Sports, amusement and recreation activities

NACE 9311

Current registrations3,254

Starters, 12 months · division 931,610

Employment (FTE) · division 9316,597

Median age · division 939.7 years

In NACE division 93, 7.1 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 20-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 93

financial year 2025 · median over 4,438 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

29.5%

lower than 94% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€57,063

lower than 90% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€5,075

lower than 89% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

4,438

Foreign control in NACE division 93

13,984 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.2%

21 of 13,984; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

12%

1,925 of 15,782 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: France (7), Netherlands (5) and United Kingdom (2).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 93

817 employers

Median

€51,700

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€41,100 to €65,700

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
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€50,300	€38,800 to €63,700	486
10 to 49 FTE	€52,800	€44,000 to €66,400	288
50 to 249 FTE	€62,800	€49,300 to €172,700	39

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.98%

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 55% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 93 is 0.1%, against 0.2% nationally, over 13,483 scored companies. Comparison: as of 20-10-2026 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 108,255 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years.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 21 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 · 2,837 of 3,254 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 1,644 · 57.9%

Wallonia 1,005 · 35.4%

Brussels 188 · 6.6%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
09-10-2026	JAC EVENT BE 1011.950.124
16-09-2026	Gillabel, Steven BE 0751.940.535 · sole trader · Zemst
20-05-2026	PIDIE.T BE 0769.941.458
24-04-2026	SHAPE FIT MILITARY BE 0736.530.995
22-04-2026	STONE HILL STABLES BE 0711.815.001
25-03-2026	Plus One CF BE 0720.718.512
18-03-2026	MILLENNIUM GOLF MANAGEMENT BE 0668.670.488
16-02-2026	SPIN-ON BE 0821.579.409

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 330

East Flanders OVL 346

Antwerp ANT 493

Flemish Brabant VLB 262

Limburg LIM 213

Brussels BRU 188

Hainaut HAI 272

Walloon Brabant WBR 179

Namur NAM 156

Liège LIE 292

Luxembourg LUX 106

fewer moremax 493

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

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 9311 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 9311 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.