2021 International Swimming League

The 2021 International Swimming League was the third and final edition of the International Swimming League, a professional swimming league, established in 2019. It comprised ten teams composed of both women and men. The league, due to COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions, consisted of a total of eighteen short course swimming meets, called matches, spanning four stages of competition and held in two locations. In each match, swimmers from four different teams competed in individual, relay, and skins events. The ten regular season matches and one play in match took place in the city of Naples, Italy. The six play off matches in the semifinals stage of competition took place in the city of Eindhoven, Netherlands, as did the final match.

The France-based Energy Standard won the Final Match, with the Most Valuable Player award going to Sarah Sjöström of the same team.



Schedule
The schedule consisted of eleven regular season and play in meets in Naples, followed by six Semifinals and the Final Match in Eindhoven.

Ranking
All individual events that were competed during the ISL season were ranked. Each ISL athlete had a ranking for the event(s) in which they competed, and each athlete was either awarded a "gem" or a "star" based on their rankings.

Teams
ISL teams were allowed a maximum roster size of 38 athletes for the 2021 season, with a suggested size of each club's traveling roster of 30 (15 men and 15 women). Each club had a captain and a vice-captain of different gender.

Standings

 * 2021 ISL Final Match


 * 2021 ISL Play Offs

The team in yellow are qualified to the Play Offs.
 * 2021 ISL Play In Match

The top two finishers of the second edition of the league, Cali Condors and Energy Standard, did not compete against each other during any regular season match. {|
 * 2021 ISL Regular season


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World Records
The following world records were set as a part of competition during the 2021 International Swimming League.