The General Secretariat of Sports has announced that more than 12 million euros have been distributed to amateur and professional sports through betting taxation.
In detail, the announcement:
“More than 12 million euros have been paid today to amateur and professional sports, from the permanent financing mechanism through the taxation of the winnings of the players of games of chance, which for 2023 amounted to 66 million euros!
Of the €12,144,140 paid today, approximately €9.5 million pertain to our National Teams of all age categories in all Federations (Olympic and non-Olympic sports, but also Paralympic sports), as well as the Hellenic Olympic Committee and the Hellenic Paralympic Committee (from €457,500 each), for pre-Olympic and pre-Paralympic preparations.
At 2.5 million euros is the ratio of support for the PAEs of Super League 2 (from €106,000 each), which meet the funding criteria. That is, they have a certificate of participation from the Professional Sports Committee and there is no Sportradar report pending on the National Platform for Sports Integrity and/or the Ethics Committee of the EPO and/or the Sports Prosecutor for a “suspected manipulation” of their match.
Out of 24 PAEs (excluding the four B’ groups of PAEs of SL1 and Herodotus and Apollo Larissa) 17 PAEs received funding. For the remaining seven PAEs, the money is on hold until their pending cases are completed.
In addition, the national wheelchair basketball championships are also boosted with €49,500, while unallocated amounts from the men’s and women’s polo championships (€28,365) are available to men’s A1 polo and those of volleyball (€60,275.6) to women’s A2.
Thus, following the payment of 21.3 million euros on March 1, 2023 directly to the 5,742 amateur clubs, of all sports throughout the country, which were registered in the 2022 Register of Sports Clubs of the Deputy Ministry of Sports, further strengthening the national amateur leagues , their development categories and European holdings:
> amateur sports, from the permanent betting mechanism, was financed for 2023 with a total of €31,350,000,
> with a corresponding amount of €31,350,000, professional sports were also financed (21 million euros have already been allocated to the PAE of Super League 1, to the KAE of the Basket League €5,093,500 and to the TAA of the Volley League €2,714,500)
> and from 1.1 million euros was allocated to the Organizing Committees of Events
* Motor Sports (Motorsport Greece),
* International Cycling Tour of Greece (Cycling Greece),
* 3rd Mediterranean Coastal Games “Heraklion 2023”.
In more detail, for the strengthening and development of our National Teams, €9,464,000 (€200,000 more than in 2022) was paid today to 56 Federations, as well as the EOE and the EPE, as follows:
* KOE (wet track) €1,342,354.14
* EEC (basketball) €1,324,386.34
* SEGAS (athletics) €1,024,341.09
* EOPE (volleyball) €601,018.66
* EGO (gymnastics) €474,638.34
* NO (handball) €450,637.57
* ECOFNS (rowing) €377,713.97
* EAOM for the disabled €285,746.11
* SKOE (shooting) €267,864.44
* EOI (riding) €195,438.96
* EOP (wrestling) €195,036.98
* EIO (sailing) €178,875.33
* EOT (judo) €174,264.06
* EOHA (winter sports) €165,837.43
* VAT (tennis) €164,711.21
* EOAK (deaf) €127,558.91
* EOP (cycling) €112,502.72
* EFOEPA (table tennis) €105,507.29
* ELOT (taekwondo) €75,232.00
* EOAB (weight lifting) €73,604.09
* EOX (fencing) €73,201.82
* EOT-AOH (cheerleading) €60,000.00
* POK (kickboxing) €56,938.86
* EOTHS (water skiing) €54,953.79
* EOT (archery) €54,183.05
* EOP (boxing) €53,030.36
* AOTE (ITF taekwondo) €51,318.80
* EOKK (canoe kayak) €48,329.56
* OSEKA (wheelchair basketball) €47,832.26
* ELOK (karate) €37,500.00
* ESO (chess) €32,585.63
* EFEOZZ (life insurance) €25,311.91
* POM (Muay Thai) €20,901.96
* EOMOP (modern pentathlon) €20,794.15
* EOAA (climbing, mountaineering) €15,784.50
* EOS (softball) €15,000.00
* EOG (golf) €14,632.65
* EOMTSKT (martial arts) €14,111.84
* ELOK (cricket) €12,168.00
* EOGSKF (wushu kung fu) €12,000.00
* POSD (physical constitution) €12,000.00
* EOAA (bowling, billiards) €12,000.00
* EOFSA (badminton) €10,079.29
* EUDA (underwater & sport fishing) €10,028.24
* Special Olympics €10,000.00
* EOTR (wheelboard) €10,000.00
* AMOTOE (motorcycle) €7,466.08
* AONM (kidney patients and transplant recipients) €6,362.71
* EOM (bridge) €6,345.00
* TOE (triathlon) €5,000.00
* ELOH (field hockey) €5,000.00
* EOPA (pancreat) €4,837.29
* ELAO (air sports) €4,000.00
* OMAE (motor vehicles) €4,000.00
* EOR (rugby league) €2,032.60
* EOD (tug-of-war) €2,000.00
* EPO (football) –
The total projected amount corresponding to all National Teams was distributed as follows:
> 80% in Olympic Federations,
> 5% in non-Olympic Federations,
> 5% in Paralympic Federations,
> 5% in EOE,
> 5% in the LLC.
Then, for the calculation of the amount paid to each Federation, the following were taken into account:
> National Team Honors (1 point for every centimeter in the KILON honors rating)
> Expenses of each Federation for its National Teams (0.001 unit for each euro of expenses, as they result from the report submitted to the Deputy Ministry of Sports).
The distribution of 95% of the above funding was calculated based on the above criteria and the remaining 5% was distributed based on sports development priorities.
Especially for the National Teams of the Olympic Federations of the team sports of Football (EPO, which however did not submit relevant data and was not financed), Basketball (EEC), Handball (OKE), Volleyball (EOPE) and Aquatics (KOE), it is increased by 10 % the amount attributable to them.
A minimum base amount has been set, which amounts to €5,000 for Olympic Sports Federations and €2,000 for non-Olympic Sports Federations.
In addition, the amount each National Team receives cannot be more than 150% and less than 50% of its funding from taxation of betting profits received last year.
The Deputy Minister of Sports, Lefteris Avgenakis, emphasized that “all these 4 years we have taken care in every way for the development of our sports building.
We dared as a Government and institutionalized the permanent, annual and equal support of all sports, professional and amateur, from the taxation of the winnings of the Betting players.
And so this year we distributed a total of 66 million euros for the even stronger development of each sport, regardless of popularity.
For the sportswomen and athletes, the coaches, the healthy factors, the hundreds of thousands of parents who trust their children to the legal clubs. And of course for our national teams, so that they can lift Greece even higher in international competitions.
Our sport is changing!».
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