The Italian National Olympic Committee ( it, Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, CONI), founded in 1914 and a member of the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swis ...
(IOC), is responsible for the development and management of sports activity in Italy. Within Italy, CONI recognizes 44 national sports federations, 19 associate sports disciplines, 15 promotional sports organizations, and 19 organizations for the betterment of sports.
In total 95,000 sports clubs with 11,000,000 members are recognized. Its 2016 annual budget is 412,900,000 euros which is primarily funded by the Italian government.
Member Organizations of CONI
National Sport Federations (FSN)
* Automobile Club of Italy (Italian: Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI))
* Aviation Club of Italy (Italian: Aero Club d'Italia (AeCI))
* Federazione Italiana Canoa Kayak (FICK)
* Federazione Italiana Cronometristi (FICr)
* Federazione Italiana Danza Sportiva (FIDS)
* Federazione Italiana Discipline Armi Sportive da Caccia (FIDASC)
* Federazione Italiana Judo Lotta Karate Arti Marziali (FIJLKAM)
* Federazione Italiana Motonautica (FIM)
* Federazione Italiana Pentathlon Moderno (FIPM)
* Federazione Italiana Pesca Sportiva E Attività Subacquee (FIPSAS)
* Federazione Italiana Pesistica e Cultura Fisica (FIPCF)
* Federazione Italiana Sci Nautico (FISN)
* Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio (FISG)
* Federazione Italiana Tiro a Volo (FITAV)
* Federazione Italiana Tiro con L'Arco (FITARCO)
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Italian Athletics Federation
The Italian Athletics Federation (Italian: ''Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera'', FIDAL), is the governing body for athletics in Italy since 1906.
The Italian Federation, founded on 21 October 1906, on initiative of ''La Gazzetta dello Sp ...
(FIDAL - Federazione Italiana d'Atletica Leggera)
* Italian
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Badminton (FIBa))
* Italian Baseball and Softball Federation (FIBS - Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball)
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Italian Basketball Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro (FIP))
* Italian
Bocce
(, or , ), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, bocci or boccie, is a ball sport belonging to the boules family. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to British bowls and French , with a common ancestry from ancien ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Bocce (FIB))
* Italian
Boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermine ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Pugilistica Italiana (FPI))
* Italian
Cycling
Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from tw ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Ciclistica Italiana (FCI))
* Italian
Equestrian Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Equestri (FISE))
* Italian
Fencing
Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also ''saber''); winning points are made through the weapon's contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Scherma (FIS))
* Italian
Hockey
Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Hockey (FIH))
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Italian Football Federation
The Italian Football Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio; FIGC), known colloquially as ''Federcalcio'', is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence.
I ...
(FIGC - Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio)
* Italian
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, s ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Ginnastica d'Italia (FGdI))
* Italian
Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Golf (FIG))
* Italian
Handball Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Handball (FIGH))
* Italian
Motorcycle
A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit a range of different purposes: long-distance travel, commuting, cruisin ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Motociclistica Italiana (FMI))
* Italian
Paralympic
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...
Committee (Italian: Comitato Italiano Paralimpico (CIP))
* Italian
Hockey
Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...
and
Skating Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Hockey E Pattinaggio (FIHP))
* Italian
Rowing
Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically at ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Canottaggio (FIC))
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Italian Rugby Federation
The Italian Rugby Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Rugby) or FIR is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in Italy. The FIR has one seat on the 28-member World Rugby Council, the governing body of World Rugby. (All other members of ...
(FIR - Federazione Italiana Rugby)
* Italian
Sailing
Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' ( sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' ( iceboat) or on ''land'' ( land yacht) over a chose ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Vela (FIV))
* Italian Shooting Union (Italian: Unione Italiana Tiro a Segno (UITS)
* Italian Sports Medical Federation (Italian: Federazione Medico Sportiva Italiana (FMSI))
* Italian
Squash Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Squash (FIGS))
* Italian
Table Tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Tennistavolo (FITET))
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Italian Swimming Federation
The Italian Swimming Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Nuoto) (FIN), founded in 1899 is the principal Swimming Federation in Italy. It brings together more than 1200 clubs.
