdap_gateway_federation_ranking(), fiba_gdap_medal_count(), fiba_gdap_national_teams(), fiba_gdap_nominations(), fiba_gdap_player_game_stats(), fiba_gdap_player_info(), fiba_gdap_player_stats(), fiba_gdap_ranking_zones(), fiba_gdap_roster(), fiba_gdap_roster_coaches(), fiba_gdap_roster_latest(), fiba_gdap_round_gamedays(), fiba_gdap_round_standings(), fiba_gdap_rounds(), fiba_gdap_schedule(), fiba_gdap_team_games(), fiba_gdap_team_player_stats(), fiba_gdap_team_staff(), fiba_gdap_team_stats(), fiba_gdap_teams()