EUROPEAN
UNIVERSITIES GAMES
The European Universities Games (EUG) is a large multi-
sport event, hosted across various sporting venues in the
same city, involving European university teams and individuals,
which have been organised biennially since 2012.
Ten compulsory sports make up the summer sporting
programme, with the potential addition of optional sports,
demonstrative sports and para sports as well.
The first European Universities Games took place in Cordoba,
Spain and involved 2574 participants across ten different
sports. The biggest European Universities Games was the
third edition which was hosted by the Croatian cities Zagreb
and Rijeka in 2016, which saw 5410 participants involved in
21 different sports, including disciplines in two para sports.