Our centre

Get to know Sport Vlaanderen Hofstade

Our centre is not the oldest, but perhaps the most versatile among Sport Flanders' centres. Located in the middle of a 172-hectare nature reserve, it has sports and leisure facilities for all ages.

Come along and discover our mecca of outdoor and water sports. There is also no shortage of hiking trails, running tracks, mountain biking and cycling routes in our nature reserve.

In addition, you can also tame your fear of heights on our insane high ropes course with 5 different routes.

We also keep innovating continuously, such as the addition of an open-water swimming pool in the beach area in 2024.

Indoor sports facilities are also available:

• a sports hall, suitable for most indoor sports.
• a gymnastics hall, with Olympic floor, trampoline track, tumblingtrack and apparatus area.
• a multi-purpose hall, with mirrors and free-running accommodation.
• an olympic skate hall

An archery range, an omnisports ground, a multi-purpose grass field and a climbing wall are also available on our grounds. These can only be used by groups accompanied by a Sport Vlaanderen instructor.

Our centre also scores on the recreational side. You can relax on our 650-metre long beach area, there are 2 playgrounds for the little ones and you can get a bite to eat and a drink at the beach bar het Zuiderbad.

Generation smoke-free

All Sport Flanders centres are smoke-free. Smoking is prohibited inside the sports centre buildings. Smoking outside is only allowed in the designated smoking areas and not in the sight of young people.

Since 1 June 2019, everyone has been practising smoke-free sport with us. We do this following the ‘Generation Smoke-Free’ campaign. Already at the beginning of 2018, Sport Flanders, together with organisations like the Flemish Institute for Healthy Living and Kom op tegen Kanker, committed to promising children born from 2019 a smoke-free life. Thank you for helping our children grow up smoke-free.