European Ultimate Federation

Sport	Ultimate
Jurisdiction	International (Europe)
Abbreviation	EUF
Founded	2009 (2009)
Official website
www.ultimatefederation.eu

European Ultimate Federation (EUF) is the governing body for the sport of Ultimate in Europe. As part of the EFDF and the World Flying Disc Federation the EUF works for the coordination and development of Ultimate in Europe and the promotion of its Spirit of the Game ideals. The EUF coordinates Ultimate associations in Europe, and supports Ultimate in countries where there are no local organization. The EUF organizes tournaments for European teams, develops educational programs and courses for them, and support other activities of interest. Its board of directors is elected every two years, the latest election took place in October 2014.

History

The EUF in certain way is the proactive continuation of the European Flying Disc Federation (EFDF). The EUF was conceived in 2007 out of the need of the European national ultimate associations to have a professional and most of all transparent coordinating body. Formally founded in 2009 under the WFDF, and later under the newly formed EFDF, in the past few years the EUF has evolved to meet and foster changes in the fast-growing ultimate community, while staying true to upholding the ideals of Spirit of the Game. The EUF for instance coordinates youth summer camps and Train-the-Trainer weekends, but most of all the federation focuses on organizing its big championship events.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2009 the federation has had the same board of directors. EUF has a very active chairman in Andra ´Oddi´ Furlan (AUT), its treasurer is Ted Beute (NED) and the secretary is Alia Ayub (GBR). Further proactive member of the board has always been Christoph Dehnhardt (GER) who chairs the Youth Committee. Since October 2018 the board consists of six more members, they are all directors-at-large responsible for their own topic. Dario Lucisano (ITA) for Spirit of the Game, Haude Hermand (FRA) for Women´s ultimate, Marco Barattini (ITA) for Men´s ultimate, Gabriele Sani (ITA) for social media and Karolis Novikovas (LTU) for livestreams. Every year (during one of the big events) the board holds it General Assemblee where all the European federations are invited to control the board´s actions and vote on new proposals.^{[citation needed]}

Upcoming Sanctioned Events

European Ultimate Indoor Club Championships 2020 (EUICC 2020) in Herning, Denmark. 30 January – 2 February 2020

European Beach Ultimate Club Championships (EBUCC) in Praia da Rocha Portimao, Portugal, 15 May – 17 May 2020

European Ultimate Championships Finals 2020 (EUCF 2020) in Bruges, Belgium, 2 October – 4 October 2020

European Ultimate Indoor Championships 2021 (EUIC 2021) in Herning, Denmark. 28 January – 31 January 2021^[1]

European Championship Events

The biggest task of the EUF is to organize the great championship events over the year. Yearly there is a club championship, called EUCS. That starts with regional tournaments in five regions and culminates in one big final event come October. Besides the federation used to organize championships for players Under17 and Under20 every year, but these big youth tournaments have changed into a biannual setup (EYUC).

The most important tournament of the EUF is the European Ultimate Championships (EUC) that take place every four year. EUC is a competition for national teams and already started in 1980 in Paris. Therefore it´s the oldest international ultimate tournament that still exists. Until 2015 in Copenhague - Denmark the EUC also had Masters divisions, but as of 2019 the European federation has separated the three main divisions from the Masters. In June 2019 in Gyor - Hungary the EUC will consist of the divisions Men, Mixed and Women, while for the first time in history the European Masters half October will have their own tournament in Madrid - Spain (EMUC).

European Ultimate Championships Series (EUCS)

Europe has been divided into five geographic regions : North, East, Central, West, South. Each nation (or group of nations if they are very small) may send a maximum number of qualified teams to its European Ultimate Club Regional (EUCR) tournament in all three divisions.

The ideal entry to an EUCR would be from a country’s nationals results. However a National Federation may also nominate its EUCR candidates. These teams compete at the EUCR´s to advance to the European Club Finals (EUCF).^[2] The EUCF is Europe's premier club competition and it is held annually. At the Finals there are currently 24 Men´s teams, 12 Women´s teams and 12 Mixed teams. Starting in Bruges 2020 the number of Women´s teams will be elevated to 16.

