Work in sport

Professional work comprises work in the field of sports programmes and includes the planning, organisation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of sports training.  Professional work in sport also includes individual instruction and courses in sports disciplines that have an officially recognised competitive system.

Such work may be carried out by sports workers who are registered in the relevant registers, subject to fulfilling the conditions laid down in the Sports Act (education or professional qualification).

Forms of work

Possible forms of work:

• Professional work in sport (entry in the register of professionally educated and professionally qualified sports workers)
• Private work in sport (entry in the register of private sports workers)
• Professional athlete (entry in the register of professional athletes)

Employment of top athletes and professional staff in the public sector

Behind the medals and smiles stand people who need stable conditions in order to continue on their journey. The employment of top athletes and professional staff in the public sector is a project through which we ensure that our sporting heroes enjoy both financial and professional stability.

The state enables the employment of top athletes and key professional staff in the public sector to support top-level sport and promote Slovenia.

National and municipal discipline-specific sports schools

Through a network of national discipline-specific sports schools, organised by national sports federations, we aim to provide high-quality sports education for children and young people focused on high-quality and top-level sport. This ensures the operation of appropriate programmes at national sports schools of those national sports federations in individual and team sports that are on the programme of the next Winter or Summer Olympic Games. These programmes involve the systematic care of young athletes on their way to achieving top results.

By co-financing municipal discipline-specific sports schools, we enable those municipalities which already, within the framework of their municipal annual sports programmes, co-finance the salaries of professionally qualified staff working with young people in local sports organisations to recover part of the costs of this municipal programme in the form of partial reimbursement. Funding municipal discipline-specific sports schools represents a systemic solution for improving the quality of professional work with young people, as it allows municipalities to provide more stable employment for professional staff in clubs operating in the local sport environment. This measure strengthens the social security of sports professionals, reduces the level of precarious work in sport and enables clubs to develop professional staff in the long-term. Additionally, this measure strengthens the professionalisation of sport at the local level, improves conditions for young athletes and ensures the sustainability, continuity and professionalism of sports work in municipalities, forming a key foundation for the national system for the development of sporting talent.