Is Pro Football Reference Down?

Pro Football Reference is a sports service.

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Pro Football Reference is UP

Pro Football Reference is reachable from our servers. It responded with HTTP 403 in 51ms. If you cannot access it, the issue is likely on your end — try clearing your cache, flushing DNS, or switching networks.

Response: 51ms

Status: HTTP 403

Checked: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:06:17 GMT

From: Cloudflare Edge

Site: pro-football-reference.com ↗

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About Pro Football Reference outages

Pro Football Reference (pro-football-reference.com) is a sports service. Pro Football Reference is a sports service.

Common causes of Pro Football Reference outages include server overload, DNS failures, DDoS attacks, software deployments, CDN issues, and infrastructure failures. Most outages resolve within minutes to a few hours.

If Pro Football Reference is down for everyone: Check their official status page and social media for updates.

If Pro Football Reference is up but not working for you: Try clearing your browser cache, disabling your VPN, flushing DNS, or switching networks.