See also
* Italy national swimming team
* Italy at the World Aquati ...
(Italian: Federazione Italiana Nuoto (FIN))
* Italian
Taekwondo
''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Taekwondo (FITA))
* Italian
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Tennis (FIT))
* Italian
Triathlon
A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the d ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Triathlon (FITRI))
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Italian Volleyball Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (FIPAV))
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Italian Winter Sports Federation
The Italian Winter Sports Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali; FISI), is the winter sports federation for Italy. Part of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), it deals with all federations conducting sports for the Wint ...
(Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali) (FISI)
Associate Sport Disciplines (DSA)
* Italian
Sport Climbing
Sport climbing (or Bolted climbing) is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors (or bolts), permanently fixed into the rock for climber protection, in which a rope that is attached to the climber is clipped into the anchors ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Arrampicata Sportiva Italiana (FASI))
* Italian
Billiards
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
There are three major subdivisions ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo (FIBiS))
* Italian
Bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), thoug ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Bowling (FISB))
* Italian
Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Gioco Bridge (FIGB))
* Italian
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Cricket Italiana (FCrI))
* Italian
Checkers
Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Dama (FID))
* Federazione Italiana Giochi e Sport Tradizionali (FIGEST)
* Federazione Itailana Sport Orientamento (FISO)
* Federazione Italiana Palla Tamburello (FIPT)
* Federazione Italiana Pallapugno (FIPAP)
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Italian Chess Federation The Italian Chess Federation ( it, Federazione Scacchistica Italiana; FSI) is the governing chess organization of Italy. It is a member of the Italian National Olympic Committee ( CONI) and FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Ches ...
(Italian: Federazione Scacchistica Italiana (FSI))
* Federazione Italiana Canottaggio Sedile Fisso (FICSF)
* Federazione Italiana Wushu-Kung Fu (FIWuK)
* Federazione Italiana Kickboxing MuayThai Savate Shoot Boxe Sambo (FEDERKOMBAT)
* Italian
Twirling
Twirling is a form of object manipulation where an object is twirled by one or two hands, the fingers or by other parts of the body. Twirling practice manipulates the object in circular or near circular patterns. It can also be done indirectly by ...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Twirling (FITw))
* Federazione Italiana Turismo Equestre Trec - Ante (FITETREC-ANTE)
Promotional Organizations
* Association of Culture, Sport and Leisure Time (Italian: Associazione di cultura, sport e tempo libero (A.C.S.I.))
* Alleanza Sportiva Italiana (A.S.I.)
* Centro Nazionale Sportivo Libertas (C.N.S. Libertas)
* Centro Sportivo Educativo Nazionale (C.S.E.N.)
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Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano (C.U.S.I.)
* Movimento Sport Azzurro Italia (MSP Italia)
* Unione Sportiva ACLI (U.S.ACLI)
* Associazione Italiana Cultura Sport (A.I.C.S.)
* Centri Sportivi Aziendali Industriali (C.S.A.IN.)
* Centro Sportivo Italiano (C.S.I.)
* Ente Nazionale Democratico di Azione Sociale (E.N.D.A.S.)
* Polisportive Giovanili Salesiane (P.G.S.)
* Unione Italiana Sport Per tutti (U.I.S.P.)
Betterment Organizations
* Associazione Medaglie d'Oro al Valore Atletico (A.M.O.V.A.)
* Associazione Nazionale Atleti Olimpici e Azzurri d'Italia (A.N.A.O.A.I.)
* Associazione Nazionale Promozione Sportiva nelle Comunità (A.N.P.S.C.)
* Italian National Olympic Academy (Italian: Accademia Olimpica Nazionale Italiana (A.O.N.I.))
