More than 210,000 Frankfurt residents stay fit as members of about 420 sports and leisure clubs in the city that are part of the Sportkreis Frankfurt sports association. The German Soccer Federation, the world´s largest single sports federation, has its headquarters here, and manages the fortunes from Frankfurt of 26,000 clubs with 6.3 millionen members.

The Main metropolis is also the headquarters of the German Gymnastics Association, which has over 5.1 million members in about 20,500 clubs, as well as the German Olympic Sports federation. So it can be said without fear of contradiction that Frankfurt is Germany´s sports capital.