Best sports games for iPhone and iPad (iOS)
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Updated on August 6th, 2025
Sports and games go together beautifully. In fact, if you take any moderately popular sport, there's probably a simulated take on it somewhere.
Sports games don't necessarily need to be dry simulations, either. Many developers will opt to take the core rulesets of familiar sports and head off on a flight of fancy. Others will invent a completely new sport from scratch.
The following list of iOS sports games features something for everyone. We have dedicated sports sims, arcade knockabouts, left-field oddities, and completely made-up future sports.
It doesn't really matter if you're into sports in the real world or not. The very best sports games tend to be fun for everyone, not just die-hards.
Have we missed your own personal favourite iOS sports game? Let us know in the comments below.
1
Soccer Manager 2025
If you're a big fan of soccer (or football, as some countries call it), this game takes your favorite soccer clubs and real players, allowing you to manage a team and take home the gold! There are over 90 leagues represented, so building your dream team will be easily done. Soccer Manager 2025 is the most realistic soccer management game yet, with stunning 3D Soccer action shown on the field. It's ones for fans of the game, but the gameplay holds up as well.
2
Pocket-Run Pool
Pocket-Run Pool is as much a brilliant puzzler as it is a brilliant sports game. That's because of the extreme liberties it takes with the rules of pool, including an ingenious rotating score-multiplier system. Each time you make a pocket, the score multipliers rotate, giving you new targets. It's an interesting take on a classic sport.
3
Football Manager 2024 Mobile
A genuine, bona fide version of Football Manager right here on our iPads, as long as you have a Netflix membership. In this football management game, you become the boss of an elite football team. You will need to create your team, using real-world players or new talent you have have never heard of before, coaching them to victory! There are a lot of real-world feel to this game, with strategies modeled on tactics and formations you've likely seen before.
4
Cornhole Hero
Is corn hole a sport? I remember playing corn hole as a child, at BBQs in the US, but now it's one of the fastest growing sports in the world, according to the game Cornhole Hero. Looking positively 8-bit and retro, like my childhood, you are challenged to throw your little bean bag into balloons, onto platforms, and get them into the corn hole. There are three modes, allowing you to play more casually or play in a tournament.
5
Table Tennis Touch
Table Tennis Touch has it all - slick graphics, superb ball physics, and a swipey control system that could well lead to blisters. It's worth it. The game itself is hyper realistic looking, allows for multiplayer cross-platform play, and has a bunch of different mini-games to really challenge your aim. One even allows you to throw a bit of bowling into your table tennis game.
6
Rocket League Sideswipe
Rocket League Sideswipe is a fantastic car football simulation for mobile devices, despite that not being a real sport you can actually do in real life. You will have to compete with other players in a football match using your car. Sounds wacky, but it's fun to the core! According to the Pocket Gamer Awards 2022, Rocket League Sideswipe is the best sports game of the year by the vote from the audience.
7
Grand Mountain Adventure
Grand Mountain Adventure takes you to the ski slopes and mountain tops. You can glide around tracks, challenging others in races or jump from mountain to mountain, following rings that guide you along the way, in more open-world skiing fun. If you don't like skiing, there is the option to snowboard as well, which feels pretty much the same. This game does feel like it has a lot of freedom in gameplay, from various arcade-esque challenges, to places to just explore, to races to take on.
8
Golf Blitz
From the makers of Stickman Golf, Golf Blitz is a more bite-sized, colorful, fun golf game that feels like something much more than boring old golf. Competition in real-time against online players or friends, your goal is to finish that specific level of the course. Over time, you can level up your ball, adding new spins to how you hit.
9
Golf Impact
Golf Impact is aimed at being a more realistic golf game, where you need to take on other players in 1v1 golf challenges. Much like in real life, the weather happening in the game changes how you need to play, and adds a realistic element to the field. These courses are also inspired by ones you may have seen on PGA or WGT - it's really designed for golf fans.
10
Touchgrind BMX 2
Touchgrind BMX 2 takes a decidedly mobile-centric approach to the extreme sports genre. You slide and flick your two fingers on the screen to initiate tricks and flips, making for a trickily engrossing sports game. There are tons of amazing environments for you to bike through, along with a lot of customization aspects to the game. You can challenge your friends to matches where you both need to do sick tricks or join a tournament and see how you do against the rest of the world.
11
Super Stickman Golf 3
Super Stickman Golf 3 doesn't try to be realistic in anyway. Instead, it combines golf with playing cards, giving you a bunch of different power ups that can really change the game. You can end up magnetizing your ball to avoid hazards or to grab rewards on the hole. It's a fantastic spin on the golf genre that keeps things exciting.
