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European Games

European multi-sport event

Field	Value
name	European Games
image	European Games logo.svg
image_size	200px
list_years	yes
list_sports	yes
footnotes	Other EOC Games {{flatlist

Charter
EOC
NOCs
EYOF
Small States of Europe

The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from countries served by national Olympic committees within the European Olympic Committees (EOC), the regional association for such committees. The EOC represents European nations and several transcontinental countries. An EOC Refugee team is also included. The Games were envisioned and are governed by the EOC which announced their launch at its 41st General Assembly in Rome, on 8 December 2012.

The European Games are the 5th continental Games in the Olympic tradition to be initiated, after the Asian Games, Pan American Games, Pacific Games and African Games. Therefore, as of 2015, every sporting continent has continental games in the Olympic tradition.

The European Games are not related to the European Championships, a separate multi-sport event organised by individual European sports federations, bringing together the individual European Championships of sports such as athletics, swimming, artistic gymnastics, cycling, rowing, golf, and triathlon under a single 'brand' on a four-year cycle beginning in 2018, and broadcast by agreement with the EBU.

The European Games are also the third event created and organised by the EOC. The European Youth Olympic Festivals, both winter and summer, and broadly mirroring the Youth Olympic Games are organised biennially, while the quadrennial Games of the Small States of Europe (not to be confused with the separate Island Games) provide competition opportunities for the handful of microstates in the European continent. As of 2024 there are no EOC endorsed European Winter Games.

List of European Games

The 2015 European Games, the first edition of the event, took place in Baku, Azerbaijan in June 2015, and further editions were planned to be held every four years thereafter. The 2019 edition was held in Minsk, Belarus from 21 to 30 June on a reduced scale when the original host, the Netherlands, withdrew. The 2023 edition was held in Kraków, Poland from 21 June to 2 July. The 2027 edition will be held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Edition	Year	Host city	Host nation	Opened by	Start date	End date	Nations	Competitors	Sports	Events	Top Placed Team
I	2015	Baku	Azerbaijan	President Ilham Aliyev	12 June	28 June	50	5,898	21	253	RUS
II	2019	Minsk	Belarus	President Alexander Lukashenko	21 June	30 June	4,082	15	200
III	2023	Kraków-Małopolska	Poland	President Andrzej Duda	21 June	2 July	48	6,857	29	254	ITA
IV	2027	Istanbul	Turkey	President of Turkey (expected)	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Participating nations

As of the 2023 edition, 50 nations whose National Olympic Committee is recognized by the European Olympic Committee have competed at the European Games. As of 2023, two of these, Russia and Belarus, are suspended. In addition, a Refugee EOC team has been created to take part.

ALB
AND
ARM
AUT
AZE
BLR (suspended)
BEL
BIH
BUL
CRO
CYP
CZE
DEN
EST
FIN
FRA
GEO
GER
GBR
GRE
HUN
ISL
IRL
ISR
ITA
KOS
LAT
LIE
LTU
LUX
MLT
MDA
MON
MNE
NED
MKD
NOR
POL
POR
ROU
RUS (suspended)
SMR
SRB
SVK
SLO
ESP
SWE
SUI
TUR
UKR
Flag of the European Olympic Committees.jpg EOC Refugee Team

Sports

The figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport contested at the respective Games.

