Since 1939, the Akademischer Sportverband Zürich (ASVZ), a university sports association, has been organising voluntary university sport for the five universities in the canton of Zurich with their 75,000 students and around 15,000 other eligible persons. To this end, it operates several sports centres at the university campuses and also provides an extensive programme of outdoor activities. Thanks to the diversity of its offering and its 1.8 million visits annually, the ASVZ has broad experience of a great number of sports stagings, ranging from martial arts training in the dojo to group fitness lessons in the large sports hall and running events with 14,000 participants.
