From the 2026 budget audit
A state institute decides how Hungarian coaches should coach
4.3 milliárd Ft funds a central methodology office producing coaching guidelines — documents that every international sports federation and voluntary club already produces, closer to the activity and without the general-tax bill.
About 1,085 Ft per taxpayer per year — 4,341.5 millió Ft total — for an institute whose output is already produced better by the federations themselves.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: a state institute issuing coaching methodology documents. The unseen: the international governing bodies, clubs, and coaches across every sport already producing the same knowledge, directly from practice — knowledge that no central office can replicate because it is dispersed across training halls and competition floors.
Objection
"Small federations and clubs need expert support they can't afford themselves — the institute fills that gap."
Answer
If a federation values the methodology work, it can fund it — from its own budget, from federation levies, or from the international governing body it is already affiliated to. The gap the institute fills is not a market failure; it is a preference for state provision over the network that already exists.
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The analyst's verdict
National Sports Development and Methodology Institute
Rationale
A state institute for sport development and methodology produces coaching frameworks, methodological guidance, and sport-development planning. There is no calculation by which the state determines the optimal coaching method or the optimal sport-development plan: the dispersed knowledge of coaches, clubs, and athletes cannot be aggregated by a central methodology office, and a state institute that attempts this produces documents rather than the thing itself.[^3] The "seen" is a state institute producing documents; the "unseen" is that voluntary sport federations, clubs, and the international governing bodies of each sport already produce coaching methodology, and do so closer to the activity. The function is a discretionary allocation, not a rights-protection function. The protected party is the institute's payroll — identifiable from the chapter's own table.
Transition mechanism
Two-year severance-with-overlap. The payroll component is 2,632.2 millió Ft (személyi juttatások 2,328.1 + munkaadói járulékok 304.1, taken directly from the chapter table). Permanent staff keep full salary for up to 24 months while free to take private-sector or federation employment; the non-payroll component (dologi 1,616.9 + beruházások 92.4 = 1,709.4 millió Ft) ends in year 1. Methodological work that individual federations want continued they fund themselves.
Affected groups
Roughly the staff funded by a 2,632.2 millió Ft payroll line; sport federations that currently receive the institute's methodological output free.
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