Archery Premier League Wins ‘Emerging Professional Sports Event of the Year’ at India Sports Awards 2025

The Archery Premier League (APL) has been awarded the prestigious Emerging Professional Sports Event of the Year’ at the India Sports Awards 2025, held during FICCI TURF 2025 15th Global Sports Summit at the FICCI Federation House, New Delhi. The honour caps a landmark debut year for the league, which has been widely praised for bringing fast-paced style archery with unprecedented scale, professionalism, and fan engagement, as per a release from APL.
 
Organised by the Archery Association of India (AAI), APL is the World’s first professional archery league. Its inaugural season, held at the Yamuna Sports Complex, New Delhi, from October 2 to 12, 2025, featured top Indian and international archers, both men and women, across recurve and compound categories.
 
With its franchise-based model, gender-balanced team structures, and made-for-broadcast format, the league has been recognised as a breakthrough effort in making archery an exciting, mainstream viewing experience.