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# List Categories

> Football categories (countries)

## What it returns

The category catalog for football — each category is a **country** (or *International*). Mirrors the client's Sport → Category → Tournament → Match model; `icon_path` is the country flag.

This is the football answer to "what does the `sports` endpoint return" on other providers: countries are the categories under the Soccer sport.


## OpenAPI

````yaml openapi/soccer-api.json GET /soccer/v1/categories
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Ticktock Football API
  description: >-
    Football (soccer) B2B catalog — matches, competitors, tournaments,
    categories. Sport-agnostic transport (auth, AMQP, status lifecycle) is
    documented under Platform.
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://api.ticktock.bet
    description: Production
security:
  - XAPIKeyHeader: []
paths:
  /soccer/v1/categories:
    get:
      tags:
        - Soccer
      summary: List football categories (countries)
      description: >-
        The category catalog for Soccer — each category is a country (or
        'International'). Mirrors the client's Sport→Category→Tournament→Match
        model (BB §1.6); ``icon_path`` is the country flag.
      operationId: list_categories_soccer_v1_categories_get
      parameters:
        - name: search
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: 'null'
            description: Substring match on category name
            title: Search
          description: Substring match on category name
        - name: limit
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: integer
            maximum: 500
            minimum: 1
            default: 100
            title: Limit
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
                title: Response List Categories Soccer V1 Categories Get
        '401':
          description: Missing API key
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '403':
          description: Invalid or deactivated API key
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
      security:
        - XAPIKeyHeader: []
        - XAccessTokenHeader: []
        - UOFAccessTokenHeader: []
components:
  schemas:
    ErrorResponse:
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
          title: Detail
      type: object
      required:
        - detail
      title: ErrorResponse
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
        input:
          title: Input
        ctx:
          type: object
          title: Context
      type: object
      required:
        - loc
        - msg
        - type
      title: ValidationError
  securitySchemes:
    XAPIKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-Key

````