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The national sport of Germany is soccer. Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. [3] With a total of 26,000 clubs and 178,000 teams, German football is financed by means of state funding and state contributions, voluntary service, private sponsors and membership fees.
Football is the most popular sport in Germany [1] with 57% of the population declaring interest in watching it. [2] The German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund or DFB) is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members (roughly eight percent of the population) organized in over 31,000 football clubs.
Resident English merchants and industrialists brought football to the western Rhineland in the second half of the 19th century, alongside traditional equestrian sports. Football came to Germany from the British Isles in 1873, ten years after the FA (The Football Association) was founded, and was initially played mainly by grammar school pupils.
W. Wheel gymnastics. Wok racing. Categories: German inventions. Sports originating in Europe. Sports by country of origin. Sport in Germany. Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Historical European martial arts. The first page of the Codex Wallerstein shows the typical arms of 15th-century individual combat, including the longsword, rondel dagger, messer, sword -and- buckler, voulge, pollaxe, spear, and staff. Historical European martial arts (HEMA) are martial arts of European origin, particularly using arts formerly ...
The Bundesliga. The German Basketball League (the Basketball-Bundesliga, or BBL) was created in 1964. On 1 October 1966, the first season began. [11] This is the highest level tier of professional club basketball competition in Germany. It currently has 18 teams, competing for the national champion title.
Ice hockey in Germany is one of the more popular sports, and ranks behind Handball and football in spectator favour and meaning. [1] [2] Ice hockey is organized today in Germany by the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, the highest professional league, and by the Deutschen Eishockey-Bund ice hockey federation, which is the sport's federation in Germany and a member of the International Ice Hockey ...
Klootschieten (Dutch) [1] (German: Klootschießen, Bosseln or Boßeln; English: road bowling or bowl playing) is a sport in the Netherlands, East Frisia, and Northern Germany, most popular in the eastern regions of Twente and Achterhoek. The game is of Frisian origin. [2] To play, participants throw a bowl (the Kloot or Bossel) as far as they ...