The 2021 International Swimming League was the third and final edition of the International Swimming League, a professional swimming league, established in 2019. It comprised ten teams composed of both women and men. The league, due to COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions, consisted of a total of eighteen short course swimming meets, called matches, spanning four stages of competition and held in two locations. In each match, swimmers from four different teams competed in individual, relay, and skins events. The ten regular season matches and one play in match took place in the city of Naples, Italy. The six play off matches in the semifinals stage of competition took place in the city of Eindhoven, Netherlands, as did the final match.
The France-based Energy Standard won the Final Match, with the Most Valuable Player award going to Sarah Sjöström of the same team.D'Addona, Dan (4 December 2021). "MVP Sarah Sjostrom Proves Again to be in 'World's Greatest' Conversation After Dominant ISL Season, Final". Swimming World. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
Schedule The schedule consisted of eleven regular season and play in meets in Naples, followed by six Semifinals and the Final Match in Eindhoven.
DatesLocationVenueTeamsResultsMVPRegular season26–27 August NaplesPiscina Felice Scandone Energy Standard Toronto Titans DC Trident Aqua Centurions Sarah Sjöström( Energy Standard)60.5 pts28–29 August Cali Condors LA Current Tokyo Frog Kings New York Breakers Coleman Stewart( Cali Condors)95 pts2-3 September Energy Standard London Roar Team Iron New York Breakers Siobhán Haughey( Energy Standard)78 pts4–5 September Cali Condors LA Current DC Trident Aqua Centurions Caeleb Dressel( Cali Condors)112.5 pts9-10 September LA Current Team Iron Toronto Titans DC Trident Louise Hansson( Toronto Titans)57.5 pts11–12 September Cali Condors London Roar Tokyo Frog Kings Aqua Centurions Daiya Seto( Tokyo Frog Kings)57 pts16-17 September Cali Condors Team Iron Toronto Titans New York Breakers Beata Nelson( Cali Condors)67 pts18–19 September Energy Standard London Roar LA Current Tokyo Frog Kings Ilya Shymanovich( Energy Standard)64 pts23-24 September Energy Standard London Roar Toronto Titans DC Trident Evgeny Rylov( Energy Standard)60.5 pts25-26 September Team Iron Tokyo Frog Kings New York Breakers Aqua Centurions Daiya Seto( Tokyo Frog Kings)50 ptsPlay in Match29-30 September NaplesPiscina Felice Scandone Team Iron DC Trident Tokyo Frog Kings New York Breakers Ranomi Kromowidjojo( Team Iron)43.5 ptsPlayoff – Semifinals11-12 November EindhovenPieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion Energy Standard DC Trident Cali Condors Team Iron Ilya Shymanovich( Energy Standard)62.5 pts13-14 November Aqua Centurions London Roar LA Current Toronto Titans Ryan Murphy( LA Current)58 pts18-19 November Aqua Centurions DC Trident Energy Standard Toronto Titans Sarah Sjöström( Energy Standard)87.5 pts20-21 November Cali Condors Team Iron LA Current London Roar Duncan Scott( London Roar)60 pts25-26 November DC Trident Energy Standard LA Current London Roar Ilya Shymanovich( Energy Standard)83.5 pts27-28 November Aqua Centurions Cali Condors Team Iron Toronto Titans Matteo Rivolta( Aqua Centurions)55 ptsFinal Match3-4 December EindhovenPieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion Cali Condors Energy Standard LA Current London Roar Sarah Sjöström( Energy Standard)61 pts
Ranking
All individual events that were competed during the ISL season were ranked. Each ISL athlete had a ranking for the event(s) in which they competed, and each athlete was either awarded a "gem" or a "star" based on their rankings.
Teams
ISL teams were allowed a maximum roster size of 38 athletes for the 2021 season, with a suggested size of each club's traveling roster of 30 (15 men and 15 women). Each club had a captain and a vice-captain of different gender.
