Sports club
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A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and may play other similar clubs on occasion, watched mostly by family and friends, to large commercial organisations with
The term "athletics club" is sometimes used for a general sports club, rather than one dedicated to athletics proper.
Organization
Larger sports clubs are characterized by having professional and amateur departments in various sports such as
Many professional sports clubs have an associate system where the affiliated supporters pay an annuity fee. In those cases, supporters become eligible to attend the club's home matches and exhibitions across the entire season, and have the right to practice almost every kind of sport at the club's facilities. Registered associate member fees, attendance receipts,
Some sports teams are owned and financed by a single non-sports
Membership
In the field of competitive club sports, an athlete will typically be registered to only one club for a given discipline and will compete for that club exclusively for the duration of a competition or season. Exceptions to this include player trades and transfers, athlete loan agreements and unattached trialists. Where an athlete competes in multiple disciplines, or where club membership has social or training aspects such as local athletic clubs, then athletes may register with multiple clubs.
Multiple membership is more common in the case of individual sports, such as the sport of athletics, where a distance runner may compete for a track and field team as well as a road running team, and also have further membership at a local sports club for training purposes. Some national sports bodies require an athlete to state a priority order of their club membership, outlining which club has the higher, or first, claim on the athlete's services.[3]
Sports clubs around the world
In many regions of the world like Europe, North Africa, West Asia, the Indian subcontinent or Central and South America, sports clubs with several sports departments (multisports clubs) or branches, including highly competitive professional teams, are very popular and have developed into some of the most powerful and representative sports institutions in those places. In general, student sports can be described as composed by multisports clubs, each one representing its educational institution and competing in several sport disciplines.
In the
In the
Many clubs internationally describe themselves as
See also
- Running club
- Community organizations
- Country club
- Health club
- Leisure centre
- North American Association of Sports Economists
- Sociedad Anónima Deportiva
- Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR
References
- ^ "Ältester Sportverein der Welt wird 200 Jahre".
- ^ Red Bulls Archived 2010-11-10 at the Wayback Machine redbulls.com
- ^ Managing Athlete Registrations Archived 2019-06-03 at the Wayback Machine. England Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-03.