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A sports club, athletics club or sports association is an eclectic institution oriented to multiple sport
Sport

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
s, which fields many team
Team

A team comprises a groups of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks....
s and in several sports, working under the same umbrella organization
Umbrella organization

An umbrella organization is an association of institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or pool resources. In business, political, or other environments, one group, the umbrella organization, provides resources and often an identity to the smaller organizations....
. In a larger sense, it may also refer to any sports institution, even those that have only one sports team or a single sports department. In order to differentiate a single-sport institution from a multi-sport one, the term multi-sport club is used.






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A sports club, athletics club or sports association is an eclectic institution oriented to multiple sport
Sport

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
s, which fields many team
Team

A team comprises a groups of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks....
s and in several sports, working under the same umbrella organization
Umbrella organization

An umbrella organization is an association of institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or pool resources. In business, political, or other environments, one group, the umbrella organization, provides resources and often an identity to the smaller organizations....
. In a larger sense, it may also refer to any sports institution, even those that have only one sports team or a single sports department. In order to differentiate a single-sport institution from a multi-sport one, the term multi-sport club is used. The term athletics club is usually unambiguous.

Examples abound of sports clubs that are in effect one sports team. Each team from the NBA (basketball), NFL (American football) or MLS
Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league based in the United States, overseen by the United States Soccer Federation. The league is comprised of 15 teams, 14 in the U.S....
 (soccer) North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
n sports league
Sports league

A sports league is an organization that exists to provide a regulated competition for a number of people to compete in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends; at its most complex, it can be an international professional league making large amounts...
s, can be called sports clubs, but in practice, they focus solely on a single sport. On the other hand, North American varsity team
Varsity team

In the United States and Canada, wiktionary:varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, high school or other secondary school....
s are generally organized into a structure forming a true multi-sport club belonging to an educational institution.

Football provides an interesting contrast between nations. There are many clubs named "FC"/"CF" (English: Football Club/Portuguese:Clube de Futebol/Spanish:Club de Fútbol). Generally, British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 football clubs field only football
Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 teams; examples include Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England. The club plays in the Premier League, and it is the Football records in England#Most successful clubs overall in the history of Football in England; the club has won List of football clubs in England by major honours won than any other English cl...
, Newcastle United F.C, Rangers FC and Celtic FC (although its full name was until 1994 The Celtic Football and Athletic Company Ltd.). Their counterparts in Latin countries tend to be full multisports clubs; examples in the Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
 include the FC Porto, Boavista FC
Boavista FC

Boavista Futebol Clube , often simply known as Boavista, is a sports club from Porto, Portugal that was founded in 1903. Boavista grew to become Porto's second greatest club with sections dedicated to several sports, such as volleyball, chess, gymnastics, bicycle racing and futsal , the most notable being the Soccer section....
, and CF Belenenses in Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
, and Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Bar?a , is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
 in Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
.

Sports clubs are esspecially common in the former Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
, thanks to the voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union, which were multi-sport clubs; examples include CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow

CSKA Moscow is a major Russian sports club based in Moscow. It is popularly referred to as "Red Army" or "the Red Army team" because during the Soviet Union, it was a part of the Armed Forces sports society, which in its turn was associated with the Red Army....
 and Dynamo Moscow
Dynamo Moscow

Dynamo Moscow may refer to one of the following Dinamo sports clubs in Moscow. In Soviet Union time all of them were parts of the All-Union Dynamo ....
.

Organization

Generally, any sports club is characterized by having professional and amateur sports departments in various sports disciplines like football (soccer)
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
, basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, futsal
Futsal

Futsal is a variant of association football that is mainly played indoors. Its name is derived from the Portuguese language futebol de sal?o and the Spanish language f?tbol sala/de sal?n, which can be translated as 'indoor football'....
, volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
, handball
Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. The team with the most goals after two periods of 30 minutes wins....
, rink hockey, water polo
Water polo

Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes....
, rugby
Rugby football

Rugby football may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of football developed in different areas of England....
, athletics (track and field)
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
, boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
, baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
, tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
, sport rowing
Sport rowing

Rowing is a sport in which athletes racing against each other on rivers, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline....
, gymnastics
Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique ....
 and other. An eclectic collection of competitive, recreational, and instructional athletic programs is available through club sports. The teams and athletes belonging to a sports club compete in several different leagues, championships and tournaments wearing the same club logotype, equipment colors and using the same club name, sharing also the same club fan base, supporters and facilities. Many sports clubs have an associate system where the affiliated supporters pay an annuity fee. In those cases, the supporter becomes eligible to attend the club's home matches and exhibitions across the entire season, and have the right to practice almost every kind of sport at the club's facilities. Registered associate member fees, attendance receipts, sponsoring contracts, team merchandising
Merchandising

Merchandising refers to the methods, practices and operations conducted to promote and sustain certain categories of commerce activity. The term is understood to have different specific meanings depending on the context....
, TV rights, and athlete/player transfer fees, are usually the primary sources of sports club financing.

Multi-sport clubs worldwide

In many regions of the world like Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, North Africa
North Africa

North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa.Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Northern Africa includes the following seven countries or territories:...
, Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
, Indian subcontinent
Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a large section of the Asian continent consisting of the land lying substantially on the Indian Plate. The subcontinent includes parts of various countries in South Asia, including those on the continental crust , an Island#Continental islands country on the continental shelf , and an Island#Oceanic islands countr...
 or Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
, sports clubs comprised of several sports departments (multisports clubs) or branches are very popular and have developed into some of the most powerful and representative sports institutions in those places.

