Next year the Austrian Lotteries will celebrate their 40th anniversary. Since the beginning, the company’s history has been inextricably linked to the promotion of sports in Austria.
With the special federal sports financing, laid down in the Gambling Act, more than 120 million euros flows annually from Austrian lottery funds to domestic sports. This makes the company by far the largest sponsor of popular and top sports in Austria. By dividing the amounts according to a special distribution key, not only the major umbrella associations but also the ÖFB and a total of around 1.8 million club members in 15,000 sports clubs benefit from popular sports.
The decades-long collaboration is also of great importance for top sport. The support here goes far beyond the funding from special federal sports funding: The Austrian Lotteries have been supporting the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC) since 1991 and contribute to optimal training conditions and support for athletes so that their sporting goals can be achieved. reaches.
The Austrian lotteries also play a central role for Paralympic sports. Since its founding in 1998, we have been a sponsor of the Austrian Paralympic Committee (ÖPC), contributing to the top performances of local disabled athletes who win medals at the Paralympic Games every two years.
The company has historically had a close relationship with the country’s most popular sport, as the Sport Toto, founded in 1949, is one of the two original lottery games, together with the “6 out of 45” lottery. The cooperation with the footballer election “Krone” has a tradition of three decades, and the Austrian Lotteries have supported the presentation of the “Young Stars” category since 2005. As recent years have shown, today’s talents often become tomorrow’s top performers.
Source: Krone
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