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Sports, amusement and recreation activities

NACE 931
Current registrations14,605
Starters, 12 months · division 93
1,629
Employment (FTE) · division 93
16,676
Median age · division 93
9.7 years

In NACE division 93, 7.2 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 54% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 30-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 93

financial year 2025 · median over 4,482 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
29.4%
lower than 94% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Median equity
€56,857
lower than 90% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Median net result
€5,024
lower than 89% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Annual accounts in sample
4,482

Foreign control in NACE division 93

13,999 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 93

821 employers
Median
€51,900
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€41,200 to €66,200
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
69 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €50,300 €38,700 to €63,600 488
10 to 49 FTE €53,000 €44,000 to €66,700 285
50 to 249 FTE €85,100 €51,500 to €213,100 44

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
109
Historical share
0.75%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 67% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 93 is 0.1%, against 0.2% nationally, over 13,521 scored companies. Comparison: as of 30-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 93
Running bankruptcies
152
Half have run longer than
21 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
30%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,407 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 30 October 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector: the activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

Regional split

by region · 11,173 of 14,605 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 7,173 · 64.2%
Wallonia 3,302 · 29.6%
Brussels 692 · 6.2%
Unknown 6 · 0.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
26-10-2026 IJSBAAN DE PISTE
BE 0733.990.387
23-10-2026 Poney Club de Besonrieux
BE 0792.897.893
21-10-2026 van de Craats, Senne
BE 0521.877.321 · sole trader · Riemst
09-10-2026 JAC EVENT
BE 1011.950.124
16-09-2026 Gillabel, Steven
BE 0751.940.535 · sole trader · Zemst
13-08-2026 ARENA FITNESS
BE 0689.853.112
06-08-2026 Free - Time
BE 0442.350.385
20-07-2026 Move Limitless
BE 0785.778.291

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office
fewer moremax 2,068

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €955.9m awarded 1,362 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
  • Federal transfers 14.4m amount as published 26 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Ondersteuning aan de bijdrage van de organisaties van de civiele maatschappij en institutionele actoren in de realisatie van de doelen van de gemeenschappelijke strategische kaders (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.10 van de wetsbepalingen)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €118.5m paid 811 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventionnement des plans programmes des fédérations sportives reconnues et de la fédération handisport
  • EU budget €7.9m attributed share 25 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Erasmus+
  • EU research €2.9m eu contribution 6 recipients · 2015 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 931 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 93, not NACE 931 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.