The development of the sports industry, especially the green sports industry, under the low-carbon economy is of great significance to realizing a carbon neutrality goal. This study selects the data from 2008-2022 to verify the influence effect of digital development and energy consumption structure on the green development of sports industry (GDSI) and concludes as follows: (1) The GDSI has significant spatial autocorrelation, and with the change of time, spatial autocorrelation rises. (2) Digital development can promote the GDSI, and there is a spatial spillover effect. The energy consumption structure inhibits the improvement of the GDSI, and there is also a spatial spillover effect. The digital economy not only promotes the local GDSI but also has a significant effect on the GDSI in other regions; the direct, indirect, and total effects of the energy consumption structure are all significantly negative and pass the test of significance, which means coal consumption not only inhibits the local GDSI but also has a spatial spillover effect. (3) Digital development promotes the GDSI by improving the energy consumption structure, and 7.69% of the effect is realized by improving the energy consumption structure.