SportsEvent

A Schema.org Type

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Canonical URL: https://schema.org/SportsEvent
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Event type: Sports event.

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from SportsEvent
`awayTeam`	Person or SportsTeam	The away team in a sports event.
`competitor`	Person or SportsTeam	A competitor in a sports event.
`homeTeam`	Person or SportsTeam	The home team in a sports event.
`sport`	Text or URL	A type of sport (e.g. Baseball).
Properties from Event
`about`	Thing	The subject matter of the content. Inverse property: subjectOf
`actor`	Person	An actor, e.g. in TV, radio, movie, video games etc., or in an event. Actors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip. Supersedes actors.
`aggregateRating`	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
`attendee`	Organization or Person	A person or organization attending the event. Supersedes attendees.
`audience`	Audience	An intended audience, i.e. a group for whom something was created. Supersedes serviceAudience.
`composer`	Organization or Person	The person or organization who wrote a composition, or who is the composer of a work performed at some event.
`contributor`	Organization or Person	A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork or Event.
`director`	Person	A director of e.g. TV, radio, movie, video gaming etc. content, or of an event. Directors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip. Supersedes directors.
`doorTime`	DateTime or Time	The time admission will commence.
`duration`	Duration	The duration of the item (movie, audio recording, event, etc.) in ISO 8601 date format.
`endDate`	Date or DateTime	The end date and time of the item (in ISO 8601 date format).
`eventAttendanceMode`	EventAttendanceModeEnumeration	The eventAttendanceMode of an event indicates whether it occurs online, offline, or a mix.
`eventSchedule`	Schedule	Associates an Event with a Schedule. There are circumstances where it is preferable to share a schedule for a series of repeating events rather than data on the individual events themselves. For example, a website or application might prefer to publish a schedule for a weekly gym class rather than provide data on every event. A schedule could be processed by applications to add forthcoming events to a calendar. An Event that is associated with a Schedule using this property should not have startDate or endDate properties. These are instead defined within the associated Schedule, this avoids any ambiguity for clients using the data. The property might have repeated values to specify different schedules, e.g. for different months or seasons.
`eventStatus`	EventStatusType	An eventStatus of an event represents its status; particularly useful when an event is cancelled or rescheduled.
`funder`	Organization or Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
`funding`	Grant	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. Inverse property: fundedItem
`inLanguage`	Language or Text	The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. See also availableLanguage. Supersedes language.
`isAccessibleForFree`	Boolean	A flag to signal that the item, event, or place is accessible for free. Supersedes free.
`keywords`	DefinedTerm or Text or URL	Keywords or tags used to describe some item. Multiple textual entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas, or by repeating the property.
`location`	Place or PostalAddress or Text or VirtualLocation	The location of, for example, where an event is happening, where an organization is located, or where an action takes place.
`maximumAttendeeCapacity`	Integer	The total number of individuals that may attend an event or venue.
`maximumPhysicalAttendeeCapacity`	Integer	The maximum physical attendee capacity of an Event whose eventAttendanceMode is OfflineEventAttendanceMode (or the offline aspects, in the case of a MixedEventAttendanceMode).
`maximumVirtualAttendeeCapacity`	Integer	The maximum virtual attendee capacity of an Event whose eventAttendanceMode is OnlineEventAttendanceMode (or the online aspects, in the case of a MixedEventAttendanceMode).
`offers`	Demand or Offer	An offer to provide this item—for example, an offer to sell a product, rent the DVD of a movie, perform a service, or give away tickets to an event. Use businessFunction to indicate the kind of transaction offered, i.e. sell, lease, etc. This property can also be used to describe a Demand. While this property is listed as expected on a number of common types, it can be used in others. In that case, using a second type, such as Product or a subtype of Product, can clarify the nature of the offer. Inverse property: itemOffered
`organizer`	Organization or Person	An organizer of an Event.
`performer`	Organization or Person	A performer at the event—for example, a presenter, musician, musical group or actor. Supersedes performers.
`previousStartDate`	Date	Used in conjunction with eventStatus for rescheduled or cancelled events. This property contains the previously scheduled start date. For rescheduled events, the startDate property should be used for the newly scheduled start date. In the (rare) case of an event that has been postponed and rescheduled multiple times, this field may be repeated.
`recordedIn`	CreativeWork	The CreativeWork that captured all or part of this Event. Inverse property: recordedAt
`remainingAttendeeCapacity`	Integer	The number of attendee places for an event that remain unallocated.
`review`	Review	A review of the item. Supersedes reviews.
`sponsor`	Organization or Person	A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event.
`startDate`	Date or DateTime	The start date and time of the item (in ISO 8601 date format).
`subEvent`	Event	An Event that is part of this event. For example, a conference event includes many presentations, each of which is a subEvent of the conference. Supersedes subEvents. Inverse property: superEvent
`superEvent`	Event	An event that this event is a part of. For example, a collection of individual music performances might each have a music festival as their superEvent. Inverse property: subEvent
`translator`	Organization or Person	Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event.
`typicalAgeRange`	Text	The typical expected age range, e.g. '7-9', '11-'.
`workFeatured`	CreativeWork	A work featured in some event, e.g. exhibited in an ExhibitionEvent. Specific subproperties are available for workPerformed (e.g. a play), or a workPresented (a Movie at a ScreeningEvent).
`workPerformed`	CreativeWork	A work performed in some event, for example a play performed in a TheaterEvent.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType`	Text or URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text or TextObject	A description of the item.
`disambiguatingDescription`	Text	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
`identifier`	PropertyValue or Text or URL	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
`image`	ImageObject or URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage`	CreativeWork or URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity
`name`	Text	The name of the item.
`potentialAction`	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`sameAs`	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
`subjectOf`	CreativeWork or Event	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. Inverse property: about
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of SportsEvent may appear as a value for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
sportsEvent	ExerciseAction	A sub property of location. The sports event where this action occurred.

