Statistical Classification of Economic Activities NACE Rev. 2.0

This class includes:
- operation of facilities for outdoor or indoor sporting events (open, closed or covered, with or without spectator seating)
- organisation and operation of outdoor or indoor sporting events for professionals or amateurs by organisations in their own facilities (not by sports clubs)
This class also includes:
- managing and providing the staff to operate these facilities
- provision of equipment to operate these facilities
- operation of sports areas, which may include the operation of cableways, ski lifts and chairlifts
- management of outdoor sport-equipped areas
- operation of grass-roots sporting activities
This class excludes:
- transport by cableways, ski lifts and chairlifts, which may include the preparation of ski slopes, see 49.34
- rental of recreation and sports equipment, see 77.21
- organisation and operation of outdoor or indoor sporting events for professionals or amateurs by sports clubs, see 93.12
- activities of fitness facilities, see 93.13
- organisation and operation of outdoor or indoor sporting events for professionals or amateurs by organisations (not by sports clubs) without own facilities, see 93.19
- park and beach activities, see 93.29

This class includes the activities of sports clubs, which, whether professional, semi-professional or amateur clubs, give their members the opportunity to engage in sporting activities.

Sports clubs are typically non-profit entities, but inclusion in the sports sector is legitimised by the prevailing purpose of the activity carried out (in other words, the promotion of practicing sports). The activities of education, training, the sale of advertising space and the provision of clubhouse services are, in this context, ancillary activities, which may have a prevailing weight at an economic level, but which are instrumental with respect to the prevailing purpose of the activity carried out and for its perpetuation.

This class includes:
- operation of sports clubs, e.g.:
football clubs
bowling clubs
swimming clubs
golf clubs
boxing clubs
winter sports clubs
chess clubs
track and field clubs
shooting clubs
e-sports clubs
card game clubs (e.g. bridge clubs)
This class also includes:
- organisation and operation of outdoor or indoor sporting events for professionals or amateurs by sports clubs
- provision of clubhouse services by sports clubs
- sports training within sports clubs
This class excludes:
- sports instruction by individual teachers/trainers, see 85.51
- operation of sports facilities, see 93.11
- activities of individual own account sportsmen and athletes, referees, judges, timekeepers, etc., see 93.19
- activities of individual own account participants of e-sports, see 93.19
- activities of sports federations, see 93.19