# GET /v2/managers/{id}

Group: Referees & managers

A manager / head coach: country, date of birth, preferred formation, current team, career record (games, wins, draws, losses, goals, points) and every job with its own record, newest first.

Note: The current job’s to is the contract end — a date in the future. A job’s scoresFor / scoresAgainst can be null where the source gives only results.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | path | yes | our numeric id (positive integer) |

## Response

- `data`: `ManagerProfile`
- `meta`: stintCount
- Objects: ManagerProfile (https://sportsapi.app/markdown/en/reference.md#managerprofile)

## Errors

- 404 not_found — an id we never issued

Plus the common errors (https://sportsapi.app/markdown/en/docs.md#errors).

## Request

cURL:

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
    "https://api.sportsapi.app/v2/managers/{id}"
```

TypeScript:

```ts
const { data, meta } = await client.managers.get(id);
```

Python:

```python
res = client.managers.get(id)
```

Go:

```go
res, err := client.Managers.Get(ctx, id)
```

CLI:

```bash
$ sportsapi managers get <id>
```

## Example response

```json
{ "data": { "id": 794950, "name": "José Mourinho", "slug": "jose-mourinho", "shortName": "J. Mourinho",
    "image": "https://cdn.sportsapi.app/v2/managers/794950/photo", "sport": "football",
    "country": { "code": "PT", "name": "Portugal" }, "dateOfBirth": "1963-01-26", "preferredFormation": "4-2-3-1",
    "team": { "id": 2829, "name": "Real Madrid", … },
    "career": { "games": 1255, "wins": 778, "draws": 252, "losses": 225, "scoresFor": 2461, "scoresAgainst": 1171, "points": 2586 },
    "stints": [ { "team": { "id": 2829, "name": "Real Madrid", … }, "from": "2026-07-01", "to": "2029-06-30",
                  "record": { "games": 12, "wins": 10, "draws": 0, "losses": 2, "scoresFor": null, "scoresAgainst": null, "points": 30 } }, … ] },
  "meta": { "stintCount": 13 } }
```

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Base URL: https://api.sportsapi.app. Send your API key as `Authorization: Bearer <key>` on every /v2 request; keys are created in the dashboard (https://sportsapi.app/dashboard).
HTML: https://sportsapi.app/docs/people/managers-get · All docs: https://sportsapi.app/markdown/en/docs.md