EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025
The year of 2025 promises to be another busy year for European Universities
Championships, with events held in various cities across Europe. Student-athletes
will have the opportunity to compete, achieve victories, and gain valuable EUSA
sports experiences.
The first one to host and to
open the European Universities
Championship season in
2025 will be the Badminton
competition, set to be held in
Madrid, Spain from June 22 – 28.
After the successful edition held
in Miskolc in 2023, this event
will get its spotlight in the capital
of Spain. Badminton university
athletes will be able to compete
for new medals, while enjoying
the Spanish culture and all the
beautiful sights and venues that
this city can offer.
From Portugal in 2023, the EUC
in Basketball is moving to the
neighbouring country of Italy,
in Bologna. Many cities in Italy
have been hosts of different
Championships but this will be
the very first hosting experience
for the capital and largest city
of the Emilia-Romagna region
in Northern Italy. Many student
athletes will travel to Bologna
to play and get a place on the
triumph podium, competing in
one of the oldest sports, from 6
to 13 of July. Having the oldest
university in the western world,
stunning architecture, buzzing
population, and being considered
the gastronomic capital of Italy,
Bologna will be a great host for
the EUC Basketball in 2025.
The EUC Water Polo will be held
in Vukovar, Croatia. Vukovar,
a town of around 27 thousand
inhabitants, located in the north-
east part of Croatia, at the border
with Serbia across the Danube
River, will be the first-time host
of an European Universities
Championship, from the 7th to the
13 th of July.
After the successful
championships in Beach
Handball and Beach Volleyball in
2023, organised on the beautiful
beaches in Malaga, Spain, the
competition in 2025 will not
travel far away for the new
edition. The beaches of Granada
will be the hosts of these two
championships from July 14-19.
The 73 km of beaches along
the coast of Granada will offer
their sand, great weather and
atmosphere during these two
competitions.The EUC in Futsal, is not
changing the hosting country
but just the hosting city. From
being organised in Split in
2023, is now moving in the
organizational hands of the
capital of Croatia and University
of Zagreb. Zagreb and Croatia in
general are a multiple time host
of EUC throughout the years,
so we believe that again this
city will be an amazing place
where Futsal athletes will have
the opportunity to win another
title, gain new friends and create
new memories. From 17 to 25 of
July, the European Universities
Championship in Futsal will be in
the spotlight.With the hosting location for the
2023 championship in Rugby 7s
being in Portugal’s hilly, coastal
capital city of Lisbon, in 2025, the
leadership might be in the hands
of the city of Ankara, Turkey, in
partnership with Bilkent and ME
Technical University. The EUC
Rugby 7s in 2025 is foreseen to
take place from 21 to 24 of July
in Ankara, Turkey.From Podgorica, Montenegro
the EUC in Handball will travel
to Covilha, Portugal in 2025.
Described as a quite original
example of a “mountain city”, rare
in Portuguese urbanism with the
expression of a vast industrial
tradition based on modern and
contemporary times, this city
sounds like a great hosting
place for the many handball
competitors, not just to conquer
new victories but to also have
a great time celebrating them.
From 22 to 28 of July, Covilha
is looking forward to being a
host of a European UniversitiesChampionship, for the very first
time.From the great terrain in
Switzerland, where the EUC in
Orienteering took place in 2023,
the competition is now moving to
Lodz, Poland from the 24th to the
27 th of July.After the European Universities
Championship 2023 in Football,
organized in Tirana, Albania, the
next host for this Championship
is Camerino, Italy, where
the teams will be hosted by
University of Camerino. In the
small town in the centre of the
Marche region of central Italy, the
teams will be playing and chasing
victories from the 27th of July to
the 3rd of August.During the same period, other
student-athletes will also be
competing at the European
Universities Volleyball
Championship. After the beautiful
city of Braga in Portugal we are
moving to the capital of Hungary,
Budapest. The capital and the
most populous city of Hungary
along with the University of
Physical Education of Budapest,
will offer their city venues
and will make sure a great
atmosphere will be following the
championship, from the 27th of
July until 3rd of August.Starting from July 28th until
August 3rd the European
Universities Championship
in Tennis and Padel will be
ongoing. The multiple times host
in the past, the city of Coimbra
will be hosting one new sport,
Padel and one veteran sport
Tennis. On the banks of the river
Mondego, Coimbra is famous
for its university, the oldest in
Portugal and one of the oldest
in Europe, which over time has
shaped its image to become “the
city of students”, making this city
the perfect hosting location for
these two sports. During thesedays, Coimbra will be offering
days full of sport, youth and fun.When we are talking about
the great experience with
organizing European Universities
Championships in Zagreb,
we are also talking about the
hosting city of Combat Sports
Championships in 2019 and- However, this time the
honour of being the hosting
place for the athletes competing
in karate, kickboxing, taekwondo
and judo, will belong to Warsaw,
Poland. We have no doubts that
this city will organise an amazing
combat sports championship
from 22nd to 25th of August.
To continue the story of EUC
Table Tennis, with lastly being
organised in Olomouc, Czech
Republic in 2023, the honour of
having the heat of the matches,
the glory of the victories and
celebration of the best will
this time go in the hosting
hands of the city of Burdur in
Turkey and the Burdur Mehmet
Akif University. From 11 to 16
of September, the athletes
competing in Table Tennis will be
enjoying their time and fighting
for the medals in this city in
southwestern Turkey, located
near the eastern shore of the
beautiful Lake Burdur.The European Universities
Champion in Chess, after
skipping its presence on the
program in 2023 and lastly being
organised in Budapest, Hungary
in 2019, is now continuing its path
to Yerevan, Armenia. Yerevan
as the capital and largest city of
Armenia and one of the world’s
oldest continuously inhabited
cities and the leading hand of
Armenian State University of
Economics are looking forward
to organising the European
Universities Championship in
Chess, from 16-20 of September
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