Season 3 of the International Swimming League (ISL) is set to kick off on Thursday, with the first of 11 regular-season matches in Naples, Italy featuring 2019 league champions Energy Standard, the Toronto Titans, DC Trident and Aqua Centurions.
Find everything you need to know to be prepared for the action, including the match schedule and start times both locally and by major timezone, below.
All of this information, along with up-to-date season results, will be available in a drop-down menu at the top of the SwimSwam homepage throughout the course of the season.
Full results of the matches can also be located here.
During the first 10 matches of the regular season, all Thursday-Friday meets will start at 8:00 pm local time in Naples, which is 2:00 pm Eastern time. The Saturday-Sunday showdowns will begin at 6:00 pm locally, or 12:00 pm ET. Beginning with Match 6, however, the Saturday-Sunday matches will begin 7:00 pm locally, or 1:00 pm ET.
The play-in match, which will run Wednesday-Thursday at the end of September, is also a 8 pm local/2pm ET start.
You can find a breakdown by time zone down below.
Regular Season Schedule – Naples, Italy
August 26-27 – Match 1, @8:00 PM Local
- Energy Standard
- Toronto Titans
- DC Trident
- Aqua Centurions
August 28-29 – Match 2, @6:00 PM Local
- Cali Condors
- LA Current
- Tokyo Frog Kings
- New York Breakers
September 2-3 – Match 3, @8:00 PM Local
- Energy Standard
- London Roar
- Iron
- New York Breakers
September 4-5 – Match 4, @6:00 PM Local
- Cali Condors
- LA Current
- DC Trident
- Aqua Centurions
September 9-10 – Match 5, @8:00 PM Local
- LA Current
- Iron
- Toronto Titans
- DC Trident
September 11-12 – Match 6, @7:00 PM Local
- Cali Condors
- London Roar
- Tokyo Frog Kings
- Aqua Centurions
September 16-17 – Match 7 @8:00 PM Local
- Cali Condors
- Iron
- Toronto Titans
- New York Breakers
September 18-19 – Match 8 @7:00 PM Local
- Energy Standard
- London Roar
- LA Current
- Tokyo Frog Kings
September 23-24 – Match 9 @8:00 PM Local
- Energy Standard
- London Roar
- Toronto Titans
- DC Trident
September 25-26 – Match 10 @7:00 PM Local
- Team Iron
- Tokyo Frog Kings
- New York Breakers
- Aqua Centurions
Play-In Match
The 7th-10th ranked teams at the conclusion of the regular season will compete for 2 spots in the playoff round.
September 29-30 – Match 11 @8:00 PM Local
- Regular Season #7
- Regular Season #8
- Regular Season #9
- Regular Season #10
START TIMES BY MAJOR CITY (Regular Season)
| City/Time Zone | Thurs/Fri Matches | Sat/Sun Matches |
| Naples (local) | 8-10 PM | 7-9 PM |
| New York (ET) | 2-4 PM | 1-3 PM |
| Chicago (CT) | 1-3 PM | 12-2 PM |
| Los Angeles (PT) | 11-1 PM | 10-12 AM |
| Tokyo (JST) | 3-5 AM (next day) | 2-4 AM (next day) |
| Sydney (AEST) | 4-6 AM (next day) | 3-5 AM (next day) |
| London (BST) | 7-9 PM | 6-8 PM |
| Moscow (MSK) | 9-11 PM | 8-10 PM |
| Rio de Janeiro (BRT) | 3-5 PM | 2-4 PM |
| Pretoria (SAST) | 8-10 PM | 7-9 PM |
Find an overview of the current playoff schedule below:
Playoffs – Eindhoven, Netherlands
- November 11-12 – Match 12 @7:00 PM Local
- November 13-14 – March 13
- November 18-19 – Match 14
- November 20-21 – Match 15
- November 25-26 – Match 16
- November 27-28 – Match 17
Finals – Location TBD
- February 7-8 – Match 18 (FINALS)
HOW TO WATCH
Broadcast details have currently only been released for the United States (CBS Sports–more info here) and Italy (Sky Italia).
But, the ISL does have a subscription-based streaming platform set up, which you can access at their website here.
Is there any way they will televise the games on CBS this weekend with the CaliCondors and LAC both competing?
On the ISL website it says match 4 has NYB and TOK instead of DCT and AQC as above. Did the schedule change? This has DCT only doing 3 matches instead of 4
That’s a mistake. We alerted the league last night and they said they’d fix it.
It looks like it will be streamed by CBC – just saw it listed as an upcoming stream on my CBC sports app.
Currently if you don’t live in Italy or America you need to pay $45 to watch the season? Are they mad?
They’ve gotta make up like $50 million in costs, and if their ratings were any good they would’ve signed more deals with real television channels, and CBS would’ve aired more matches, and they would have announced more brand partnerships.
So, they’re gonna start to make it up on the backs of hardcore swim fans – an audience, by the way, that they’ve been completely disrespectful to and blown off from day 1.
the shooting angels were just painful to watch
Nope, de$perate for ca$h is probably more like it, ye$?