National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark
Danmarks Idrætsforbund (short DIF; German " Denmark Sports Federation " ) is an umbrella organization for some 60 sports associations that are active in amateur and professional sports in Denmark. His responsibilities include besides Danish Championship ( danish danske mesterskaber, DM) and the country's participation in the Olympic Games, to which they at the international level under the name of National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark ( " National Olympic Committee (NOC ) and Sports Association occur of Denmark " ). Seat of the Association is the home of the sport ( Idraettens Hus ), which is close to the National Stadium parking in the community Brøndby.
The association has more than 1.7 million members, spread over 10,803 sports clubs (as of 2010 ). In the first place the most popular sports here is football, followed by golf ( 2 ) Swimming ( 3 ) gymnastics ( 4 ), handball ( 5 ) and badminton ( 6 ).
Main source of income of the DIF form gains derived from the Danish Danske Spil lottery company A / S. In addition to the state (80 %) and the DIF owns the company that holds the lottery monopoly in Denmark ( 10%) shares. The remaining ten percent is owned by Denmark's second great sports association, the Danske gymnastics -og Idrætsforeninger (short DGI, dt "Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations" ). with 1.3 million members. A scheduled in June 2008 merger of the two organizations, which should be carried out up to 2012 failed, some months later, the resistance of the DIF.
History
Founded the Association on 14 February 1896 when 18 clubs from nine sports for Dansk Idræts - Forbund (Eng. " Danish Sports Federation " ) merged together. As the only sports federation of the Football Association Dansk Boldspil Union was (DBU ) there from the start. The 2200 predominantly male members came mainly from the Copenhagen bourgeoisie; later the organization of workers and Hicks was dominated.
After disputes with the trade associations, the DIF developed from 1925 through to an umbrella organization with the principle of independent associations. Previously tried the line of the umbrella organization, to control the individual trade associations through joint amateur and Competition Rules. Today they are only obliged to comply with various guidelines of the DIF, relating, for example doping or Danish championships.
Since 1991, Denmark's Sportsman of the Year ( Årets Sportsnavn ) is elected annually by the Association. The 50,000- DKR award, which is considered one of the greatest honors in the Danish Sports, in collaboration with the daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten. In addition, a Hall of Fame of the Danish Sports ( Sportens Hall of Fame ) for a significant Danish athletes in collaboration with the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, the state organization for elite sport, Team Danmark, as well as the operating company of the stadium parking each year was set up in 1992 as honorary member receives.
1993 merged Founded in 1905, the Danish NOK Danmarks Olympiske Komite (DOC ), which until then worked independently, with the DIF. With the consolidation of the new association was named Danmarks Idræts - Forbund (Eng. " Denmark Sports Federation " ), since 2013, the association name together, so without a hyphen ( Danmarks Idrætsforbund ) written.