Examples of this can be found throughout the world:

  • Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
    : Club Atlético Boca Juniors, Club Atlético River Plate
    Club Atlético River Plate

    Club Atl?tico River Plate, known also as River Plate or simply River, is an Argentina sports club best known for its association football team, established in 1901....
    , or Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield
    Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield

    Club Atl?tico V?lez S?rsfield is an Argentina sports club best known for its Association football team, based in the Liniers neighborhood of western Buenos Aires....
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
    : Borac Banja Luka
    Borac Banja Luka

    Borac is a sports society with several teams, from the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The meaning of Borac is "Fighter" . FC Borac's supporters are called Lesinari which means Vultures....
    , USD Bosna Sarajevo, or Zrinjski Mostar
    Zrinjski Mostar

    Zrinjski Mostar is a Croats sports association from the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was formed in 1905. Fans of Zrinjski are known as Ultras Zrinjski....
  • Brazil
    Brazil

    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
    : Associação Portuguesa de Desportos
    Associação Portuguesa de Desportos

    Associa??o Portuguesa de Desportos, usually called Portuguesa or Lusa, is a sports club, and a traditional Brazilian Football League Teams from S?o Paulo in S?o Paulo , founded on August 14, 1920 by the Portuguese-Brazilian....
    , Flamengo
    Clube de Regatas do Flamengo

    Clube de Regatas do Flamengo is a Brazilian multisport club located in Rio de Janeiro.Despite not being the club's official name, Flamengo has become the term used by most to refer not just to the Football team, but also the entire sporting association....
    , Fluminense Football Club
    Fluminense Football Club

    Fluminense Football Club is a sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was founded on July 21, 1902. The word Fluminense derives from Latin flumen, "river", rio in Portuguese language....
     (Recipient of the Olympic Cup
    Olympic Cup

    The Olympic Cup is an award given annually by the International Olympic Committee.It was instituted by Pierre de Coubertin in 1906 and is awarded to an institution or association with a record of merit and integrity in actively developing the Olympic Movement....
     - 1949), Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
    Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras

    Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, usually called Palmeiras, is a Brazilian Football League Teams from S?o Paulo . The team was founded on August 26, 1914, as Societ? Sportiva Palestra Italia but changed to the current name on September 14, 1942....
    , or Vasco da Gama
    Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama

    Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama, usually known as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a Brazilian sports club from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, founded on August 21, 1898 ....
     Clube Atlético Mineiro e Cruzeiro Esporte Clube
  • Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
    : CSKA Sofia, Levski Sofia, Lokomotiv Sofia, or Slavia Sofia
  • Chile
    Chile

    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
    : Club Deportivo Universidad Catolica
    Club Deportivo Universidad Católica

    Club Deportivo Universidad Cat?lica is one of Chile's most popular football clubs, based in the country's capital, Santiago, Chile. It is one of the most successful and popular football clubs in Chile and considered one of the three "big teams"....
  • Croatia
    Croatia

    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
    : HAŠK Mladost
  • Cyprus
    Cyprus

    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
    : AEL
    AEL Limassol

    A. E. Lemesos is a Cyprus sports club based in the city of Lemesos, Cyprus'. AEL maintains not only the soccer team , but tries to give equal opportunities to all sports....
    , APOEL, Omonia
  • Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
    : Aalborg Boldspilklub
    Aalborg Boldspilklub

    Aalborg Boldspilklub is a Denmark professional sports club based in the city of Aalborg. The club is also known as Aalborg BK or AaB for short....
    , Aarhus Gymnastik Forening
    Aarhus Gymnastik Forening

    Aarhus Gymnastikforening is one of the most successful and one of the oldest sport clubs in Denmark. AGF participates in a variety of activities in both single- and teamsports....
    , or Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
    Kjøbenhavns Boldklub

    Kj?benhavns Boldklub or KB is a Denmark sports club based in Copenhagen. The club was founded April 26 1876 on the grassy fields in outer Copenhagen which later became F?lledparken....
  • Egypt
    Egypt

    Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
    : Al-Zamalek, Al Ahly
    Al-Ahly

    Al-Ahly is an Egyptian association football club based in Cairo. Founded in April 1907, Al-Ahly is widely-regarded as Africa's most successful club....
    , Gezira Sporting Club
    Gezira Sporting Club

    Gezira Sporting Club is the largest multi-sport facility in Egypt. It was founded in 1882 and was originally called Khedivial Sporting Club....
  • France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
     : Paris Université Club
    PUC

    PUC may refer to:* Carbon County Airport in Price, Utah IATA airport code...
    , Racing Club de France
    Racing Club de France

    Racing Club de France can refer to:*the former name of Racing M?tro 92 rugby union club*the former name of Racing Club de Paris football club...
    , Stade Français Paris
    Stade Français Paris

    Stade Fran?ais CASG are a France professional rugby union club based in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. The club plays in the Top 14 domestic league in France and is one of the most successful French clubs of the modern era....
    , or Stade Toulousain
    Stade Toulousain

    Stade Toulousain, also referred to as Toulouse, is a France rugby union club from Toulouse in Midi-Pyr?n?es. Toulouse is one of the finest rugby clubs in Europe, having won the Heineken Cup three times - in 1996, 2003 and 2005....
  • Georgia
    Georgia (country)

    Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
    : Dinamo Tbilisi
    Dinamo Tbilisi

    Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia . It was founded in 1926.Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating FC Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2-1 in the final in D?sseldorf....
  • Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    : Bayer Leverkusen
    Bayer Leverkusen

    Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a Germany football List of football clubs in Germany based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the most well-known department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a sports club whose members also participate in athletics , gymnastics, basketball and other sports....
    , Dresdner SC
    Dresdner SC

    Dresdner SC is a Germany multisport List of football clubs in Germany playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on April 30, 1898, the club was a Founding Clubs of the DFB of the DFB in 1900....
    , Eintracht Frankfurt
    Eintracht Frankfurt

    Eintracht Frankfurt is a Germany sports club, based in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse that is best known for its football List of football clubs in Germany....
    , or VfB Stuttgart
    VfB Stuttgart

    Verein f?r Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a Germany sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-W?rttemberg....
  • Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    : AEK Athens, Aris Thessaloniki, Iraklis
    G.S. Iraklis Thessaloniki

