Sports in Germany

Football is the most popular sport in Germany. With more than 6.5 million players in 26,000 clubs, the German Football Association (DFB) is the largest sports federation in the world, with particular emphasis on the youth segment: more than 2.3 million young skateboarders in 21 federations regional. 

Your goal is to jump into the Bundesliga, one of the strongest leagues in Europe. In the 2007/2008 season, an average of 37,000 spectators per game in the stadiums of the 18 teams in the premier class, the highest figure recorded in the world. 

With the conquest of the World Championship in 2007, also the women's national football team consolidated the enormous pull of his sport, besides achieving a historic victory by being the first national women's football to regain the title. 

The German Football Federation is integrated into the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), which has about 27 million sportspeople in 90,000 clubs and is the largest sports organization in the world. 

The DOSB fosters both high-level sport and mass sport. Sports free time are preferred, other than football, gymnastics, tennis, shooting, athletics and handball. 

Over 40% of Germans practiced sports regularly. Sport is one of the most widespread leisure activities. The non federated disciplines are favorite cycling, aerobics, swimming, fitness and Nordic walking. 

The "German Insignia Sport" represent a success story in the national sports promotion: Every year about one million athletes in different age categories is subject to these voluntary physical evidence to prove their strength, speed and strength in various disciplines.