A Guide to Upcoming Sports Romance Adaptations: 16 TV Shows & Movies Based on Books
Heated Rivalry, Off Campus, and more have proven that high-stakes sports provide the perfect backdrop for passionate romances on screen. It’s something that authors have long known. Seriously, how many love stories have already been set in the world of hockey, soccer, basketball, and so on? Too many to count. Heated Rivalry and Off Campus are among the most popular sports romance book adaptations, and they certainly won’t be the last.
There are plenty more TV shows and movies on the way that are based on best-selling books, from Liz Tomforde‘s Windy City series to Chloe Walsh’s Boys of Tommen. They range from high school love triangles to rivals-to-lovers arcs between professional players. There’s even an equestrian romance book series in development at Prime Video.
Naturally, we had to put them all in one place so you can keep track of them all. Below, you’ll find all the upcoming sports romance book adaptations, along with their development status, release dates, cast lists, and more.
Sidelined 3: End Game
Release Date: November 26, 2026
Cast: Noah Beck, Siena Agudong, Charlie Gillespie, Drew Ray Tanner, Kolton Stewart, Sage Linder, Asia Lizardo. Jason Fernandes, and Sarah Levy
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Though it’s gone off-book, Tubi’s Sidelined franchise, which follows star quarterback Drayton and dancer Dallas, is based on the Wattpad sensation The QB Bad Boy and Me by Tay Marley. Sidelined 3 will wrap up their romance this Thanksgiving.
Heated Rivalry Season 2
Status: Filming
Release Date: TBA 2027
Cast: Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Charlie Gillespie, Justice Smith, Daniel Diemer, Shaheen Jafargholi, François Arnaud, Robbie G.K., Dylan Walsh, Christina Chang, Callan Potter, and more
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Heated Rivalry Season 2 filming is underway this fall, with creator Jacob Tierney honing in on Rachel Reid’s The Long Game, the continuation of the romance between hockey players Shane and Ilya. Other stories from Reid’s Game Changers series will come into play in Season 2 as well. It’ll drop sometime in the spring of 2027.
Off Campus Season 2
Status: Post-production
Release Date: TBA 2027
Cast: Mika Abdalla, Stephen Kalyn, Antonio Cipriano, Ella Bright, Belmont Cameli, Jalen Thomas Brooks, India Fowler, Phillipa Soo, Charlie Evans, Khobe Clarke, Shay Rudolph, Julia Sarah Stone, and more
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After Season 1 became a smash hit in May 2025, hockey romance Off Campus quickly got back to work on Season 2, which will switch focus to another couple in Elle Kennedy’s bestselling hockey romance series: The Score‘s Dean and Allie. The show completed filming in September, and the release date has yet to be announced.
Fake Skating
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: July 16, 2027
Cast: Amélie Hoeferle and Graham Campbell
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Lynn Painter’s bestselling novel Fake Skating is becoming a movie at Sony Pictures. On September 24, the studio revealed the lead actors, who’ll play former childhood best friends who reunite after high school, Dani and Alec. Alec, now a totally different star hockey player, starts fake-dating Dani.
Icebreaker
Status: Filming
Release Date: TBA
Cast: Daisy Jelley, Connor Simos, Gabriel Tierney, Auliʻi Cravalho, Peter Berry, Chaneil Kular, Devin Craig, and Aidan Shaw
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Icebreaker by Hannah Grace is getting the TV show treatment. The adaptation of the author’s Maple Hill series was announced in June 2026, with casting announcements arriving later in the summer. The first book focuses on an Olympics-hopeful figure skater forced to share rink time with the captain of the college hockey team.
Boys of Tommen
Status: Filming
Release Date: TBA
Cast: Nancy Surridge, Conor Sánchez, James O’Donoghue, Sophie McGibbon, John Hewson, Indy Lewis, Amelia May, Alex Dunne, Dixie Egerickx, Daisy Jacob, Jonathan Heed, Cathal Ó Síocháin, Jamie Schneider, and more
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Prime Video is hard at work on bringing Chloe Walsh’s Binding 13 and Keeping 13 to the screen in Boys of Tommen Season 1. It takes place in 2005 at a Irish private school, where popular rugby captain Johnny falls fast for shy new girl Shannon. Both hide secrets that complicate their feelings for each other. The TV adaptation started filming this fall.
