Sportarr is a self-hosted sports PVR that monitors sports leagues, searches Usenet and torrent indexers for event releases, and organizes the results into a Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby library — built for people who collect sports events the way Sonarr and Radarr handle series and films.

What it is

Sportarr is a C# application in the Miscellaneous / Media & Streaming category, released under GPL-3.0 and distributed as a Docker image plus native builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The project began as a fork of Sonarr in October 2025 and was rewritten shortly afterwards; the great majority of the code is original, but parts remain derived from Sonarr, and the Sonarr team's copyright notices are retained in COPYRIGHT.md. It presents itself plainly as a PVR for sports: it monitors leagues, searches indexers for releases, and handles file renaming, organization, and media server integration.

The concrete problem it solves is that general-purpose media automation does not model sporting events. Sonarr tracks series and Radarr tracks films, but a fight card, a race, or a match is a one-off event with its own naming and multi-part structure. Sportarr tracks events across all major sports, including fighting sports, football, soccer, basketball, and racing, then applies customizable naming schemes that account for multi-part events in fighting sports. It replaces the manual loop of watching for a release, downloading it, and renaming and filing it by hand.

Key capabilities

• Monitors sports leagues and tracks events across all major sports, including fighting sports, football, soccer, basketball, and racing.
• Searches Usenet and torrent indexers automatically and upgrades quality when better releases appear.
• Organizes files with customizable naming schemes, including multi-part handling for fighting sports events.
• Integrates with Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby through dedicated metadata agents, drawing event metadata associated with TheSportsDB.
• Records live events from IPTV sources with automatic scheduling, currently marked alpha.
• Fetches subtitles through Bazarr and sends notifications via Discord, ntfy, Apprise, webhooks, or custom scripts.
• Exposes an Application API for tools integrating with Sportarr, alongside a live metadata API explorer on the wiki.

Who uses it and how

• Self-hosters running the Docker image who mount /config and /data and set PUID, PGID, UMASK, and TZ to match their host permissions and timezone.
• TrueNAS SCALE, HexOS, and Unraid users who install Sportarr directly from the platform app catalogs rather than composing the container by hand.
• Existing Sonarr-style stacks, where Sportarr sits beside Prowlarr for indexers, Bazarr for subtitles, Maintainerr, Homepage, and autobrr, as documented in the integrations section of the wiki.
• Households serving a Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby library that needs sports events filed and matched like the rest of the collection.
• IPTV users who schedule and record live events, a workflow still labeled alpha and best treated as experimental.

Getting started

Run the sportarr/sportarr:latest Docker image — the README provides a full docker-compose snippet mapping port 1867 and the /config and /data volumes — then open http://your-server-ip:1867 and follow the initial setup guide. Native builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux are on the releases page.

How it compares

Sportarr sits in the same family as Sonarr and Radarr, and it is designed to slot into the surrounding toolchain they share: Prowlarr for indexers, Bazarr for subtitles, autobrr for release grabbing, and Maintainerr for library cleanup. Where those tools cover series and films, Sportarr covers sporting events, with event-specific tracking and multi-part naming that the others do not model.

When to use it — and when not to

A self-hoster must run the container or a native build and hold accounts on Usenet or torrent indexers; an IPTV source is needed for the recording feature, and Bazarr is needed for subtitles. The IPTV DVR path is explicitly alpha, so anyone who needs dependable scheduled recording should wait or test carefully. Anyone unwilling to self-host, or without indexers to search, has no use for it.

version: "3.8"
services:
  sportarr:
    image: sportarr/sportarr:latest
    container_name: sportarr
    environment:
      - PUID=99
      - PGID=100
      - UMASK=022
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - /path/to/sportarr/config:/config
      - /path/to/data:/data
    ports:
      - 1867:1867
    restart: unless-stopped