Finland Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from Finland with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top sports headlines from Finland. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=sports&country=fi&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=sports" \
  --data-urlencode "country=fi" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "sports", "country": "fi", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "sports",
    country: "fi",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "sports",
    "country"  => "fi",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=sports&country=fi&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 79448,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "18d5d84bfe8c0c919d8368e3a35c5c55",
            "title": "Helsingin jäähalliin tehdään keväällä miljoonaremontti",
            "description": "Nordiksen katto remontoidaan ensi keväänä. Pienempiä korjauksia tehdään jatkuvasti 60-vuotiaaseen rakennukseen.",
            "content": "Helsingin jäähallin, Nordiksen, katto on tarkoitus remontoida ensi keväänä. Lokakuun alussa 60 vuotta täyttäneen hallin korjaustarpeet eivät kuitenkaan rajoitu kattoon.\nHelsingin kaupungin omistaman jäähallin ylläpidosta vastaavan Jääkenttäsäätiön to... [5289 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000012336279.html",
            "image": "https://images.sanoma-sndp.fi/495b37581dc88ec35cb92a616971c58f/some/hs-default.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:00:00Z",
            "lang": "fi",
            "source": {
                "id": "07b283984c8a8338fdd582adff1826f1",
                "name": "HS.fi",
                "url": "https://www.hs.fi"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5bc472eec122cb171d8bb064cab3f65e",
            "title": "Kylian Mbappé ja Erling Haaland tekivät historiaa Mestarien liigassa",
            "description": "Mbappé osui juhlaottelussaan, ja Real Madrid nousi dramaattiseen voittoon.",
            "content": "Main ContentPlaceholder\nJalkapallo\nKylian Mbappé ja Erling Haaland tekivät historiaa Mestarien liigassa\nKylian Mbappe teki historiaa Mestarien liigan nuorimpana 100 ottelun pelaajana.\nReal Madrid voitti AS Roman 4–3 ja PSG kaatoi Manchester Cityn 4–2... [2545 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000012343472.html",
            "image": "https://images.sanoma-sndp.fi/87fe4dc0925cf58df6ac594d97c239b2/some/hs-default.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:08:00Z",
            "lang": "fi",
            "source": {
                "id": "07b283984c8a8338fdd582adff1826f1",
                "name": "HS.fi",
                "url": "https://www.hs.fi"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "063ef532cfa0cbe3311c0653f53f2e69",
            "title": "Real Madridilta satumainen nousu AS Roman vieraana",
            "description": "Real Madrid nousi viime minuuteilla AS Roman vieraana 1–3-tappioasemasta 4–3-voittoon Mestarien liigassa.",
            "content": "PSG haki pisteet Manchester Cityn vieraana. Real Madrid nousi loppuminuuteilla kahden maalin takaa voittoon Roomassa.\nParis Saint-Germain peittosi Manchesterista Cityn vieraissa jalkapallon Mestarien liigan keskiviikon huippuottelussa 4–2.\nEdellisten... [1839 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/erling-haalandin-maalit-laiha-lohtu-manchester-citylle-real-madrid-viritti-satumaisen-nousun-roomassa/9406938",
            "image": "https://api.mtvuutiset.fi/graphql/caas/v1/media/share/9406946/4d2e912b1edfc837b5a41af77faa03a5/antonio-rudiger.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T20:59:44Z",
            "lang": "fi",
            "source": {
                "id": "d85246619c19c25ab6a96cb2ca4db649",
                "name": "mtvuutiset.fi",
                "url": "https://www.mtvuutiset.fi"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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