Restrictions on adult community sport will be lifted alongside children's sports at the start of next month, the NSW government has confirmed.
Children's community sport was slated to resume on July 1 and on Wednesday adult sports were permitted to restart on the same date.
The announcement comes days before the reopening of gyms and other physical fitness centres around NSW on June 13.
The COVID-19 pandemic had in March forced the closure of such facilities.
But crowds at professional sporting events currently remain off the table, with stadium operators told to begin developing a COVID-19 management plan.
"We have reduced the spread of COVID-19 to the point where further restrictions can be lifted," NSW Sport Minister Geoff Lee said in a statement.
"It is only because communities have followed the strict social distancing guidelines that this announcement is possible."
The change was flagged earlier on Wednesday by Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
"Hopefully in the near future those organisations, those businesses feeling a level of frustration, won't. I just ask everybody to stay patient for a little while longer," Ms Berejiklian told the Nine Network.
"We haven't seen the number of cases increase and that's a positive thing, and if that stays the case for the next little while we'll continue to ease restrictions."
Ms Berejiklian, meanwhile, said on Tuesday she'd seek to draw a "line in the sand" for mass gatherings in NSW after Saturday's Black Lives Matter protest.
Some 20,000 people on Saturday joined the march in Sydney after the Court of Appeal deemed it lawful less than 15 minutes before its commencement.
Black Lives Matter protesters in Sydney on 6 June, 2020. Source: AAP
The protest had a day earlier been deemed illegal by the NSW Supreme Court after police complained about the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
NSW Police Minister David Elliott last week said anyone seeking to gather during a pandemic was "certifiably insane" and "nuts".
The total number of coronavirus cases recorded in NSW sits at 3114 after two cases were recorded on Tuesday, both in travellers in hotel quarantine.
There are no NSW coronavirus patients currently in intensive care.
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