Sports in Amsterdam

Society Sports

There are about 140,000 sports enthusiast in Amsterdam who aims in participating in different sports activities to keep healthy and active. There are about 800 sports club they can join just in the Amsterdam area. Football clubs alone has approximately 25,000 registered members and at least 5,000 people are into hockey and 18,000 dig tennis clubs. You won't run out of any possible sports that will fit you since this city offers 55 different sports you can choose from.

Municipal Support

The municipality of Amsterdam supports sports activities in many ways. They both provide assistance to top class sports as well as "sports for all". Responsible for maintaining, building and running the "sports for all" activities is the District Authorities. While, the Central City authorities take care of different sports facilities in the entire city. Recent project of the city includes Jeugdsports in beweding which provides different kinds of sports to primary schools.