On 13 November 2019, EUF announced that the 2020 EUCF would see the Women's division increased to 16 teams, keeping the size of the other divisions unchanged: Men - 24 teams; Mixed - 12 teams.^[3]

European Ultimate Club Finals (EUCF)

	Spirit	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2023	Wroclaw, Poland
Men	Wall City	Clapham Ultimate	Mooncatchers	BFD LaFotta
Women	Troubles Warsaw	CUSB Shout	JinX	YAKA
Mixed	Deep Space	Deep Space	GRUT	Reading Ultimate
2022	Caorle, Italy
Men	Devon Ultimate	Ranelagh	Clapham Ultimate	CUSB La Fotta
Women	Mantis	CUSB Shout	YAKA	Bristol Women
Mixed	Mosquitos	GRUT	Reading Ultimate	Left Overs
2021	Bruges, Belgium
Men	Smash'D	Clapham Ultimate	CUSB La Fotta	Gentle Open
Women	Box Vienna	YAKA	CUSB Shout	Dublin Gravity
Mixed	Colorado	GRUT	Salaspils Mixed	PuTi
2019[4]	Caorle, Italy
Men[5]	Flying Angels Bern	CUSB La Fotta	Clapham Ultimate	Chevron Action Flash
Women[6]	Dublin Gravity	CUSB Shout	Cosmic Girls	YAKA
Mixed[7]	Hässliche Erdferkel	Salaspils Mixed	GRUT	PuTi
2018[8]	Wroclaw, Poland
Men	KFK	Clapham Ultimate	CUSB La Fotta	Mooncatchers
Women	Nice Bristols Iceni	CUSB Shout	Iceni	Troubles
Mixed	Maultaschen	SeE6	Hässliche Erdferkel	Rebel
2017[9]	Caorle, Italy
Men	Frank N Crazy Dogs	Clapham Ultimate	Bad Skid	Flying Angels Bern
Women	CUSB Shout FABulous	Atletico	Iceni	YAKA
Mixed	Left Overs	GRUT	Colorado	Reading Mixed
2016[10]	Frankfurt, Germany
Open	Pelt	Clapham Ultimate	CUSB La Fotta	Tchac
Women	box SYC	FABulous	CUSB Shout	Iceni
Mixed	Reading Mixed	Reading Mixed	GRUT	Hässliche Erdferkel
2015[11]	Wroclaw, Poland
Open	Crazy Dogs	Clapham Ultimate	CUSB La Fotta	Salaspils
Women	Nice Bristols	Iceni	Atletico	CUSB Shout
Mixed	Reading Mixed	Grandmaster Flash	Yellow Block	Reading Mixed
2014[12]	Frankfurt, Germany
Open	Gentle Open	Clapham Ultimate	Freespeed	Bad Skid
Women	Prague Devils	Iceni	FABulous	Woodchicas
Mixed	FlyHigh	Sun	Grandmaster Flash	Terrible Monkeys
2013[13]	XEUCF in Bordeaux, France
Open	Ka-pow!	Clapham Ultimate	Freespeed	Bad Skid
Women	Nice Bristols	Iceni	U de Cologne	Lotus
Mixed	Cambridge	Bear Cavalry	Croccali	UFO Utrecht
Masters	Caracals	Zimmer	UFO Tampere	Ultimate Vibration
2012[14]	Frankfurt, Germany
Open	Crazy Dogs	Clapham Ultimate	Chevron Action Flash	Ragnarok
Women	Nice Bristols	Iceni	Viima	Lotus
2011[15]	Bruges, Belgium
Open	Clapham Ultimate	Flying Angels Bern	Clapham Ultimate	Chevron Action Flash
Women	Eyecatchers	Iceni	Woodchicas	Lotus
2010[16]	Lloret de Mar, Spain
Open	Fusion	Flying Angels Bern	Skogshyddan	Freespeed
Women	Lotus	Hot Beaches	Leeds	Iceni
2009[17]	XEUCF in London, UK
Open	Wall City	Chevron Action Flash	Skogs	Clapham Ultimate
Women	Hot Beaches	Iceni	Leeds	Hot Beaches
Mixed	Frizzly Bears	Brighton	Frizzly Bears	Gronical Dizziness
Masters	Frisbeurs	Helsinki	Age Against the Machine	Iznogood
2008[18]	Paris, France
Open	Bad Skid	Skogshyddan	Fire of London	Ragnarok
Women	Hot Beaches	Woodchicas	Iceni	LeedsLeedsLadies
2007[19]	Basel, Switzerland
Open	LeedsLeedsLeeds	Clapham Ultimate	Skogshyddan	CotaRica
Women	LeedsLeedsLadies	Woodchicas	Iceni	LeedsLeedsLadies
2006[20]	Florence, Italy
Open	Flying Angels Bern	Skogshyddan	Clapham	Ragnarok
Women	Tequila Boom Boom	Iceni	Bliss	Frisky Bees