    Gymnastikos Syllogos Iraklis Thessaloniki , commonly referred to as Iraklis, is a Greece sports club based in Thessaloniki....
    , Olympiacos CFP
    Olympiacos CFP

    Olympiacos CFP , Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus, is a large and the most popular Greece Sports club based in Piraeus, Athens.The club is parent to 17 different competitive departments including Football , basketball , volleyball , water polo , athletics and swimming, amongst others, which have won numerous domestic and European ti...
    , Panathinaikos
    Panathinaikos

    Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos , widely known both as Panathinaikos or PAO, is a Greek multisport club based in Athens, Greece. Panathinaikos throughout its history is considered as the most successful Greek sports club, as its teams and individual athletes have won numerous titles....
     or PAOK
    PAOK

    PAOK Thessaloniki, the Panthessalonikios Athlitikos Omilos Konstantinoupoliton , is a sports club in Thessaloniki, Greece....
  • Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
    : Ferencvárosi TC
  • Iceland
    Iceland

    Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
    : FH
    Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

    FH, in full Fimleikaf?lag Hafnarfjar?ar, is an Icelandic sports club, mainly known outside Iceland for football , from the town of Hafnarfj?r?ur....
    , ÍA
    Íþróttabandalag Akraness

    ??r?ttabandalag Akraness is an Icelandic sports club founded in 1946 and based in the town of Akranes, west Iceland. Among the main sports its members can practice are basketball, football , golf, horsemanship, gymnastics, volleyball, bowling, karate, badminton and swimming....
    , or KR Reykjavík
    Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur

    Knattspyrnuf?lag Reykjav?kur, , for short KR or KR Reykjav?k, is an Icelandic athletic club based in the capital, Reykjav?k. KR is the oldest and most successful club in Icelandic football....
  • India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    : Dempo Sports Club
    Dempo Sports Club

    Dempo Sports Club is a sports club based in Panjim, Goa. Its football side is one of India's most prominent football teams. The club is owned and sponsored by the Dempo group of companies....
    , Mohun Bagan Athletic Club
    Mohun Bagan Athletic Club

    Mohun Bagan Athletic Club is a NATIONAL sports club, best known for its football team, based in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Mohun Bagan AC is one of the oldest football clubs in Asia, having been established on August 15, 1889 and was later declared as the National Club of India....
    , or Sporting Clube de Goa
    Sporting Clube de Goa

    Sporting Clube de Goa is a sports club based in the Indian state of Goa. It is renowned for its football team built on the lines of Portugal giants Sporting Clube de Portugal and adopting a similar club crest....
  • Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    : Hapoel Jerusalem
    Hapoel Jerusalem

    Hapoel Jerusalem is a sport organization in Jerusalem, Israel as a local branch of the Hapoel movement. The branch was established in the 1920s and represents the city in more sports than any other sport organization in Jerusalem....
    , Hapoel Tel Aviv
    Hapoel Tel Aviv

    Hapoel Tel Aviv is a sports club in Israel, containing:*Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C. *Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. ...
    , Maccabi Haifa
    Maccabi Haifa

    Maccabi Haifa is a sports club in Israel, founded in 1913, and part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa, which competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as: Football , Weightlifting, swimming, Tennis, Table tennis, Volleyball, Team handball, Water polo, Ice hockey, Artistic gymnastics, Che...
    , or Maccabi Tel Aviv
    Maccabi Tel Aviv

    Maccabi Tel Aviv is the biggest sports club in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs many sports club and teams in Tel Aviv, which compete in a variety of sports, such as soccer, basketball, judo, swimming, team handball, and others....
  • Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    : AS Roma, Benetton Treviso
    Benetton Treviso

    Benetton Treviso may refer to either of the following sports clubs in Treviso, Italy, both owned by clothing giant Benetton:* Benetton Rugby Treviso, a rugby union club participating in Italy's top competition, the Super 10...
    , S.S. Lazio
    S.S. Lazio

    Societ? Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club most noted for its football section, founded in 1900 and based in Rome....
  • Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    : Albirex Niigata
    Albirex Niigata

    is a Japanese J. League football team. Despite the club's relative youth, only joining the J. League in 1999, Albirex are one of Japan's best supported teams....
    , Shonan Bellmare
    Shonan Bellmare

    are a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J-league Division 2. The team is located in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture; their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium in Hiratsuka....
  • Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
    : Club Deportivo Guadalajara
  • Monaco
    Monaco

    Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe . The territory lies on the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea....
    : AS Monaco
  • Montenegro
    Montenegro

    Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....
    : Buducnost Podgorica
    Buducnost Podgorica

    Buducnost Podgorica is a Sports club from Podgorica, Montenegro. Among its most successful clubs are:*FK Buducnost Podgorica - Buducnost football club...
  • Morocco
    Morocco

    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
    : Raja Casablanca
    Raja Casablanca

    Raja Casablanca or Rajah is a sports club with sections in many different disciplines in Casablanca, Morocco. Raja was founded in 1949 as part of the political struggle against French rule by nationalists who aimed to create a focus for working-class young Moroccans....
    , or Wydad Casablanca
    Wydad Casablanca

    Wydad Athletic Club is a Morocco athletics club based in Casablanca, Morocco, best known for its football team....
  • Netherlands
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
    : Omniworld, PSV Eindhoven
    PSV Eindhoven

    Philips Sport Vereniging , widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional association football department....
  • Paraguay
    Paraguay

    Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....
    : Club Olimpia
    Olimpia Asunción

    Club Olimpia is a traditional Paraguayan sports club based in Asunci?n, best known for its football team. Founded in 1902, it is the oldest and the most successful Paraguayan football club having won 38 Liga Paraguaya titles, the Copa Libertadores de Am?rica in 1979, 1990, and 2002; and the Intercontinental Cup in 1980....
  • Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
    : Legia Warszawa
    Legia Warszawa

