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Poland: Small Local Sports Clubs with High Social Engagement

In: Functions of Sports Clubs in European Societies

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  • Monika Piątkowska

    (Józef Piłsudski Univeristy of Physical Education in Warsaw)

  • Sylwia Gocłowska

    (Józef Piłsudski Univeristy of Physical Education in Warsaw)

Abstract

Nowadays sports clubs in Poland perform many social functions; it is influenced by country historical political situation. Currently, as a result of the system transformation, Polish local sports clubs have an autonomy and belong to the non-governmental sector. Their activities are focused on promotion and development of sports, mainly sports for everyone and sports for children and youth. The majority of clubs are young, single sport organisations, and over half of the clubs are situated in small- or middle-sized communities. Polish clubs often report financial problems, even though the proportion of direct funding towards them is the highest in all studied countries. Polish clubs seem to show an integrative and open nature. The majority of clubs report that they try to offer sports to as many population groups as possible and strive to help socially vulnerable groups to become better integrated. One of the most important challenges of many Polish sports clubs is to recruit and retain human resources. Polish volunteers in sport clubs are by far the most active in all researched countries. The largest proportion of volunteers undertake administrative and management tasks. In this chapter we try to show, discuss and compare those results with other European countries.

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  • Monika Piątkowska & Sylwia Gocłowska, 2020. "Poland: Small Local Sports Clubs with High Social Engagement," Sports Economics, Management, and Policy, in: Siegfried Nagel & Karsten Elmose-Østerlund & Bjarne Ibsen & Jeroen Scheerder (ed.), Functions of Sports Clubs in European Societies, chapter 0, pages 235-261, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-3-030-48535-1_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48535-1_10
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