12
Pixel Pro Golf
If you like your golf to me more relaxing and slow-feeling, Pixel Pro Golf might be the game for you. This is a classic golfing game, with beautiful pixel-art graphics. It feels calm and enjoyable, with swing speeds to time correctly and angles to get right. There is a single player mode, where you need to earn ranking points to unlock different tours to complete in, if you want to go competitive.
13
Bottom of the 9th
If you like board games and DnD, then this sort of baseball game peak your interest. Bottom of the 9th is a two player, baseball game where you will be playing with your cards and by rolling dice. It's a fantastic combination of board games and sports, where you need to roll sanity checks to see if you can even hit the ball! There is a lot of strategy in how you use your cards, adding a new level to this sport.
14
Skate City
Skate City is a laid back skating simulator with a side-on perspective and bags of tricks and flips to perform with a simple swipe control system. You can take on a bunch of skating moves, from the comfort of your couch. Everything feels really dynamic and fun, especially as you master tricks and explore new locations.
15
Retro Bowl
Retro Bowl is aimed at "armchair quarterbacks" who like the retro look and feel of an American football game. It's a more simplified football manager, with easy to understand roster management. There is a focus on talking to press and managing the feelings of the players in you field, along with having a good strategy in the field.
16
What the Golf?
What The Golf is a golf game in the loosest sense of the word. Or perhaps it's the ultimate golf game. This, after all, is a game where the identity of the ball, club and hole will differ drastically from one hole to the next. It is the least serious golf game you will ever play, with silly, iconic moments that just feel fun. If you want a sport with something a little different, What the Golf? is such a fun idea.
17
Dinkigolf
Can we take another zany casual golf game on mobile? When it's as good as Dinkigolf, you'd better believe we can. Dinkigolf has some interesting levels, with puzzle elements scattered through. You might need to time your hit right to avoid a closing wall, hit ice blocks out of the way, or even use a bouncing object to get further on your hit. Part puzzle, part golf, and a lot of fun.
18
8 Ball Pool
8 Ball Pool aims to be a more realistic version of pool, allowing you to challenge a single other player in a game of pool. Getting the angle right and the speed of your hit is the main concept of the game, though there are a bunch of different cues that have their own stats and abilities to be upgraded, giving you a bit more fun and interest in your game.
19
Easy Come Easy Golf
To all intents and purposes, Easy Come Easy Golf is the legendary Everybody's Golf series come to iOS. This is no lazy port or half-baked mobile spinoff, however, but rather a fully featured 3D golf game with a rethought touchscreen control system. If you are a fan of PlayStation-era sports games, a lot of love and silly animations have brought this golf game to life.
20
Skiing Yeti Mountain
Skiing Yeti Mountain is a rhythmic skiing game full of challenging runs that have you avoiding trees like your life depends on it. It's not just skiing though, you'll be talking to locals and possibly discovering the truth about a Yeti, that's hiding within the mountain range. With over a hundred tracks, will you be able to find the Yeti lurking in the shadows?
21
Golf Clash
Even though it has a rather simple concept, Golf Clash became a very popular golf game on mobile, for quite some time. You need to time your shot carefully, make sure your angle is ideal, and then hit your ball. There are a bunch of different loot boxes that can be earned for having a good shot. Golf Clash allows you to play against friends or just enjoy the golf course on your own.
22
Real Boxing 2
Real Boxing 2 is a realistic boxing simulator with an impressive combat system and good graphics. Here you will have to face many different named fighters as well as compete with other players for the title of the best in multiplayer mode. Here you have to develop your fighter and unlock new skills to become even more powerful.
23
Touchdowners
Touchdowners is a silly take on American Football, with players who are always flailing their arms. You'll be essentially deciding which direction to move towards and when to let go of your ball, which is a very simplified look at football, but a fun one none-the-less.
24
NBA 2K25: MyTEAM
NBA 2K25: MyTEAM is a realistic basketball management game, where you can collect cards and sell them in the auction house, giving you a base to build your team. The combination of management, card collecting and sports is done extremely well in NBA 2K25: MyTEAM, and if you are a fan of NBA, you'll even be able to collect team members from the Hall-of-Fame.
25
NBA 2K25 Arcade Edition
NBA 2K25 Arcade Edition has you creating and training your own NBA super star, so that they can then be guided to victory! You are the main player in this game, so there are different tattoos and outfits to unlock, to customise yourself. Slowly, you will need to recruit NBA Legends to join your team, starting off at streetball and moving up to the big leagues.
