Recs if you like Futbolista...

Are you tired of how white MM sports romance is?? Gather round, homos!

🤎At least one of the MMCs is a person of colour 🤎

*includes bi & pan characters and everyone under the queer & trans umbrella

Please let me know if there are any I should add.

Sport (fictional + real) and competition queer romance recommendations!

Feel free to leave your own recommendations in the comments and I will add them to the list! :)

Yes, queer and trans folks play sports. These are those books.

AMOR❤️ A collection of romance books by Latinx authors. Includes all types of romance (fantasy, gothic, YA, adult, contemporary, lgbtq+, etc.).

I chose not to display multiple books from the same author and also picked the first in the "series" (if applicable) only. This is to introduce you to the author and the series, that way you can look into each further if you'd like! 🥰

These are more of the popular ones I found from my research so I am always open to suggestions!

I love hockey romances as much as the next person but sometimes you want another sport to take center stage. So here is a collection of sports romance books where one (or all of them) is playing a sport that isn't hockey.

Feel free to leave any recomendations for the list.

(Contains both YA and Adult romance)

A sports list to swoon over in 2026. Contains , F1 , Hockey, Football (UK soccer) , Bull Riding, etc

Always updating ranging from YA to 18+

Whether it's about the romance or the sport or both, these books at the very least contain characters who practice and/or care about sports, are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and possibly do the kissy

This shall become the place where I geather all the books with nonbinary representattion / written by nonbinary authors (not sure yet if both). I have not read most of them but rather have them from lists, feel free to suggest more, or report falsly added books

Football (soccer, if you must) romances.

Shamelessly yoinked from a certain other reading app that shall not be named... this is a list of recently published (2025-2026) LGBTQ+ fiction across a spectrum of genres and identities!

(Disclaimer: I haven't read most of these, but so many compelling covers made me want to save them all in a list to continue referencing into the future.)

I recently got into sports romances (yes, because of Heated Rivalry) and most of the book recs I've seen are either queer OR by authors of color, so I wanted to make a list with books that are both! Please let me know if there are any I should add.

Love who you love, no matter the gender!

Created by Amy James on Instagram

This is a list of friends-to-lovers romances that have a fantastic journey. Whether they were life-long friends, old friends reconnecting, friends with a banter-filled "they just annoy me" relationship, or brand new friends drawn together by fate, we love when two people realize they're meant for each other.

Books with queer characters who like sports!

varying degrees of 🌶️

Just a bunch of sport romances with football/soccer as the main sport.