* Association of CONI Pensioners (Italian: Associazione Pensionati CONI (A.Pe.C.))
* Collegio Nazionale Professori Educazione Fisica e Sportiva (CONAPEFS)
* Italian Sports Committee Against Drugs (Italiano: Comitato Italiano Sport Contro Droga (C.I.S.D.))
* Italian Committee for Fair Play (Italian: Comitato Nazionale Italiano per il Fair Play (C.N.I.F.P.))
* Federazione Italiana Dirigenti Sportivi (F.I.DI.S.)
* Federazione Italiana Educatori Fisici e Sportivi (F.I.E.F.S.)
* Unione Nazionale Veterani dello Sport (U.N.V.S.)
* Italian Sports Press Union (Italian: Unione Stampa Sportiva Italiana (U.S.S.I.))
* Unione Italiana Collezionisti Olimpici e Sportivi (U.I.C.O.S.)
* Associazione Nazionale Stelle al Merito Sportivo (A.N.S.M.E.S.)
* Federazione Italiana Sportiva Istituti Attività Educative (F.I.S.I.A.E.)
* Società per la Consulenenza e per l'Assistenza nell'Impiantistica Sportiva (S.C.A.I.S.)
* Special Olympics Italia (S.O.I.)
* Unione Nazionale Associazione Sportive Centenarie d'Italia (U.N.A.S.C.I.)
* Centro di Studi per l'Educazione Fisica e l'Attività Sportiva (CE.S.E.F.A.S.)
List of presidents
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*Monte Carlo
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(1914–1920)
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Carlo Montù (1920–1921)
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Francesco Mauro (1921–1923)
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Aldo Finzi (1923–1925)
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Lando Ferretti (1925–1928)
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Augusto Turati
Augusto Turati (16 April 1888 – 27 August 1955) was an Italian journalist and Fascist politician.
Born in Parma, after moving to Brescia as a young man, Turati worked on newspapers and became one of the editors at the liberal ''Provinc ...
(1928–1930)
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Iti Bacci (1930–1931)
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Leandro Arpinati
Leandro Arpinati (29 February 1892 – 22 April 1945) was an Italian politician.
Biography
Arpinati was born at Civitella di Romagna. Before World War I, he was originally an individualist-anarchist and, together with his friend Benito Mussolin ...
(1931–1933)
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Achille Starace
Achille Starace (; 18 August 1889 – 29 April 1945) was a prominent leader of Fascist Italy before and during World War II.
Early life and career
Starace was born in Sannicola, province of Lecce, in southern Apulia. His father was a wine and o ...
(1933–1939)
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Rino Parenti
Rino Parenti (13 July 1895 – 19 October 1953) was an Italian fascist leader.
Biography
Parenti was born in Milan on 13 July 1895. He was a non-commissioned officer during World War I. He became fascist in 1919 and participated in local squad ...
(1939–1940)
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Raffaele Manganiello (1940–1943)
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Alberto Bonacossa (1943)
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Giulio Onesti
Giulio Onesti (4 January 1912 - 11 December 1981) was an Italian sports director, that was president of the Italian National Olympic Committee
The Italian National Olympic Committee ( it, Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, CONI), founded i ...
(1944–1978)
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Franco Carraro (1978–1987)
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Arrigo Gattai (1987–1993)
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Mario Pescante (1993–1998)
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Bruno Grandi (1998–1999)
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Gianni Petrucci
Giovanni Petrucci (said Gianni; born 19 July 1945, in Rome) is an Italian sports director.
He is the current President of CONI for the fourth consecutive term, that will end after the Games of the XXX Olympiad of 2012. His career took place prim ...
(1999–2013)
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Giovanni Malagò (2013–present)
See also
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Italy at the Olympics
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Sandro Donati anti-doping advocate
References
External links
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National Olympic Committees
1914 establishments in Italy
Sports organizations established in 1914