One game's lineups: every dressed player by unit, with licence number, position and line.
Arguments
- game_id
SIHF game id, 14 digits
<season(4)><competition(4)><sequence(6)>(game_idinnl_schedule(); the same id as the SIHF family'sgame_id), e.g.20261105000325. A whole number or a digit string; 14 digits are exact as a double, so do not format them throughinteger.- return_parsed
Logical.
TRUE(the default) returns thefastRhockey_datatibble;FALSEreturns the raw JSON body as a nested list (api keys already dropped).
Value
A fastRhockey_data tibble (13 columns) with the columns below, or the raw JSON body when return_parsed = FALSE.
A valid but empty payload returns a zero-row tibble with these columns.
| col_name | type | description |
| game_id | numeric | SIHF game id <season(4)><competition(4)><sequence(6)> (whole number; e.g. 20261105000325, 1105 = National League). The same id as the sihf family's game_id; its first four digits are the season END year. |
| team_side | character | home or away: the side of the team this row belongs to. |
| team_id | numeric | SIHF team id (whole number; e.g. 101151 = HC Davos). The same key space as the sihf family's team_id. |
| unit | character | Lineup group: goalkeeper, or the line number 1-4 as a string. |
| player_id | numeric | SIHF licence number (whole number; e.g. 305519 = Tobias Geisser). Joins the sihf family's player_id and every SIHF *LicenceNr. |
| position | character | goalkeeper, defender or forwarder (sic) |
| line | integer | Line number, an integer (goalkeepers 1-2 = first / backup) |
| first_name | character | First (given) name of the player |
| last_name | character | Last (family) name of the player |
| number | character | Sweater number, a string |
| is_topscorer | logical | Wears the team's PostFinance Top Scorer jersey |
| is_captain | logical | Whether the player is the team captain |
| first_goalkeeper | logical | Starting goaltender |
Details
robots.txt ruling. www.nationalleague.ch/robots.txt disallows /api. The owner approved building on it
on 2026-10-12, for polite, incremental use only: requests are spaced at least one second apart (on every
attempt, retries included), and a bulk backfill or a published mirror needs the owner's sign-off first. Crawl
incrementally: fetch a finished game once (keyed by game_id), find new games with one nl_schedule() call
per run, and fetch season tables at most once per game day.
Seasons are END years and go on the wire unchanged. Ids (*_id) are whole-number numeric (a 14-digit
game_id exceeds R's 32-bit integer); every other whole-number column is integer. The club backend key the
API ships in /teams/{id}/info is dropped before parsing and never returned.
Endpoint: GET https://www.nationalleague.ch/api/games/{gameId}.
The six game-page wrappers (nl_game_overview(), nl_pbp(), nl_lineups(), nl_player_box(),
nl_team_stats(), nl_shots()) each read the same /games/{gameId} body, one request each.
Errors
Raises a classed condition (all inherit fastRhockey_error): fastRhockey_no_data for a 404 or an empty answer (no
games or rows for that season, team or phase), fastRhockey_asset_fetch for a failed fetch, an error object in a 200, a body
without the ids it must carry, or an answer for another season, team, game or player, and fastRhockey_bad_request
for a 400/422 or an argument that is not a whole number.
See also
Other National League Functions:
nl_current_games(),
nl_game_overview(),
nl_pbp(),
nl_player_box(),
nl_player_season(),
nl_player_stats(),
nl_playoffs(),
nl_playouts(),
nl_schedule(),
nl_shots(),
nl_standings(),
nl_team_info(),
nl_team_player_stats(),
nl_team_schedule(),
nl_team_stats(),
nl_top_scorers()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(nl_lineups(game_id = 20261105000325))
#> ── National League Lineups Information from nationalleague.ch ──────────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-13 01:58:20 UTC
#> # A tibble: 44 × 13
#> game_id team_side team_id unit player_id position line first_name last_name
#> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2.03e13 home 101151 goal… 150983 goalkee… 1 Sandro Aeschlim…
#> 2 2.03e13 home 101151 goal… 309536 goalkee… 2 Luca Hollenst…
#> 3 2.03e13 home 101151 1 153736 defender 1 Lukas Frick
#> 4 2.03e13 home 101151 1 340162 defender 1 Klas Dahlbeck
#> 5 2.03e13 home 101151 1 301617 forward… 1 Tino Kessler
#> 6 2.03e13 home 101151 1 346405 forward… 1 Filip Zadina
#> 7 2.03e13 home 101151 1 347698 forward… 1 Rasmus Asplund
#> 8 2.03e13 home 101151 2 152416 defender 2 Sven Jung
#> 9 2.03e13 home 101151 2 322236 defender 2 Calle Andersson
#> 10 2.03e13 home 101151 2 309618 forward… 2 Valentin Nussbaum…
#> # ℹ 34 more rows
#> # ℹ 4 more variables: number <chr>, is_topscorer <lgl>, is_captain <lgl>,
#> # first_goalkeeper <lgl>
# }