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
Polite use. www.nationalleague.ch/robots.txt disallows /api, so keep use light and incremental. Requests
are spaced at least one second apart (on every attempt, retries included). Check the site's terms of use before
any bulk download or redistribution. 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: 2026-11-02 03:51:44 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>
# }