Envirometer Sports Clubs
This page shows the environmental impact and CO2 emissions of an average football club and an average tennis club based on the Envirometer graph and key figures.
Football Club
The pie chart below shows the distribution of the environmental impact. The biggest environmental impact of a football club consists of: transport of the members to reach the football club. Next are electricity, heating and transport of teams and supporters to away games. These three are about equally important. Waste, water and mobile equipment (such as lawn mowers) are much less important.
Key figures Football Club
The most interesting key figures from the Envirometer for an average football club can be found in the table below. After creating your own Envirometer, you can display the averages next to your own results for an easy comparison.
| Environmental aspect | Key figure | Average | Range | Unit |
| Electricity | electricity / floor area | 53 | 30 – 180 | kWh/m2 |
| electricity / club member | 70 | 35 – 115 | kWh/member | |
| Fuel | heating energy / building volume | 4,1 | 3 – 9 | m3 gas eq./m3 |
| Water | water / club member | 1229 | 550 – 1500 | litre/member |
| Waste | waste / club member | 10 | 4 – 16 | kg/member |
| Transport | travelling mileage / football team | 1840 | 650 – 5500 | km/team |
| CO2 | CO2 emission / club member (incl. transport) | 164 | kg CO2/member | |
| CO2 emission / club member (excl. transport) | 80 | kg CO2/member |
Tennis Club
The envirometer graph below shows that the biggest environmental impact of a tennis club is electricity, after which comes heating and then water. We have no insight in the amount of waste at tennis clubs and the environmental impact on transportation by members to the tennis club. The latter will make an important contribution to the environmental impact, as shown in the graph of the football clubs above.
The impact of gas consumption at tennis clubs is clearly lower than for football clubs, that’s because the association building is not or hardly used and heated in winter. Per member the amount of water used at a tennis club is about the same as football clubs. But tennis clubs use more water for spraying (the tennis courts). As this water evaporates and sinks into the soil it does not go to the sewer. As a result, the total environmental impact of water use is lower than at a football club.
Key figures Tennis Club
The most interesting statistics from the Envirometer for an average tennis club can be found in the table below. After creating your own Envirometer, you can display the averages next to your own results for an easy comparison.
| Environmental aspect | Key figure | Average | Range | Unit |
| Electricity | electricity / tennis court | 5000 | 2600 – 6500 | kWh/court |
| electricity / club member | 85 | 50 – 120 | kWh/member | |
| Fuel | heating energy / building volume | 2,3 | 1 – 4,4 | m3 gas eq./m3 |
| Water | water / club member | 1230 | 360 – 2200 | litre/member |
| Waste | waste / club member | 10 | 4 – 16 | kg/member |
| CO2 | CO2 emission / club member | 69 | 35 – 90 | kg CO2/member |
Source of these average Envirometers
Stimular Foundation has performed energy scans for many sporting clubs, both large and small. Based on sixteen football clubs and ten tennis clubs, Stimular has calculated the average environmental score for these sports clubs.
- For the football clubs figures about waste and transport were also reliable enough to be included.
- For the tennis clubs we have not been able to calculate averages for these themes.