Large enterprise share of sports sector employment

RecordSTO-JFK8G6YTT5-C7N2QG4KNP-FNXYSN

18.2%

European Union · 2023

Large enterprise share of sports sector employment in the European Union was 18.2% in 2023 (Eurostat).

Original source
Publisher
Eurostat
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
What is the size of enterprises in the sports sector?
Retrieved
21 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

Large enterprises, employing 250 people or more within the sports sector, comprised less than a fifth of the workforce (18.2%), which is lower than their proportion in industry, construction and market services (36.5%).

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APA

Statistical Office of the European Union. (2023). Enterprises in the sports sector. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Enterprises_in_the_sports_sector. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_JFK8G6YTT5C7N2QG4KNPFNXYSN

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MLA
Statistical Office of the European Union. "Enterprises in the sports sector." 2023, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Enterprises_in_the_sports_sector. Accessed 21 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_JFK8G6YTT5C7N2QG4KNPFNXYSN.
Chicago
Statistical Office of the European Union. "Enterprises in the sports sector." 2023. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Enterprises_in_the_sports_sector. Accessed September 21, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_JFK8G6YTT5C7N2QG4KNPFNXYSN.
BibTeX
@misc{eurostat2023largefnxysn, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Enterprises in the sports sector}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_JFK8G6YTT5C7N2QG4KNPFNXYSN}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Enterprises\_in\_the\_sports\_sector. Accessed September 21, 2026.} }

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Record: STO-JFK8G6YTT5-C7N2QG4KNP-FNXYSN T1 Official

Primary source

Publisher
Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report
Enterprises in the sports sector
Type
Press release
Published
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Locator
What is the size of enterprises in the sports sector?
Retrieved
21 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
See source

Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
pipeline:quote-verified-v2
Checked on
27 September 2026
Last revision
27 September 2026
Permanent URL
/stat/stat_JFK8G6YTT5C7N2QG4KNPFNXYSN