Outlook Sports Calendar Feature Retirement

Microsoft will soon retire the Sports Calendar feature, which allows users to add sporting events to their Outlook calendar by subscribing to external sports calendars from Outlook. This feature will be retired from Outlook for the web, new Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktop, and Microsoft Outlook for iOS/Android. This feature is also referred to as Interesting Calendars in Outlook.

After this retirement, users will no longer have the option to add new sports calendars in Outlook. Any existing sports calendar subscriptions will stop receiving updates and will eventually be removed.

Users can choose to manually remove a calendar by selecting the ellipsis next to the sports calendar:

Alternatively, users can set up the “Subscribe from web” feature in Outlook to manually subscribe to sports calendars by finding third-party sources that provide iCal links. Many sports leagues and teams offer calendar subscriptions that users can import into Outlook.

When a user adds a sports calendar with Subscribe from the web, the sports calendar will sync to calendars in Outlook for Mac desktop and Outlook for iOS/Android. Here’s how:

1. Go to Outlook Calendar
2. Select “Add calendar” from the left side of the screen
3. Select “Subscribe from web.”
4. Paste the iCal link and select “Import.”

5. The new sports calendar should appear under Other calendars.

To learn more about how to import a sport calendar before this feature disappears, visit the Microsoft website.

Victoria Burnett • 2025-May-15