Sports law encompasses the legal rules governing the organization of sports and the relationships between athletes, clubs, federations, and authorities in Switzerland. It is not governed by a single area of law; rather, it is a field that combines several branches of law (private law, public law, and international law).

More specifically, Swiss sports law combines:

• association law
• labor law
• disciplinary law
• (International) sports arbitration, particularly in connection with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne
• criminal law, particularly in the area of doping