Sportspersons nec (ANZSCO 452499)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Sportspersons nec on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Sportspersons nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Sportspersons nec as a Group D occupation — AQF Certificate III or higher plus highly relevant employment — as the catch-all for professional individual or team-sport athletes not covered by a more specific code, in the same relationship to Footballer and Golfer that Other Sports Coach or Instructor holds to the named coaching titles. This occupation's own suitable and not-suitable list content was not sourced in as much depth as the family's other nec codes in this research pass.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code carries a genuine data inconsistency, confirmed against the occupations register and unresolved in this research pass: it is recorded on both STSOL and CSOL, but its published visa list does not include 186 or 482 — the two visas CSOL membership normally opens. Every other STSOL-plus-CSOL code in this family — Diving Instructor Open Water, Other Sports Coach or Instructor, Sports Development Officer — does reach 186/482; this one does not, on the data as published. Don't rely on any visa count or an 186/482 claim for this code — check the current Home Affairs list directly before treating it as open or closed to employer sponsorship.

An honest read on this pathway

Because of the unresolved lists-versus-visas mismatch, the honest position for a professional athlete considering this code is to verify the current visa list directly with Home Affairs rather than rely on the published occupations data for this one code specifically — the inconsistency is documented, not silently corrected, and nothing in this research pass explains which side of the mismatch is the error.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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