Header of one finished game: round, date, venue, attendance, both clubs with their score, commissioner and referees.
Endpoint: GET https://www.aba-liga.com/match/{game_no}/{sez}/{lea}/Overview
sez = season - 2001; league = "aba2" reads https://druga.aba-liga.com with lea = 2.
Arguments
- game_no
Required. Game number within the season AND league (it restarts at 1 for every season and league), e.g. 6;
game_noin aba_calendar. Playoff games that were not needed leave gaps.- season
Required. Season END year (2026 = 2025-26). the wrapper sends the site's START-year key
sez = season - 2001(25). The ABA League's first season is 2001-02 (season=2002).- league
League:
aba(ABA League, www.aba-liga.com, site code lea=1) oraba2(ABA League 2, druga.aba-liga.com, lea=2). Both sites serve one database; the runtime asks the league's own host. Default"aba".
Value
A hoopR_data tibble.
One row keyed by (game_no, season, league_id): round and competition labels, the date line split into
date / time / time_zone (CET is wall-clock Central European time including summer time; ABA League 2
prints local), attendance, venue (null before 2017-18), the two clubs with their global team_id and final
score, the commissioner and the referees ("; "-joined, names only).
Every column below is always present (a zero-row tibble keeps them and their types); an answer with nothing in
it raises hoopR_no_data, as in sportsdataverse-py.
| col_name | type | description |
| game_no | integer | Game number, per season AND league: it restarts at 1 for every season and league, so a game's key is (game_no, season, league_id). Unplayed playoff games leave gaps. The {gameNo} of the match route. |
| season | integer | Season END year (2026 = 2025-26): the site's START-year key sez (25) plus 2001. |
| league_id | integer | League code, the site's lea: 1 = ABA League, 2 = ABA League 2. |
| league | character | League label: aba (ABA League, lea 1) or aba2 (ABA League 2, lea 2), the wrapper's league argument. |
| season_label | character | Season label as the page prints it ('2025/26' on the match page, 'Season 2025/26' on the calendar and standings pages). |
| round | character | Round / phase label as the page prints it: 'ROUND 1', 'Top8 - R2', 'Quarter-finals, Round 1', 'Finals, Round 4', 'Semifinal'. Same vocabulary as calendar games[].round. |
| competition | character | Competition name as printed, sponsor included and applied to every season: 'AdmiralBet ABA League' (2017-18 and 2025-26), 'Regional League' (2008-09), '2. ABA liga' (ABA League 2). |
| group | character | Group letter of a two-group regular season ('A', 'B'). ABSENT when the season has no groups (2008-09, 2017-18 and ABA League 2 samples). |
| when | character | Date-and-time line verbatim (English weekday, dd.mm.yyyy, hh:mm, time-zone label). |
| date | Date | Game date, from the date-and-time line (the first date of a window); null for 'TBA'. |
| date_to | Date | Last date of a 'dd.mm.yyyy - dd.mm.yyyy' window printed before a game is scheduled; null on a game with a single date. |
| time | character | Tip-off time 'hh:mm' in time_zone. |
| time_zone | character | 'CET' = Central European wall-clock time INCLUDING summer time (the label never changes; the Dubai local times prove CEST in October/June, CET in winter); 'local' = the arena's local time (ABA League 2 prints 'Local time'). |
| local_time | character | Arena-local tip-off 'hh:mm' when the arena is outside Central Europe ('(19:00 Dubai local time)'); null otherwise. |
| local_place | character | City of local_time ('Dubai', 'Cluj-Napoca'); null when the arena is in Central Europe. |
| attendance | integer | Spectators (the users icon). The parser sets null when the page prints none (never seen: every banked page prints it; null is part of the record contract). |
| venue | character | Arena name ('Venue: ...'). ABSENT on the 2008-09 sample (the page has no venue line). |
| home_team_id | integer | ABA team id (key space: aba-liga.com clubs, the same id in every season and in both leagues, e.g. Partizan = 22 in 2008-09 and 2025-26, Krka = 10). The first number of /team/{id}/{sez}/{lea}/0/{slug}/ and of the logo images/club/{size}/{id}.png. Joins match game.*_team_id / players / teams / pbp, standings rows and the player page. Not a player id. |
