Best Sport NFT Drops & Collectibles in 2023

The worldwide sports industry was valued at over $500 billion in 2022 and the growing market has also now adopted sports NFTs. An NFT in sports might be an artwork of a player image, a tokenized trading card, or any form of digital collectible with its holder’s unique ownership rights recorded on the blockchain.

In this guide we’ll list and review the best upcoming sport NFT drops this year and the top NFT sport collectibles that have already been released or ‘dropped’ for fans to buy and collect, that could rise in value – limited edition non-fungible tokens are also investment assets.

A Closer Look at Sport NFT Drops

On this site we’ve reviewed many of the best NFTs to buy and below we’ll take a deep dive on sporting NFT collections that could also be a good investment as well as fun collectibles for sports fans.

Given the recent NFT bull market that saw blue chip NFT collections like the Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, Doodles and others hit new all time high floor prices, alongside crypto investor Elon Musk take over Twitter, the valuations of some of these NFT sports collectibles could also pump.

1. Silks

Thoroughbred horse racing is a widely popular sports game with millions of fans across the globe. More than $11B is wagered on the outcomes of thoroughbred races annually within the USA. The industry is so big that it fares well in any sort of market conditions, including recessions!

Silks brings real-world thoroughbred horse racing to the metaverse with an innovative skill-based fantasy game. It introduces derivative NFTs called Silks Horses that track data related to the bloodlines, training progress, and racing results of the underlying thoroughbreds. The derivative NFTs earn rewards every time the real-world horse wins races or breeds offspring.

But there is more, of course. Silks mirrors the real-world thoroughbred horse racing economy, which opens up diverse means of monetization in the metaverse. Silks is on a mission to build a self-sustaining metaverse with a collective purpose, aligned incentives, and a uniquely rewarding ownership experience.

The vibrant play-to-earn mechanism on Silks revolves around Silks Horse, Stable, Land, and Silks Avatar NFTs. For example, you need a Silks Avatar to mint a Silks Horse and earn tokens through gameplay. They represent your unique identity in the Silks metaverse. They also come with other benefits like airdrops, IRL rewards, and genesis holder status.

The team behind Silks consists of individuals with extensive experience in the horse racing industry. Troy Levy, one of the co-founders, is the owner of Circle 8 Farms and is also the CEO of Tropical Racing, a company that focuses on thoroughbred horse breeding and racing. Both of these companies have strategic and financial partnerships with Silks.

The Genesis Silks Avatar mint went live in late April 2022 to great reception. The NFTs were bought up by top investment firms and top NFT communities, such as holders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs. The Genesis Silks Avatars even managed to become the number one ranked Sports NFT on OpenSea and was a Top 50 ranked NFT by Nansen.ai.

In response to the incredible demand, Silks decided to release another 5,000 Silks Avatars to the public. This was an extra special mint as every Avatar purchased automatically received a claim for Silks Land if they held their Avatar for 45 Days.

In total, the Silks Avatar collection consists of 10,000 NFTs – 6,500 of which have been sold. You can still get your hands on the Silks Avatars for 0.25 ETH. However, once they are all sold, your only option to buy will be through NFT holders on secondary markets, such as OpenSea.

As mentioned, you need one of the Silks Avatars to participate in the ecosystem. The Avatars allow you to mint the Silks Horses and receive rewards if they win in their real-world races. The Avatars also provide access to the metaverse and allow holders to gain access to exclusive experiences, giveaways, and in-person events.

The exciting features and diverse reward schemes make Silks one of the best sports collectibles of this year. According to the Silks white paper, Silks will open more monetization streams as the platform incorporates new features and expands to international thoroughbred horse racing. Another interesting factor that sets apart the NFT project is its lower barrier to entry. Silks introduces a concept called Horse Syndication that allows you to own fractionalized Silks Horse NFTs by joining Horse Ownership Pools. This is also a great way to diversify or offset the risks attached to racehorse ownership.

Join the discussion on their Discord server and become a member of the Silks Community.

2. Tamadoge

One of the new coins in the doge ecosystem that’s making airwaves is Tamadoge. This play-to-earn game is based in the Tamaverse and requires players to look after their pets. Players who have fed their digital pets best and ensured their upbringing will be ranked high on the leaderboard and receive TAMA, the platform’s native token.

This crypto game is rapidly expanding, and its creators are soon integrating it into Metaverse. Players can use their AR headsets to walk their dogs to exercise them, thereby being rewarded for developing their pets. But it’s also investors who may potentially be rewarded.

