As the umbrella organisation of sport in Cologne, Stadtsportbund (Municipal Sports Federation) is the partner, contact , advocate and mouthpiece for its eight district associations, 33 sports associations, around 640 clubs and, of course, the roughly 282,000 active athletes in the 86 districts of the city. The focus of the Cologne federation is to serve as an expert body representing the interests of all areas of sport and to inform the citizens of Cologne about the activities of the sports clubs. Sportjugend Köln (Cologne Sports Youth), as the umbrella organisation of the youth departments of Cologne’s clubs and associations, attends to the interests of children and adolescents.
