NAICS 713992Canadian industry · 6-digitlocal market

Other sport facilities

This Canadian industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other Canadian industry, primarily engaged in operating other sport facilities not elsewhere classified. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA
607
with employees
Under 10 employeesA
46%
most common size: 10–19
01

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–413422%
5–914724%
10–1916928%
20–4911419%
50–99376%
100–19961%
200–4990—
500+0—

Of 607 Canadian establishments with employees, 46% have fewer than ten — weighted toward mid-sized establishments.

Where they areA

Ontario19532%
Quebec13923%
British Columbia9315%
Alberta6511%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation, US · opened 2020
81.3%
1 year
70.3%
3 years
57.1%
5 years
40.8%
10 years
opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

02

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 713, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

Facility businesses — gyms, golf, ski, marinas, entertainment centres — with high fixed cost and revenue that follows weather, seasons and discretionary income. Gambling is a licensed exception.

Who sets the price
The operator, within what a local catchment will pay.
The software it runs on
Membership and class booking, tee sheets, point of sale, gaming management.
03

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 71399 Other amusement and recreation industries covers it.

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 71399
Kids & Youth Activity Software — Sports, Classes, Camps & PlayOne thing must be true
binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability
Incumbent Sports: PlayMetrics (Stack Sports, SportsEngine; Genstar Capital). Classes: Jackrabbit Technologies and iClassPro (founder-owned). Camps: CampMinder, ACTIVE Network. Indoor play: ROLLER (see 713110)

