The commercial fitness sector in Denmark has boomed over the last two decades. The number of for-profit fitness centres has risen from around 350 in the 2000s to more than 800 in 2018. This development indicates that ...

Med under to år til det går løs ved de olympiske sommerlege i den japanske hovedstad, Tokyo, er spørgsmålet, om dansk elitesport er på vej frem eller tilbage internationalt. Idans årlige resultatanalyse analyserer udviklingen ...

The body of literature examining potential trickle-down effects from elite sport success to mass sport participation has grown considerably over the years. The evidence is mixed but generally suggests that when a nation’s ...

De skandinaviske lande har gode forudsætninger for at klare sig godt i international elitesport på trods af relativt beskedent befolkningstal. De er stabile og velorganiserede velfærdssamfund, relativt velstående og har ...

In 2003, the Danish Football Association introduced a new club licensing system for its first-tier clubs. Among the criteria for the system was a requirement for clubs to play at a stadium with a minimum capacity of 10,000 ...

This article aims to explain why Danish municipalities usually choose to comply with stadium requirements from the Danish Soccer Association (DBU) even though, in most cases, they do not have the supporter base that could ...

Contemporary research into the impact of major sports events shows that the widely used (and popular) claim of economic benefits associated with hosting them is misleading or – at best – overrated. In this paper, we aim ...