The sports industry is expected to develop into a huge business through convergence with existing industries such as the broadcasting/information communications, health/medicine, and entertainment/leisure. This paper aims to extract and analyse the candidated promising sports industries at the national level in order to promote them in the long term, and adopts a policy-based approach to such efforts. To extract promising sports industries at the national level, a methodology that considers economic effects such as global competitiveness, technological characteristics, and the creation of jobs, as well as technical development projects, should be adopted. In this study, It was extracted 59 candidated promising sports industries using literature review and expert opinions. As a result of in-depth survey, we found some critical implications each area as follows; health club operation in the lifetime and participation sports area, female sports dance in the welfare sports area, new material sports shoes in the lifetime and welfare sports area, and dynamic training system in the professional sports area.