This repository contains social metadata for soccer teams that participate to the 2015/2016 UEFA Champions League.

Feel free to use this dataset and contribute to it!

DATA FORMAT

name Name of the team
country Country of the team
wikipedia English wikipedia page (prefix https://en.wikipedia.org)
facebook Facebook account (prefix https://www.facebook.com)
twitter Twitter handle
reddit Reddit page (prefix https://www.reddit.com)

RFD - Request For (Meta)Data

Main focus is on static data related to the teams:

Teams official website
Universal short ids for the team. Similar to 3-digit ISO codes that are often used to display live score on TV.
Team players (participating to the tournament) and their Twitter/FB/Wiki account.
Other languages for Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Hashtags for the teams on Twitter
Team badges

SOURCES

CONTRIBUTING

There are many ways to contribute to this project, such as:

Fixing data
Adding new attributes (see the RFD above)
Suggesting a new data structure (nesting, internationalization, ..)
Build historical data (e.g. for previous tournaments)

Please note:

Changes must be made via pull request
Keep the current indentation to ease the diff
All string must be encoded in UTF-8
Use GitHub for all communication (issues, fixes, ..)