93.121
Sub-class
Activities of sports clubs, excluding esports
SDMX: S93121
Sub-class Level
1 Depth
0 Children
0 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes
✓ Includes
This subclass includes the activities of sports clubs, which, whether professional, semi-professional or amateur clubs, give their members the opportunity to engage in sporting activities. Sports clubs are typically non-profit entities, but inclusion in the sports sector is legitimised by the prevailing purpose of the activity carried out (in other words, the promotion of practicing sports). The activities of education, training, the sale of advertising space and the provision of clubhouse services are, in this context, ancillary activities, which may have a prevailing weight at an economic level, but which are instrumental with respect to the prevailing purpose of the activity carried out and for its perpetuation. This subclass includes: - operation of sports clubs, e.g.: • football clubs • bowling clubs • swimming clubs • golf clubs • boxing clubs • winter sports clubs • chess clubs • track and field clubs • shooting clubs • card game clubs (e.g. bridge clubs)
+ Also Includes
This subclass also includes: - organisation and operation of outdoor or indoor sporting events for professionals or amateurs by sports clubs - provision of clubhouse services by sports clubs - sports training within sports clubs
✗ Excludes
This subclass excludes: - sports instruction by individual teachers/trainers, see 85.51 - operation of sports facilities, see 93.11 - activities of esports clubs, see 93.12/2 - activities of individual own account sportspersons and athletes, referees, judges, timekeepers, etc., see 93.19 - activities of sports federations, see 93.19 - activities of individual own-account esports competitors, coaches, referees etc, see 93.19/5
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Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) —
UK SIC 2026
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