TAMA is currently on presale, so its price is heavily discounted. And it’s got tremendous upside potential. Not only is Tamadoge going to be available in an app and Tamadoge Arcade’s debut is soon, but TAMA will be listed on centralized exchanges. On top of that, the creators are planning to sell 50% of the total 2 billion supply just during the presale. If that’s not going to make the coin scarce, then the 5% burning of all TAMA coins spent definitely will.

While TAMA is a deflationary coin, Dogecoin has expanded its coin supply from 100 billion to 132 billion. Scarce assets are high in demand, so it’s best that investors act now. It’s possible to buy Tamadoge with a credit card and USDT via Transak.

3. Battle Infinity

Battle Infinity is an upcoming NFT-based metaverse game with its play to earn native token IBAT – some of the other sports NFT drops we reviewed have now taken place.

The full Battle Infinity game drops soon, its NFTs – tokenized assets like in-game characters, avatars, weapons and more – will also be tradeable on its integrated NFT marketplace, the Battle Market.

Battle Infinity includes a range of decentralized battle royale style games across different themed arenas – one of which that stands out is the IBAT Premier League, which has a fantasy sports theme.

Via battleinfinity.io

Players will be able to pick and manage a strategic team to compete against other players’ teams internationally – in a daily fantasy sports style game, taking place in the metaverse with a P2E gaming format. That gives it wide investor and gamer appeal so this upcoming crypto project could be one to watch.

The IBAT token earned as a form of rewards for playing, will also be able to be exchanged for any other currency on the platform’s own decentralized exchange (DEX), Battle Swap.

The latest DappRadar industry report found that crypto assets and NFTs related to blockchain games performed better during the 2022 bear market.

Similarly a US study found that sports fans are more likely to have invested in or be planning to invest in crypto assets – so this particular project combines some of the strongest markets, sports fans, blockchain gaming, cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens.

Stay up to date with the latest Battle Infinity developments by joining the project’s official Telegram group.

Battle Infinity proved to be extremely popular as its presale sold out within 24 days. Investors can buy IBAT on PancakaSwap.

4. Lucky Block

One of the best new NFT projects we’ve reviewed is the Lucky Block Platinum Rollers Club, which have as their brand ambassador heavyweight boxer Dillian Whyte, who lasted six rounds in the ring against world champion Tyson Fury.

This NFT drop took place on March 19th 2022 and Lucky Block NFTs are now available to buy on new marketplace NFTLaunchpad.com.

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— Lucky Block (@luckyblockcoin) April 20, 2022

Dillian Whyte commented that his following and sports fans would find the Lucky Block project appealing as it’s a crypto gaming and competitions platforms where NFT or LBLOCK token holders can win prizes in draws:

‘I was excited to learn about their business and the new, transparent and fair approach that they bring to prize draws and giveaway competitions using crypto. It opens up a chance for me to use my fighting talents to introduce boxing fans to crypto and the benefits it has to offer. They tell me they are going to move into play-to-earn games too, and I’m down for that as someone who enjoys games of chance and video games.’

5. Fanzone Sports Club

Many of the latest NFT projects are focused on exclusivity in a closed club format. This means if a person owns a particular NFT, he or she can be a part of a wider community with a say in the NFT project.

The owners of these NFTs can come together for VIP meetups, parties and events, or to discuss the future of the project with its developers. This kind of exclusive community increases the value of NFT projects.

Fanzone Sports Club offers that to international football fans (soccer). It doesn’t involve NFT art but instead NFT passes that grant you access to the activities carried out by the team on and off the pitch. Similar to lifetime season passes for football games, with extra perks.

The passes come in three types – Gold, Black, and Diamond. All three passes provide give presale access to the holders whenever an NFT drop from the team is scheduled, 10% referral bonuses, private meetups, and a chance to meet football idols and other famous sports personalities on stadium tours.

The number of benefits for the holders is the most in the diamond pass which includes an exclusive hospitality package for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. The Fanzone project aims to provide every sports-related benefit they can offer to NFT holders.

Fanzone intends to revolutionize the way fans interact with their sports idols and teams. It has been collaborating with sports celebrities like Andreas Brehme, Maximilian Günther, Oscar Schmidt, Per Mertesacker and football clubs like Deutsche Fußball-Nationalmannschaft, Team Deutschland, FC Bayern Basketball and others from several leagues.