| home_team | character | Home club name as the site prints it NOW: a club's current name is applied to every season (2008-09 shows 'Partizan Mozzart Bet'); a club that no longer plays keeps its last name (2008-09 'Petrol Olimpija'). Join on the team id. |
| home_city | character | Home club city (local spelling: 'Beograd', 'Novo Mesto'). |
| home_score | integer | Home final score. |
| away_team_id | integer | ABA team id (key space: aba-liga.com clubs, the same id in every season and in both leagues, e.g. Partizan = 22 in 2008-09 and 2025-26, Krka = 10). The first number of /team/{id}/{sez}/{lea}/0/{slug}/ and of the logo images/club/{size}/{id}.png. Joins match game.*_team_id / players / teams / pbp, standings rows and the player page. Not a player id. |
| away_team | character | Away club name as the site prints it now (see home_team). |
| away_city | character | Away club city (local spelling). |
| away_score | integer | Away final score. |
| commissioner | character | Game commissioner's name ('Commissioner:' line); 2008-09 adds an IOC-style country code in parentheses ('(SRB)'). Null when not printed. |
| referees | character | Referees' names in page order (crew chief first), joined with '; ' (2008-09 adds an IOC-style country code in parentheses). Names only. |
Details
Unofficial use of a public source: these wrappers read the leagues' own PHP sites (www.aba-liga.com,
druga.aba-liga.com), keyless, with no bot wall.
www.aba-liga.com/robots.txt is the single line User-agent: * (nothing disallowed, no Crawl-delay) and druga has
no robots.txt; no terms page was found. The runtime waits at least 1 s per host before every request.
Coverage: box scores from 2001-02; play-by-play, the starter and on-court markers, the shot chart and the
minute-by-minute score from 2017-18 (earlier games answer an empty pbp and hoopR_no_data for the helpers). A
game is keyed by (game_no, season, league_id): game_no restarts at 1 for every season and league. Team and player
ids are global; the calendar carries club names only. Club names are the club's CURRENT name on every season:
join on team_id.
Only finished games are served: an unplayed game, or one whose period scores, team totals or play-by-play do not
add up to the final score, raises hoopR_asset_fetch, as does a page for another game, season or league than
asked. The three live-match helpers echo nothing about the game, so the runtime fetches the same game's match
page first (one extra request) and checks the helper against it.
Times: CET means Central European wall-clock time including summer time (the label never changes); ABA League 2
prints Local time. Officials appear by name only; the player bio (birth date and place, nationality) is the
public player profile.
Errors: hoopR_no_data when the site has nothing for the request (HTTP 404, an unknown game redirected to
/match-not-defined/, a season the site does not hold or before 2001-02, a live-match helper with no data before
2017-18); hoopR_bad_request for an invalid argument (a non-integer id or season, a league other than aba /
aba2) or HTTP 400 / 422; hoopR_asset_fetch when the fetch failed (any other non-200, a connection failure
after three attempts, a redirect off the ABA sites) or the answer is not the one asked for (a page for another
game, season or league, an unfinished game, a helper that does not belong to the game, layout drift). All inherit
hoopR_error.
See also
Other ABA Functions:
aba_box_players(),
aba_box_teams(),
aba_calendar(),
aba_pbp(),
aba_periods(),
aba_player(),
aba_player_games(),
aba_score_difference(),
aba_score_flow(),
aba_shots(),
aba_standings()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(aba_game(game_no = 6, season = 2026))
#> ── ABA League Game ────────────────────────────────────────────── hoopR 3.2.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-31 21:26:20 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1 × 27
#> game_no season league_id league season_label round competition group when
#> <int> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 6 2026 1 aba 2025/26 ROUND 1 AdmiralBet A… B Sund…
#> # ℹ 18 more variables: date <date>, date_to <date>, time <chr>,
#> # time_zone <chr>, local_time <chr>, local_place <chr>, attendance <int>,
#> # venue <chr>, home_team_id <int>, home_team <chr>, home_city <chr>,
#> # home_score <int>, away_team_id <int>, away_team <chr>, away_city <chr>,
#> # away_score <int>, commissioner <chr>, referees <chr>
# }