INFORM: Sports Law – November 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:

• Match Fixing: BCCI Allowed to Intervene in KPL Case, Bats for Criminalisation
• ISL Tender Failure: Uncertainty Grips Indian Football Yet Again
• India’s Draft Sports Governance Rules: Key Highlights
• No IOC Decision Yet on Transgender Athletes’ Eligibility
• EU Parliament Adopts Resolution on European Sport Model
• IOC Sanctions Indonesia Over Ban on Israeli Gymnastics Team
• Publication of Athletes’ Doping Details May Breach GDPR
• FIBA Lifts Temporary Suspension Imposed on BBF
• Participation of Russian Athletes in Winter Olympics Under Scrutiny
• ITIA Announces Financial Support for Tennis Players Accused of Doping

Case Laws: 

• PETA Plea on Limiting Kambala to Udupi, Dakshina Kannada Rejected
• Khel Ratna Award: Centre Directed to Frame Criteria to Consider Deaf Sportspersons