    Legia Warszawa , is a Poland professional Football Football team based in Warsaw, Poland. It was founded in March, 1916 in the neighborhood of Maniewicze in Volhynia as the football club of the Polish Legions....
    , Polonia Warszawa
    Polonia Warszawa

    Polonia Warszawa,...
    , Slask Wroclaw
    Slask Wroclaw

    Slask Wroclaw, Wikibooks:Polish/Polish pronunciation , is a football club from Wroclaw, Poland. The club was promoted from the Polish Second League to the Ekstraklasa for the 2008/2009 season....
    , MKS Bug Wyszków or Wisla Kraków
    Wisla Kraków

    Wisla Krak?w is a Polish football club based in Krak?w, Poland. From 1906-1945 and from 1990-1997 it was known as Sports Society Wisla , after World War II the club became known as Wisla Krak?w....
  • Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
    : Associação Académica de Coimbra
    Associação Académica de Coimbra

    The Coimbra Academic Association is the students' union of the University of Coimbra . Founded in Coimbra on November 3, 1887, it is the oldest students' union in Portugal....
    , C.S. Marítimo, F.C. Porto, S.L. Benfica, or Sporting C.P.
  • Qatar
    Qatar

    Qatar , officially the State of Qatar , is an Arab emirate in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula....
    : Al Sadd, or Qatar Sports Club
    Qatar Sports Club

    Qatar Sports Club is a sports club based in Doha, Qatar. Its Football team plays in the Qatari League.Qatar Sports Club wear a yellow shirt and black shorts as their home kit and have the fourth largest stadium in Qatar, Qatar SC Stadium, which has a capacity of 19,000....
  • Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
    : Steaua Bucharest, or U Cluj
    U Cluj

    "U" Cluj is the common name of a sports club from the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The name of the club is actually C.S. Universitatea Cluj-Napoca....
  • Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    : SKA
    Armed Forces (sports society)

    The Armed Forces sports society was one of the largest sports societies in the USSR. In the Soviet era all CSKA and SKA teams that resided in the Soviet Union belonged to the Armed Forces sports society....
    , Dynamo
    Dynamo Sports Club

    Dinamo, also Dynamo, was the oldest sports and physical training society of the Soviet Union, created in 1923. The name given to the society was supposed to mean "Power in Motion" from Greek language: d??a???; dynamis -power, and Latin: motio, -motion....
    , Volunteer Sports Societies (Spartak
    Spartak (sports society)

    Spartak was the first and the largest All-Union Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR of workers of state trade, producers' cooperation, light industry, civil aviation, education, culture, health service etc....
    , Lokomotive
    Lokomotiv (sports society)

    Lokomotiv the All-Union Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR of rail transport workers' Trade unions in the Soviet Union, one of the first sports societies of workers of the USSR....
    ), and the Republican VSS
  • Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
    : Al-Ittihad
  • Serbia
    Serbia

    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
    : Partizan Belgrade
    Partizan Belgrade

    Partizan Belgrade is a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1945, it's an umbrella organization featuring 25 clubs in 25 different sports....
    , Crvena Zvezda, or Vojvodina Novi Sad
    Vojvodina Novi Sad

    Vojvodina Novi Sad, formed in 1914, is a sports society in Novi Sad, Serbia. Among its most famous clubs are:*NIS Vojvodina Novi Sad - Vojvodina volleyball club...
  • Spain
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
    : CD Numancia
    CD Numancia

    Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria is a Spain sports club from Soria. The club is named after the ancient Celtiberians town of Numantia, near present-day Soria....
    , FC Barcelona
    FC Barcelona

    Futbol Club Barcelona , also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Bar?a , is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
    , or Real Madrid
    Real Madrid

    Real Madrid Club de F?tbol is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain. It is the Football records in Spain in Football in Spain and was voted by FIFA as the most successful club of the 20th century, having won a record thirty-one La Liga titles, seventeen Copa del Rey, a record nine UEFA Champions League and two UEFA...
  • Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
    : AIK
    Allmänna Idrottsklubben

    Allm?nna Idrottsklubben , currently located in Solna Municipality, in Stockholm, is one of the oldest, largest and most successful sports clubs in Sweden....
    , Djurgårdens IF
    Djurgårdens IF

    Djurg?rdens IF is a Sweden sports club with several departments, located in Stockholm. The club is one of the biggest in Sweden....
    , IFK Göteborg
    IFK Göteborg (disambiguation)

    IFK G?teborg is a Sweden sports club located in Gothenburg, with several sections:* IFK G?teborg - Football section.* IFK G?teborg Bowling - bowling section....
    , or Örgryte IS
    Örgryte IS (disambiguation)

    ?rgryte IS is a Sweden sports club located in Gothenburg, with several sections:* ?rgryte IS, football section* ?rgryte IS Bowling, bowling section...
  • Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
    : GC Zürich
    Grasshopper-Club Zürich

    Grasshopper-Club Z?rich commonly referred to as simply GC, GCZ, or Grasshopper is a Switzerland multisports club based in Z?rich....
    , or Lausanne Sports
    Lausanne Sports

    Lausanne Sports is a sports club from Lausanne, Switzerland. It is most famous for its football department , but the club has also Athletics , sport rowing, and rink hockey departments....
  • Tunisia
    Tunisia

    Tunisia , officially the Tunisian Republic , is a country located in North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and Libya to the southeast....
    : Club Africain
    Club Africain

    The Club Africain is a Tunisian omnisport club founded in 1920 in Tunis. Club Africain football section is its best known branch, but the club also fields teams in Team handball and basketball....
    , Espérance Sportive de Tunis, or Étoile Sportive du Sahel
    Étoile Sportive du Sahel

    The ?toile Sportive du Sahel is a sports club from Sousse in the Sahel, Tunisia region of Tunisia, known primarily for its football team. The club also has sections for Team handball, volleyball, basketball, judo and wrestling....
  • Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    : Besiktas J.K.
    Besiktas J.K.