The Fanzone project could achieve a similar level of success as Sorare, a fantasy football play to earn game.

In mid 2022 Binance announced they’d partner with Cristiano Ronaldo to promote NFTs, which could be bullish for sports themed NFTs and fan tokens.

6. Blockchain Brawlers

Inspired by WWE wrestling, the Blockchain Brawlers is a sports NFT game that features in-game NFTs of the wrestler characters. These characters are inspired by wrestling legends, so it could be a good choice for any WWE fan who wishes to stock up on NFTs of their favorite wrestler in the ring.

Created by WAX studios and the developers of WAX blockchain, the project was anticipated to be successful since its early alpha days. The community strength and support also helped. The beta launch of Blockchain Brawlers since its drop on March 30th raked in over $431 million in trading volume within the first two weeks and players were earning over 5000 BRWL a day, the P2E game’s native token.

Since Blockchain Brawlers is the first major project by WAX Studios, the organization has been taking special care to keep in touch with the community via several social media platforms and cater to their needs accordingly. The team is also packed with some of the best NFT creators, headed by Michael Rubinelli.

Michael is a crypto gaming veteran who has been a part of several projects at Playdom, Disney, Electronic Arts, and THQ and is considered to be influential in creating the free-to-play business model.

The project consists of 400 unique Brawlers NFTs, each of which can be crafted and used to fight against other players. Players can use BRWL tokens within the game to buy or upgrade equipment and increase their chances of winning. The legendary Brawlers are the most unique, with a limited-edition collection featuring pro wrestler Ric Flair. Huobi exchange listed the popular BRWL token in April 2022.

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7. CyberDoodleKids

CyberDoodleKids is a collection of NFTs with designs and patterns similar to that of the top 10 NFT project Doodles which hit a new all time high in 2022. Created by an artist that goes by the name of Eva, CyberDoodleKids is the first youth NFT sports project.

This NFT collection consists of 4000 unique characters that portray aspiring athletes in all kinds of sports. Built on the Ethereum Blockchain, these athlete NFTs intend the capture the struggles of several sports enthusiasts and young players who need assistance or a morale boost of some kind.

According to the creator, the NFT characters are positive thinkers, determined to make it to the pro leagues at some point. The project aims to empower youths and raise awareness of the importance of sports. The team aims to create a strong CyberDoodleKids community on social media platforms then use proceeds from the project to help young athletes with sports equipment needed or other financial support.

It will donate 10% of its sports NFT sales to charitable youth programs once 100% of the project is sold. Also 5% of the total sales will be donated to help feed families during the holiday season. Holding a CyberDoodleKids NFT will also provide benefits like merchandise and NFT giveaways plus priority access for future NFT collections and airdrops.

The project will not include a whitelist for presale as the team intends for everyone to have a chance at acquiring a CyberDoodleKid.

This sports NFT drop’s presale is scheduled for June 4th, 2022 at 9am PST.

8. Hoop Toons

Hoop Toons is one of those projects that revolve around a story. The creators have carefully created an entire plot around their NFT collection. The involves a distant world where the aristocracy has decided to replace human basketball players with robots and form a Mechanical Basketball Association.

NFT projects like these have been gaining popularity as the plot interests several people and as it moves forward with speculation of an entire metaverse created around it, many investors decide to buy such NFTs. The collection consists of 5000 unique NFTs.

Approximately 1,400 of the 5000 Hoop Toons will receive Level II perks, while the remainder will receive Level I perks. These perks provide the users with rewards consistently. There are around 450 Saffron Perks, 405 Star Perks, 225 Kobi Perks, 135 Glowing Ball Perks, and 45 Scarlet Perks. The perks increase according to the rarity, making Scarlet Perk the most desired NFT category within the project.

Hoop Toons hopes to eventually give away a part of their earnings as the whole NFT sports project is sold out to help out underserved populations and to provide scholarships for university students.

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9. Ferrari and Velas

In an industry worth billions of dollars, the Formula One giant Scuderia Ferrari, which boasts of 15 wins throughout its celebrated history has a fanbase consisting of millions of people all over the world.

The F1 racing industry has been growing at a consistent pace and has been acquiring a much larger fanbase throughout the past couple of years. Ferrari is not only an F1 team but is also one of the most renowned luxury brands in the entire automobile industry.

