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 Swiss ...

(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) *

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 racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Badminton (FIBa)) * Italian Baseball and Softball Federation (FIBS - Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball) *

Italian Basketball Federation The Italian Basketball Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro; FIP) is the governing body of basketball in Italy. It is based in Rome. It organises national competitions in Italy and the Italian basketball leagues, which operate th ...

(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 predetermined ...

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 two ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Ciclistica Italiana (FCI)) * Italian

Equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: * Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...

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, s ...

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)) *

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. It ...

(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, shou ...

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 wi ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Golf (FIG)) * Italian

Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

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, cruising ...

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 impaire ...

Committee (Italian: Comitato Italiano Paralimpico (CIP)) * Italian

and

Skating Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates, and may refer to: Ice Skating *Ice skating, moving on ice by using ice skates **Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, ...

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 atta ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Canottaggio (FIC)) *

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 chosen cour ...

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 Squash may refer to: Sports * Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets * Squash (professional wrestling), an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling * Squash tennis, a game similar to squash but pla ...

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)) *

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 Aquatics ...

(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. T ...

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 ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Tennis (FIT)) * Italian

Triathlon A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of Swimming (sport), swimming, Cycle sport, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the t ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Triathlon (FITRI)) *

Italian Volleyball Federation The Italian Volleyball Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Pallavolo, FIPAV), is the governing body for Volleyball in Italy since 1946. The FIPAV has reported a significant increase in its membership numbers, with over 300,000 registered member ...

(Italian: Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (FIPAV)) * Italian Winter Sports Federation (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 to ...

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 of ...

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), though ...

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 striki ...

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) *

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 World Chess Federation). Administration * Presid ...

(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.) *

Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano The Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano (CUSI), (English: ''Italian University Sports Centre)'' is an association that promotes sports activity at the university level, and is recognized by the Italian National Olympic Committee. It is headqua ...

(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

* Carlo Compans de Brichanteau (1914–1920) * Carlo Montù (1920–1921) *

Francesco Mauro Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name " Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (disambiguation), sev ...

(1921–1923) *

Aldo Finzi Aldo Finzi may refer to: * Aldo Finzi (composer) (1897–1945), Italian classical music composer *Aldo Finzi (politician) Aldo Finzi (Legnago, 20 April 1891 – Rome, 24 March 1944) was a Jewish-Italian politician and soldier. Finzi started out ...

(1923–1925) *

Lando Ferretti Lando Ferretti (2 May 1895 in Pontedera, Province of Pisa – 8 January 1977 in Rome) was an Italian journalist, politician and sports administrator. Journalism After studying law and letters at the University of Pisa Ferretti became a journalis ...

(1925–1928) *

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 ''Provincia ...

(1928–1930) * Iti Bacci (1930–1931) *

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 Mussol ...

(1931–1933) *

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 oi ...

(1933–1939) * Rino Parenti (1939–1940) * Raffaele Manganiello (1940–1943) *

Alberto Bonacossa Alberto Bonacossa (24 August 1883 – 31 December 1953) was an Italian tennis player. He competed in the men's singles event at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Z ...

(1943) * Giulio Onesti (1944–1978) *

Franco Carraro Franco Carraro (born 6 December 1939) is an Italian sport manager and politician. Career Carraro was born on 6 December 1939 in Padua, at the time Kingdom of Italy. He worked in many high-profile roles in the public and private sectors. He ...

(1978–1987) * Arrigo Gattai (1987–1993) *

Mario Pescante Mario Pescante (born July 7, 1938 in Avezzano) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He is a former member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Biography Pescante began his career as a university sports manager and was appointed s ...

(1993–1998) *

Bruno Grandi Bruno Grandi (9 May 1934 – 13 September 2019) was an Italian sportsman who served as president of the FIG (Federation Internationale de Gymnastique) from 1996 to 2016 and was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 2000 to 2004. He ...

(1998–1999) * Gianni Petrucci (1999–2013) *

Giovanni Malagò Giovanni Malagò (born 13 March 1959) is an Italian businessman, sports manager and former futsal player. He is the current president of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI). Since 1 January 2019 he is a member of the International Ol ...

(2013–present)

References

External links

* {{Authority control ** National Olympic Committees 1914 establishments in Italy Sports organizations established in 1914