Sports in San Marino

What sports are played in San Marino?

The Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Sammarinese (CONS) lists its federations on its site, alphabetically and without a printed count. The list includes Atletica Leggera, Automotoristica, Baseball Softball, Bocce, Calcio, Ciclismo, Judo Lotta Aikido San Marino e Discipline Associate, Motociclismo, Nuoto, Pallacanestro, Pallavolo, Sport Invernali, Tennis, Tiro a Segno and Tiro a Volo.^[3] Panorama Sport Web, the committee's news portal, gives a figure: it describes itself as dedicated “allo sport sammarinese e all'attività delle 34 Federazioni Sportive affiliate”.^[27]

The sports law places those bodies under the CONS. Article 6(1) of the coordinated text establishes the CONS as the body that “riunisce, raggruppa, coordina e vigila su tutte le Federazioni Sportive Nazionali (FSN) e le Discipline Sportive Associate (DSA) affiliate.”^[5]

Olympedia's medals-by-sport table for SMR has rows in shooting and wrestling.^[1]

What is the most popular spectator sport in San Marino?

No measured ranking of spectator sports in San Marino was retrieved, and no attendance or registration figure was retrieved from any federation or league. One proxy was retrieved: broadcaster carriage. The Federazione Sammarinese Giuoco Calcio (FSGC) announced on 25 September 2026 that the national team's UEFA Nations League match against Finland, set for 18:00 on 26 September 2026, would be broadcast live and free-to-air on San Marino RTV from 17:55.^[12] That is the federation's account of one fixture; it carries no audience figure.

How is sport organised in San Marino?

The name. The site of the Consiglio Grande e Generale, the legislature, gives its heading as “Repubblica di San Marino - Consiglio Grande e Generale”.^[6] The English text of Constitutional Law no. 144 of 30 October 2003 that it publishes is headed “REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO”.^[7]

The law. The legislature's collection of coordinated texts lists, under sport, the “Testo coordinato Legge 30 settembre 2015 n.149 - Disciplina dell'attività sportiva”, updated to 13 May 2024.^[6] The CONS publishes the coordinated text on its documents page; the copy's heading states that it is “Testo coordinato con le modifiche derivanti da: Legge 12 dicembre 2018 n.167 Legge 22 dicembre 2021 n.207 (aggiornato al 13 maggio 2024)”.^[4][5] The legislature's site carries a disclaimer that documents taken from it lack official authenticity.^[6]

Article 1(1) states: “La presente legge riconosce e sancisce il diritto dei cittadini alla pratica sportiva ed all'attività motoria”, and goes on to describe that practice as a right of human, social, educational and cultural promotion. Article 3(1) establishes a Commissione Nazionale per lo Sport to coordinate sporting initiatives and events. Article 6(1) provides that, for the implementation of sports-policy programmes and the promotion of sport at every level, “è istituito, sotto la vigilanza della Segreteria di Stato con delega allo Sport, il CONS, Ente pubblico ed autonomo, dotato di personalità giuridica”. Article 6(3) states that the CONS “non può essere coinvolto in attività che siano in contrasto con le direttive del Comitato Olimpico Internazionale” and “rimane impegnato a preservare la propria autonomia nella piena osservanza della Carta Olimpica del CIO.”^[5]

The Olympic committee. The CONS states: “Il 3 aprile 1959 i Capitani Reggenti, Marino Benedetto BELLUZZI e Agostino BIORDI, con proprio Decreto, sanzionano la nascita del CONS”. It also states: “Il Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Sammarinese (CONS) è riconosciuto dal Comitato Olimpico Internazionale(CIO) dal 1959”.^[2] Those are the committee's own dates. Olympedia gives two others: “The National Olympic Committee of San Marino was formed on 16 April 1959, and recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 25 May of the same year, at the IOC Session in München.”^[1] The CONS's history also refers to sports legislation promulgated in 1981; it gives no law number.^[2]

Football. The FSGC's history states: “La FSGC vede la luce nel 1931.” It adds: “Nel 1988, dopo due anni di affiliazione provvisoria, prima la UEFA e poi la FIFA concedono alla FSGC l'affiliazione definitiva.”^[8]

What are the main domestic leagues and competitions?

