Polymarket API reference / Gamma API
GET/sports/market-types

Get valid sports market types

Base URL
https://gamma-api.polymarket.com
Auth
Public, no key
Rate limit
4,000 req / 10s (400 per second)
Limit applies to
Gamma API general

Example

curl -X GET "https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/sports/market-types"

Response fields

FieldTypeDescription
marketTypesstring[]List of all valid sports market types

Responses

StatusMeaning
200List of valid sports market types

Related endpoints

Polymarket's API serves current state only, so it cannot show what a market's book looked like after it resolved. PolyTest records Up/Down markets while they run and keeps the snapshots. Try it free, or read the full rate limit reference.

From Polymarket's published OpenAPI spec and rate-limit tables, synced 2026-10-04.