Visa Nationals will be required to obtain an entry clearance to enter the United Kingdom as a sports visitor up to 6 months. If you a non-visa national, permission to come as a sports visitor for up to six months is not needed. Multiple entry visas are available for sports visitors for six months, and one, two, five and 10 years.

You will be a sports visitor if during the course of your short visit you intend to:

1.      take part a particular sporting event, tournament or series of events;

2.      take part in a specific one-off charity sporting event and that you will not be paid other than cash prizes or for board and lodging and other reasonable expenses;

3.      join as an amateur a wholly or mainly amateur team and that you will not be paid other than for board and lodging and other reasonable expenses;

4.      be a member of the support staff of a visiting sportsperson or an official (including those officials coming on a voluntary basis) attending the same event as the visiting sportsperson;

5.      undertake personal appearances or promotional activities;

6.      undertake a trial provided it is not in front of an audience, or training provided that they are not basing themselves here and they participate in friendly or exhibition matches only.