Sports club

A sports club ( or sports club or sports club) is an association whose aim is the sports enthusiastic people to access areas (eg, soccer fields or sports or gyms ) and sports equipment (eg parallel and horizontal bars in gymnastics ) to enable. Sports clubs are organized according to the sports offered in sports federations. These offer the clubs participation in the competitions organized in the form of tournaments or league play.

Formation of sports clubs

The emergence of sports clubs is the the beginning of the 19th century spreading club formation, especially connected by patriotic oriented turn- and exercise clubs. In the Napoleonic occupied Germany gathered under the spiritual fatherhood of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn nationally oriented young men to exercises in " athletic clubs ", which carried a subversive paramilitary character outwardly gregarious, inward. The oldest ( still existing ) sports club in Germany claims to be the gymnastics and sports club TSV 1814 Friedland.

Sports clubs in East Germany

In the GDR sports -filled company sports teams (ESR ) and high school sports teams (HSG ) the function of sports clubs in popular sports area. For each sport, the sporting communities subdivided into sections. The respective public enterprises were responsible for the financing of their sports teams. Membership in a Sports Association was not tied to an activity associated carrier operation, but could be chosen according to the range of sports.

The competitive sports was located usually in the sports clubs (SC). Joining a sports club could be obtained only on the basis of delegations, which were strictly bound by the principle of efficiency in the cadre system of the GDR sport. A recording of sportsmen in sports clubs at his own request was not possible.

Fan culture

While fans of teams usually consist of patriotism to "their" team, the reason or the cause of the enthusiasm of the fans of sports clubs is to be regarded individual. Often friends or relatives with the same passion, the reason for a club choice, often you will fan the Association of region of birth or place of residence, but there are numerous reasons why you chose "his" club for. The English writer Nick Hornby has put it. " Few of us have chosen their clubs, they were simply given to us "

In 2012, there were 91,080 sports clubs in Germany, in which 35.43 percent of men and 22.76 percent of the women were members.