Performance by country:

Total (excluding Masters division):

Women's Division:

Open Division:

Mixed:

European Ultimate Youth Championships (EUYC)

Since 2003 first EFDF and since 2009 the European Ultimate Federation has been organizing an annual event for teams of players under 20 and under 17, the European Youth Ultimate Championship (EYUC). In the even years the EYUC only had two divisions, only the U17 divisions, because those years the U20 teams would be at World Junior Ultimate Championships (WJUC). In 2014 and 2016 the name of the tournament changed to Open European Youth Ultimate Championship (OEYUC) when Colombia took part.^[21] Since 2017 EYUC is biannual and in 2019 the tournament for the first time had a fifth division, a pilot of an U20 Mixed category won by a dominant Latvia. The purpose of EYUC is to offer younger players the opportunity to be seen on a European stage and demonstrate how much the sport has grown in the younger age brackets. Since the first edition held in Tallinn - Estonia in 2003 which only had several U20 teams in two divisions, the last tournament in 2019 in Wroclaw-Poland has grown to include 16 U20 Men's teams, 12 U20 Women´s teams, 7 U20 Mixed teams, 16 U20 Women´s teams and 9 U17 Women's teams (60 squads in total) for over 1200 playing participants.

	Spirit	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2019	Wroclaw, Poland
U20 Men	Austria	Italy	France	Great-Britain
U20 Women	Slovenia	France	Sweden	Russia
U20 Mixed	Turkey	Latvia	Spain	Netherlands
U17 Men	Great-Britain	France	Italy	Belgium
U17 Women	Netherlands	Czechia	Hungary	France
2017	Veenendaal, Netherlands
U20 Men	Slovenia	Italy	Ireland	France
U20 Women	Austria	Netherlands	Russia	Czechia
U17 Men	Austria	France	Germany	Belgium
U17 Women	Austria	Germany	Austria	Czechia
2016	Ghent, Belgium
U17 Men	Austria	France	Colombia	Germany
U17 Women	Austria	Germany	Austria	France
2015	Frankfurt, Germany
U20 Men	Spain	Germany	Italy	Great-Britain
U20 Women	Slovakia	Austria	Italy	France
U17 Men	Austria	Germany	Belgium	Great-Britain
U17 Women	Sweden	Netherlands	Germany	France
2014	Lecco, Italy
U17 Men	Ireland	Great-Britain	Austria	France
U17 Women	Austria	Netherlands	France	Austria
2013	Cologne, Germany
U20 Men	France	Germany	France	Sweden
U20 Women	Austria	Germany	Italy	Austria
U17 Men	Ireland	Great-Britain	Germany	Austria
U17 Women	Austria	Germany	Austria	Great-Britain
2012	Dublin, Ireland
U17 Men	Switzerland	Germany	Israel	France
U17 Women	Austria	Austria	Great-Britain	Germany
2011	Wroclaw, Poland
U20 Men	Belgium	Germany	Austria	Italy
U20 Women	Czechia	Italy	Germany	Sweden
U17 Men	Germany	Germany	Great-Britain	Italy
U17 Women	Finland	Great-Britain	Germany	Finland
2010	Heilbronn, Germany
U17 Men	Belgium	Germany	Great-Britain	Sweden
U17 Women	Germany	Germany	Sweden	Great-Britain
2009	Vienna, Austria
U20 Men	France	Finland	France	Sweden
U20 Women	Belgium	Sweden	Finland	Great-Britain
U17 Men	Belgium	Great-Britain	Germany	Austria
U17 Women	Sweden	Great-Britain	Germany	Sweden

European Ultimate Championships (EUC)

