International Initial-Eligibility Resources

Key Information for Your Student-Athletes!

Looking for information to help you or your college-bound student-athletes understand the NCAA Eligibility Center's certification requirements? The International Initial-Eligibility Flyer is a great resource for your student-athletes as they pursue playing athletics at the next level. This resource walks through the different requirements that international student-athletes are required to meet to compete in college athletics.

This resource is also available in German, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Click here to view other non-English language resources.

2024 Grads: Final Official High School Transcripts and Proof of Graduation Needed

For students who graduated in spring 2024, students should ask their school to submit certified copies of your academic documents (and translated documents, if applicable) to the Eligibility Center after graduation.

If English is not the native language, the certified copies of your documents translated by a certified translator must be submitted along with the certified copies in the native language.
Please note: The Eligibility Center cannot return documents; submit certified copies only.

How High Schools Can Help

International high schools and ministry offices may directly email official academic records for use in academic certifications to the NCAA Eligibility Center at ec-processing@ncaa.org.

Certified documents must be emailed from a school email address. (Emails submitted from general email providers, such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., cannot be accepted.)
All submitted documents must include the student’s name and NCAA ID number. Best practice is to include the student’s name and NCAA ID in the subject line of the email.

How the NCAA Recruiting School Can Help
Student-athletes should contact the compliance office of the school recruiting them for information on their submission process.

Need additional information?

Information regarding specific documentation from your country is available in the NCAA Guide to International Academic Standards for Athletics Eligibility.
Click here for additional instructions and guidance on submitting international documents.
Students with questions should use the International Contact Form.

International Guide Quarterly Update

The 2023-24 Guide to International Academic Standards for Athletics Eligibility has been updated to include changes to these countries' information:

Botswana—Proof of graduation updated.
Guyana—Grading scale language updated.
Peru—New grading scale added.
Spain—New not-acceptable proof of graduation title added.
United Kingdom—New proof of graduation added.

If you have an earlier version of the guide downloaded to your computer locally, please be sure to download and replace it with this updated version.

Recording Now Available

Webinar for International Student-Athletes

The NCAA Eligibility Center staff hosted a webinar on Tuesday, June 25, for international student-athletes. During this engaging webinar, staff helped international student-athletes understand how to be ready to play once they hit campus by explaining NCAA requirements, preparing for certification, and what is needed to compete at the NCAA Division I, II or III level.

Missed the webinar? Not to worry! Click below to watch or share the webinar resources.

NCAA Student-Athletes Competing at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games

We've got Olympic fever!! The NCAA has released a dashboard that provides an overview of the former, current or incoming NCAA varsity athletes competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. This interactive summary includes top-level figures that can be filtered by a range of categories including school and sport. Additional tabs provide the list of athletes and coaches participating in the 2024 Olympic Games. This dashboard will be updated periodically leading up to and during the Paris Games

(See an error or a missing athlete? Email stories@ncaa.org.)