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Current registrations 3,835division 93: 22,631
Starters, 12 months 3709.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 82.1 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 1,21678 employers · latest accounts
Median age 6.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 81.2%3,113 of 3,835 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 93199 · financial year 2025 · 624 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
30.4%
division 29.0% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€5,434
division €5,659 · Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€44,723
division €60,106 · Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
35.7%
division 37.1% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
23.1%
division 23.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
13.6%
division 11.8% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.37
division 1.10 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
37.9%
financial year 2024, 617 filings · division 42.4% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
6.0%
of 689 companies with annual accounts · division 7.4% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 30.8%33.0%30.0%28.8%31.3%30.4%
Median net result €1,197€9,193€5,030€4,154€5,098€5,434

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
25
0.65% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
30
7.8 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
30-10-2026 Highfly Rodeo
BE 1033.359.410
06-08-2026 Free - Time
BE 0442.350.385
01-07-2026 Van Roy, Glenn
BE 0632.602.623 · sole trader · Kapellen
27-05-2026 DVB Group
BE 0881.154.631
21-04-2026 Mnuyu Consultancy 16
BE 0802.911.362
06-03-2026 Manilah BVBA
BE 0721.778.384
02-02-2026 MINI MOTUS
BE 0788.259.216
19-01-2026 Neyens, Gunter
BE 0628.933.053 · sole trader · Herenthout

Every bankruptcy in division 93, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 2,221 of 3,835 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 1,526 · 68.7%
  • Wallonia 525 · 23.6%
  • Brussels 145 · 6.5%
  • Abroad 25 · 1.1%
fewer moremax 442

Largest employers

NACE 93199 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Mise en Place BEHasselt 166 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 YELLOW-RED KV MECHELENMechelen 155 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 PROMOSPORTOttignies-Louvain-la-Neuve 105 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 ROYAL EXCEL MOUSCRONMouscron 60.6 FTEfinancial year 2021
  5. 5 MoevLeuven 54.7 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 147 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 66
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 29
  • 144 Agriculture 20
  • 302 Hotels and catering 17
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 12
  • 112 Garages 9
  • 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 7
  • 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 5
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  • 223 Sport 4
  • 333 Tourist attractions 4
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 4
  • 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 3
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 2
  • 201 Independent retail 2
  • 329 Socio-cultural sector 2
  • 330.04 Health institutions and services 2
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 118 Food industry 1
  • 124 Construction 1
  • 145 Horticulture 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
Operation of sports facilities93110 3,250 94 11 4,786
Fitness centres93130 1,510 159 11 1,581
Activities of other sports clubs93129 1,406 71 1 152
Football clubs93121 1,386 24 4 2,273
Equestrian clubs93127 819 61 3 86
Activities of independent sportspeople93192 723 104 1 35
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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 108,642 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 8 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 14,002 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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 Other sports activities

Balance sheet and result. 23.1% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €5,434 is below Belgium's €16,500. Solvency of 30.4% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 2.1 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 74% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 6.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. This activity holds 16.9% of the registrations of Sports and recreation.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 542 of the 1,216 FTE: 44.6%.

Direction. The median net result rose from €1,197 in financial year 2020 to €5,434 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 93199 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 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.