The car giant made headlines with an announcement stating its intention to get into the NFT domain. In a press release, the board mentioned that things were in progress and that the exclusive Ferrari NFT collection will drop around mid 2022. It has partnered with Velas network AG, a blockchain firm based in Switzerland to take care of the NFT development and launch.

A multi-year deal that has been made will make Velas Network the exclusive provider for Ferrari brand NFTs, the head sponsor of Ferrari’s Exclusive Esport Series, and all teams that participate in the F1 Esport Series. Farhad Shagulyamov, CEO and founder of Velas Network expressed his excitement in working with the Maranello team and being able to display its technology with a brand that is at the pinnacle of motorsports.

Ferrari isn’t the first team to be involved in racing NFTs either. Mclaren Racing, the racing company had also teamed up with the Tezos blockchain to create the Mclaren Racing Collective NFTs back in 2021.

10. The Swaggy Stallion Collection

NFT horse racing is also increasingly popular in 2023. One such upcoming drop is the the Swaggy Stallion collection set for June 2022. This collection of NFT horses is not only of value as a piece of art but also an asset. Owning one NFT represents owning a racing horse.

Those NFT horses are then used in a P2E game where players will be able to place their bets and the participants get a share of the bets if they win. The 3D game also promises to deliver exciting rewards and benefits to the holders.

The project intends to award one lucky NFT holder with Ether worth $13,000 after the first drop has been sold out and around $1300 to ten random holders. Built on the Polygon chain, the project aspires to bring entrepreneurs, celebrities, and common people together and grow as a united community that can enjoy all the benefits and exciting updates that the project develops.

Every NFT holder will be provided with 1 DAO token, This token will work as the governing asset for the project. Every decision regarding the future of the project will be taken based on the votes cast by the holders, thus providing them autonomy over the project.

11. STEPN App

If you’re into exercising yourself or playing sports – in any way that involves moving such as running, jogging or racing up and down a football pitch, the STEPN app is going viral lately as a move to earn app.

Users have to buy a sneaker NFT, in a similar way to how Axie Infinity players had to make an initial investment, although it can be quickly paid off.

This NFT drop has taken place and the sneaker NFTs were listed on NFT marketplace Magic Eden. While running with a mobile phone, sneaker NFT and GPS connection users can earn crypto in the form of Green Metaverse Tokens (GMT) and Green Satoshi Tokens (GST).

GMT was listed on crypto exchanges in March and has been one of the top trending coins on Coinmarketcap, outperforming the rest of the crypto market, alongside ApeCoin – several NFT and metaverse related coins have been doing well in 2022.

We made a GMT price prediction and went into some of the major investors behind the project such as Binance Labs and Alameda Research. Its price chart is in a bullish uptrend.

Cryptoassets are a highly volatile unregulated investment product.

12. The BallMan Project

Celebrities backing NFTs is common these days. The publicity that a project receives from the endorsement of a famous personality can help the project attract more followers. BallMan NFTs take it one step further – this project is made by a sports star. The developer Stan Wawrinka is a 3-time Grand Slam Winner, Davis Cup winner, and an Olympic tennis champion.

Stan got into the NFT industry while recovering from a foot injury after a tennis match. This sport NFT collection features 5555 unique digital NFTs of characters with different traits and attributes.

Buying one of the tennis NFTs lets holders be a part of the NFT Open Series – a weekly virtual tennis tournament that rewards players with BallMan Community benefits. Not only does the tournament give benefits to the community, it also improves the stats of one’s NFT player.

The project has partnered with SwissBorg and Make-A-Wish and has planned several perks for NFT owners and winners in the Open Series. The prizes include physical gifts, airdrops, and prize money in the form of cryptocurrency. They also plan on creating a virtual store for merchandise and a strong community space.

The BallMan project NFT drop has now taken place and the NFTs can be traded on secondary NFT marketplace Opensea.

13. Solana Sports Club

Founded by Ben Duncanson, a professionals in the FinTech industry, Solana Sports Club aims at providing true physical utility to its holders. As avid sports fans, the development team decided to create a high utility sports NFT token and decided to go with a sports trading card format.

The project’s vision includes perks of multiple kinds including real-life tickets and attendance to top sporting events, participation in sporting events like exclusive fantasy leagues along with memorabilia and giveaways.

It is a 10,000 piece collection of trading card sport NFTs. As cards are purchased back and burned, the project is deflationary, leading to increased value and a higher chance of winning per NFT.