This is the 'kids software' record: software sold to anyone who runs paid activities for children and teenagers — and in every one of its four segments an owner already sits on the customer base. The buyer is the provider, not the parent: (1) youth sports clubs, leagues, teams and tournaments; (2) day, summer and overnight camps; (3) class and enrichment providers — gymnastics, swim, dance, cheer, martial arts, art, music and STEM/coding schools — who need class scheduling, enrolment, recurring tuition billing and attendance; and (4) indoor playgrounds, play cafés and kids' entertainment venues, who need timed bookings, digital waivers, memberships and birthday-party sales. The NAICS code stays 71399 (other amusement and recreation) because sports clubs and play venues sit there, but the same vendors sell across camps (7212) and sports and arts instruction (611620, 611610). Parents pay most of the fees, so pricing is usually per-registration or payment-processing rather than a seat licence. Sports clubs and leagues — rolled up. In June 2025 Genstar Capital bought PlayMetrics (Morrisville, North Carolina; founded 2017; about 2,500 clubs, tournaments, leagues and governing bodies across 10+ sports) from Blue Star Innovation Partners and PSG and combined it with Stack Sports, which Genstar has controlled since 2017 [B, Weil; Private Equity Wire]. Stack Sports alone claims about 50,000 sports organisations, 100+ national governing partners and over $1 billion of payments a year, and runs Sports Connect — the registration system behind Little League and AYSO logos on its site [C, vendor]. Then on 1 May 2026 PlayMetrics completed the purchase of substantially all of SportsEngine from Versant, the Comcast cable spin-off — SportsEngine HQ, Motion, Tourney, Play and AES, terms undisclosed [A, Versant release; B, TheWrap]. SportsEngine (the former Sport Ngin, bought by NBC Sports in 2016) claims 16 million athletes, 1.2 million teams and 45,000 organisations; an insider had put it at $400–500M before the sale [B, TheWrap]. One private-equity group therefore now holds the governing-body registration layer, the club operating system and the largest legacy platform at once. Below it sit two other sponsor-backed platforms: TeamSnap (Waud Capital majority since April 2021; about 25 million users claimed) [A, release] and LeagueApps ($35M raised by 2021, then an undisclosed 'significant' equity investment led by Accel-KKR with Arctos Partners in October 2024) [A/B]. GameChanger, owned by DICK'S Sporting Goods since 2016, is the one with a disclosed number: about $100M of revenue in 2024 and $150M projected for 2025 [B, Pittsburgh Business Times] — but it earns it from parents' streaming and stats subscriptions, not from clubs. Camps are a separate, older layer: CampMinder, UltraCamp (Niles, Michigan), CampBrain (Ontario, ~30 years), ACTIVE Network's Camp & Class Manager (Global Payments since a $1.2B deal in 2017 [B, Kirkland]), Sawyer for Business (≈$20M venture-funded, now a DaySmart brand) and CourseStorm — mostly small, mostly founder-run, and sticky because a camp's health forms, cabin assignments and returning-family records live there. Classes and enrichment — founder-run leaders, a roll-up arriving. Two private, never-venture-funded vendors lead the after-school class segment: Jackrabbit Technologies (Charlotte, North Carolina area; since 2004; dance, gymnastics, swim, cheer and music; a Certified B Corporation) [C, vendor] and iClassPro (Longview, Texas; since 2008; gymnastics, cheer, swim and dance; '100 million class and event registrations') [C, vendor]. Neither discloses funding or revenue. Around them: Pike13, now owned by Jonas Software (Constellation Software) — its own footer reads '© Pike13 Inc. & Jonas Software' [C] — selling to sports, performing-arts and education businesses (1,700+ claimed); DaySmart, private-equity owned (LLR Partners and Parthenon Capital growth recapitalisation, October 2019 [A, LLR]), which bought Sawyer for Business in November 2023 [B, Fenwick] and now groups Dash (facility, league and booking software for sports and rec centres), TeamUp and Sawyer under 'DaySmart Recreation & Fitness' [C, vendor]; Amilia (Montréal, 2009), which raised $35M led by Vertu Capital in May 2025 after a $30M round led by the Canadian Business Growth Fund in 2022 and serves YMCAs, JCCs, parks departments, camps and after-school programmes across 6,600 facilities [B, BetaKit; A, CNW]; Upper Hand (Indianapolis; sports-training facilities; $4M by its 2018 Series A, then an undisclosed oversubscribed round led by Lometa Capital Partners and Park Ten Capital in January 2023) [A, vendor releases]; and Omnify ('the modern OS for programs, camps and parties', 45+ countries claimed) [C]. Dance is the most fragmented niche: Akada, a 30-year family business, told customers in May 2026 that it is 'joining Studio Pro' and will move them there, with Akada supported through 2027 [C, Akada help centre] — a small consolidation, not a funded one. Indoor play — owned by the attractions vendors. Indoor playgrounds and play cafés buy the same stack as family entertainment centres: ROLLER (Melbourne; US$50M led by Insight Partners in November 2023; 3,500+ venues) lists 'Playcenters and Softplay' as an industry and sells parties, waivers and memberships [C, vendor; funding per the 713110 record]. That segment is researched in 713110-attractions-and-fec-software and is only cross-referenced here. How this differs from the neighbours: 713110 (attractions and FECs) is ticketing and POS for venues, including large kids' play centres — the play-café vendors live there; 6116 (driving, music and skills instruction) is a services market screen of lesson businesses themselves, not their software, and adult skills dominate it; 624410 (childcare centre management — Brightwheel, Procare) is licensed daycare with ratios, subsidies and daily reports, so Brightwheel is excluded here; 713940 (fitness studio management — Mindbody, ABC Fitness) is adult class-pack and membership booking; 6117 (tutoring and coaching software) covers academic tutoring centres. This record is the child-facing activity provider: seasons, terms and sessions, guardian accounts, medical and consent forms, waivers, sibling discounts and parent communication. The cheap and free end is crowded too: TeamLinkt (free to start, 3,500+ organisations claimed), Jersey Watch (2,800+), Thapos, GameSheet (hockey and lacrosse scoring, Newmarket, Ontario) and Hello Club for adult clubs all compete on price against payment-fee-funded platforms. Incumbent vulnerability decides it: sports registration is held by one private-equity group with the governing-body contracts; camps by sticky, decades-old specialists; classes by two founder-owned leaders plus DaySmart and Jonas as consolidators; indoor play by the FEC vendors. The cross-segment idea — one parent account across sports, classes, camps and parties — was Sawyer's marketplace thesis, and it ended inside DaySmart.

