Indicator history

Despite the lack of official statistics, there is a broad consensus that migrants are underrepresented as members of and, even more so, as volunteers and officials in sport clubs, i. e. organised amateur sport. Migrant girls and women, in particular Muslim girls, are even stronger under-represented.
According to a large-scale survey from 2008, more than 90,000 registered sport clubs in Germany count a total of about 2,760,000 migrant members; this represents 10.1 per cent of all members and illustrates the migrants’ under-representation compared to their total population share being almost 20 per cent.
Politicians as well as experts agree that one of the reasons for this lower participation rate is the lack of intercultural awareness of many German sport clubs and their often deficient adaptation to a multi-ethnic clientele.

In 2012, the federal government published numbers of sport club members with a migration background: in the year 2009/2010 there was a total of 2.9 million migrants visiting sport clubs. This is a share of only 9 per cent compared to a share of population of 19.3 per cent. Thus migrants are still underrepresented [4].

Sources:

1. Peucker Mario (2009), Racism, xenophobia and structural discrimination in sports, Germany Country Report,  http://www.efms.uni-bamberg.de/pdf/RACISM_in_SPORT_2010.pdf, Accessed on 28.02.2012.
2. Deutscher Sportbund (2004), http://www.migration-boell.de/downloads/diversity/Anlage_Pilz_Grundsatzerklrung_2004.pdf, Accessed on 28.02.2012.
3. DOSB, http://www.dosb.de/fileadmin/fm-dosb/arbeitsfelder/ids/files/downloads_pdf/downloads_2011/Zielgruppen_IdS_2011.pdf, Accessed on 28.02.2012.
4. German Federal Government (2012), Integration und Sport, http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/_Anlagen/IB/2012-09-18-integration-und-sport.pdf?__blob=publicationFile, Accessed on 21.01.2013.