    Besiktas Jimnastik Kul?b? is a professional sports club based in Besiktas district in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1903, and registered 13 January 1910, it is the first registered sports club in Turkey....
    , Fenerbahçe, or Galatasaray
  • Uruguay
    Uruguay

    Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
    : Club Nacional de Football
    Club Nacional de Football

    Club Nacional de Football is a traditional Uruguayan sports club, full of history, based in Montevideo and founded in May 14, 1899. Three-time winner of the Copa Libertadores, three-time winner of the Intercontinental Cup....
    , Peñarol, Huracán Buceo
    Huracán Buceo

    Hurac?n Buceo is a multisports club,best known for its football side,and it is located in Montevideo in Uruguay. It currently plays in the Segunda Divisi?n Uruguay.Team handball is also a main sport for the club,which contributes with many players to the national team....
    , Defensor Sporting


In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, almost all major sports organizations are dedicated to a single sport, however, rare examples of notable multisport clubs are found, like Fisher Athletic, Everton F.C.
Everton F.C.

Everton Football Club are a professional English association football club located in the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League and has contested more seasons in the top flight of English football than any other....
, or Catford Wanderers
Catford Wanderers

Catford Wanderers Sports Club is on Beckenham Hill Road, behind the large Homebase. It consists of 3 sport sections, Cricket, Tennis and Badminton....
. In addition, like in several other countries, many universities and colleges develop a wide range of student sport activities including at a professional or semi-professional level. Fulham F.C.
Fulham F.C.

Fulham Football Club is an English professional Association football club based in Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they celebrated their 125th anniversary in 2004, and they are in the top tier of English football, the The Football Association Premier League....
 once ran a professional rugby league team and rowing club, which other football clubs have emulated since. Many football clubs originate from cricket teams.

In the United States of America major institutions like The New York Athletic Club
The New York Athletic Club

The New York Athletic Club is one of the exclusive athletic clubs that were established in the United States in the latter part of the nineteenth century....
, Los Angeles Athletic Club
Los Angeles Athletic Club

Los Angeles Athletic Club is an athletic club in Los Angeles, California, USA. It awards the John R. Wooden Award to the outstanding men's and women's college basketball player of each year....
 or many university athletic programs such as the California Golden Bears
California Golden Bears

The California Golden Bears is the nickname used for 27 varsity athletic programs of the University of California, Berkeley. Referred to in athletic competition as California or Cal, the university competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I primarily as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference, and for a limite...
, Stanford Cardinal
Stanford Cardinal

The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the sport teams at Stanford University....
 and Texas Longhorns
Texas Longhorn Athletics

Texas Longhorns athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of University of Texas at Austin. These teams are referred to as the Texas Longhorns , taking their name from the Texas longhorn that were an important part of the development of Texas, and are now the official "large animal" of the State of Texas....
 are good examples of a sports club (see list of College Athletic Programs by US State).

Major active sports clubs

Multi-sport clubs with over a hundred thousand registered associates or at least 4 million supporters or sympathizers audited and verified by independent auditors, and several trophies won in multiple sports include:

Associazione Sportiva Roma (Italy)
AS Roma , or Rome Sports Association, is a sports club based in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
.

Cardiff Athletic Club (Wales)
Cardiff Athletic Club
Cardiff Athletic Club

Cardiff Athletic Club is a Sports club in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. It is the owner of the world famous Cardiff Arms Park rugby ground, however, it is also a major shareholder of Cardiff RFC and therefore has a large influence over the rugby club's two sides....
 from Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
, Wales
Wales

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. It is the owner of the world famous Cardiff Arms Park
Cardiff Arms Park

Cardiff Arms Park , also known as The Arms Park, is a rugby union stadium situated in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. The history of the rugby ground starts with the first Bleacher appearing for spectators in the ground in 1881–1882, although the Arms Park had cricket played on the site since 1848....
 rugby ground, however, it is also a major shareholder
Shareholder

A mutual shareholder or stockholder is an individual or company that legally owns one or more share s of stock in a joint stock company....
 of Cardiff Rugby Football Club Plc
Cardiff RFC

Cardiff Rugby Football Club was founded in 1876. The club played their first few matches at Sophia Gardens, but soon relocated to Cardiff Arms Park, where they have been based ever since....
 and a large shareholder in Cardiff Blues
Cardiff Blues

Cardiff Blues are one of the four professional Welsh regional rugby union teams. Based in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, the team play at Cardiff Arms Park and are owned by Cardiff RFC....
. Cardiff Athletic Club has five sports sections; the rugby section (Cardiff RFC), the cricket section (Cardiff Cricket Club), the (field) hockey section (Cardiff Hockey Club), bowls section (Cardiff Athletic Bowls Club) and the tennis section (Lisvane Tennis Club). The Athletic Club is one of the few multi-sport clubs in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

CSKA Moscow (Russia)
CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow

CSKA Moscow is a major Russian sports club based in Moscow. It is popularly referred to as "Red Army" or "the Red Army team" because during the Soviet Union, it was a part of the Armed Forces sports society, which in its turn was associated with the Red Army....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, is a major sports club that includes in itself the most titled volleyball team ever, VC CSKA Moscow
VC CSKA Moscow

VC CSKA Moscow is a Russian Volleyball club, the most titled in the world....
, the most titled ice hockey club ever, HC CSKA Moscow
HC CSKA Moscow

CSKA Moscow is a Russia ice hockey club. It is referred to as the "Red Army Team" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army, popularly known as the Red Army....
, and one of the most successful basketball clubs in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, PBC CSKA Moscow
PBC CSKA Moscow

PBC CSKA Moscow is a Russian professional basketball club, often referred to as "Red Army" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army. They have won two of the last three titles in Europe's principal club competition, the Euroleague, making the final in all three seasons....
. It also includes in itself the football club PFC CSKA Moscow
PFC CSKA Moscow

PFC CSKA Moskva is a football club in Moscow, Russia....
, which is one of the most successful in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. The CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow

CSKA Moscow is a major Russian sports club based in Moscow. It is popularly referred to as "Red Army" or "the Red Army team" because during the Soviet Union, it was a part of the Armed Forces sports society, which in its turn was associated with the Red Army....
 sports club was also the place of practice for many Olympic
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 champions for both USSR and Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
.

