A Sports club, Athletic club or Sports association is an institution oriented to multiple sports, which fields many teams in several sports at a same time. Generally, this kind of institutions could have professional and amateur sports branches in several sports like football (soccer), basketball, roller hockey, futsal, volleyball, handball, water polo, rugby, athletics, boxing, triathlon, baseball, tennis, sport rowing, gymnastics and other. The teams or athletes belonging to a single sports club compete in several different leagues, championships and tournaments under the same club logotype, equipment colors and name, sharing also the same club fan base, supporters and facilities. A team comprises any group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... Roller hockey is a category which includes two rollersports. ... Futsal is the indoor version of association football (soccer) that is officially sanctioned by footballs international governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams, separated by a high net, hit a ball back and forth over the net between the teams. ... Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. ... Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling. ... Rugby may refer to: The sport of Rugby football, in its various forms: Rugby league Rugby union Touch Rugby Tag Rugby Wheelchair Rugby Places: Rugby, Warwickshire, England Rugby borough Rugby Rural District Rugby and Kenilworth constituency Rugby, Cape Town, South Africa Rugby, North Dakota, USA Rugby, Tennessee, USA Rugby, Brooklyn... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo Dominguez (left) vs. ... A triathlon is an athletic event made up of three contests (from the Greek). ... Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball at a player on the other team (the batter), who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat that can be made out of either... Tennis ball This article is about the sport. ... A coxless pair which is a sweep-oar boat. ... Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings and handstands. ... An athlete is a person who has above average physical skills (strength, agility, and endurance) and is thus suitable for physical activities, in particular, contests. ... Fans of Janet Jackson, at Much Music in Toronto The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend. ...

In general, sports club can also refer to any single sports team, like a football club where the only sport is football. For instance, many British football clubs exist like Chelsea FC, Manchester United or Celtic FC where the only fielded teams are football teams. In the USA, in NBA, NFL or MLS sports leagues, the teams can be called also a sports club, but in reality, they just field teams in a single sport. A football team is the collective name given to a number of players who play together in a football game, be it association football (soccer), rugby, Australian football, American football, Gaelic football, or other version of football. ... Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously also known as the Pensioners), founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in west London. ... Manchester Uniteds emblem Manchester United F.C. (often abbreviated to Man United or just Man U, pronounced man-yoo) is an English football club based at Old Trafford in Greater Manchester. ... Celtic F.C. (pronounced seltic, not keltic) is perhaps the most famous Scottish football club. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... ... A list of professional sports leagues: Auto racing Champcars, formerly CART (Official Page) Formula One, Grand Prix racing (Official Site) IRL (Indy Racing League) (Official Page) NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) (Official Page) NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) (Official Page) Baseball Major League Baseball Minor League Baseball...

In order to differentiate a single sports institution, from a multisports institution, the terms multisports club or multimodality sports club are used. Generally, Athletic club doesn't need that kind of disambiguation.

There are also many clubs named "FC" (Football Club) which are effectively full multisports clubs. For example, dozens of sports clubs with this designation are found in Portugal and Spain, like FC Porto or FC Barcelona. FC Porto emblem (Larger version) Futebol Clube do Porto (short: FC Porto, FCP) is a Portuguese sports club, best known for its football section. ... FC Barcelona is a polideportivo that operates a number of sports teams in Barcelona, Catalonia, Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, British and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper. ...

Sports clubs in the World

In many regions of the world like Europe, North Africa, Middle East or South America, sports clubs are very popular and have developed into some of the most powerful and representative sports institutions in those places. Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to some dispute as to Europes actual borders. ...  Northern Africa (UN subregion)  geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...

