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Coaches and game facts per team: head coach, assistants, arena, attendance, referees.

One row per team. arena, attendance and referees (joined with '; ') describe the game and repeat on both rows; assistant_coaches is joined with '; '.

Endpoint: GET https://api2.acb.com/api/matchdata/Result/boxscores

Usage

acb_box_info(match_id)

Arguments

match_id

(required) ACB match id (integer), one global sequence for every competition: legacy ids (seasons up to 2019-20) sit below about 20000 (12559 = the 2005-06 final); ids from 2020-21 start around 100000 (105401 = Barca 89-86 Valencia Basket, Liga 2026-27 round 3). A whole number; a whole double is accepted.

Value

A hoopR_data tibble, one row per record described above; the columns are always these, in this order (sportsdataverse-py acb_box_info):

col_nametypedescription
match_idintegerACB match id (one global sequence for every competition; legacy ids are below about 20000 up to 2019-20, ids from 2020-21 start around 100000). Taken from the request when the body does not name the game.
edition_idintegerSeason id (editionId) = season START year - 1935 (91 = 2026-27). The wrappers take the END year, season.
seasonintegerSeason END year (2027 = 2026-27) = edition_id + 1936: the key the wrappers take.
team_sidecharacterSide of the game the team played: home or away (the feed lists the home team first).
team_idintegerSeason-team entry id: one club in one competition edition, NEW every season (Barca = 4467 in Liga 2026-27). Not the club: use club_id to follow a club across seasons.
club_idintegerStable ACB club id (2 = Barca, 9 = Real Madrid, 13 = Valencia Basket): the same across seasons and sponsor names, and the club_id request argument.
teamcharacterTeam name as registered for that season (sponsor names change; the club id does not).
team_abbrcharacterThree-letter team abbreviation (BAR, RMB, VBC).
head_coachcharacterHead coach's name.
assistant_coachescharacterAssistant coaches' names joined with '; '.
arenacharacterArena where the game was played; repeats on both team rows.
attendanceintegerAnnounced attendance; repeats on both team rows.
refereescharacterReferees' names joined with '; '; repeats on both team rows.

Details

Source, terms of use, request pacing, seasons, ids, coverage and error classes of this family: see the notes in acb_match_header().

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(acb_box_info(match_id = 105401))
#> ── ACB Box Info from api2.acb.com ─────────────────────────────── hoopR 3.2.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-31 21:26:24 UTC
#> # A tibble: 2 × 13
#>   match_id edition_id season team_side team_id club_id team            team_abbr
#>      <int>      <int>  <int> <chr>       <int>   <int> <chr>           <chr>    
#> 1   105401         91   2027 home         4467       2 Barça           BAR      
#> 2   105401         91   2027 away         4472      13 Valencia Basket VBC      
#> # ℹ 5 more variables: head_coach <chr>, assistant_coaches <chr>, arena <chr>,
#> #   attendance <int>, referees <chr>
# }