Import Dashboard - Football Leagues Docs

The Dashboard is where you keep imported competitions up to date. It’s the landing screen of FL API Import, and it manages active seasons and schedules automatic data updates.

One thing to get straight first, because it trips people up: the Dashboard lists actions, not competitions. Each row is a job like “Update Finished Games”. Each row separately remembers which competitions it applies to.

⭐ Getting a competition onto the Dashboard

An empty Dashboard says No saved Competition configs. To fill it:

1. Import the competition first, from the API Leagues tab – see Getting Started.
2. On that league’s row, click the orange star button. Its tooltip reads save to Dashboard.

The star is gray and unclickable until the league is linked to a local competition. That’s the usual reason it “does nothing” – the import hasn’t created the competition yet.

To take a competition back off the Dashboard, click the same star again – the tooltip now reads remove from Dashboard. Nothing is deleted: the import configuration, the mappings and all imported data stay exactly as they are. Only the Dashboard listing goes.

Reading the table

Column	What it does
Action Title	The job this row performs.
Competitions	A selected / all link. Click it to choose which competitions the row applies to.
Run	An icon button that runs the job once, right now.
Schedule	An icon button that starts or pauses the automatic version of the job.
Scheduled Status	ACTIVE or DISABLED. When active, a clock shows the current interval.

The action rows

Action	Run now	Schedule	Change interval
Update Finished Games	yes	yes	yes
Update Kick Off Time, Stadiums & Referees	yes	yes	–
Update Predictions	yes	yes	–
Update Odds	yes	yes	–
Update Players	yes	–	–
Update Transfers	yes	–	–
Update Injuries	yes	yes	–
Update LineUps & Formations	–	yes	–
LIVE import	–	yes	–
Create new Games (Lazy Import)	yes	yes	yes
Create/Update Standings (Lazy Import)	yes	yes	yes

Lineups and LIVE import have no Run button on purpose – both only make sense on a timer, tied to kick-off. The last two rows belong to Lazy Import.

If a row is grayed out and says disabled in API Settings, the feature itself is switched off. Predictions, Odds and LIVE each have a master toggle on the Settings tab – turn it on there and the row comes back.

Choosing which competitions an action touches

Click the selected / all link in the Competitions column. The Select Competitions modal opens with a title filter and Select All / Unselect All shortcuts.

The same per-competition toggles are also reachable from API Leagues, inside the Import Competition Configuration modal under Dashboard Actions. Changes there need the Update Dashboard Action Settings button.

⏱ Running and scheduling

The Run button does the job once for the selected competitions, while you watch. Use it after setting a row up, to confirm it does what you expect before leaving it on a timer.

The Schedule button turns the same job into a recurring WP-Cron event. Click it once to start (status becomes ACTIVE), click again to pause it (DISABLED).

Changing how often it runs

While a row is ACTIVE, its interval appears next to a clock icon. Click it to open Change Task Recurrence and pick from – default –, Every 4 Hours, Hourly, Twice Daily, Daily or Weekly.

Only three rows offer this: Update Finished Games, Create new Games and Create/Update Standings. Every other scheduled row quietly uses its default:

Action	Default interval
Update Finished Games	Hourly
Update Kick Off Time, Stadiums & Referees	Daily
Update Predictions	Daily
Update Odds	Every 4 hours
Update Injuries	Daily
Update LineUps & Formations	Daily
Create new Games (Lazy Import)	Every 4 hours
Create/Update Standings (Lazy Import)	Every 4 hours

WP-Cron only fires when someone visits your site, so a quiet site runs its jobs late. If results matter to the minute, replace WP-Cron with a real server cron job – How to test if cron works properly in WordPress walks through checking it.

What Update Finished Games actually does

For each selected competition it asks the API for the season’s fixtures, keeps the ones the API marks finished (including after extra time, penalties, awarded and walkover), and matches them against your local games that are still marked unfinished. Each match found gets its result, events and statistics written in.

It then recalculates that competition’s standings and updates the current matchweek. You don’t need a separate standings job for ordinary league tables.

Logs and API status

An Actions Log under the table shows what recently ran, with a Full Log link for the complete history. Start here when a scheduled job seems not to have fired.

Get Your API Status in the header reports your remaining request quota. It’s hidden on RapidAPI subscriptions – check quota in the RapidAPI dashboard instead.

🆘 Troubleshooting

“No saved Competition configs.”

Nothing has been starred yet. Go to API Leagues and click the star on an imported league’s row.

A row shows 0 / 12

Twelve competitions are on the Dashboard, but this particular action is switched on for none of them. Click the link and tick the ones you want.

A red banner about Imagick

The PHP Imagick extension is missing on your server. Imports still run, but images – team logos, player photos – are processed poorly or not at all. Ask your host to enable Imagick.

The scheduled job ran but nothing changed

Check the competition selection for that specific row, not for the Dashboard as a whole. Each row has its own list, and starring a new competition doesn’t add it to any action automatically.