Web Scraping UEFA Europa League Player Data

The main technical skill for this project is web scraping. For this project I am wanting 8 years (years 2005/06 to 2012/13) of all UEFA Europa League football matches player data scraped off of a website.

The data I want is at the following website: [url removed, login to view]

Underneath the tab history there are the years 1971/72 to 2011/12. I will want the information described below for the years 2005/06 to 2012/13.

To get to the information, you need to click on the needed year under the history tab. For this example I will click on the year 2005/06 (http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2005/[url removed, login to view]). Then click on the tab entitled “Matches” (http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2005/matches/[url removed, login to view]). Then click on the tab entitled “All Matches” (http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2005/matches/all/[url removed, login to view]). For the given season (for this example 2005/06) all of the matches played that year are listed. I will want information from each of the matches for each of the 8 years noted above. To get to the information for a given match you must click on the score between the two teams’ name (example: 0-1, 0-1, or 4-0). For this example, I will click on the last match on the list of Middlesbrough vs Sevilla by clicking on the 0-4 between the two teams’ name (http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2005/matches/round=2214/match=84102/[url removed, login to view]). Half of the information that will need to be scraped will be on this page. In the attached excel spreadsheet the data for column “round” through column “opposing teams red cards” (column A through column BG) can be found on this page. The rest of the information can be found by clicking on the hyperlink “more” under match statistics on the right side of the page (http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2005/matches/round=2214/match=84102/postmatch/statistics/[url removed, login to view]). In the attached excel spreadsheet the data for column “goals scored (GS)” through column “red cards (RC)” (column BH through column BP) can be found on this page. The information needed from each of these pages are the column headings of the excel spreadsheet provided.

As can be noted in the excel spreadsheet the data is to be organized at the player level with each row of data being for an individual player in the match. Each match should create 36 rows of information for each of the 36 players that are part of the match (18 individuals from each team).

I want to have this project finish in the next 3-4 days.

I will also want the data either in an excel spreadsheet or a csv file.

Attached is an example excel sheet and the exact same data that was scrapped from the same website, but for the Champions league instead of the Europa league.

I want the data in the exact same format as the [url removed, login to view] file.

Web Scraping

Nº du projet : #5133507

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