2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

The 2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival or simply EYOF 2025, also known as Skopje 2025, was the 18th edition of the European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, held from 20 to 26 July 2025 in Skopje, North Macedonia. Some events (Road cycling, Mountain bike and Basketball) took place in Kumanovo, North Macedonia and Gymnastics in Osijek, Croatia. https://x.com/the_eoc/status/1944317324498284947?s=46 This is the first time that the festival was held in North Macedonia. It is also the first time that more than one country cooperated to organise the European Youth Olympic Festival. Up until this moment, Skopje 2025 is the largest EYOF ever held in number of sports and athletes.

Bidding On 26 October 2019, it was announced that the EYOF 2025 should be held in Brno, Czech Republic. But on 31 July 2023, it was announced that the festival would be held in Skopje instead.

Mascot The mascot is an anthropomorphic sun named "Shiny". The mascot represents warmth, unity, and friendship, and also implies EYOF's values.

Schedule The competition schedule for the 2025 European Youth Olympic Summer Festival was as follows:

OC Opening ceremony 1 Event finals CC Closing ceremony ● Event competitions July 20 Sun 21 Mon 22 Tue 23 Wed 24 Thu 25 Fri 26 Sat Events Ceremonies OC CC Artistic gymnastics

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| 4 Road cycling

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| 4 Mountain biking

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| 2 Handball

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| 12 Swimming

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| 32 Table tennis

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| 10 Volleyball

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| 12 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 41 | 28 | rowspan=2 | 151 Cumulative total

| 12 | 36 | 59 | 82 | 123 | 151 July 20Sun 21Mon 22Tue 23Wed 24Thu 25Fri 26Sat Events

Sports The following competitions took place: 2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival Sports program Compared to 2023, skateboarding and tennis have been removed from the programme. Canoeing has been replaced with canoe slalom, making its EYOF debut. Badminton and table tennis will be present at the event for the first time since 2022 and 2007 respectively. For the first time, there will be events in shooting and taekwondo. For the first time, basketball will be played both in the regular format and the 3×3 format.

Medal table

Participating nations On 20 June 2025 the EOC announced that a Refugee Team would participate in the EYOF. Athletes from Belarus competed as the National Olympic Committee of Belarus. Russian athletes were not permitted to participate due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Participating National Olympic Committees Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark EOC Refugee Team Estonia (53) Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland (35) Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia NOC Belarus Norway Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine

2025 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

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