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European Olympic Committees

Organization

Field	Value
name	European Olympic Committees
abbrev	EOC
logo	European Olympic Committees 2016 logo.svg
logosize	150px
category	Continental Sports Organization
membership	50 National Olympic Committees
founded	1968
region	Europe
headquarters	Rome, Italy
president	Spyros Capralos
vicepresident	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė
key staff	Secretary-General
Raffaele Pagnozzi
Treasurer
Peter Mennel
url	http://www.eurolympic.org
more	Official languages
English • French

Raffaele Pagnozzi Treasurer Peter Mennel English • French The European Olympic Committees (EOC; ) is an organisation based in Rome, Italy, consisting of 50 National Olympic Committees from the continent of Europe. Among other duties, the EOC organizes three major multi-sport events. These are the European Youth Olympic Festival, the Games of the Small States of Europe and the European Games.

The EOC has no connection with another multi-sport event called the European Championships, which are organised by various European discipline-specific sports associations.

Member nations

In the following table, the year in which the NOC was recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also given if it is different from the year in which the NOC was created.

Nation	Code	National Olympic Committee	President	Created/Recognized	Ref.
Albania	ALB	Albanian National Olympic Committee	Viron Bezhani	1958/1959	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/albania/
Andorra	AND	Andorran Olympic Committee	Jaume Marti Mandico	1971/1975	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/andorra/
Armenia	ARM	Armenian Olympic Committee	Gagik Tsarukyan	1990/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/armenia/
Austria	AUT	Austrian Olympic Committee	Karl Stoss	1908/1912	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/austria/
Azerbaijan	AZE	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan	Ilham Aliyev	1992/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/azerbaijan/
Belarus	BLR	Belarus Olympic Committee	Victor Lukashenko	1991/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/belarus/
Belgium	BEL	Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee	Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant	1906	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Marijan Kvesić	1992/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/bosnia-and-herzegovina
Bulgaria	BUL	Bulgarian Olympic Committee	Stefka Kostadinova	1923/1924	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/bulgaria
Croatia	CRO	Croatian Olympic Committee	Zlatko Mateša	1991/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/croatia
Cyprus	CYP	Cyprus Olympic Committee	George Chrysostomou	1974/1978	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/cyprus
Czech Republic	CZE	Czech Olympic Committee	Jiří Kejval	1899/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/czech-republic
Denmark	DEN	National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark	Hans Natorp	1905	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/denmark
Estonia	EST	Estonian Olympic Committee	Kersti Kaljulaid	1923/1991	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/estonia
Finland	FIN	Finnish Olympic Committee	Timo Ritakallio	1907	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/finland
France	FRA	French National Olympic and Sports Committee	Amélie Oudéa-Castéra	1894	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/france
Georgia	GEO	Georgian National Olympic Committee	Leri Khabelov	1989/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/georgia
Germany	GER	German Olympic Sports Confederation	Thomas Weikert	1895	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/germany
Greece	GRE	Hellenic Olympic Committee	Isidoros Kouvelos	1894/1895	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/greece
Hungary	HUN	Hungarian Olympic Committee	Zsolt Gyulay	1895	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/hungary
Iceland	ISL	National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland	Larus L. Blöndal	1921/1935	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/iceland
Ireland	IRL	Olympic Federation of Ireland	Lochlann Walsh	1922	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/ireland
Israel	ISR	Olympic Committee of Israel	Yael Arad	1933/1952	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/israel
Italy	ITA	Italian National Olympic Committee	Giovanni Malagò	1908/1915	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/italy
Kosovo	KOS	Olympic Committee of Kosovo	Ismet Krasniqi	1992/2014	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/kosovo
Latvia	LAT	Latvian Olympic Committee	Žoržs Tikmers	1922/1991	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/latvia
Liechtenstein	LIE	Liechtenstein Olympic Committee	Isabel Fehr	1935	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/liechtenstein
Lithuania	LTU	Lithuanian National Olympic Committee	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė	1924/1991	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/lithuania
Luxembourg	LUX	Luxembourg Olympic and Sporting Committee	André Hoffmann	1912	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/luxembourg
Malta	MLT	Maltese Olympic Committee	Julian Pace Bonello	1928/1936	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/malta
Moldova	MDA	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Moldova	Nicolae Juravschi	1991/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/republic-of-moldova
Monaco	MON	Monégasque Olympic Committee	Albert II, Prince of Monaco	1907/1953	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/monaco
Montenegro	MNE	Montenegrin Olympic Committee	Dušan Sinomović	2006/2007	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/montenegro
Netherlands	NED	Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation	André Bolhuis	1912	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/the-netherlands/
North Macedonia	MKD	Olympic Committee of North Macedonia	Vasil Tupurkovski	1992/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/fyrom/
Norway	NOR	Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports	Berit Kjøll	1900	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/norway
Poland	POL	Polish Olympic Committee	Andrzej Kraśnicki	1918/1919	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/poland
Portugal	POR	Olympic Committee of Portugal	José Manuel Constantino	1909	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/portugal
Romania	ROU	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee	Mihai Covaliu	1914	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/romania
Russia	RUS	Russian Olympic Committee	Mikhail Degtyarev	1911/1912 (restored 1993, suspended 2023)	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/russian-federation
San Marino	SMR	Sammarinese National Olympic Committee	Gian Primo Giardi	1959	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/san-marino
Serbia	SRB	Olympic Committee of Serbia	Božidar Maljković	1910/1912 (restored 2006)	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/serbia
Slovakia	SVK	Slovak Olympic and Sports Committee	Anton Siekel	1992/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/slovakia
Slovenia	SLO	Olympic Committee of Slovenia	Bogdan Gabrovec	1991/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/slovenia
Spain	ESP	Spanish Olympic Committee	Alejandro Blanco Bravo	1912	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/spain
Sweden	SWE	Swedish Olympic Committee	Hans von Uthman	1913	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/sweden
Switzerland	SUI	Swiss Olympic Association	Jürg Stahl	1912	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/switzerland
Turkey	TUR	Turkish National Olympic Committee	Uğur Erdener	1908/1911	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/turkey
Ukraine	UKR	National Olympic Committee of Ukraine	Serhiy Bubka	1990/1993	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/ukraine
United Kingdom	GBR	British Olympic Association	Dame Katherine Grainger	1905	http://www.eurolympic.org/enocs/great-britain

