The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the first time in Brussels in 1991, and a winter edition, which began two years later in Aosta. It was known as the European Youth Olympic Days from 1991 to 1999.Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. .

History The event is run by the European Olympic Committees, under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee, and was the first multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition specifically for European athletes; it predates its senior equivalent, the European Games by some 24 years, and the Youth Olympic Games by 19 years.

The event should not be confused with the various European junior and youth championships in individual sports, such as the European Junior Athletics Championships which are organised by sporting federations.

Editions Summer

+ European Summer Youth Olympic Festival Year Edition Host city Host nation Sports Events Nations Start date End date Competitors Top nation 1991 1 Brussels Belgium 9 70 33 12 July 21 July 2,084 1993 2 Valkenswaard Netherlands 10 86 43 3 July 9 July 1,874 1995 3 Bath 10 86 47 9 July 14 July 1,709 1997 4 Lisbon Portugal 10 86 47 18 July 24 July 2,500 1999 5 Esbjerg Denmark 11 84 48 10 July 16 July 2,324 2001 6 Murcia Spain 10 90 48 3 July 9 July 2,500 2003 7 Paris France 10 95 48 28 July 2,500 2005 8 Italy 11 109 48 3 July 8 July 3,965 2007 9 Belgrade Serbia 11 100 49 22 July 27 July 3,000 2009 10 Tampere Finland 9 109 49 19 July 26 July 3,302 2011 11 Trabzon Turkey 9 109 49 24 July 29 July 3,138 2013 12 Utrecht Netherlands 9 111 49 14 July 19 July 3,143 2015 13 Tbilisi Georgia 9 112 50 26 July 1 August 3,304 2017 14 Győr Hungary 10 130 50 22 July 30 July 3,675 2019 15 Baku Azerbaijan 10 135 48 20 July 28 July 2,700 2022 16 Banská Bystrica Slovakia 10 120 48 24 July 30 July 2,252 2023 17 Maribor Slovenia 10 122 48 23 July 29 July 2,419 2025 18 Skopje 13 151 49 20 July 26 July 4,000 2027 19 Lignano Sabbiadoro Italy 2029 20 Flanders 2031 21 Liepāja Latvia

Winter

+ European Winter Youth Olympic Festival Year Edition Host city Host nation Sports Events Nations Start date End date Competitors Top nation 1993 1 Aosta Italy 5 17 33 7 February 10 February 708 1995 2 Andorra la Vella Andorra 4 17 40 4 February 10 February 740 1997 3 Sundsvall Sweden 6 27 41 7 February 13 February 991 1999 4 Poprad-Tatry Slovakia 7 27 40 6 March 12 March 819 2001 5 Vuokatti Finland 7 28 40 11 March 15 March 1,111 2003 6 Bled Slovenia 7 28 41 25 January 31 January 1,242 2005 7 Monthey Switzerland 8 35 41 23 January 28 January 1,184 2007 8 Jaca Spain 6 20 43 1,284 2009 9 Silesia Poland 9 31 47 15 February 20 February 1,615 2011 10 Liberec Czech Republic 8 28 44 13 February 18 February 1,492 2013 11 Braşov Romania 8 36 45 17 February 22 February 1,465 2015 12 Vorarlberg-Liechtenstein Austria Liechtenstein 8 30 45 25 January 30 January 1,509 2017 13 Erzurum Turkey 9 38 34 12 February 17 February 1,241 2019 14 8 32 46 10 February 15 February 1,537 2022 15 Vuokatti Finland 9 39 46 20 March 25 March 932 2023 16 Italy 12 59 47 21 January 28 January 1,252 2025 17 Bakuriani Georgia 8 38 45 9 February 16 February 901 2027 18 Braşov Romania 202919Liberec Czech Republic

Sports Summer Games Sport (discipline) 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17 19 22 23 25 Current summer sports   Athletics Badminton Basketball Canoeing Cycling Gymnastics Handball Judo Shooting Swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Volleyball Discontinued summer sports Field hockey Football Sailing Skateboarding Tennis Water polo Wrestling

Winter Games Sport (discipline) 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17 19 22 23 25 Current winter sports   Alpine skiing Biathlon Cross-country skiing Figure skating Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Short-track speed skating Snowboarding Discontinued winter sports Curling Ski jumping Nordic combined Ski mountaineering Speed skating

All-time medal table

Summer Games Summer editions, from 1991 to 2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.

</onlyinclude>

Winter Games Winter editions, from 1993 to 2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

</onlyinclude>

Combined medal table From 1991 to 2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.

</onlyinclude>

See also European Para Youth Games (EPYG) European Games Youth Olympic Games African Youth Games Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) Asian Youth Games (AYG) South American Youth Games Junior Pan American Games

References

External links

Official website Historical Medallists