Football. The FSGC's competitions page links three national competitions: the Campionato Sammarinese, the Coppa Titano and the Supercoppa Sammarinese.^[26] Its history records that the first Campionato Sammarinese began in 1985, and that the Coppa Titano officially became the national cup in 1980.^[8] The Campionato's fixture pages, with fixtures dated from 28 August 2026, name Cailungo, Cosmos, Domagnano, Faetano, Fiorentino, Folgore, Juvenes Dogana, La Fiorita, Libertas, Murata, Pennarossa, San Giovanni, San Marino Academy, Tre Fiori, Tre Penne and Virtus.^[9] The federation's news reported the fourth matchday on 17 to 20 September 2026.^[10] It also runs a futsal championship, the Campionato Sammarinese di Futsal, on which it published reports in September 2026.^[25]

UEFA access. The FSGC's history gives the access in its own words. It records that with the new millennium the league winner was allowed by UEFA to play in the preliminary rounds of the UEFA Cup, and states: “Dall'annata 2006-2007 arrivano i Preliminari di UEFA Champions League.” It records that from 2007-08 the Coppa Titano winner also gained access to a preliminary round of a European cup. It then states: “A partire dalla stagione 2022-23 lo Scudetto viene assegnato alla squadra vincitrice della stagione regolare, con i play-off deputati ad assegnare uno degli altri due pass europei, che adesso schiudono alla neonata UEFA Europa Conference League.”^[8] UEFA's access list for 2026/27 could not be read in retrievable form.

San Marino Calcio in Italian competition. The Italian Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (LND) publishes the Serie D groups on its own site. It lists a club named “San Marino” in Girone F of its Serie D groups for 2025/2026, published on 4 August 2025, and states that the group draws on five regions “oltre allo Stato di San Marino”.^[14] Its Serie D groups for 2026/2027, published on 6 August 2026, list no club under that name.^[15] The LND's regional committee for Emilia-Romagna, in its Comunicato Ufficiale n.5 of 15 July 2026, lists “SAN MARINO” among the clubs that had acquired the right to take part in the Eccellenza championship for 2026-2027, and states that the list could change after the registration procedures.^[18] San Marino RTV reported, in an undated article retrieved on 26 September 2026, that San Marino Calcio had taken a place in the Eccellenza championship for 2026-2027 after completing registration through the LND's online portal, and that its home matches would again be played at the stadio Calbi in Cattolica; that is the broadcaster's report.^[16] Serie D and the Eccellenza are Italian competitions, not San Marino's own league.

How has San Marino performed at the Olympic Games?

These figures are Olympedia's, from its tables for the code SMR. Olympedia prints no totals row under either medal table.^[1]

Editions. Olympedia's participation table has Summer rows for 1960 and for every Summer Games from 1968 to 2024, and Winter rows for 1976, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, and every Winter Games from 2002 to 2026. Its narrative states: “San Marino has competed at 15 Olympic Games – in 1960, and in all editions since 1968”, and that San Marino “has competed at the Olympic Winter Games since 1976, missing only the editions of 1980 and 1998.” The table also carries a 2024 Summer row; both are reported as Olympedia prints them.^[1] The CONS states that since its founding the committee has taken part in every Summer Games “tranne a Tokyo nel 1964”.^[2] There is no SMR row for 1906 and no art-competition row, so neither the 1906 Intercalated Games nor the 1912–1948 art competitions are in these rows.^[1]

Medal rows. The only medals-by-Games row typed Olympic Games is 2020 Summer: 0 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, with a row total of 3. The medals-by-sport rows are shooting, 0, 1, 1, and wrestling, 0, 0, 1. There are no pre-war medal rows; the 2020 row is the only post-1992 one.^[1]

2020. Olympedia's narrative states: “Myles Amine won a bronze medal in the men's freestyle wrestling light-heavyweight class, and shooters Alessandra Perilli and Gian Marco Berti shared a silver in the mixed team trap event. Two days before, Perilli had also won a bronze in the women's trap.”^[1]

Youth Olympic Games rows, for 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2024, are typed separately and are not included in the rows above.^[1]

Which athletes and teams are internationally recognised?