Several examples of this are found in many continents:

• Argentina: Club Atlético River Plate, Club Atlético Boca Juniors, or Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield
• Brazil: Associação Portuguesa de Desportos, Flamengo, or Vasco da Gama
• Denmark: Aalborg Boldspilklub, Aarhus Gymnastik Forening, or Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
• Egypt: Al-Zamalek
• Greece: Panathinaikos, or Olympiacos
• Israel: Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maccabi Haifa, or Hapoel Tel Aviv
• Netherlands: PSV Eindhoven
• Portugal: SL Benfica, FC Porto, Sporting CP, or Associação Académica de Coimbra
• Qatar: Al Sadd, or Qatar Sports Club
• Russia: CSKA Moscow
• Saudi Arabia: Al-Ittihad
• Spain: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, or CD Numancia
• Sweden: AIK, or IFK Göteborg
• Tunisia: Espérance Sportive de Tunis, or Club Africain
• Turkey: Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, or Besiktas JK

In the United States of America major institutions like The New York Athletic Club or many university sports institutions like the California Golden Bears, Stanford Cardinal or Texas Longhorn Athletics are good examples of a sports club. Club Atlético River Plate, known also as River Plate or simply River, is a football team of Argentina, founded in 1901. ... For the writer, see Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield is an Argentine football team, based in Buenos Aires. ... Portuguesa or Lusa is a traditional Brazilian football team from São Paulo in São Paulo state, founded on August 14, 1920 by the portuguese population of the city. ... Clube de Regatas do Flamengo is a Brazilian multimodality sportive association from Rio de Janeiro. ... Vasco da Gama (after the famous Portuguese explorer of the same name) is a Brazilian football team from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, founded on August 21, 1898 (although the football department started on November 5, 1915). ... Aalborg Boldspilklub, known as AaB for short, is a Danish sports club based in Aalborg, Denmarks fourth largest city. ... Aarhus Gymnastik Forening (AGF) Is the most winning and one of the oldest sport clubs in Denmark. ... Kjøbenhavns Boldklub or KB is a Danish sports club based in Copenhagen. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, i. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Maccabi Tel Aviv is a sport association in Israel, and part of the Maccabi association. ... Maccabi Haifa is a sports association in Haifa, Israel. ... Did you mean. ... Philips Sport Vereniging (English: Philips Sports Union), widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, the Netherlands. ... Sport Lisboa e Benfica (commonly referred to as simply Benfica, SL Benfica or Benfica Lisbon; pron. ... FC Porto emblem (Larger version) Futebol Clube do Porto (short: FC Porto, FCP) is a Portuguese sports club, best known for its football section. ... Sporting Clube de Portugal, often known outside Portugal as Sporting Lisbon, is a sports club that is best known for having one of the best football teams in Portugal. ... AACs Symbol The Associação Académica de Coimbra (AAC) is the students union of the University of Coimbra. ... The Al Sadd Sports Club is a football club of the Qatar National First Division from Doha. ... Qatar Sports Club plays in first division in Qatar. ... CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Army Club Moscow, Russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club, often referred to as Red Army for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army. ... Al-Ittihad ( الإتحاد ) is a Saudi Arabian sports club based in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. ... Real Madrid is a Spanish sports club best known for its football team which is ranked as The 20th Centurys Best Club by FIFA. They play their home games at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid. ... FC Barcelona is a polideportivo that operates a number of sports teams in Barcelona, Catalonia, Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, British and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper. ... Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria are a Spanish football team from Soria. ... Allmänna Idrottsklubben (Swedish: lit. ... IFK Göteborg is a Swedish sports club located in Gothenburg, with several sections: IFK Göteborg - football section. ... Espérance Sportive de Tunis (French, literally The Sporting Hope of Tunis) , also known as EST, tarajji, or Espérance, is a football (soccer) club based in Tunis, Tunisia. ... Image:Club Africain. ... Fenerbahçe is the name of a district in Kadikoy region of Istanbul, Turkey. ... For Galatasaray High School, visit Galatasaray Lisesi Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (Galatasaray Sports Club, or Galatasaray SK) is a Turkish sports club based in Ä°stanbul which is most famous for its football section. ... Beşiktaş logo Beşiktaş is a Turkish football club from İstanbul. ... The New York Athletic Club was founded in 1868 and is located in New York City. ... Cal Logo The California Golden Bears is the nickname used for 27 varsity athletic programs of the University of California, Berkeley. ... Having no offical mascot, the athletic teams at Stanford University are referred to as Stanford Cardinal. ... Hook em Horns, the UT hand symbol and slogan The UT Tower lit in a special configuration in honor of the 2005 National Championship football team Texas Longhorn Athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of The University of Texas. ...

