Countries usually participating in European championships. Note the difference to the geographical borders of Europe.

A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs.

In the plural, the European Championships also refers to a specific combined quadrennial multi-sport event featuring the continental championships for athletics, aquatics, artistic gymnastics, triathlon, rowing, cycling and team golf.

Since European championships are usually open for teams or individual athletes from countries which are members of European sports organisations and some member countries are only partly or not at all situated in the European continent, some non-Europeans also usually take part in these championships. Traditionally, sports teams from Armenia, Georgia, and Israel – all geographically outside Europe – are included in European competitions for cultural and political reasons, while trans-continental countries Azerbaijan, Russia, and Turkey (which straddle Europe and Asia), and technically Iceland (which sits on a continental fault line in the Atlantic ocean) and Malta (between Europe and Africa in the Mediterranean) also compete in Europe.

A number of countries maintain departments outside the European continent, but which are considered an integral part of their mother country, including France (e.g. Guadeloupe and New Caledonia), Denmark (Greenland), Spain (e.g. the Canaries) and the Netherlands (the former Netherlands Antilles). Athletes and club teams from these regions are typically eligible for European championships. The overseas territories of the United Kingdom, however, are usually not included unless an individual athlete has transferred allegiance completely to the UK.

In addition, in football, under UEFA, but not in other sports, the Asian country of Kazakhstan also competes in European competition for historical reasons, while South African clubs participate in the top-level club championship in European rugby union called European Rugby Champions Cup.

Games

Championships

American football

Aquatics and water sports

Athletics

Australian rules football

Badminton

Baseball and softball

Bandy

Basketball

Biathlon

Boxing

Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Canoeing

Chess

Cricket

Curling

Cycling

Darts

Dragon Boat

  • European Dragon Boat Championships

Equestrian

Fencing

Field hockey

Fistball

Flag football

Football and beach soccer

Futsal

Go

Gymnastics

Handball and beach handball

Indoor hockey

Judo

Karate

Kickboxing

Korfball

Minifootball

Motorsport and motorcycle sport

Multi-sport

Pétanque

Pitch and putt

Professional wrestling

Quidditch

Racquetball

Rink hockey

Rowing

Rugby league

Rugby union

Sailing

Savate

Shooting

Snooker

Squash

Sumo

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Triathlon

Volleyball and beach volleyball

Weightlifting

Wheelchair rugby

Wrestling

Winter sports

  1. European Figure Skating Championships
  2. European Speed Skating Championships
  3. European Short Track Speed Skating Championships
  4. FIL European Luge Championships
  5. Bobsleigh and Skeleton European Championship
  6. Biathlon European Championships
  7. European Championships of Ski Mountaineering
  8. European Ski Orienteering Championships
  9. European Curling Championships
  10. Ice Hockey European Championships
  11. Women's Ice Hockey European Championships
  12. World Para Ice Hockey European Championships
  13. European Snowboard Championships
  14. European Freestyle Skiing Championships
  15. FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup
  16. European Ski Marathon Championships
  17. European Snow Volleyball Championships (CEV EuroSnowVolley)
  18. European Bandy Championships
  19. European Winter Triathlon Championships
  20. European Ice Climbing Championships
  21. European Snowshoe Championships
  22. European Grass Skiing Championship
  23. European Rollerski Championships
  24. European Snowcross Championship
  25. European Snowmobile Championship - Snowmobile Enduro European Cup

See also