European hockey

Thirteen European hockey leagues each have a home under sportsdataverse.hockey. Unlike the HockeyTech leagues, they do not share a feed: each home wraps its league's own data source, so the function sets differ from league to league.

The homes

Import from	League	Source
sportsdataverse.hockey.del_	DEL (Germany)	the league's public eSports S3 feed
sportsdataverse.hockey.icehl	ICE Hockey League (Austria and neighbours)	the same eSports feed family
sportsdataverse.hockey.eihl	Elite Ice Hockey League (UK)	the same eSports feed family
sportsdataverse.hockey.metal	Metal Ligaen (Denmark)	the same eSports feed family
sportsdataverse.hockey.elh	Czech Extraliga	hokej.cz
sportsdataverse.hockey.liiga	Liiga (Finland)	the Liiga API
sportsdataverse.hockey.shl	SHL (Sweden)	the SHL site API
sportsdataverse.hockey.ha	HockeyAllsvenskan (Sweden)	the HockeyAllsvenskan API
sportsdataverse.hockey.nl	National League (Switzerland)	the National League API
sportsdataverse.hockey.sihf	Swiss leagues	the Swiss federation's data.sihf.ch
sportsdataverse.hockey.magnus	Ligue Magnus (France)	the Ligue Magnus API
sportsdataverse.hockey.khl	KHL	the KHL REST API and its webcaster feed
sportsdataverse.hockey.vhl	VHL	the VHL site

DEL is del_. Its docs pages use the prefix del, and its functions are del_schedule, del_pbp and so on, but the package is hockey.del_: del is a Python keyword, so import sportsdataverse.hockey.del would not parse.

What each home covers

Most homes have a schedule, standings, play-by-play and box scores; several add shot locations, shifts, rosters and player pages. A sample:

Home	Example functions
del_	del_schedule, del_standings, del_pbp, del_shots, del_shifts, del_player_box, del_goalie_box
liiga	liiga_schedule, liiga_standings, liiga_game, liiga_shotmap, liiga_player_game_log
shl	shl_schedule, shl_standings, shl_pbp, shl_player_box, shl_roster
nl	nl_schedule, nl_standings, nl_pbp, nl_shots, nl_lineups
khl	khl_schedule, khl_standings, khl_pbp, khl_shots, khl_webcaster_events
sihf	sihf_results, sihf_standings, sihf_pbp, sihf_game_lineups, the sihf_team_* and sihf_player_* leaderboards

Each home also exports its parsers (parse_liiga_games, parse_esports_pbp, ...) for working from raw payloads. The league pages list every function with its parameters and Returns table: DEL, Liiga, SHL, SIHF and the rest under Hockey in the sidebar.

Shared conventions

• Seasons are END years. season=2026 is 2025-26 in every home; each runtime maps it to its provider's own key at the boundary.
• Polite pacing. Every runtime leaves at least one second between one answer and the next request to the same host, retries included.
• Tidy by default. Wrappers return a polars DataFrame; return_parsed=False gives the raw payload and return_as_pandas=True gives pandas.

from sportsdataverse.hockey.del_ import del_schedule
from sportsdataverse.hockey.liiga import liiga_standings

liiga = liiga_standings(season=2026)          # 2025-26
games = del_schedule(season=2026)
print(liiga.height, games.height)

The SHL and its siblings sometimes key a call on a provider id rather than a season (shl_standings(ssgt_uuid=...)); the league page shows where that id comes from.