Club Subsidy; Applying for Funding for a Sports or Shooting Club

Purpose

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.

Object

The club subsidy is granted for a fiscal year and may be used, in accordance with its intended purpose, to cover personnel expenses (such as the employment of coaches and instructors) and operational expenses (such as the maintenance of necessary facilities and spaces, and the procurement of sports or care equipment).

Beneficiary

Nonprofit associations with legal personality that are headquartered in Bavaria and whose bylaws specify the promotion of sports or a specific sport as their purpose.

Eligible costs

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.

Type and height

The funding is granted as a subsidy.

The grant type is project funding.
The funding period covers the entire duration of the project.

This is a fixed-amount funding program. The amount of the club allowance is calculated based on the number of funding units allocated to the respective club for the funding year. The value of a funding unit is determined based on the budgetary funds available in the funding year for the award of the club allowance, as well as the total number of eligible funding units applied for in the funding year.

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.

Exclusion criteria:

To qualify for a club flat rate, a club must have at least 500 member units.

Applications must be submitted by March 1 of the respective calendar year at the latest. This is the deadline for submitting applications for the association lump-sum grant for a given funding year. This is a strict deadline. Applications received after this date cannot be considered.

The deadline is March 3, 2026.

• Explanation of License Sharing: (see "Forms")

• Recognized licenses Sports promotion

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

• Application for the grant of the association lump sum

  pdf form for applying for the association lump sum

• Declaration on the sharing of licenses
• Declaration on the sharing of licenses for the application for the granting of the club lump sum

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

• Trainer license template

  Excel template with checkboxes for entering coach information and licenses. You'll need Excel to edit this file.

There are no costs.

• Guidelines on the Awarding of Grants by the Free State of Bavaria to Promote Organized Sports (Sports Promotion Guidelines - SportFöR)

You may file a lawsuit against the grant decision with the administrative court within one month. The decision will specify the court with jurisdiction where you may file your lawsuit.

• Website of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Sports, and Integration, with further information on the club allowance.
• Association lump sum; information on how to apply - Topic page

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

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

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.

Please expect a processing time of up to 6 months.