Sports legal relations in Ukraine are at the stage of formation. Their development is accompanied by a number of factors that complicate, and sometimes make impossible, the formation of a modern, stable system, the reproduction of models of sports legal relations based on the example of the leading world and European states.
 Such factors include the imperfect system of legislation in the field of sports, the lack of a coordinated and productive mechanism for the cooperation of the parties to sports legal relations, insufficient material and technical support, the low development of the sports industry, the lack of a mechanism for involving the population in regular physical education, an insufficient number of highly qualified staff, outdated and ineffective sports infrastructure for sports or its absence at all, in particular, sports facilities that would meet international standards, etc.
 The article emphasizes that the Ukrainian state should take care of the development of physical culture and sports, create and establish mechanisms for regulating sports legal relations, raise the country’s prestige in the international sports arena.
 Considering this, a number of trends in the development and improvement of sports legal relations in Ukraine have been suggested. In particular, regarding the distribution of powers in the management of sports organizations and federations, the effective and transparent distribution of budget funds with the involvement of other sources of sports financing, the construction of new, as well as the reconstruction and repair of existing sports infrastructure in accordance with international standards, the development of mechanisms for the development of a network of children and youth sports schools and sports clubs of various forms of ownership, provision of conditions for professional training and professional development of competitive sports managers, establishment of close cooperation with the mass media for the purpose of popularizing sports, etc.