The club is active in more than 40 sports, and produced 463 Olympic
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 champions for the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 and Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, 11000 champions in local Soviet and Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n championships, and 2629 golden medalists in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an and world
World

World is a common name for the planet Earth seen from a human worldview, as a place inhabited by human beings. It is often used to signify the sum of human experience and history, or the 'human condition' in general....
 championships.

Dynamo Moscow (Russia)
Dynamo Moscow
Dynamo Moscow

Dynamo Moscow may refer to one of the following Dinamo sports clubs in Moscow. In Soviet Union time all of them were parts of the All-Union Dynamo ....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, is a major sports club which includes in itself such teams as FC Dynamo Moscow
FC Dynamo Moscow

Dynamo Moscow is a Russian football club based in Moscow, which currently plays in the Russian Premier League. The team's home ground is Dynamo Stadium ....
, which is one of the most successful football teams in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, HC Dynamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow

HC Dynamo Moscow is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow competing in the Kontinental Hockey League. It was founded in 1946 and plays in the smaller arena of the Olimpiyski Sport Complex ....
, which is one of the strongest Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an ice hockey clubs, Dynamo Moscow bandy club
Dynamo Moscow (bandy club)

Dynamo Moscow is a Russia Bandy club from Moscow who were founded in 1923. Dynamo play in a new arena in the outskirts of Moscow. The stadium, Krylatskoye, is a hightech closed indoor arena which is a world class facility....
, which is one of the most successful bandy clubs in the world, MBC Dynamo Moscow
MBC Dynamo Moscow

MBC Dynamo Moscow is a Russian professional basketball club from Moscow, Russia that competes in the Russian Basketball Super League ....
, which is one of the biggest basketball clubs in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, and a futsal team, MFK Dinamo Moskva
MFK Dinamo Moskva

MFK Dinamo Moskva is a Russian futsal Superliga club based in Moscow. It won the UEFA Futsal Cup in 2007....
, that won the 2007/08 UEFA Futsal Cup
2007/08 UEFA Futsal Cup

2007/08 UEFA Futsal Cup is the top Europe cup of Futsal, supported by UEFA, started in 11 August 2007 with match day 1 of Preliminary Round. The cup was finished on 27 April 2008 after the Final Four held in Krylatskoe Sport Palace in Moscow, Russia....
.

The club produced many Olympic
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 champions for the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 and Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, and many local champions.

Futbol Club Barcelona (Spain)
FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Bar?a , is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
 from Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
, Catalonia
Catalonia

Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
, Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, is one among many well-known examples of a major multi-sport club (club poliesportiu in Catalan
Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance languages, the national language and official language of Andorra, and a official language in the Autonomous Communities of Spain of the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencian Community and in the city of Alghero in the Italy List of islands in the Mediterranean of Sardinia....
). Although best known for its La Liga
La Liga

The 'Primera Divisi?n' of the , commonly known as 'La Liga' or 'Liga BBVA' since 2008, is the top professional association football league in Spain....
 football team and its reserve football team FC Barcelona B
FC Barcelona B

FC Barcelona Atl?tic is a Spain football team. They are the reserve team of FC Barcelona. Reserve teams in the Spanish football league system play in the same football pyramid as their senior team rather than a separate league....
, the club also incorporates other professional sports teams, having expanded into basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, handball
Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. The team with the most goals after two periods of 30 minutes wins....
 and roller hockey
Roller hockey

Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using skates with wheels. The term "Roller Hockey" is often used interchangeably to refer to two variant forms chiefly differentiated by the type of skate used....
. The teams involved in these sports are subsidized by the football section and wear the same colors. These include Regal FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona-Cifec and FC Barcelona Sorli Discau. The club also includes a number of prominent amateur sports teams that compete in rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
, women's basketball
Women's basketball

Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with its men's counterpart. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges....
, women's football
Women's football

Women's football can mean one of the following:* Women's Australian rules football* Women's American football* Women's football * Women's rugby union...
 and wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair basketball

Wheelchair basketball is a sport thought for people in wheelchairs. In some countries such as Canada, Australia and England, able-bodied athletes are allowed to compete alongside other athletes on mixed teams....
. These include FCB Rugby, UB-Barça
UB-Barça

Universitat de Barcelona-FC Barcelona is a catalonia women?s basketball team. Initially belonging just to the University of Barcelona, they're now part of the FC Barcelona family....
, and FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman
FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman

FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman is a catalonia wheelchair basketball team. It is part of both the FC Barcelona family and the Fundacio Institut Guttman....
. Other amateur teams represent the club in ice hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
, five-a-side football
Five-a-side football

Five-a-side football is a variation of association football in which each team fields five players , rather than the usual eleven. Other differences from football include a smaller pitch, smaller goals, and a reduced game duration....
, athletics
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
, baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
, cycling
Cycling

Cycling is the use of bicycles, or - less commonly - unicycles, tricycles, Quadracycle s and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport....
, field hockey
Field hockey

Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....
, figure skating
Figure skating

Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform figure skating spins, figure skating jumps, moves in the field and other intricate and challenging moves on ice....
 and volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
. With dozens of trophies in several sports and over 150,000 associates. FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Bar?a , is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
 has millions of supporters and sympathizers worldwide.

