Recently, lifelong sport is regarded as important in Japan. This advocation for lifelong sport was caused by the discussion on lifelong education at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultual Organization in 1965. The lifelong sport mainly aims at the maintenance of sport activity through life. Thus, one sport clubs\u27 functions may give each member the opportunity to maintain sport activity in club. In this study some determinant factors for continuation of sport club and the characteristics of sport clubs which were maintained for many years were observed from the investigation of characteristics for sport clubs which were located at seven cities in Aichi Prefecture. Sport clubs were divided into two groups : group A consisted sport clubs which were maintain over 10 years ; group B, under 5 years. The results obtained in this study were statistically analized by means of X^2 test. The result were summarized as follows, 1) In group A, many clubs were essentially established by employees who served in the same company. 2) Sport events provided in group A were mainly popular sports in Japan. 3) Most clubs of group A have the definite purposes to develop skills, to win a game and so on. 4) The numbers of instructor in group A were higher than in group B. 5) More frequencies of practice were observed in group A. 6) Group A had higher skill levels than in group B. 7) The club finance and sport facilities were abundant in group A
