A sports center is a place that has several sports facilities recognized as a sports institute that allows a wide variety of sports and exercises to be carried out.

Although not all of them are equipped with the same facilities, it is common for them to have:.

Throughout the century, the initial facilities of the municipalities, prepared only for the practice of football and very few other sports, evolved as a concept, until reaching sports centers, with the idea of ​​concentrating the greatest number of sports facilities in a single venue.

The management of sports centers is usually public, governed by the sports or culture areas of the City Councils.