Sport (Discipline)	Body	2015	2019	2023	2027	NG	World	Europe
Artistic swimming	[[File:Synchronized swimming pictogram.svg	17px]]	WAquatics	LEN	4		8		2
Diving	[[File:Diving pictogram.svg	17px]]	8		13
Swimming	[[File:Swimming pictogram.svg	17px]]	42
Water polo	[[File:Water polo pictogram.svg	17px]]	2
Archery	[[File:Archery pictogram.svg	17px]]	WArchery	WAE	5	8	8		3
Athletics	[[File:Athletics pictogram.svg	17px]]	WAthletics	EAA	1	10	38		3
Badminton	[[File:Badminton pictogram.svg	17px]]	BWF	BE	5	5	5		3
Basketball (3x3)	[[File:3x3 basketball pictogram.svg	17px]]	FIBA	FIBAE	2	2	2		3
Beach handball	[[File:Beach handball pictogram.svg	17px]]	IHF	EHF			2		1
Beach soccer	[[File:Beach soccer pictogram.svg	17px]]	FIFA	UEFA	1	1	2		3
Boxing	[[File:Boxing pictogram.svg	17px]]	World Boxing	EBC	15	15	13		3
Breaking	[[File:Breakdancing pictogram.svg	17px]]	WDSF			2		1
Canoe slalom	[[File:Canoeing (slalom) pictogram.svg	17px]]	ICF	ECA			10		3
Canoe sprint	[[File:Canoeing pictogram.svg	17px]]	15	16	16
BMX Freestyle	[[File:Cycling (BMX) pictogram.svg	17px]]	UCI	UEC	2		2		3
Mountain biking	[[File:Cycling (mountain biking) pictogram.svg	17px]]	2		2
Road cycling	[[File:Cycling (road) pictogram.svg	17px]]	4	4
Track cycling	[[File:Cycling (track) pictogram.svg	17px]]		20
Fencing	[[File:Fencing pictogram.svg	17px]]	FIE	EFC	12		12		2
Acrobatic gymnastics	[[File:Gymnastics (acrobatic) pictogram.svg	17px]]	World Gymnastics	UEG	6	6			2
Aerobic gymnastics	[[File:Gymnastics (aerobic) pictogram.svg	17px]]	2	2
Artistic gymnastics	[[File:Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg	17px]]	14	12
Rhythmic gymnastics	[[File:Gymnastics (rhythmic) pictogram.svg	17px]]	8	8
Trampoline	[[File:Gymnastics (trampoline) pictogram.svg	17px]]	4	4
Judo	[[File:Judo pictogram.svg	17px]]	IJF	EJU	18	15	1		3
Karate	[[File:Karate pictogram.svg	17px]]	WKF	EKF	12	12	12		3
Kickboxing	[[File:Kickboxing pictogram.svg	17px]]	WAKO			16		1
Modern pentathlon	[[File:Modern pentathlon pictogram (pre-2025).svg	17px]]	UIPM			5		1
Muaythai	[[File:Muay Thai pictogram.svg	17px]]	IFMA			10		1
Padel	[[File:Padel tennis pictogram.svg	17px]]	IPF			3		1
Rugby sevens	[[File:Rugby sevens pictogram.svg	17px]]	WR	RE			2		1
Sambo (martial art)	[[File:Sambo pictogram.svg	17px]]	FIAS	ESF	8	18			2
Shooting	[[File:Shooting pictogram.svg	17px]]	ISSF	ESC	19	19	30		3
Ski jumping	[[File:Ski jumping pictogram.svg	17px]]	FIS			5		1
Sport climbing	[[File:Sport climbing pictogram.svg	17px]]	World Climbing			6		1
Table tennis	[[File:Table tennis pictogram.svg	17px]]	ITTF	ETTU	4	5	5		3
Taekwondo	[[File:Taekwondo pictogram.svg	17px]]	WTaekwondo	ETU	8		16		2
Teqball	[[File:Teqball pictogram.svg	17px]]	FITEQ			5		1
Triathlon	[[File:Triathlon pictogram.svg	17px]]	WTriathlon	ETU	2		3		2
Beach volleyball	[[File:Volleyball (beach) pictogram.svg	17px]]	FIVB	CEV	2				1
Volleyball	[[File:Volleyball (indoor) pictogram.svg	17px]]		2
Wrestling	[[File:Wrestling pictogram.svg	17px]]	UWW	CELA	24	18			2
Weightlifting	[[File:Weightlifting pictogram.svg	17px]]	IWF	EWF				X	1
Total events	253	200	254	???

Medal table

Main article: All-time European Games medal table

References

(8 December 2012). "EOC LAUNCHES EUROPEAN GAMES". eurolympic.org.
Although the Pacific Games takes in all of Oceania/Australasia, the two largest countries in the region, Australia and New Zealand, did not participate because of the danger they would, though their wealth and size relative to other members, excessively dominate the event. They were however, provisionally admitted to the Games in 4 sports in which other nations were consistently competitive - rugby sevens, weightlifting, sailing and taekwondo - in 2014.
(1 June 2015). "Baku 2015 at a glance". baku2015.org.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/32057678 Scotland to host 2018 European Sports Championships]
"1st EG Baku 2015". EOC.
"2nd EG Minsk 2019". EOC.
(22 June 2019). "Malopolska region and the city of Krakow to host 3rd European Games in 2023".
(2024-03-27). "EOC Executive Committee awards 2027 European Games to Istanbul".
"National Olympic Committees". European Games.
Number of Games in which sport was included

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