Football Stats Project

A Django web application to fetch and display football statistics (Goals Per Game) from a football API, using MongoDB via MongoEngine as the database.

Requirements

• Python 3.12+
• MongoDB (running locally or remotely)
• pip package manager
• Virtual environment tool (venv or virtualenv recommended)

Setup Instructions

1. step: Clone the repository or open zip-file

2. Create and activate a virtual environment: python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Start MongoDB Make sure MongoDB is running locally on default port 27017:

On Mac/Linux:

brew services start mongodb-community

Or start manually:

mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

On Windows:

net start MongoDB

5. Run the Django development server: python manage.py runserver

Open browser and visit: http://127.0.0.1:8000/