Abstract: Sports data opening as a subset of open data, is an epochal requirement and an inevitable choice to realize "five development concepts", help build a digital China and a sports power, and realize high-quality development of sports industry. Sports data opening includes the "three main subjects" of content, use and management; involves "three levels" of across-department, across-industry, and across-border; presents the "three features" of complicated content, diversified fields and privacy sensitivity. The sports data opening advances the national fitness strategy, improves the strength of competitive sports, accelerates the transformation of sports industry, and enhances the ability of sports governance. Some developed countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania have formulated national policies related to the sports data opening that aims to solve the contradictions in sports development, break through the development bottleneck, and improve sports governance. China's sports data opening should focus on the strategic goal of accelerating the construction of a data power and a sports power, through policy system establishment, platform construction, and privacy protection and personnel training, so as to ensure the smooth progress of the sports data opening and achieve high-quality and sustainable development of sports.