INFORM: Sports Law – September 2025

This newsletter highlights key developments in sports, esports, and gaming laws in India and internationally. The sports sector continues to experience a growing emphasis on enhancing its regulatory framework through legislative reforms and judicial decisions.

The highlights of the current issue are:

Updates:

• India’s New Online Gaming Law: Play or Pause?
• AOB Rules: Sports Goods Manufacturing Now Allocated to the Sports Ministry
• BCCI Introduces Serious Injury Replacement Rules for Domestic Cricket
• Clean Sport: India Develops Rare Anti-Doping Reference Material
• Gender Bias: Olympic Boxer Lovlina Files Complaint Against BFI Official
• Diarra Sues FIFA and Belgian FA Over Transfer Rules, Seeks €65M
• US Supreme Court to Review State Bans on Transgender Athletes
• Europa League Demotion: Palace Loses CAS Appeal in Multi-Club Ownership Case
• Gene Test Now Mandatory Under World Athletics Eligibility Rules
• Continuous Play in Badminton: BWF to Test Time Clock System

Case Laws: 

• Apex Court Sets the Stage for ISL, Reserves Verdict on AIFF Constitution
• SC Stays Goa Weightlifting Coach Recruitment Process Over Bias Allegations
• J&K HC Quashes FIR Against Water Sportswoman Bilquis Mir
• Delhi HC Directs Inclusion of ‘Dragon Boat Racing’ in Khelo India Water Sports Festival