The International Emmy Award for Best Sports Documentary is presented by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS) to the best sports documentaries produced and initially aired outside of the United States.

[1] According to the rules of the International Academy, a sport documentary is "a factual presentation dedicated to physical or mind sports activities (e.g.

Team, Individual, Extreme, Esports, Intellectual, etc.

[2] In order to quality for the category, the program must be at least 20 minutes in length and it must be a single edited program, broadcast in one or more episodes.

The program may employ partial re-enactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.