Sport and Health has assigned ordinary contributions to the Sports Federations for 2026. The total sum is equal to 344.4 million eurosdistributed to individual entities following the criteria of meritocracy, transparency and innovation, as required by the new guidelines dictated by the Ministry for Sport and Youth led by Andrea Abodi. As the body reiterates, the choice is to direct public resources towards those who generate value. The sum was increased by 700,000 euros compared to last year.
The resources allocated to the sports system are growing thanks to the self-financing mechanism which since 2019 has already produced an overall increase of 25% in recent years, despite the Covid period. One of the objectives is to reduce territorial gaps and redevelop plantsenhanced by the MaC (Algorithmic Contributions Model), an objective and transparent digital platform which, starting from the data provided by the Sports Organisations, measures the performance of the system and rewards those who invest more in sporting activity, increase the number of participants, obtain results and use public resources efficiently.
The largest amount was given as always to football with 35.2 million euros (0.06% increase compared to 2025), practically twice as much swimming (18.6 million euros, growth of 10.57%) and volleyball (17.86 million, jump of 4.59%). Tennis is just off the podium (16.13 million, sumptuous 15% increase) and athletics (14.92 million, just 0.27% more than the last twelve months. Winter sports are practically stable (FISI is sixth with 12.56 million) and basketball (seventh place with 10.4 million). Completing the top 10, without significant increases compared to 2025, are fencing (10.15 million), gymnastics (10.09 million) and cycling (9.67 million).
Seven Federations, in addition to tennis, have seen their contributions increase by 15% and benefit from a check exceeding one million euros: sailing (7.47 million), rugby (7.25), equestrian sports (6.34), triathlon (3.77), surfing-waterskiing-wakeboarding (3.51), sport climbing (3.17), billiards-bowling (1.19). Impetuous growth for American football and cricket (+75% for both, 510,069 and 500,692 euros contributed respectively). Note the -20% for pentathlon (left a flat million on the table, now down to 3.92) and powerboating (1.6), but also -12.1% for badminton (2.35).
