How many gyms and sports clubs are in Saudi Arabia?
Gyms, fitness centres and sports clubs.
8,606
active registrations list gyms & sports clubs activities — 0.6% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
8,606 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list gyms & sports clubs activities as of 16 September 2026 — 0.6% of all classified registrations, the 60th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
1,866 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +18.2% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (3,096), Jeddah (1,433) and Makkah (504) lead. Relative to its size, Khobar is the most concentrated: gyms and sports clubs make up 1.5× the share they hold nationally.
58.7% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 60,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 8,606
- 0.6% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 1,866
- +18.2% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 58.7%
- 5,055 of 8,606
- Median company capital
- SAR 60k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where gyms and sports clubs are registered
Column height: gyms and sports clubs by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh3,0961.2×
- Jeddah1,4331.5×
- Makkah5041.2×
- Dammam3530.9×
- Madinah3110.9×
- Khobar2891.5×
- Taif1801.0×
- Buraydah1330.6×
- Tabuk1240.9×
- Khamis Mushait1210.8×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Gyms & sports clubs: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Men's gyms and sports centers3,033Activity code 931221
- Women's gyms and sports centers1,824Activity code 931222
- Sports clubs1,630Activity code 931211
- Bowling alleys684Activity code 931212
- Marine clubs410Activity code 931217
- Shooting clubs368Activity code 931216
- Flying clubs277Activity code 931231
- Darts184Activity code 931233
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC4,86256.5%
- Sole proprietorship3,54241.2%
- JSC1441.7%
- SJSC340.4%
- General partnership110.1%
- Foreign branch80.1%
- Limited partnership4<0.1%
- GCC branch1<0.1%
Common questions
How many gyms and sports clubs are there in Saudi Arabia?
8,606 active commercial registrations list gyms & sports clubs activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most gyms and sports clubs?
Riyadh, with 3,096 — 36% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 1,433.
Is the number of gyms and sports clubs growing?
1,866 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +18.2% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in gyms & sports clubs in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in gyms & sports clubs?
We confirm the licence conditions for your exact activity code, then take you from MISA licence to commercial registration and municipal licence.