Major sports clubs

Sports clubs with over a hundred thousand associates and several trophies won in multiple sports include:

Futbol Club Barcelona (Spain)

FC Barcelona, from Barcelona, Spain, is one among many well known examples of a major multisports club (club polideportivo in Spanish). Although best known for its La Liga football team and its reserve football team FC Barcelona B, the club also incorporates other professional sports teams, having expanded into basketball, handball and roller hockey. The teams involved in these sports are subsidised by the football section and wear the same colours. These include Winterthur FCB and FC Barcelona-Cifec. FC Barcelona is a polideportivo that operates a number of sports teams in Barcelona, Catalonia, Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, British and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper. ... Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, an autonomous region in Spain. ... Liga de Fútbol Profesional La Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP) (English: League of Professional Football ), commonly known as La Liga, is the professional football league in Spain. ... FC Barcelona B is a Spanish football team. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. ... Roller hockey is a category which includes two rollersports. ... Winterthur FCB is a Spanish basketball team. ... Is a team of Handball based in Barcelona, Catalonia. ...

The club also includes a number of prominent amateur sports teams that compete at rugby union, women's basketball, women's football and wheelchair basketball. These include FCB Rugby, UB-Barça, FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman. Other amateur teams represent the club at ice hockey, five-a-side football, athletics, baseball, cycling, field hockey, figure skating and volleyball. With dozens of trophies in several sports and over 100,000 associates, FC Barcelona is a powerhouse in world sports. Image from a test-match between Ireland and the New Zealand All Blacks. ... Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... Womens football can mean either a female version of American football or of football (soccer). ... Wheelchair basketball is a sport played primarily by people with disabilities. ... FCB Rugby is a Catalan rugby club founded in 1924. ... Universitat de Barcelona-FC Barcelona is a Catalan women’s basketball team. ... FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman is a Catalan wheelchair basketball team. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Five-a-side football is a variation of football in which each teams fields five players rather than the usual eleven. ... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball at a player on the other team (the batter), who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat that can be made out of either... Cycling is a recreation, a sport and a means of transport across land. ... A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams, separated by a high net, hit a ball back and forth over the net between the teams. ...

Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Portugal)

SL Benfica, from Lisbon, Portugal, fields teams in basketball, roller hockey, futsal, volleyball, handball, water polo, rugby and athletics. In total, Benfica have won over than 10 international titles in these sports: roller hockey-CERS Cup in 1991, 3 Iberian Cups and 1 Torneio Ibérico in rugby, and 5 in the Athletics European Cup. Historically, the club has also had great national successes in cycling. It has also a SL Benfica B football reserve team playing in the Portuguese National Third Division. With dozens of trophies in several sports and over 150,000 associates, SL Benfica is a powerhouse in world sports. Sport Lisboa e Benfica (commonly referred to as simply Benfica, SL Benfica or Benfica Lisbon; pron. ... District or region Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... Roller hockey is a category which includes two rollersports. ... Futsal is the indoor version of association football (soccer) that is officially sanctioned by footballs international governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams, separated by a high net, hit a ball back and forth over the net between the teams. ... Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. ... Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling. ... Rugby may refer to: The sport of Rugby football, in its various forms: Rugby league Rugby union Touch Rugby Tag Rugby Wheelchair Rugby Places: Rugby, Warwickshire, England Rugby borough Rugby Rural District Rugby and Kenilworth constituency Rugby, Cape Town, South Africa Rugby, North Dakota, USA Rugby, Tennessee, USA Rugby, Brooklyn... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... Cycling is a recreation, a sport and a means of transport across land. ...

See also

• Football club
• Team
• Community Organizations