# Premier League API: Get player stats > Looks up a Premier League player by name and returns the profile and either career totals or the stats for a chosen season. If names clash, a current Premier League player is preferred. Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Premier League. - Page: https://fous.com/methods/premierleague.com/get-player-stats - Method: `premierleague.com/get_player_stats`, version 1 - Website: premierleague.com - Returns: name, club, position, shirt number, nationality, date of birth, photo and profile URL, appearances, goals, assists, clean sheets, cards, minutes played - Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing) - Sign-in: none needed - Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1ยข with pay as you go); failed runs are free - Verified: Nov 2, 2026 ## Inputs | Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description | |---|---|---|---|---| | `player` | string | yes | `"Bukayo Saka"` | Player name, for example Bukayo Saka. | | `season` | string | no | | Premier League season, for example 2025/26. Omit for career totals. Default "". | ## Output From a run on Oct 23, 2026. Its input: ```json { "player": "Bukayo Saka" } ``` Its output: ```json { "club": "Arsenal", "name": "Bukayo Saka", "goals": 63, "assists": 50, "position": "Forward", "photo_url": "https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague25/photos/players/110x140/223340.png", "player_id": "223340", "red_cards": 0, "player_url": "https://www.premierleague.com/en/players/223340/bukayo-saka/stats", "appearances": 233, "nationality": "England", "clean_sheets": null, "shirt_number": 7, "yellow_cards": 28, "date_of_birth": "2001-09-05", "minutes_played": 17992 } ``` ## Run it From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output: ```bash curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"method":"premierleague.com/get_player_stats","input":{"player":"Bukayo Saka"}}' ``` From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`. ## Ask your agent - What are Bukayo Saka's career totals for appearances, goals, and assists in the Premier League? - Show me Erling Haaland's stats for the 2024/25 season, including goals, assists, and minutes played. - I need Mohamed Salah's shirt number, club, nationality, and date of birth from the Premier League site. - How many clean sheets and yellow cards does Virgil van Dijk have for the 2023/24 season? - Pull up the profile and career stats for Cole Palmer, including his photo and minutes played. ## Input schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "player" ], "properties": { "player": { "type": "string", "description": "Player name, for example Bukayo Saka." }, "season": { "type": "string", "default": "", "description": "Premier League season, for example 2025/26. Omit for career totals." } } } ``` ## Output schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "name", "club", "position", "shirt_number", "nationality", "date_of_birth", "photo_url", "player_url", "appearances", "goals", "assists", "clean_sheets", "yellow_cards", "red_cards", "minutes_played", "player_id" ], "properties": { "club": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "name": { "type": "string" }, "goals": { "type": "integer" }, "assists": { "type": "integer" }, "position": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "photo_url": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "player_id": { "type": "string", "x-fous-developer": true }, "red_cards": { "type": "integer" }, "player_url": { "type": "string" }, "appearances": { "type": "integer" }, "nationality": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "clean_sheets": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "shirt_number": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "yellow_cards": { "type": "integer" }, "date_of_birth": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "format": "date" }, "minutes_played": { "type": "integer" } }, "additionalProperties": false } ``` ## See more - [Premier League API: List top players by stat](https://fous.com/methods/premierleague.com/list-top-scorers.md): Ranks Premier League players for a season by goals, assists or goalkeeper clean sheets, with each player's club and nationality. - [Premier League API: Get league table](https://fous.com/methods/premierleague.com/get-league-table.md): Gets the Premier League table for the current season or a chosen season, with each club's last five league results. - [Premier League API: Get fixtures and results](https://fous.com/methods/premierleague.com/get-fixtures-and-results.md): Gets Premier League fixtures and results in a date range, with kickoff times in your chosen time zone. Returns up to 380 matches. - [NFL API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/nfl.com/get-player-stats.md): Gets a named NFL player's season and career stats, with profile details. Active players are preferred when names match. - [NHL API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/nhl.com/get-player-stats.md): Looks up an NHL player by name, link or ID and returns the profile with regular-season stats for a season and career totals. - [ESPN API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/espn.com/get-player-stats.md): Looks up an ESPN player by name and returns season and career statistics. Use a league to tell apart players with the same name, and a season year or label to pick a past season. - [Yahoo API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/sports.yahoo.com/get-player-stats.md): Looks up a Yahoo Sports player by name and returns the player's regular-season statistics for a season, alongside career totals. Each stat includes season and career values. - [Transfermarkt API: Get a football club's squad and market values](https://fous.com/methods/transfermarkt.com/get-club-squad.md): Finds a football club on Transfermarkt by name, link or ID and returns its squad for a season with each player's position, age, nationality, market value and contract, highest value first. - [All Premier League methods](https://fous.com/methods/premierleague.com.md)