Futebol Clube do Porto (Portugal)
FC Porto from Porto
Porto

Porto , also Oporto in English, is Portugal's second city and capital of the Norte, Portugal NUTS II region. The city is located in the estuary of the Douro river in northern Portugal....
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
, fields teams in football
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
, basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, rink hockey, handball
Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. The team with the most goals after two periods of 30 minutes wins....
, swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
, and athletics
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
. In total, FC Porto is the Portuguese club with most international titles. In total, in all these sports including, the 1987 and 2004 Intercontinental Cup
Intercontinental Cup

Intercontinental Cup may refer to:*Intercontinental Cup , a world football competition run by UEFA and CONMEBOL*ICC Intercontinental Cup, a first-class cricket competition run by the International Cricket Council for 12 of its associate members...
, the 1987 and 2004 European Champions Cup
European Champions Cup

European Champions Cup may refer to one of the following sports tournaments:*IIHF European Champions Cup, annual ice hockey tournament, featuring the champions of national IIHF competitions...
, the 1987 European Supercup and the 2003 UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup

The UEFA Cup is a association football competition for European club teams, organised by the UEFA. It is the second most important international competition for European football clubs, after the UEFA Champions League....
 in football; rink hockey - European Cup in 1986 and 1990, CERS Cup in 1994 and 1996, Cup Winners Cup in 1982 and 1983, and European Supercup in 1987. In others sports is one of best clubs in the Portugal. With dozens of trophies in several sports and over 110,000 associates and is one of the most popular Portuguese Clubs with 3 million ?! supporters in Portugal and an estimated 28% ?! among the total population.

Sportsko Društvo Partizan (Serbia)
Sports society Partizan
Partizan Belgrade

Partizan Belgrade is a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1945, it's an umbrella organization featuring 25 clubs in 25 different sports....
 from Belgrade
Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on international waterway, at the confluence of the Sava River and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula....
, Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
 was founded on October 4, 1945 as sport club of Yugoslav People's Army
Yugoslav People's Army

The Yugoslav People's Army was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The JNA enjoyed an international reputation as a powerful, well-equipped, and well trained force....
. First clubs that were formed under the name of Partizan were football
FK Partizan

Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Being a household name in European football it holds records such as playing in the first UEFA Champions League match in 1955, becoming the first Eastern European club to play in the UEFA Champions League final in 1966, and becoming the first club from Serbia...
 and athletic clubs. In 1946, basketball
KK Partizan

Ko?arka?ki Klub Partizan is a professional basketball club from Belgrade, Serbia. KK Partizan currently participates in the Adriatic League, Euroleague and the Sinalco Superleague....
, voleyball
OK Partizan

Odbojka?ki Klub Partizan is a volleyball club from Belgrade, Serbia. OK Partizan is one of the sport clubs in Serbia that are part of Partizan Belgrade.Club was founded in 1946 and in its history club had won 10 titles of national champions and 5 national cups....
, chess, tennis, swimming and skiing clubs were formed and in 1947 ice hockey
HK Partizan

Hokeja?ki Klub Partizan is an ice hockey club from Belgrade, Serbia. HK Partizan is one of the sport clubs that are part of Partizan Belgrade. The club was founded in 1948....
, boxing, table tennis and road bicycle racing clubs.Among the last clubs that were formed under the name of Partizan were judo, wrestling, water polo
VK Partizan

Vaterpolo klub Partizan Raiffeisen is a water polo club from Belgrade, Serbia. VK Partizan is one of the sport clubs in Serbia that are part of Partizan Belgrade....
, handball
RK Partizan

Rukometni Klub Partizan Si&Si is a Team handball club from Belgrade, Serbia. RK Partizan is one of the sport clubs in Serbia that are part of Partizan Belgrade....
, sport shooting, rowing, bowling and weightlifting clubs.

In 1950, club became sport society in which civilians were allowed to become members and athletes. In 1960, society adopted its current name.

Today, SD Partizan, with 25 clubs, is the largest and the most successful sport society in Serbia.

In season 2003/04 football, basketball, handball and waterpolo clubs of Partizan played in European Champions League in all of these sports.

Olympiacos CFP (Greece)
Olympiacos CFP
Olympiacos CFP

Olympiacos CFP , Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus, is a large and the most popular Greece Sports club based in Piraeus, Athens.The club is parent to 17 different competitive departments including Football , basketball , volleyball , water polo , athletics and swimming, amongst others, which have won numerous domestic and European ti...
 from Piraeus
Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
, is a large multisport club in Europe and the most popular club in Greece. It develops activities in 17 different competitive departments, including football. The club boasts European and international titles in football, basketball (Olympiacos B.C.), volleyball (Olympiacos S.C.), water polo (Olympiacos Water Polo Club
Olympiacos Water Polo Club

Olympiacos Water Polo Club is the water polo team of the Greece sports club Olympiacos. It was founded in 1925 and was among the founding members of the Hellenic Federation of Swimming Fans....
) and athletics. Olympiacos have more honors than any other Greek team in men's football, volleyball and water polo. Olympiacos have achieved a Triple Crown (winning three major titles in one year) in two different sports (basketball and waterpolo).

Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (Greece)
Panathinaikos
Panathinaikos

Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos , widely known both as Panathinaikos or PAO, is a Greek multisport club based in Athens, Greece. Panathinaikos throughout its history is considered as the most successful Greek sports club, as its teams and individual athletes have won numerous titles....
 from Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
, is a major multisports club with many departments (24 different competitive departments) and a large number of national and international titles won by them. Furthermore, it is also the largest multisport club in Greece and also on an international scale, as measured by the number of different sports departments it maintains. The club is mostly known for its three professional teams football
Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
 (Panathinaikos FC
Panathinaikos FC

Panathinaikos F.C. , also known as P.A.O. , is a Greece professional football club based in Athens, Greece. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Football in Greece....
), basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 (Panathinaikos BC) and volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
 (Panathinaikos VC
Panathinaikos VC

Panathinaikos Volleyball Club is the volleyball team of Panathinaikos, the Athens based Greece sport club. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest volleyball clubs in Greece....
), where they compete at the highest level in Europe, but has also an enormous number of distinctions from its other amateur departments (Women Volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
, Women Basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, Athletics, Swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
, Cycling
Cycling

Cycling is the use of bicycles, or - less commonly - unicycles, tricycles, Quadracycle s and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport....
, Boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
, Diving
Diving

Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games....
, Archery
Archery

Archery is the art, practice or skill of shooting with Bow and arrow. Archery has historically been used in hunting and combat and has become a precision sport....
, Shooting
Shooting

Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as Bow s or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting....
, Fencing
Fencing

Fencing is a family of sports and activities that feature armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or slapping Club ing weapons that are directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned....
, Table Tennis
Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth with rackets ....
, Water Polo
Water polo

Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes....
 etc).