NAICS 7139916 vendors namedOpen →
04

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Sold across the wider branch

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 71399 Other amusement and recreation industries
Kids & Youth Activity Software — Sports, Classes, Camps & PlayOne thing must be true
binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability
Incumbent Sports: PlayMetrics (Stack Sports, SportsEngine; Genstar Capital). Classes: Jackrabbit Technologies and iClassPro (founder-owned). Camps: CampMinder, ACTIVE Network. Indoor play: ROLLER (see 713110)

This is the 'kids software' record: software sold to anyone who runs paid activities for children and teenagers — and in every one of its four segments an owner already sits on the customer base. The buyer is the provider, not the parent: (1) youth sports clubs, leagues, teams and tournaments; (2) day, summer and overnight camps; (3) class and enrichment providers — gymnastics, swim, dance, cheer, martial arts, art, music and STEM/coding schools — who need class scheduling, enrolment, recurring tuition billing and attendance; and (4) indoor playgrounds, play cafés and kids' entertainment venues, who need timed bookings, digital waivers, memberships and birthday-party sales. The NAICS code stays 71399 (other amusement and recreation) because sports clubs and play venues sit there, but the same vendors sell across camps (7212) and sports and arts instruction (611620, 611610). Parents pay most of the fees, so pricing is usually per-registration or payment-processing rather than a seat licence. Sports clubs and leagues — rolled up. In June 2025 Genstar Capital bought PlayMetrics (Morrisville, North Carolina; founded 2017; about 2,500 clubs, tournaments, leagues and governing bodies across 10+ sports) from Blue Star Innovation Partners and PSG and combined it with Stack Sports, which Genstar has controlled since 2017 [B, Weil; Private Equity Wire]. Stack Sports alone claims about 50,000 sports organisations, 100+ national governing partners and over $1 billion of payments a year, and runs Sports Connect — the registration system behind Little League and AYSO logos on its site [C, vendor]. Then on 1 May 2026 PlayMetrics completed the purchase of substantially all of SportsEngine from Versant, the Comcast cable spin-off — SportsEngine HQ, Motion, Tourney, Play and AES, terms undisclosed [A, Versant release; B, TheWrap]. SportsEngine (the former Sport Ngin, bought by NBC Sports in 2016) claims 16 million athletes, 1.2 million teams and 45,000 organisations; an insider had put it at $400–500M before the sale [B, TheWrap]. One private-equity group therefore now holds the governing-body registration layer, the club operating system and the largest legacy platform at once. Below it sit two other sponsor-backed platforms: TeamSnap (Waud Capital majority since April 2021; about 25 million users claimed) [A, release] and LeagueApps ($35M raised by 2021, then an undisclosed 'significant' equity investment led by Accel-KKR with Arctos Partners in October 2024) [A/B]. GameChanger, owned by DICK'S Sporting Goods since 2016, is the one with a disclosed number: about $100M of revenue in 2024 and $150M projected for 2025 [B, Pittsburgh Business Times] — but it earns it from parents' streaming and stats subscriptions, not from clubs. Camps are a separate, older layer: CampMinder, UltraCamp (Niles, Michigan), CampBrain (Ontario, ~30 years), ACTIVE Network's Camp & Class Manager (Global Payments since a $1.2B deal in 2017 [B, Kirkland]), Sawyer for Business (≈$20M venture-funded, now a DaySmart brand) and CourseStorm — mostly small, mostly founder-run, and sticky because a camp's health forms, cabin assignments and returning-family records live there. Classes and enrichment — founder-run leaders, a roll-up arriving. Two private, never-venture-funded vendors lead the after-school class segment: Jackrabbit Technologies (Charlotte, North Carolina area; since 2004; dance, gymnastics, swim, cheer and music; a Certified B Corporation) [C, vendor] and iClassPro (Longview, Texas; since 