Sports budget 2025 reduced to € 202 million - effects for clubs?

Sports budget 2025 reduced to € 202 million - effects for clubs?

Wien, Österreich - The budget inevitation for the area area is significantly declining for the years 2025 and 2026. A total of 2025 payments of 202 million euros are estimated, which corresponds to a decline of 24 million euros or 10.5 percent compared to the previous year. Stronger cuts are expected for 2026, since the funds remain at 202 million euros. This was announced by the State Secretary Michaela Schmidt in the Budget Committee of the National Council, where she asked herself the questions of the MPs. The entire budget for subdivision, which also includes living, media and telecommunications, amounts to 434 million euros in 2025 and in 2026 to 718 million euros, such as ots.at reports.

Schmidt explains that despite the savings, planning security is guaranteed for the sports associations and clubs. In particular, the daily movement unit in educational institutions will remain unaffected by the cuts and could even be increased by 10 percent, which represents positive news for the physical and mental health of children. The total investment in this initiative is around 15 million euros annually, although the degree is currently 14 percent.

Details on sports funding

For general sports funding, 85 million euros are planned in 2025 and 2026, which also means a decrease of 13 million euros compared to the previous year. The athlete -specific top sports promotion is estimated for both years with 7 million euros. The special sports funding will also be affected by cuts, which is estimated at 110 million euros per year, which is a reduction by 10 million compared to 2024. In order to counter the challenges of sports funding, an interministerial working group works on the financing of the daily movement unit, since a full expansion cannot be financed solely from the sports budget; bmwkms.gv.at supplements that the funding was reduced in accordance with the development of inflation.

Another central point of the discussion was the increase in gambling tax and its possible effects on sports sponsorship. Schmidt recognized the importance of sponsorship funds for sport, but emphasized that the influence of the sports resort in specific industries was limited. She also expressed the goal of attributing the sports budget back to the level of 2024 by 2027 and confirmed that support for the sports infrastructure, such as the swimming frastructure, was a matter of the country.

future prospects and upcoming projects

The plans for the construction of 50-meter pools in Klagenfurt and Innsbruck are available, but current documents are not available. In addition, work is carried out to test the building of a nation stadium, but this cannot be feasible in the current budget frame. Schmidt emphasizes that the federal government will contribute around 23 million euros to the total costs of 70.52 million euros for the ÖFB training center Aspern, whose completion is planned for autumn 2025. The sports funding call "Innovation 2025" provided for a total volume of 1 million euros to support projects with a term of up to three years.

The demands for de -bureaucratization in the field of sports funding are getting louder and louder in order to enable sports associations and associations to process unbureaucratic processing. Overall, the efforts to integrate, inclusion and health promotion remain central issues of sports funding even in times of financial uncertainty, which is also very important in Germany, where it is supported by various public and private initiatives. Sport is viewed here as an important instrument for promoting social cohesion and improvement in quality of life, whereby the funding includes broad and diverse support offers, as the blog on funding reports [blog-foerdermittel.de] (https://blog-foerdermittel.de/2024/fordmittel-fur-sportprojekt-und-s-s--und.