The European Ultimate Championships are the continental ultimate competition for national teams. The first EUC was in 1980 in Paris - France with seven teams in only one division, Finland crowned as Open champions, followed by an edition in 1981 in Milan - Italy with eight countries, Sweden being Open champions. Also the following seven editions of 1982 (Obertraun - Austria), 1985 (Obertraun - Austria), 1987 (Cologne - Germany), 1989 (Vejle - Denmark ), 1991 (Colchester - UK), 1993 (Arnhem - Netherlands) and 1995 (Fontenay-le-Comte - France) were won by Sweden, while the number of participating Open teams never exceeded eleven. All these first tournaments were organized by EFDF, but when in 1997 (Millfield - UK) only five Open teams took part, something had to be done. The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) recognized that the year was too full with championships and decided to change the setup of all its big events into a four-year-cycle. The next EUC was in 2003 (Fontenay-le-Comte - France) with again eleven participating nations in the Open division, but EUC Southampton in 2007 was a big success with seventeen Open teams. From 2011 in Maribor - Slovenia the EUF was responsible for the organization and until 2019 the -now- Men´s division has grown into a competition with twenty national teams.

Already during the third tournament in 1982 in Obertraun there was a Women´s division at EUC as well, albeit with only three national teams, Finland crowned champions. The following editions the number of participating Women´s teams rose steadily, although until 2003 it never surpassed the number of nine. Then in 2007 Southampton also the Women´s competition exploded with fourteen entrees. The best Women´s attendance knew 2015 Copenhague with nineteen , but in Gyor it dropped again to fifteen. From 2003 in Fontenay-le-Comte the EUC also had a Mixed division, starting with eight squads. The Mixed participation rose quickly over the years with eighteen national teams in Copenhagen and even nineteen in Gyor in 2019.^[22]

	Spirit	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2019[23]	Gyor, Hungary
Men	Finland	Great-Britain	Germany	Russia
Women	Sweden	Ireland	Switzerland	Russia
Mixed	Great-Britain	Great-Britain	France	Russia
2015	Copenhagen, Denmark
Men	Ireland	Great-Britain	Germany	France
Women	Netherlands	Finland	Switzerland	Germany
Mixed	Norway	Great-Britain	Ireland	France
2011	Maribor, Slovenia
Men	Belgium	Sweden	Great-Britain	Germany
Women	Netherlands	Germany	Great-Britain	Italy
Mixed	Germany	Great-Britain	Russia	Belgium
2007	Southampton, United Kingdom
Men	Denmark	Great-Britain	Sweden	Switzerland
Women	Belgium	Finland	Great-Britain	Switzerland
Mixed	Czechia	Great-Britain	Czechia	Germany
2003	Fontenay-le-Comte, France
Men	Ireland	Great-Britain	Sweden	Denmark
Women	Ireland	Finland	Great-Britain	Germany
Mixed	Austria	Great-Britain	Germany	Czechia

European Masters Ultimate Championships (EMUC)

The European Masters Ultimate Championships are the continental ultimate competition for national teams in the Masters division. Until EUC 2015, the open masters division was part of the EUC. In 2019, the first separate masters competition for Mixed Masters, Women Masters, Open Masters, Grand Masters Men was held in Madrid, Spain. Masters in Mixed Masters and Open Masters have to turn 33 in the year of the competition, whereas for Women Masters, the female matching players have to turn 30 in the year of the competition. For Grand Masters, eligible players have to turn at least 40 in the year of the competition.

There were 4 Grand Masters Men teams, 9 teams for Open Masters, 8 Mixed Masters and 6 Women Masters teams in attendence, with France as the only country being represented in all divisions.

A second EMUC competition was held in 2023 in Bologna, Italy. Divisions were expanded to include Great Grand Masters (Age group 48+). Germany sent teams in all divisions. In total, 42 teams attended the event.

	Spirit	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2019[24]	Madrid, Spain
Grand Masters	Germany	France	Italy	Spain
Women Masters	Great-Britain	France	Great-Britain	Finland
Mixed Masters	Great-Britain	Sweden	France	Great-Britain
Open Masters	Czech Republic	Great-Britain	France	Italy
2023 [25]	Bologna, Italy
Open Masters	Poland	Great-Britain	France	Italy
Masters Women	Great-Britain	France	Great-Britain	Italy
Masters Mixed	Ireland	Sweden	France	Belgium
Grand Masters Open	Belgium	Denmark	Great-Britain	Czech Republic
Grand Masters Mixed	see Masters Mixed	Germany	Great-Britain
Great Grand Masters Open	see Grand Master Open	Italy	France	Germany