2008; gymnastics, cheer, swim and dance; '100 million class and event registrations') [C, vendor]. Neither discloses funding or revenue. Around them: Pike13, now owned by Jonas Software (Constellation Software) — its own footer reads '© Pike13 Inc. & Jonas Software' [C] — selling to sports, performing-arts and education businesses (1,700+ claimed); DaySmart, private-equity owned (LLR Partners and Parthenon Capital growth recapitalisation, October 2019 [A, LLR]), which bought Sawyer for Business in November 2023 [B, Fenwick] and now groups Dash (facility, league and booking software for sports and rec centres), TeamUp and Sawyer under 'DaySmart Recreation & Fitness' [C, vendor]; Amilia (Montréal, 2009), which raised $35M led by Vertu Capital in May 2025 after a $30M round led by the Canadian Business Growth Fund in 2022 and serves YMCAs, JCCs, parks departments, camps and after-school programmes across 6,600 facilities [B, BetaKit; A, CNW]; Upper Hand (Indianapolis; sports-training facilities; $4M by its 2018 Series A, then an undisclosed oversubscribed round led by Lometa Capital Partners and Park Ten Capital in January 2023) [A, vendor releases]; and Omnify ('the modern OS for programs, camps and parties', 45+ countries claimed) [C]. Dance is the most fragmented niche: Akada, a 30-year family business, told customers in May 2026 that it is 'joining Studio Pro' and will move them there, with Akada supported through 2027 [C, Akada help centre] — a small consolidation, not a funded one. Indoor play — owned by the attractions vendors. Indoor playgrounds and play cafés buy the same stack as family entertainment centres: ROLLER (Melbourne; US$50M led by Insight Partners in November 2023; 3,500+ venues) lists 'Playcenters and Softplay' as an industry and sells parties, waivers and memberships [C, vendor; funding per the 713110 record]. That segment is researched in 713110-attractions-and-fec-software and is only cross-referenced here. How this differs from the neighbours: 713110 (attractions and FECs) is ticketing and POS for venues, including large kids' play centres — the play-café vendors live there; 6116 (driving, music and skills instruction) is a services market screen of lesson businesses themselves, not their software, and adult skills dominate it; 624410 (childcare centre management — Brightwheel, Procare) is licensed daycare with ratios, subsidies and daily reports, so Brightwheel is excluded here; 713940 (fitness studio management — Mindbody, ABC Fitness) is adult class-pack and membership booking; 6117 (tutoring and coaching software) covers academic tutoring centres. This record is the child-facing activity provider: seasons, terms and sessions, guardian accounts, medical and consent forms, waivers, sibling discounts and parent communication. The cheap and free end is crowded too: TeamLinkt (free to start, 3,500+ organisations claimed), Jersey Watch (2,800+), Thapos, GameSheet (hockey and lacrosse scoring, Newmarket, Ontario) and Hello Club for adult clubs all compete on price against payment-fee-funded platforms. Incumbent vulnerability decides it: sports registration is held by one private-equity group with the governing-body contracts; camps by sticky, decades-old specialists; classes by two founder-owned leaders plus DaySmart and Jonas as consolidators; indoor play by the FEC vendors. The cross-segment idea — one parent account across sports, classes, camps and parties — was Sawyer's marketplace thesis, and it ended inside DaySmart.

NAICS 7139916 vendors namedOpen →
05

Who works here

The occupations employed in Arts, entertainment and recreation, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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06

Alongside this industry

This is the most specific level NAICS defines. The other industries under 71399 are its nearest neighbours.

CodeIndustryEstablishments · CAWhat is known
713991Sports clubs, teams and leagues performing before a non-paying audience1,387screened at 71399
713999All other amusement and recreation industries1,043screened at 71399