Cali CondorsMenWomen Khader Baqlah Erika Brown Marcin Cieślak Kelsi Dahlia Kevin Cordes Maaike de Waard Caeleb Dressel (C) Kathrin Demler Nic Fink Sherridon Dressel Townley Haas Emily Escobedo Aleksandr Krasnykh Hali Flickinger Kacper Majchrzak Molly Hannis José Ángel Martínez Natalie Hinds Tomas Peribonio Lilly King Jesse Puts Leonie Kullmann Justin Ress Beata Nelson Coleman Stewart Marie Pietruschka Mark Szaranek Katerine Savard Eddie Wang Olivia Smoliga (vice-captain) Brodie Williams Anastasia Sorokina
DC TridentMenWomen Zach Apple Bailey Andison Tommy Cope Tatiana Belonogoff Zane Grothe Annika Bruhn Zach Harting Ali DeLoof Ryan Hoffer Joanna Evans Tristan Hollard Madeline Groves Jay Litherland Bella Hindley Andrew Loy Anna Hopkin Cody Miller Zsuzsanna Jakabos Camden Murphy Madison Kennedy Mark Nikolaev Linnea Mack Jacob Pebley Klaudia Naziębło Mohamed Samy Leah Neale Aleksandr Shchegolev Rachel Nicol Sergii Shevtsov Farida Osman Felipe França Silva Maria Temnikova Velimir Stjepanović Brianna Throssell Andreas Vazaios Ting Wen Quah
New York BreakersMenWomen Brandonn Almeida Svetlana Chimrova Felix Aubock Kornelia Fiedkiewicz Meiron Cheruti Lucy Hope Lewis Clareburt Ajna Késely Elliot Clogg Ana Monteiro Philip Heintz Paulina Peda Marco Koch Molly Renshaw Jakub Kraska Tes Schouten Joe Litchfield Karoline Sørensen Jakub Majerski Marrit Steenbergen Stan Pijnenburg Arina Surkova David Popovici Alicja Tchórz Brendon Smith Daria S. Ustinova Matthew Temple Sarah Vasey Mewen Tomac Abbie Wood Jacob Whittle Daryna Zevina James Wilby
LA CurrentMenWomen Javier Acevedo Kathleen Baker Vladyslav Bukhov Bronte Campbell Apostolos Christou Imogen Clark Breno Correia Valentine Dumont Héctor Cruz Sara Franceschi Abrahm DeVine Helena Gasson Kristian Golomeev Béryl Gastaldello (vice-captain) Ryan Held Anastasia Gorbenko Will Licon Katie McLaughlin Martin Malyutin Anna Ntountounaki Ryan Murphy (C) Lani Pallister Brett Pinfold Julia Sebastián Maxime Rooney Kotryna Teterevkova Christopher Rothbauer Abbey Weitzeil Fernando Scheffer Ingrid Wilm Tom Shields Madi Wilson Matthew Wilson Alina Zmushka Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas
Toronto TitansMenWomen Tobias Bjerg Anika Apostalon Sergey Fesikov Lisa Bratton Brent Hayden (Vice-captain) Tessa Cieplucha Yuri Kisil Michelle Coleman Finlay Knox Anna Egorova Luc Kroon Candice Hall Marius Kusch Louise Hansson Jay Lelliott Julia Hassler Max Litchfield Chelsea Hodges Anton McKee Sara Junevik Grigori Pekarski Kylie Masse (C) Blake Pieroni Summer McIntosh Cole Pratt Kaersten Meitz Alberto Razzetti Larissa Oliveira Shane Ryan Kayla Sanchez Fabian Schwingenschlögl Laura Stephens Nils Wich-Glasen Dominika Sztandera Lorenzo Zazzeri Kasia Wasick Aimee Wilmott Kelsey Wog
Energy StandardMenWomen Simonas Bilis Madeline Banic Adam Barrett Evgeniia Chikunova Marco De Tullio Georgia Davies James Guy Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş Kliment Kolesnikov Mary-Sophie Harvey Chad le Clos (C) Siobhán Haughey Felipe Lima Femke Heemskerk Travis Mahoney Boglárka Kapás Florent Manaudou Simona Kubová Clément Mignon Etiene Medeiros Sajan Prakash Benedetta Pilato Ben Proud Helena Rosendahl Bach Evgeny Rylov Emily Seebohm Ilya Shymanovich Janja Šegel Maxim Stupin Anastasiya Shkurdai Charlie Swanson Sarah Sjöström (C) Andrei Zhilkin Fanny Teijonsalo Kregor Zirk Jessica Vall Montero
