EUSA Year Magazine 2023-2024

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EUC FACTS AND FIGURES

The 2023 European Universities Championships was another great season

for EUSA, celebrated with a record number of participants that took part in

EUSA Championship season, covering both summer and winter editions.

In total, 22 different sporting
competitions made up the 2023
Championship program, which
took place at 16 different events
in 15 host cities in 10 different
countries around Europe.

The season started with EUSA
Football kicking off on 25th of
June in Tirana, Albania, making
it to its end in very early July.

The month of July saw a total of
10 different events taking place
across Europe, followed by two
others in August, two more in
September and finishing with
EUSA Winter Championships,
bringing the season to a close
over in the middle of December.

EUSA Championship program
for 2023, in the summer season
part, saw the following sports:
Football, Handball, Table
Tennis, Tennis, Badminton,
Water Polo, 3x3 Basketball,
Volleyball, Futsal, Combat
Sports (Judo, Kickboxing, Karate
and Taekwondo), Basketball,
Orienteering, Rowing, Rugby
7s and Beach Sports (Beach
Volleyball and Beach Handball)
that were merged together for
the first time.

The official end was done by
EUSA Winter Championships,
seeing competition in Alpine
Skiing, Snowboarding and Snow
Volleyball.

Three cities hosted a European
Universities Championship for
the first time: Tirana in Albania,
where EUSA Football took
place, Granda in Spain, the
host of EUSA Tennis 2023 and
Val di Zoldo in Italy, the host
of the inaugural EUSA Winter
Championships.

The two oldest sports on

EUSA Championships program,

Basketball and Volleyball, were

hosted for the 16th time in this

setting, following their first

installment, being the first two

sports ever organized by EUSA

in 2001. This year, Basketball

even went back to the first ever

host city, the city of Aveiro in

Portugal.

In total, 5570 participants

from 524 universities from

40 countries participated

in the 2023 season, making

it the largest edition of the

Championships in EUSA history,

following the previous total of

5242 participants in 2019.

This year, EUSA Rowing topped

the highest attendance list

with a total of 524 participants,

followed by EUSA Football

with 519 participants. The third

most attended event, with 471

participants, was EUSA Futsal.

EUSA would like to thank

all the participants and

congratulate all those who

achieved success in this year’s

Championships, while extending

our utmost appreciation to all

local organizing committees,

volunteers, local partners, and

European sport’s governing

bodies, as well as the

International University Sports

Federation for their support.

ATHLETES’ PARTICIPATION

PER GENDER

57%

43%

Male

Female

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS

COUNTRY NUMBER

GER 619

FRA 586

POR 544

HUN 426

CRO 381

ESP 351

POL 294

GBR 287

I TA 225

UKR 223

NOR 188

TUR 171

ROU 172

NED 167

COUNTRY NUMBER

SUI 130

AUT 121

CZE 92

FIN 90

MNE 46

EST 40

IRL 40

LT U 39

ALB 39

GEO 36

SVK 32

BEL 27

BUL 26

SLO 24

COUNTRY NUMBER

BIH 22

ISR 22

CYP 18

AZE 17

DEN 16

MKD 15

ARM 14

L AT 14

GRE 7

SWE 7

LIE 1

SRB 1