Olympic medals. The three 2020 medals, in wrestling and trap shooting, are the ones Olympedia's narrative attributes to Myles Amine, Alessandra Perilli and Gian Marco Berti.^[1]

Football. The FSGC's history dates the national team's debut in European Championship qualifying to 1990: “Il debutto nel circuito delle qualificazioni europee risale al 1990.” It dates the debut in World Cup qualifying to 1992.^[8] UEFA's report of 19 November 2024 on the 2024/25 Nations League gives San Marino's League D results as San Marino 1-0 Liechtenstein on 5 September, Gibraltar 1-0 San Marino on 10 October, San Marino 1-1 Gibraltar on 15 November and Liechtenstein 1-3 San Marino on 18 November 2024, and lists San Marino among the teams “Promoted to League C”.^[13] The FSGC's national-team page records these 2026 friendlies: San Marino 1-2 Faroe Islands on 28 March, San Marino 0-0 Andorra on 31 March, San Marino 1-2 Bangladesh on 5 June and Azerbaijan 2-1 San Marino on 9 June. It lists UEFA Nations League 2025-27 fixtures, marked Group C1, against Finland at 18:00 on 26 September, Albania on 29 September and 6 October, Belarus on 3 October and 12 November, and Finland on 15 November 2026.^[11]

What major international competitions has San Marino hosted?

Games of the Small States of Europe. The CONS's list of editions includes San Marino 1985, San Marino 2001 and San Marino 2017.^[21] It dates the 1985 Games from 23 to 26 May 1985 and states: “8 Paesi partecipanti con 222 atleti in 8 discipline sportive”.^[22] It dates the ninth edition, San Marino 2001, from 28 May to 2 June 2001.^[23] Its page for the seventeenth edition, San Marino 2017, gives no dates. None of the three pages names a venue.^[24] The same list includes Monaco 2027.^[21]

Motorcycle racing. MotoGP's event page for its 2026 round names it the “RED BULL GRAND PRIX OF SAN MARINO AND THE RIMINI RIVIERA”, dates it 11 to 13 September 2026 and names the circuit as “Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli”. It describes the circuit as “Close to the city of Rimini” and built in 1972.^[17] The event had finished by 26 September 2026. No FIM record of the venue could be retrieved.

Formula 1. Formula 1's results archive, which is the championship's commercial site and not the FIA's record, has result pages for the San Marino Grand Prix of 3 May 1981 and for that of 23 April 2006, the latter under the title “FORMULA 1™ GRAN PREMIO FOSTER'S DI SAN MARINO 2006”. On both it prints the venue as “Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, San Marino”.^[19][20] No FIA record of the venue could be retrieved.

What are San Marino's main sporting rivalries?

Liechtenstein, football. The two sides met twice in League D of the 2024/25 UEFA Nations League; UEFA's report gives the results as San Marino 1-0 Liechtenstein on 5 September 2024 and Liechtenstein 1-3 San Marino on 18 November 2024.^[13] That is UEFA's record of two fixtures. No head-to-head count from either federation or from UEFA was retrieved, and no source retrieved names the fixture as a rivalry.

What is the role of school and university sport?

Article 2 of the sports law, headed “Sport e Scuola”, provides in paragraph 1: “Lo Stato favorisce l'educazione e la formazione fisica nella Scuola di ogni ordine e grado, valorizzandone i relativi programmi ed avvalendosi di personale insegnante qualificato.” Paragraph 2 lists the forms of collaboration between schools and the CONS that the State promotes, among them more hours of physical education and “l'organizzazione e lo svolgimento di manifestazioni sportive studentesche”. Article 6(4) gives the CONS the aim of promoting Olympic principles in sport and education, including through programmes for schools of every order and grade.^[5]

The CONS's documents page lists a framework agreement between education, sport, health and the CONS, the criteria and requirements for a student-athlete project, and a self-regulation code for schools.^[4]

Were any sports invented in San Marino?

None of the sources read — the CONS's history, the FSGC's history and the coordinated text of the sports law — claims that a sport was invented or codified in San Marino.^[2][8][5] The coordinated text's article headings run from Article 1 to Article 62; none concerns a national sport.^[5]