Holders are automatically entered into all raffles across all tiers, for the duration of the project, through a tiered raffle system. Each NFT was minted on April 8, 2022, at the price of 2 SOL (Solana).

All-inclusive sports packages are raffled as part of Tier 1 raffles, which are the most lucrative. Among the examples of Tier 2 perks are an invite-only fantasy league with prize money provided by the SSC that focuses on member competitions. Prizes for Tier 3 raffles include Discord trivia, games, and giveaways.

The cards are designed in the form of four layers. They consist of a background, frame, uniform, and face. Each layer consists of 10 choices except the background layer which has an additional option for the Platinum, Silver, Gold, and Bronze Edition.

14. Hockey Heroes

Also powered by Solana and advertised as the greatest hockey NFT collection on the Solana chain, Hockey Heroes are living up to that since their minting – the drop took place in February 2022.

With a supportive community and active social media presence, Hockey Heroes is expected to do well in 2023. Each pack of NFT hockey cards contains a pixel art representation of an NHL player, and there are 3,333 cards in all.

In this sport NFT collection are 111 ‘Legends’ which are more rare and valuable than the other player cards. Legend cards can be redeemed for physical collectibles and feature some of the top players.

The project also includes a Heroic Trophy NFT. The creators stated that whoever receives the Heroic Trophy NFT will have Solana worth $10,000 deposited into their wallet after they sell the token.

Hockey Heroes has also mentioned conducting several giveaways and introducing various other benefits for their NFT holders. This news came along with an announcement for a 2nd Season. The Second Season is likely to have more hockey players, along with famous referees and announcers/commentators.

Solana is also potentially a good investment as it’s now cheap, having corrected back the $100 area. Like many of the best NFT related coins it is listed on eToro.

Cryptoassets are a highly volatile unregulated investment product.

Why Buy Sports NFTs?

The importance and potential of non-fungible tokens are beginning to be acknowledged by major corporations such as Visa, Adidas, and even world governments.

The NFT bull run of the past few months – outperforming crypto, stocks and many other financial markets – has proven that these digital assets are here to stay and possibly reshape several industries as we see them today. NFT technology as an industry has been valued at $100 billion in 2022.

While NFTs come in the form of art, music, and many other formats, NFT sports collectibles are potentially another avenue for investing in NFTs as sports fans are known to be avid collectors of memorabilia, whether its vintage sports merchandise, or autographs from famous athletes.

Recent NFT applications in the sports world have included:

• The Australian Cricket Association announcing an NFT drop
• The Golden State Warriors basketball team releasing two NFT drops
• The NBA filing NFT trademarks
• The NBA launching an NFT drop

The Golden State Warriors hold the record for the most expensive sport NFT which was a world championship ring token bought for 285 ETH, which is over $870,000 in dollar terms.

Also see our NFT calendar which includes all types of upcoming drops other than sport NFT drops.

Read more: John Terry’s Ape Kids Club NFTs Drop To 0.02 ETH Floor Price

Conclusion

NFT sport collectibles have shown success so far, for example Sorare NFT fantasy football cards recently broke into the top 100 NFTs by market cap. We reviewed the Fanzone Sports Club NFT project which could follow in its footsteps.

We also covered the recent move to earn craze and the governance token of the STEPN app which is used by runners and joggers, GMT. It has been one of the best performing coins of 2022 and a STEPN sneaker NFT is required to use the app.

The majority of sports NFTs are still undervalued so our top 10 sport NFT drops above may represent a good investment opportunity for those who missed the boat on Bored Apes and Punks. Sports NFT projects have a lower floor price – buying a sport NFT token can cost as little as $10 – $100.

NFT collections brand new in 2022 like Lucky Block also could potentially increase in value – the LBLOCK token launched by the same project went on a 65x bull run in Q1 2022. Like most NFT collections owning one comes with additional perks, although Lucky Block offer more benefits than most – including the chances to win jackpot prizes in the six and seven figures.

NFT related cryptos currently on presale like Tamadoge also have some of the highest upside potential – investing early at presale tends to outperform investing in the middle of an asset’s bull cycle.

However, if you are looking for the best Sport NFT drop out there, our suggestion is Silks. The skill-based fantasy game brings the thrill of thoroughbred horse racing to the metaverse, opening up diverse streams of returns to gaming enthusiasts. The Inaugural Silks Horse Collection will be up for grabs soon. Mint your Avatar on Silks and claim your spot in the Horse Mint.

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