This manual, developed for students of the advanced training course for teachers of specialized Olympic reserve boarding schools and state specialized boarding schools for Olympic and national sports in the direction of "Specialist subject teacher of sports education institutions", and for bachelor's students in physical education 5112000, contains the basics of control theory, which forms the basis of the discipline "Sports metrology", the basics of measurement theory, measurement errors in sports, primary processing of measurement results, the basics of test theory, the basics of assessment theory, standards, methods of quantitative assessment of quality indicators, metrological foundations of control of competitive activities, metrological foundations of physical education and sports complex control, metrological foundations of physical fitness of athletes, staged, current and operational control, control of tactical training of athletes, model metrology of descriptions, definition and selection of perspectives in sports, technical means of teaching in the field of physical education and sports, the Internet and its possibilities in sports science are discussed. The textbook is enriched with diagrams, drawings and tables that are considered necessary to ensure the ease of mastering the topics described in the textbook.