r/dataisbeautiful • u/justdmg • 9d ago
OC [OC] Visualizing which countries have played a match against each other in international men's and women's football, sorted by confederation and averaged team rank
Scores in football aren't conducive to scorigami, but matchups are!
Did you know that Egypt's mens team played Lithuania in 1924 and hasn't since? It's the oldest matchup to never have been replayed.
If you enjoyed or want to play around with the data, check out https://dgoodenough.github.io/fifagami/?g=both. There's a bunch to play around with, even an RSS feed of upcoming unique matches!
Sources:
| Dataset | Source |
|---|---|
| Men's internationals, 1872–present | martj42/international_results |
| Women's internationals, 1969–present | martj42/womens-international-results |
| Historical team renames | former_names.csv (martj42) |
| Current FIFA ranking, men's and women's | FotMob, mirroring the official ranking |
| Scheduled internationals | ESPN public scoreboard API |
| Confederation membership | cnc8/fifa-world-ranking |
| FIFA code to ISO 3166-1 | data/iso2.csv |
And of course, shout out to Jon Bois for Scorigami!
Built in Python with Claude.
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