Finding Her Edge Season 2
Status: Filming
Release Date: TBA
Cast: Madelyn Keys, Olly Atkins, Cale Ambrozic, Alexandra Beaton, Millie Davis, Harmon Walsh, Meredith Forlenza, Alice Malakhov, Yona Epstein-Roth, and Elvis Stojko
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Finding Her Edge is coming back for round two! Though the first season was based on Jennifer Iacopelli‘s novel, the second will go off-book, continuing the love triangle between ice dancers Adriana, Freddie, and Brayden. As of October 2026, the show is filming in Canada.
Throttled
Status: Pre-production
Release Date: TBA
Cast: Josh Heuston, Nicole Wallace, Julio Peña, and Mia McKenna-Bruce
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Lauren Asher’s Throttled, the first in her Dirty Air series, will soon be a Prime Video movie. Maya joins her brother at the car racing World Championship and falls for his rival. Star Nicole Wallace shared photos of herself with the script in October 2026, so the film is likely in the early stages of shooting.
Deep End
Status: In Development
Release Date: TBA
Cast: TBA
Deep End, a college romance written by Ali Hazelwood, is becoming a Netflix movie. It’s being produced by 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine and Unwell Productions’ Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan. Laura Kosann, who is also adapting the novel Butcher & Blackbird into a movie, is writing the script. The adaptation was announced in August 2026.
The plot? Stanford junior and star diver Scarlett starts hooking up with the school’s swimming golden boy, Lukas. They both have their eye on the Olympics, but start to wonder if their budding feelings for each other will distract them from their goal.
Gods of the Game
Status: In Development
Release Date: TBA
Cast: TBA
Ana Huang’s The Striker, a romance novel set in the world of English Premier League soccer, is anacoming to Prime Video. In fact, all three books in Huang’s Gods of the Game series were picked up by Amazon MGM. The news was announced in April 2026.
Playing the Field
Status: In Development
Release Date: TBA
Cast: TBA
In 2024, WNBA star Sue Bird and former U.S. Women’s Soccer captain Megan Rapinoe scored the rights to Meryl Wilsner’s sapphic romance Cleat Cute. Flash forward to April 2026, and Amazon MGM Studios became involved, per Deadline, renaming it to Playing the Field. It tapped The Sex Lives of College Girls‘ Sarah Tapscott as showrunner, executive producer, and writer. The show will revolve around “the sexy, messy, and exciting lives of four female players on Crescent City, a professional New Orleans women’s soccer team.”
Hoops
Status: In Development
Release Date: TBA
Cast: TBA
Kennedy Ryan’s basketball romance Long Shot is headed to Netflix, Deadline reported in September 2026. Ryan, All American’s Adrian Dukes, Will Packer Media, Chris Paul‘s Ohh Dip!!! Entertainment, and Tracey Baker-Simmons are all involved in the production.
The Favorites
Status: In Development
Release Date: TBA
Cast: TBA
Layne Fargo’s ice-dancing romance The Favorites is becoming a Netflix movie. In March 2026, Deadline first reported that the adaptation was in development.
See You at the Finish Line
Status: Optioned
Release Date: TBA
Cast: TBA
In September 2025, Noho Film & Television optioned Zac Hammett’s queer romance See You At The Finish Line for a TV show. It charts the romance between working-class rower Lucas and golden-boy rowing captain, George. Deadline was the first to report the news, upon which Hammnett wrote on Instagram, “I should clarify that, despite the headline, there is still a long way to go before getting a series greenlight. But I’m so excited for Lucas and George to continue their journey.”
Eventing
Status: Optioned
Release Date: TBA
Cast: TBA
In October 2024, Variety revealed that Natalie Keller Reinert’s Eventing and Briar Hill Farm books, which follow romances in the equestrian competition world, is being developed into a TV show by Amazon MGM Studios. Lacy Lynch and Reinert are attached as executive producers.
Windy City
Status: Optioned
Release Date: TBA
Cast: TBA
Author Liz Tomforde‘s sports-focused series, which starts with hockey romance Mile High, is becoming a Prime Video. Its development was confirmed in May 2026 by Deadline. Alison McDonald is writing and executive-producing. Premeditated Productions’ Liz Pelletier and Sherryl Clark, who are working on Fourth Wing, are also executive-producing alongside SVP of Television Julie Jarmon and Tomforde, who spoke about the adaptation in September.
