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Sports, amusement and recreation activities

Current registrations 258division 93: 22,629
Starters, 12 months 51.9 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 384 employers · latest accounts
Median age 26.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 79.8%206 of 258 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts

NACE 93126 · financial year 2025 · 30 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
27.9%
division 29.0% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
-€3,596
division €5,659 · Belgium €16,492
Median equity
€66,005
division €60,002 · Belgium €98,323
Loss-making
50.0%
division 37.1% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
23.3%
division 23.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Missing or 90 days late
9.1%
of 33 companies with annual accounts · division 7.4% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year2025
Median solvency27.9%
Median net result-€3,596

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Spread across the country

by region and province · 248 of 258 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 180 · 72.6%
  • Wallonia 56 · 22.6%
  • Brussels 11 · 4.4%
  • Abroad 1 · 0.4%
fewer moremax 62

Largest employers

NACE 93126 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Régie Communale Autonome Braine ô SportsBraine-le-Comte 16.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 THEDilsen-Stokkem 11.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Birota RentalisDilsen-Stokkem 5.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 GOODLIFE CPHoogstraten 5.2 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 9 companies
  • 302 Hotels and catering 5
  • 333 Tourist attractions 3
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 2
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 93: Sports and recreation

Related activities

13 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Other sports activities93199 3,834 370 8 1,216
Operation of sports facilities93110 3,249 94 11 4,786
Fitness centres93130 1,508 159 11 1,581
Activities of other sports clubs93129 1,406 71 1 152
Football clubs93121 1,387 24 4 2,273
Equestrian clubs93127 819 61 3 86
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Bankruptcies per year in division 93

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies9369938711899741061131078778
Jobs lost213116121260199259104225190252155126

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 93

823 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 €50,400 €38,700 to €63,600 489
10 to 49 FTE €53,000 €44,200 to €67,100 286
50 to 249 FTE €85,100 €51,500 to €213,100 44

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 93
Number
153
Half have run longer than
21 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
31%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,651 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 10 November 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

21 of the 13,997 companies in NACE division 93 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (7), Netherlands (5) and United Kingdom (2). Together they employ 1,945 of the division's 15,817 FTE: 12%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €347.8m awarded 1,353 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies voor sportfederaties en organisaties voor sportieve vrijetijdsbesteding
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €116.3m paid 811 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventionnement des plans programmes des fédérations sportives reconnues et de la fédération handisport
  • Federal transfers 7.2m amount as published 21 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)
  • EU budget €3.3m attributed share 24 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Erasmus+
  • EU research €930,675 EU contribution 5 recipients · 2015 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Sports, amusement and recreation activities

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of -€3,596 is below Belgium's €16,492. 23.3% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. 50.0% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 26.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 3.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 1.9 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 92% of the 87 NACE divisions.

Staff and filing. The 4 largest employers hold 38 of the 38 FTE: 100.0%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 93126 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.