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Denmark & GermanyJune 28 - July 7, 2024.
The next EUROPEADA will take place in Friuli-Venezia Giulia!
You can already look forward to the next exciting edition of EUROPEADA, coming in 2028 to the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in Italy!
What is Europeada?
What is Europeada?
EUROPEADA is the European Football Championship of the autochthonous national minorities in Europe. The tournament is a major sporting event with more than 1000 participants that combines fair competition and the excitement of a sports festival with the concerns of the autochthonous, national minorities. In addition to the football matches, the event focuses on cultural exchange between the minorities.On and off the pitch, it is about fair play, respect, tolerance and international understanding. The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), the largest umbrella organisation of Europe’s autochthonous national minorities, nationalities and language groups. FUEN is the founder and coordinator of the tournament and organises EUROPEADA together with the local organisers. It is held every four years since 2008, usually in the same year as the UEFA EURO.
Why Europeada?
CONNECT MINORITIES
Football is a world language that everyone understands. There is hardly a topic that unites so many people across national and linguistic borders as sport. Through the fun of the game, the competition and the challenge, people get to know each other better, overcome barriers and develop friendships.
For autochthonous national minorities, EUROPEADA offers the chance to come together, exchange ideas, learn from each other and find out that there are many other communities in Europe facing similar challenges. In the end, the important experience is: together we are unique.
HIGHLIGHT MINORITIES
Minorities? In the majority population there is often hardly any knowledge about their existence. EUROPEADA generates attention – and we need it if we want to make minorities and their challenges visible. If you want more minority rights, first of all you have to make sure that people are aware of their existence in the first place. With EUROPEADA, we are stirring up the big advertising drum for them. Because many different nationalities, ethnic and linguistic groups are living diversity that offer added value to society.
STRENGTHEN MINORITY REGIONS
The event creates an added value for the region and the organising minorities due to the media presence of the event. It is a brilliant stage for minorities to promote their existence and challenges. EUROPEADA has a lasting effect - even if the last goal has long been scored.
Previous tournaments and winners
About the trophy
The two wooden EUROPEADA trophies were made in South Tyrol, Italy. They include the EUROPEADA logotype "Min" (for “minorities”) and a symbolic bridge that the event builds between cultures, languages and different nationalities. These bridge arches can also be found in the FUEN logo.
Different woods have been used in the production to make the diversity of the tournament tangible.
The travelling trophies each receive the engraving of the EUROPEADA winning team and are passed on at the following edition. The current copies were awarded in this form for the first time in 2022.
Event
European Football Championship of the autochthonous national minorities
Organisation
Federal Union of European Nationalities
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Partners
Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland de / UEFA
