Sports and shooting club; application for funding for sports operations

The club lump sum serves to provide financial support to sports and shooting clubs to help them cope with the many and varied tasks associated with the organization of sports activities.

It is granted for a financial year and can be used for personnel (e.g. employment of trainers and exercise instructors) and material expenses (e.g. management of the necessary rooms and areas, equipping with sports or maintenance equipment) in accordance with its intended purpose.

The amount of the association lump sum is based on the funding units attributable to the respective association for the funding year. The value of a funding unit is determined on the basis of the budget funds available for granting the association lump sum in the funding year and the total number of eligible funding units applied for in the funding year.

The number of funding units per club is determined by the number of its members and the number of coach and trainer licenses to be used in the funding year.

The members are weighted as follows:

• members under the age of 27 tenfold and
• all other members simply.

Members with disabilities can also be weighted tenfold under certain conditions.

Trainer and instructor licenses are eligible if they are included in the list published annually by the State Ministry and are to be used in the club during the funding year. In the calculation, the licenses are weighted according to the point values resulting from the license list. The number of licenses that can be claimed per club is limited.

Please give priority to using the online service via the buttons above for the "Annex to the club lump sum - Declaration on the sharing of licenses" and the "Application for club lump sum".

These documents are available for you to download in the Forms section:

• Application form for association lump sum.
• Declaration on the sharing of licenses.
• Template trainer licenses.
• Recognized licenses Sports promotion.

Under the further links you will find the page reference to our topic page "Club flat rate".

Eligible applicants are non-profit sports and shooting clubs based in Bavaria that are members of a recognized umbrella association and meet certain minimum requirements in terms of their financial and treasury situation and youth work and achieve a minimum number of 500 funding units.

The deadline for the submission of applications for the grant of the association lump sum is March 1 of a funding year. This is a cut-off deadline. Applications received after this date can no longer be considered.

The deadline is March 3, 2026.

• Recognized licenses Sports promotion

  In this list you can check whether the licenses you have scheduled are eligible for sports funding.

• Application form_club_lump sum_2025

  pdf form for applying for the association lump sum

• Declaration on the sharing of licenses

  pdf form for submitting the declaration of division as an attachment to the association lump sum

• Trainer license template

  Excel template with selection fields for recording trainer data and licenses.

  You will need the Excel program to edit the data.

• Guidelines on the granting of subsidies by the Free State of Bavaria for the promotion of organized sport (Sports Promotion Guidelines - SportFöR)

  of December 5, 2022 (BayMBl. No. 714)

• Information on applying for the 2025 association lump sum

  Information on preparing the documents, list of recognized licenses and help with the application from 8.1.25.

  Information on the subsequent submission of proof of use of the energy price subsidy.

• Information on the club lump sum (application, list of licenses for recognized coach and trainer licenses)

The application for the grant of the association lump sum must be submitted to the district administrative authorities and must be received there in full with all details and attachments by March 1 of the funding year at the latest (cut-off deadline). The value of a funding unit is determined on the basis of all eligible funding units applied for and the budget funds available in the funding year. The district administrative authorities calculate the amount of the association lump sum in the funding year from the number of eligible funding units for the association and the value of the funding unit and pays this to the association.

Please note our information under "Further links". You will find detailed information and table templates as well as various ways to apply for the association lump sum.