Team IronMenWomen Guilherme Basseto Veronika Andrusenko Andrej Barna Emilie Beckmann Thom de Boer Costanza Coconcelli Robert Glință (vice-captain) Casey Fanz Maksim Lobanovskij Mélanie Henique Lukas Märtens Danielle Hill Luiz Altamir Melo Katinka Hosszú (C) Kristóf Milák Ida Hulkko Lorenzo Mora Ranomi Kromowidjojo Marco Orsi Ingeborg Løyning Bernhard Reitshammer Silvia Scalia Matthew Richards Barbora Seemanová Erik Persson Kierra Smith Leonardo Santos Jenna Strauch Nicholas Santos Alys Thomas Hüseyin Emre Sakçı Alexandra Touretski Kirill Strelnikov Maria Ugolkova Mikhail Vekovishchev África Zamorano Dávid Verrasztó
London RoarMenWomen Dylan Carter Freya Anderson Kyle Chalmers Minna Atherton Tom Dean Alia Atkinson Christian Diener Ilaria Bianchi Luke Greenbank Kim Busch Guilherme Guido Cate Campbell Zac Incerti Laura Lahtinen Vini Lanza Jenna Laukkanen Ed Mildred Annie Lazor Teppei Morimoto Emma McKeon Ross Murdoch Andi Murez Katsumi Nakamura Sydney Pickrem (C) Adam Peaty (C) Katie Shanahan Kirill Prigoda Kira Toussaint Duncan Scott Valerie van Roon Kenzo Simons Marie Wattel Sam Williamson
Aqua CenturionsMenWomen Stefano Ballo Holly Barratt Ilya Borodin Martina Caramignoli Thomas Ceccon Martina Carraro Matteo Ciampi Arianna Castiglioni Marcelo Chierighini Kathleen Dawson Leonardo de Deus Elena Di Liddo Vladislav Grinev Silvia Di Pietro Nicolò Martinenghi Holly Hibbott Alessandro Miressi Maria Kameneva Chase Kalisz Fantine Lesaffre Arno Kamminga Lidón Muñoz Radosław Kawęcki Rozaliya Nasretdinova Matteo Rivolta Rika Omoto Simone Sabbioni Federica Pellegrini (C) Fabio Santi Alessia Polieri Fabio Scozzoli (VC) Laura Taylor Szebasztián Szabó
Tokyo Frog KingsMenWomen Bowe Becker Tomomi Aoki Richárd Bohus Mallory Comerford Maarten Brzoskowski Catherine DeLoof Ivan Girev Gabby DeLoof Tomoru Honda Suzuka Hasegawa Takeshi Kawamoto Chihiro Igarashi Yasuhiro Koseki Leah Gingrich Vladimir Morozov Harriet Jones Nandor Nemeth Keanna MacInnes Daniil Pasynkov Paige Madden Alessandro Pinzuti Julie Meynen Federico Poggio Leah Smith Cristian Quintero Aly Tetzloff Daiya Seto Miranda Tucker Pedro Spajari Kanako Watanabe Zac Stubblety-Cook Cassie Wild Grigoriy Tarasevich
Standings
2021 ISL Final Match TeamTotal score 1 Energy Standard 534.02 Cali Condors 522.03 London Roar 393.54 LA Current 305.5
2021 ISL Play Offs TeamEindhoven 1Eindhoven 2Eindhoven 3Eindhoven 4Eindhoven 5Eindhoven 6Total scorePoints 1 Energy Standard 522 583561.5 1,666.5 112 Cali Condors534.5 474.5 532.5 1,541.5 113 London Roar 494.5 534.5 498.5 1,527.5 104 LA Current506 438.5 415.5 1,360 85 Toronto Titans 398.5 407 331 1,136.5 66 Aqua Centurions 357 390 444.5 1,191.5 57 Team Iron 340 324.5 446 1,110.5 58 DC Trident 359.5 383 289.5 1,032 3 KeyColourResultGoldWinnerPurpleDid not finish (DNF)BlackDisqualified (DSQ)WhiteDid not start (DNS)BlankWithdrew entry fromthe event (WD)
2021 ISL Play In Match The team in yellow are qualified to the Play Offs. TeamTotal score 1 DC Trident 506.02 Team Iron 497.03 NY Breakers 388.54 Tokyo Frog Kings 385.5
2021 ISL Regular season The top two finishers of the second edition of the league, Cali Condors and Energy Standard, did not compete against each other during any regular season match. TeamNaples 1Naples 2Naples 3Naples 4Naples 5Naples 6Naples 7Naples 8Naples 9Naples 10Total scorePoints 1 Energy Standard511.5 640.5 5075682,227162 Cali Condors707594 478.5 5812,360.5153 London Roar436.5529.5 486.5457.51,890134 Toronto Titans496.5536529.5380.51,942.5125 LA Current402.5444.5452.5395.51,695116 Aqua Centurions442.5375.5 379.5 5631,760.5107 Team Iron405.5374362.55291,67188 Tokyo Frog Kings371.5 376.5 379 3971,52469 DC Trident311.5359416.53571,444510 NY Breakers265278.52932721108.54 KeyColourResultGoldWinnerPurpleDid not finish (DNF)BlackDisqualified (DSQ)WhiteDid not start (DNS)BlankWithdrew entry fromthe event (WD)
Event winners 50 m freestyle