{"title":"Sports goods and equipment market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/374-sports-goods-and-equipment","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"374","label":"Sports goods and equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 162 supply contracts for sports goods and equipment through award notices on TED; the 28 of them that state a value (17.3%) add up to €9.72 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €1.92 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to sports goods and equipment in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9506; all buyers, not only public ones), up 27.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 88 companies have won 259 public supply contracts for sports goods and equipment in Germany, in 132 award notices from 90 public buyers.","93.4% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Austria.","The five companies that win most often hold 50.6% of all awards.","37.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":259,"awardNotices":132,"winningCompanies":88,"publicBuyers":90,"awardsWithValue":61,"awardedValueEur":15768314,"localAwards":242,"foreignAwards":17,"top5Share":0.5057915057915058,"singleBidAwards":96,"awardsWithKnownBids":259,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":49,"awardNotices":38,"awardsWithValue":14,"awardedValueEur":2470546},{"year":2025,"awards":162,"awardNotices":55,"awardsWithValue":28,"awardedValueEur":9718115},{"year":2026,"awards":45,"awardNotices":36,"awardsWithValue":19,"awardedValueEur":3579653}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9506","label":"Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports, incl. table-tennis, or outdoor games, not specified or included in this chapter or elsewhere"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1507358372},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1524278182},{"year":2025,"valueEur":1922371839}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Germany — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €864 billion in 2025, 19.1% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":863609000000,"percentOfGdp":19.1,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":38,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Sports goods and equipment market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/374-sports-goods-and-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}