If you follow football or basketball on Instagram, a Sports section built around your own choice of leagues may be on its way. Screenshots of an early test, posted by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, show how it would work.
Instagram has not announced it, and has given no date or countries. The screens begin with a list of sports. Inside it sit individual leagues, and the NBA and the UEFA Europa League are the two examples visible. You choose the ones you care about, and the list can be changed as your interests move.
Each league you follow gets its own settings. The screens let you decide what sort of updates arrive from it, rather than taking everything. Your picks also steer the feed, which would carry more sports posts and live updates.
One detail goes beyond what you pick yourself: the section also proposes further leagues, chosen from your existing selections.
For a football fan who follows a domestic league, it might point towards a European competition. The suggestions would build on what you already picked, so you do not have to hunt for each competition yourself, and the more leagues you add, the more the section has to work from.
Paluzzi shared the images on Threads. Tests like this can change before release, and some never ship. If Instagram does switch it on, the Sports section would be the place to set up your leagues, and the league choices are what shape what shows in your feed.
