SAILGP PUBLISHES 2025 PURPOSE AND IMPACT REPORT, SETTING COURSE FOR 2030
SailGP has published its 2025 Season Purpose and Impact Report, revealing a year in which high performance and high purpose moved in lockstep, and setting a clear heading for the league’s sharpened Better Sport strategy through 2030.
Across a 12-event global calendar, the championship delivered measurable progress in sustainability, gender equity and youth engagement. Most notably, 100 percent of events were powered by clean energy, achieving a goal first set in 2021. Battery Energy Storage Systems helped cut fuel use by more than 157,000 litres, saving over USD $300,000 and demonstrating that innovation can be both environmentally and commercially smart.
Ahead of the season, SailGP refined its Better Sport strategy with three targets for the end of the decade, all centred on the next generation. By 2030, the league is aiming for two female athletes in every race crew in key roles, 100,000 young people engaged through Next Generation programs and one million digital followers aged 18 to 24.
The 2025 Season marked a landmark moment for gender equity. Martine Grael became the first female driver to step into the F50 cockpit and claim a fleet race win in her debut campaign with Mubadala Brazil, securing victory at the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix. Her breakthrough was both symbolic and seismic, accelerating momentum that has been building since the league’s inception.
Off the water, SailGP Inspire continued to expand its reach. In 2025 alone, 11,383 young people were engaged through the program, bringing total participation to 34,132 since Season 1, delivered alongside global partner Mubadala.
SailGP’s Impact League also gathered pace, with 48 focus area projects delivered, 126 hours of female training logged on F50s, and Emirates GBR crowned back to back champions. Meanwhile, carbon emissions continued to trend downward compared to Season 4, with a 42 percent reduction in business travel and accommodation emissions, 15 percent reduction in on shore power and a five percent cut in helicopter fuel emissions. Eight new SailGP Oceans Impact Projects were supported in 2025, bringing the total to 32 since 2021, in collaboration with 17 organisations worldwide.
SailGP Managing Director Andrew Thompson described the season as “a standout year for SailGP and its partners, one where ambition turned into action and performance, impact and commercial growth lived side by side.”
Eight years on from its launch, SailGP’s founding ambition to redefine what a global sports league can stand for feels less like a statement and more like a standard.
