The US Center for SafeSport has released its annual report for 2025, and it includes new numbers outlining the results of efforts to increase the safety of all members in sports continuously. The report shows that while 2025 did see a decline in allegations of sexual misconduct, the opposite can be stated for emotional and physical misconduct allegations.
The report shows several promising advancements, including the number of online education courses completed year over year. In 2025, 1,641,420 online education courses were completed; that number was up from 1,574,923 in 2024.
As of December 31, 2025, the Centralized Disciplinary Database (CDD) listed 2,545 individuals; 51.1% of those individuals are deemed “ineligible,” while 37.5% are listed as “Permanently Ineligible” by SafeSport.
As for the sheer number of reports to SafeSport this past calendar year, the Center received 9,683 reports, about 186 per week, which marked a 19.6% increase from 2024, when the center received 8,098. Since 2017, the Center has received nearly 42,000 reports (41,921).
When breaking down the reports by allegation types, the most reported allegation related to emotional/physical abuse. In 2025, the Center received 3,751 reports, which is 754 more than in 2024, which had 2,997. For context, in 2023, the Center received 2,737 reports relating to emotional/physical abuse, bringing the three-year total to 9,485 cases.
Though the rise in emotional and physical abuse is not the desired direction, the same cannot be said about sexual misconduct numbers, as the annual report shows a decrease year over year in relation to sexual misconduct allegations. In 2025, the number of sexual misconduct cases reported was 1,414, which was down from the 1,58 from 2024, which was already an improvement from 2023, which was reported to have 1,566.
Another positive sign from SafeSport was the number of cases that were two or more years old. On January 1, 2026, the annual report showed that the number of two-or-more-year cases sat at 26, which is a 74.8% decrease from 2024, in which the center had 103 cases open.
Over a two-year cycle (between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2026), the average case length improved significantly compared with the previous two-year period, despite an overall rise in total case numbers.
Between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2024, on average, the amount of time it took to reach an outcome for a case was just a hair under 37 days (36.9 days); that average was calculated from the 10,131 cases from that period. In this latest two-year span, it took an average of 27.5 days to reach an outcome for a case, even with the rise to 13,159 cases.