Examples

Example 1

No Markup JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

World Series Event in JSON.

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "SportsEvent",
  "name": "2013 World Series",
  "subEvent": {
    "@type": "SportsEvent",
    "@id": "http://mlb.com/ws2013g1",
    "name": "2013 World Series - Game 1"
  }
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example 2

No Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A broadcast of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 final.

Example encoded as Microdata embedded in HTML.

<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BroadcastEvent">
  <span itemprop="name">FIFA Women's World Cup Final</span>
  <span itemprop="description">US vs. Japan</span>
  <link itemprop="isLiveBroadcast" href="https://schema.org/True" />
  <span itemprop="videoFormat">HD</span>
  <span itemprop="startDate" content="2015-07-05T15:30-07:00">starts 07/05/2015 3:30PM</span>
  <div itemprop="broadcastOfEvent" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/SportsEvent">
    <span itemprop="name">FIFA Women's World Cup Final 2015</span>
    <div itemprop="competitor" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/SportsTeam">
      <meta itemprop="name" content="United States" />
    </div>
    <div itemprop="competitor" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/SportsTeam">
      <meta itemprop="name" content="Japan" />
    </div>
    <meta itemprop="startDate" content="2015-07-05T16:00-07:00" />
    <div itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/City">
      Played in <span itemprop="name">Vancouver</span>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="BroadcastEvent">
  <span property="name">FIFA Women's World Cup Final</span>
  <span property="description">US vs. Japan</span>
  <link property="isLiveBroadcast" href="https://schema.org/True" />
  <span property="videoFormat">HD</span>
  <span property="startDate" content="2015-07-05T15:30-07:00">starts 07/05/2015 3:30PM</span>
  <div property="broadcastOfEvent" typeof="SportsEvent">
    <span property="name">FIFA Women's World Cup Final 2015</span>
    <div property="competitor" typeof="SportsTeam">
      <meta property="name" content="United States" />
    </div>
    <div property="competitor" typeof="SportsTeam">
      <meta property="name" content="Japan" />
    </div>
    <meta property="startDate" content="2015-07-05T16:00-07:00" />
    <div property="location" typeof="City">
      Played in <span property="name">Vancouver</span>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context":"https://schema.org",
  "@type":"BroadcastEvent",
  "name": "FIFA Women's World Cup Final",
  "description": "US vs. Japan",
  "isLiveBroadcast": true,
  "videoFormat": "HD",
  "startDate": "2015-07-05T15:30-07:00",
  "broadcastOfEvent": {
    "@type": "SportsEvent",
    "name": "FIFA Women's World Cup Final 2015",
    "competitor": [
      {
        "@type": "SportsTeam",
        "name": "United States"
      },
      {
        "@type": "SportsTeam",
        "name": "Japan"
      }
    ],
    "startDate": "2015-07-05T16:00-07:00",
    "location": {
      "@type": "City",
      "name": "Vancouver"
    }
  }
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.