# Match status

This end point provides info related to the match status, the correspondence between the id of the status and the descprition of the status and the sports to which such match status are referred to.<br>

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
  <match_status_descriptions response_code="OK">
    <match_status id="0" description="Not started">
      <sports all="true"/>
    </match_status>
    <match_status id="1" description="1st period" period_number="1">
      <sports>
        <sport id="sr:sport:2"/>
        <sport id="sr:sport:4"/>
        <sport id="sr:sport:157"/>
      </sports>
    </match_status>
    <match_status id="2" description="2nd period" period_number="2">
      <sports>
        <sport id="sr:sport:2"/>
        <sport id="sr:sport:4"/>
        <sport id="sr:sport:157"/>
      </sports>
    </match_status>
    <match_status id="3" description="3rd period" period_number="3">
      <sports>
        <sport id="sr:sport:4"/>
      </sports>
    </match_status>
```


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