Former members

State	Code	National Olympic Committee	Created/Recognized	Disbanded
Czechoslovakia	TCH	Czechoslovak Olympic Committee	1919	1992
East Germany	GDR	National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic	1951/1968	1990
Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	Olympic Committee of Serbia and Montenegro	2003	2006
Soviet Union	URS	Soviet Olympic Committee	1951	1992
Yugoslavia	YUG	Yugoslav Olympic Committee	1919/1920	2003

The (Saar Protectorate) was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1950 to 1957, but never a member of the European Olympic Committees.

Events

European Games
European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF)
Games of the Small States of Europe

Notes

References

EOC members include transcontinental countries [[Turkish Olympic Committee. Turkey]], [[National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic. Azerbaijan]], [[Georgian National Olympic Committee. Georgia]] and [[Russian Olympic Committee. the Russian Federation]], as well as [[Olympic Committee of Israel. Israel]], [[Cyprus Olympic Committee. Cyprus]] and [[Armenian Olympic Committee. Armenia]] which are geographically in Asia but due to political-cultural reasons are often assigned to Europe.
Between 1954 and 1974, Israel took part in the [[Asian Games]], but political pressure exerted by Arab countries due to the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]] led to Israel's exclusion from the re-organized [[Olympic Council of Asia]] in 1981 (See [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19811210&id=Rr4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jO4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2948,6887134&hl=en Israelis Facing Asian Ban]). It then became a member of the European Olympic Committees in 1994.
[https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-executive-board-suspends-russian-olympic-committee-with-immediate-effect IOC Executive Board suspends Russian Olympic Committee with immediate effect]
The Olympic Committee of Serbia was founded in 1910, as a successor to the Serbian Olympic Club [http://oks.org.rs/istorija-olimpijskog-komiteta-srbije/ (source).]

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