The Italian National Olympic Committee (, CONI), founded in 1914 and a member of the

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; , CIO) is the international, non-governmental, sports governing body of the modern Olympic Games. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas, it is based i ...

(IOC), is responsible for the development and management of sports activity in Italy
Within Italy, CONI recognizes 48 national sports federations, 15 associate sports disciplines, 14 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 (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) *

Italian Basketball Federation The Italian Basketball Federation () 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 the country's two professional leagues, Lega B ...

(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 English bowls and French , with a common ancestry from anc ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Bocce (FIB)) * Italian

Boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Pugilistica Italiana (FPI)) * Italian

Cycling Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Ciclistica Italiana (FCI)) * Italian Equestrian Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Equestri (FISE)) * Italian

Fencing Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. It consists of three primary disciplines: Foil (fencing), foil, épée, and Sabre (fencing), sabre (also spelled ''saber''), each with its own blade and set of rules. Most competitive fe ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Scherma (FIS)) * Italian

Hockey ''Hockey'' is a family of List of stick sports, stick sports where two opposing teams use hockey sticks to propel a ball or disk into a goal. There are many types of hockey, and the individual sports vary in rules, numbers of players, apparel, ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Hockey (FIH)) *

Italian Football Federation The Italian Football Federation (, ; FIGC ), known colloquially as (), is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano, the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence. It manages a ...

(FIGC - Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio) * Italian

Gymnastics Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring Balance (ability), balance, Strength training, strength, Flexibility (anatomy), flexibility, agility, Motor coordination, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movem ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Ginnastica d'Italia (FGdI)) * Italian

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

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

Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Handball (FIGH)) * Italian

Motorcycle A motorcycle (motorbike, bike; uni (if one-wheeled); trike (if three-wheeled); quad (if four-wheeled)) is a lightweight private 1-to-2 passenger personal motor vehicle Steering, steered by a Motorcycle handlebar, handlebar from a saddle-style ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Motociclistica Italiana (FMI)) * Italian

Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

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 a ...

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

Italian Rugby Federation The Italian Rugby Federation () 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 the Six Nations have two seats ...

(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, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ...

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) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Tennistavolo (FITET)) *

Italian Swimming Federation The Italian Swimming Federation () (FIN), founded in 1899 is the governing, organizing, and controlling body of swimming and all other aquatic sports in Italy. The organization is affiliated with the Italian National Olympic Committee and defines ...

(Italian: Federazione Italiana Nuoto (FIN)) * Italian

Taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Taekwondo (FITA)) * Italian

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

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 ...

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

Italian Volleyball Federation The Italian Volleyball Federation (, 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 members as of 2022. This is a notable inc ...

(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 type of free climbing in the sport of rock climbing where the Lead climbing, lead climber clips their climbing rope, rope — via a quickdraw — into pre-drilled in-situ bolt (climbing), bolts for their ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Arrampicata Sportiva Italiana (FASI)) * Italian

Billiards Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . Cue sports, a category of stic ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo (FIBiS)) * Italian

Bowling Bowling is a Throwing sports#Target sports, target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a bowling ball, ball toward Bowling pin, pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). Most references to ''bowling'' are ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Bowling (FISB)) * Italian

Bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Gioco Bridge (FIGB)) * Italian

Cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

Federation (Italian: Federazione Cricket Italiana (FCrI)) * Italian

Checkers Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English), is a group of Abstract strategy game, strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game ...

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 (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 (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.)

Honours

Orders

The Golden Collar of Sports Merit (''Collare d'Oro al Merito Sportivo'') is the highest honor awarded by the Italian National Olympic Committee. The award was created in 1995. *

CONI Coni may refer to: *Cuneo, Italy *Coni, Azerbaijan *Italian National Olympic Committee The Italian National Olympic Committee (, CONI), founded in 1914 and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is responsible for the develop ...

: Golden Collar of Sports Merit: ''Collare d'Oro al Merito Sportivo''. Among the other honors of the Italian National Olympic Committee, in addition to the above-mentioned, we find: *Star of Sports Merit: ''Stella al Merito Sportivo'' *Medal of Athletic Valor: ''Medaglia al Valore Atletico'' *Palma of Technical Merit: ''Palma al Merito Tecnico''

List of presidents

* Carlo Compans de Brichanteau (1914–1920) * Carlo Montù (1920–1921) * Francesco Mauro (1921–1923) * Aldo Finzi (1923–1925) * Lando Ferretti (1925–1928) * Augusto Turati (1928–1930) * Iti Bacci (1930–1931) * Leandro Arpinati (1931–1933) * Achille Starace (1933–1939) * Rino Parenti (1939–1940) * Raffaele Manganiello (1940–1943) * Alberto Bonacossa (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 (1993–1998) * Bruno Grandi (1998–1999) * Gianni Petrucci (1999–2013) *

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

(2013–present)

References

External links

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