Società Sportiva Lazio (Italy)
S.S. Lazio
S.S. Lazio

Societ? Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club most noted for its football section, founded in 1900 and based in Rome....
 , or Lazio Sports Association, is a sports club based in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 and it has athletes competing in 37 disciplines ranging from cricket
Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
 to basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 to parachute jumping
Parachuting

Parachuting, also known as skydiving, is where a person jumps from enough height so that he can deploy a fabric parachute and land safely.The history of parachuting appears to start with Andre-Jacques Garnerin who made successful parachute jumps from a hot-air balloon in 1797....
. Its men's football team however is by far its most important and notorious.

Spartak Moscow (Russia)
Spartak Moscow
Spartak Moscow

Spartak Moscow may refer to the following teams based in Moscow, Russia:* FC Spartak Moscow, an association football club* HC Spartak Moscow, a professional ice hockey team...
 is one of the most successful sports clubs in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. It's Spartak Tennis Club
Spartak Tennis Club

The Spartak Tennis Club is a tennis training ground located near Sokolniki Park in Moscow, Russia. It has 15 outdoor clay courts, which remain closed for half of the year, and only one indoor court....
 is one of the top tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 clubs in the world. FC Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow

FC Spartak Moscow is a football club from Moscow, Russia. They are nicknamed "Meat" because in Soviet era the club was owned by the Collective Production Farms ....
 won more local titles then any other football team in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. It's HC Spartak Moscow
HC Spartak Moscow

HC Spartak Moscow is a professional ice hockey team based in Moscow, Russia. They are members of the Bobrov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League ....
 also won few local titles.

Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Portugal)
SL Benfica
SL Benfica

Sport Lisboa e Benfica is a multisports club based in Lisbon, Portugal, best known for its football team. Sport Lisboa e Benfica was founded in 1904 by a group of twenty-four men....
 from Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
, fields teams in football
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
, basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, rink hockey, futsal
Futsal

Futsal is a variant of association football that is mainly played indoors. Its name is derived from the Portuguese language futebol de sal?o and the Spanish language f?tbol sala/de sal?n, which can be translated as 'indoor football'....
, volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
, handball
Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. The team with the most goals after two periods of 30 minutes wins....
, rugby
Rugby football

Rugby football may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of football developed in different areas of England....
, cycling
Cycling

Cycling is the use of bicycles, or - less commonly - unicycles, tricycles, Quadracycle s and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport....
, and athletics
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
, among other sports. In total, Benfica have won many titles in all these sports including the 1961 and 1962 European Champions Cup
European Champions Cup

European Champions Cup may refer to one of the following sports tournaments:*IIHF European Champions Cup, annual ice hockey tournament, featuring the champions of national IIHF competitions...
 in football, rink hockey-CERS Cup in 1991, 3 Iberian Cups and 1 Torneio Ibérico in rugby, and 5 in the Athletics European Cup. SL Benfica has the biggest fan base and the largest number of registered associates among Portuguese clubs, having also the largest number of supporters outside of Portugal for a Portuguese club, with a total of 12 million Benfica's supporters worldwide. Almost every municipality of Portugal has its own Casa do Benfica (House of Benfica), which can also be found in many cities and towns of countries worldwide. It is also the biggest club in the world in number of associates (registered paying supporters), with a number of 160,398 (as of November 2006), a fact which was attested by the Guinness Book of Records on 10th November 2006.

Disbanded sports clubs


Sportvereinigung Dynamo (Germany)
Sportvereinigung Dynamo was an East German
German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic was a self-declared socialist state created in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany and the East Berlin of Allied Occupation Zones in Germany....
 sports club
Sports club

A sports club, athletics club or sports association is an eclectic institution oriented to multiple sports, which fields many teams and in several sports, working under the same umbrella organization....
 created for members of the country's police and security forces. The president SV Dynamo from its inception in 1953 until German reunification and the dissolution of the club in 1990 was Erich Mielke
Erich Mielke

Erich Fritz Emil Mielke was a Germany Communist politician and Stasi of the East Germany from 1957 to 1989. He held the military rank of Armeegeneral...
, head of the country's secret police, known as the Stasi
Stasi

The Ministry for State Security,...
. The association offices were located next to the Hohenschönhausen
Hohenschönhausen

Hohensch?nhausen was a Boroughs of Berlin of Berlin, that existed from 1985 until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform. It was created by splitting the localities of Hohensch?nhausen, Wartenberg , Falkenberg and the eastern part of Malchow off the 1920 Berlin-Weissensee borough....
 which was the headquarters of the Stasi.

Dynamo-Sportforum Berlin was at one time the largest sports complex in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. SV Dynamo enjoyed considerable success in international competition. At its height the association had a membership of ~280,000 which included over 110,000 children.

See also

  • Football club
  • Team
    Team

    A team comprises a groups of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks....
  • Community organization
    Community organization

    Community organizations are civil society non-profit organization that operate within a single local community. They are essentially a subset of the wider group of nonprofits....
    s
  • Club
    Club

    A club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, political and religious clubs, and so forth....
  • Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR
    Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR

    Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR were the main structural parts of the universal sports and physical education system, that existed in the USSR between 1935 and 1991, together with Dynamo and Armed Forces sports societies....