Apple Sports App Expands With More Soccer Leagues
The Apple Sports app was updated today with support for additional soccer leagues, giving fans in more regions a reason to open the app on matchday. The update adds the Australian A-League Men, the Egyptian Premier League, the Israeli Premier League, and the South African Premiership.
The update arrived on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, and continues Apple’s pattern of steadily widening the app’s coverage. For supporters of clubs in those four competitions, live scores and match information are now part of the same experience that already serves followers of bigger leagues around the world.
Which Soccer Leagues Were Added?
The four new competitions span four continents and fill notable gaps in the app’s soccer coverage:
Australian A-League Men – Australia’s top men’s domestic league
Egyptian Premier League – one of Africa’s most followed club competitions
Israeli Premier League – Israel’s top domestic division
South African Premiership – South Africa’s premier club competition
Each addition matters for different audiences. The A-League Men gives Australian users a local competition alongside the international leagues already supported, while the Egyptian, Israeli, and South African leagues extend the app’s reach across Africa and the Middle East.
For fans who follow these competitions, the value is simple. Instead of juggling multiple sources for scores and fixtures, they can track their league inside the same app they already use for other competitions. That convenience is the core appeal of a dedicated sports app.
Tennis Fans Get Real-Time Tournament Draws
Soccer was not the only focus of this update. Apple also said tennis fans can now follow tournament draws in real time in the Apple Sports app. The feature covers brackets for Grand Slams and 1000-level tournaments, showing matchups and results at a glance for each round.
That means users no longer need to leave the app to understand how a bracket is shaping up. As a tournament progresses, the draw updates so fans can see who is playing whom and how results are influencing the path to the final. It is a meaningful addition for anyone who follows tennis closely during the biggest events of the year.
What Are 1000-Level Tournaments?
The 1000-level events sit just below the four Grand Slams in prestige and ranking points on the professional tennis calendar. Adding their brackets alongside Grand Slam draws gives the app’s tennis coverage a more complete picture of the season’s biggest tournaments. Fans can now follow a tournament from the first round to the final without switching between different tools.
Why This Update Matters
Sports apps live or die by coverage. A scoreboard that ignores the league a fan actually watches has little value, no matter how clean the design is. By adding four soccer leagues and real-time tennis brackets in the same release, Apple is addressing two different kinds of sports fans at once.
For soccer supporters, the expansion means more matches fall inside the app’s live tracking. For tennis followers, the draw feature changes how they consume a tournament. Instead of hunting across multiple sites for bracket updates, they can check the draw directly and see how each round is taking shape.
The timing also matters. Soccer seasons around the world run on different calendars, and the four new leagues give the app year-round relevance for more users. Tennis, meanwhile, has a packed schedule of Grand Slams and 1000-level events, so the draw feature stays useful across most of the year.
A Steady Pattern of Expansion
This is not the first time the Apple Sports app has grown its lineup of competitions. Each update has added leagues and features, and this one follows that same approach. The app has become a central place for scores, schedules, and now tournament brackets.
The additions also reflect soccer’s global footprint. Australia, Egypt, Israel, and South Africa each have passionate domestic fan bases, and serving those audiences makes the app more useful outside the traditional European strongholds. It is a recognition that soccer’s audience is worldwide, not confined to a handful of countries.
What Users Are Saying
Reaction to the update has not been entirely positive. In the comments section, one reader, posting as orangeadrenaline, asked simply: “Where’s the watch app.” The comment received one vote at the time of writing, suggesting that at least some users want the experience extended to Apple Watch.
That question points to a broader expectation among Apple users. When a first-party app adds features, people often want those features available across their devices. For now, the update focuses on the iPhone experience, with no mention of a watch app in Apple’s announcement.
How to Get the Update
The update is available now. Users who already have the Apple Sports app installed can update it through the usual App Store process. Anyone new to the app can download it from the App Store to access the expanded soccer coverage and tennis draw features.
Once updated, users can find the new leagues in the app’s competition list and follow them the same way they follow other competitions. Tennis draws appear within the relevant tournament pages, updating as results come in.
What to Expect Next
Apple has not announced which leagues or features might come next. Based on the pattern so far, further expansion seems likely as the app competes for attention against established sports score services. Whether that includes a watch app, additional tennis coverage, or more regional soccer leagues remains to be seen.
For now, fans of the Australian A-League Men, Egyptian Premier League, Israeli Premier League, and South African Premiership have a new place to follow their clubs, and tennis followers have a clearer view of every draw that matters. The Apple Sports app continues to grow into a broader hub for live sports information, one update at a time.
